manhattan da s investigation no one is above the law that is the defining principle of the republic and has been the case for 247 years it s another example of two tier system. it s outrageous, and ther is no too low i can t reach. every time you think he ha bottomed out, he goes even further. i think he s building a lot of sympathy for the former president. i think the fact i was wit coffee this morning with folks none of them were big trum supporters and they all said, they felt like he was being attacked also this hour, we are just hours away from a meeting that has the u.s. and the world o edge russian president vladimi putin and his chines counterpart, xi jinping, later this hour i will talk to congressman seth moulton about the threat of unified russia and china. as another state targets the abortion pill, we will look at what may be the next big hop for abortion rights advocate in ohio. more on that ahead, but we wil start with breaking news tha attorney robe
there were four lives not fatalities, lives, there wer four lives that is one of two new mass shootings overnight happenin right as the nra is ramping up an annual convention featuring donald trump and others vowing to fight any kind of gun reform we re also looking ahead to key wednesday midnight deadlin for a supreme court stay allowing access to a key abortion drug after a texa judge s decision which would ban it everywhere. we do not need judges politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have look, what we have in texas is a judge who is not guided by science. but is part of a extreme republican concerted effort to ban abortion nationwide. and we do not need judges, politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have all that and a deadly error as police and you must go shoo and kill a man after going t the wrong house. more on that story ahead a well of first happened again in alabama,. four peop
let s talk some of the forme presidents legal troubles an we have been following over th last few weeks you ve got key trump attorne right now recused himself from the doj s mar-a-lago documents investigation. all of this coming after corcoran was questioned by a grand jury last month about th case but corcoran is still representing trump and his other probes including trump s role in the january 6t insurrection joining me now is msnbc lega analyst and former federal prosecutor, glenn kirschner. talk to me first about if yo will this development from a corcoran recusing himself afte testifying in front of tha grand jury when it comes to the mar-a-lag docks. there is a basic propositio that no person can be an attorney for the defendant and be a witness against tha defendant. and that seems to be the position evan corcoran finds himself in having testified before th grand jury after som litigation designed to try t keep him from having the testify. he lost a litigation special couns
this point will be appearing before the grand jury. the only open question is when it really does seem like he ha some sharply incriminating direct evidence against donald trump. out of donald trump s own mout about the relentless pressur campaign donald trump wage against mike pence to try to get him to basically corruptly throw him the 2020 presidentia election then we have the new york a.g. s case. this is different from o course the manhattan d.a. case which is a civil lawsuit, not criminal case. trump s spent eight hours, we re learning our reporting in her office, depositio according to his attorney. he answered every question when the former president first deposed in laetitia jame of execution that summer heat, both amendment over and over and over again as we were told in our reporting as well. what do you make of th difference here that we re learning now it s hard to figure out wha accounts for him invoking th fifth amendment last time he
back former trump fixer michae cohen reporting major ne developments to our own alex witt earlier today, involvin the new york hush money case this is what he told her, in part i did receive a whole sle of phone calls from journalist asking me if i m going to be back to the da s offic tomorrow as a rebuttal witness to whoever it is they are bringin their tomorrow, weather before the grand jury, or just to mee with them for an interview again, i m not sure. yes, i was asked to make mysel available and to be at the da office tomorrow, as a rebuttal witness. let s go to senio washington editor for nbc news digital ginger gibson, great t see. we have confirmed at and messy news as you know so well, th grand jury is expected to hear