mean to step on you. it a huge component. zoe said a couple little things, they re playing it cupkind of c because they will have a hearing next week but i expect in fact, they ve got some real combustible stuff that is going to break big when they do it and she s being kind of coy about it. so i think you can expect some fairly big bombshells. well, let s bring you in here, ron. you re not meant to be coy. i know you re not. you re a straight shooter. cipollone defended trump in the first impeachment hearing. he s no never trumper by any stretch of the imagination. the fact he s from trump s inner circle, the fact he wasn t like jump champing at the bit to come in and testify, he was not witness number one. he s just coming in. how important is it that this is the person, this is the guy that is coming to testify now? how important is this to the overall committee s ability to make the case to the american electret about what happened and led up to it? you know, i m not
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa
Good morning. It is 10 00 eastern. Im ana cabrera alongside my colleague jose diazbalart with special coverage of Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. And right now, court is back in session with the witness who has already clashed with the judge, returning to the stand. The prosecution just completed its Cross Examination of veteran new york lawyer Robert Costello and so now hes facing questions on redirect from the Defense Attorney. And all this after the judge cleared the courtroom yesterday to Admonish Costello for making comments under his breath, rolling his eyes and staring down the judge. It is already tense in that courtroom today. Lets bring in Yasmin Vossoughian who is outside the courthouse. Also with us, Defense Attorney misty maris. And so, yasmin, so far today, this has been another intense day. What has been going on . Reporter in the last 30 minutes, a lot of intensity to say the least as ana mentioned. Were now in redirect from the defense here on their own witnes
Here. Stormy daniels is under Cross Examination by Donald Trumps Defense Attorneys right now. It is day two of the Nasty Storytelling Sex Film Worker who the prosecution picked even though she has no direct involvement exactly with what the case is about. Her salacious testimony against the former president has some legal experts in fact saying she is now hurting the prosecutions case. Not a problem for trump. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. On tuesday the defense got Stormy Daniels to admit that she hates the former president. Trumps attorneys are now pressing her on her motivations to sell her story and the timeline of her decisions. Intense backlash to what many have called a description of her alleged romantic encounter but the judge said she went too far but not enough to declare the mistrial. The testimony of Stormy Daniels that was salacious, that was the point of it. Listen, there is no person on planet earth that believes donald trump has been celibate al
White House Press Secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. Adam pollock, and charles coleman, an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, i want to start with you. You have kind of lived all of this from the beginning to the end. As you watched what unfolded today, help us understand it, but also put all of that testimony by Hope Hicks Which was pretty dramatic in the context of what we knew at the time. Reporter exactly, its dramatic because hope hicks was somebody who testified today that she was intimately involved with donald trump in what was a very Small Campaign brass that included keith shiler and Corey Lewandowski and Michael Cohen, the outside personal lawyer voice who maintained a quasi role with the campaign, representing donald trump. In this, for hope hicks and for the jury here, is a key, crucial witness that knows donald trump so well, but also was a trusted adviser and aide, somebody whose words were never really highly scrutinized, somebody who donald trump ha