Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Get ready everyone its the new normal. Right smack dab in the middle of an election season, the leading president ial candidate is off the trail and on trial. Donald trump was back at the Defence Table has new york prosecutors layout their case against him and grow their first witness who was the asked publisher of the national enquirer. They trial a 12 person jury that trump tried to illegally influence that when he 16 president ial election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public. Covering up alleged hush money payments. It was Election Fraud pure and simple. Trumps lawyers countering that none of this was a crime and the case should have never been brought. President trump defending himself after court was to miss after court was dismissed for the day. This is a biting witchhunt to keep me off the Campaign Trail. Chi should in georgia now, i should be in florida now for a lot of different places righ
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
are already paid for, masks are pennies on the dollar. and they re very effective tools that will decrease death. we already see the disparity between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. the vaccines work, and this governor does not care. he literally does not care. and word on the street is he went to yale. what we re seeing right now is the worst aspects of politic, the worst aspects of governing, and there will literally be history books written about this, political courses taught about this because he literally is putting peoples lives in danger and killing people unnecessarily. oh, the ivy leagues have taken a hit from the trump people. coming down the tracks in this gubernatorial re-elect is a guy
scaramucci says wheels are not just off the car. it s way worse. what are you hearing from people there in washington? i talked to a lot of former trump white house officials and republicans close to the president. they told me that in earlier parts of the administration they would actually see more restraints, constraints on trump. he wouldn t have probably awarded himself this huge contract. he wouldn t have called nancy pelosi a third-rate politician. now, he s really surrounded by yes men and women who are not willing to stand up to him, and tell him when they think he s wrong. and, you know, i talked to one former official who said your year three team is different than the year one team. not taking people from the ivy leagues anymore. and people highlighting the decision about the g7 as a result of not having people who are saying no to him. back to that, david. there are a lot of wonderful resorts out in this country.
the most part, if you re a nonminority, you re going to have a great successful academic and and job career. so stop focusing on the name brands, what school do you really want to get to. when do you worry about you as a person and not the name brand. after i was rejected from the ivy leagues, my friend said i will have just as good an education anywhere else. peace talks with the taliban dead. at fidelity, we believe your money should always be working harder. that s why, your cash automatically goes into a money market fund when you open a new account. just another reminder of the value you ll find at fidelity. open an account today.