majority. plus, who is on the list? we are take you through some of the top names in trump s orbit that could testify against him in georgia s election interference case. and, another development in the fast moving abortion case coming out of texas. the state supreme court has now temporarily blocked an emergency abortion . i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. i am not resigning, i ve got a lot more work to do. you are not resigning? no, i m not resigning. so you ll stay and. i m staying. so don t worry, i ve got a lot more work. do you think you ll run for reelection? yes. yes you will? yeah, we re gonna keep the majority, i m going to help the people that are here, we re gonna expand it further. all right, so some not-so - from the first ever speaker to be ousted from his job. kevin mccarthy, who this week went from that that you just heard, to announcing that he will actually be resigning from the house of representatives at the end of the ye
announced it s peter has called it quits. well, near congressman has accused george santos 15 minutes of fame ticking and say this grift online by hopping on cameo views. all of this well we are hurtling towards the first wave of government funding expiring next month. a report from capitol hill coming up. and, trump turned, at a federal appeals court upholds the gag order for the twice impeached quadruple indicted presidents election interference case in d.c.. what this new ruling bars trump from, saying and how this could impact gop front-runners other criminal cases. then, ongoing offensive, israeli forces operation in one key part of gaza, the root of hamas expected to last several more weeks. as the humanitarian crisis across the region rose even more dire by the minute. we are live from israel with the latest. follow this and much more ahead. your saturday morning to. all we will be continuing to show breaking developments in just one of the many crimi
so many packages arriving. she had to take over six trips to the post office just to get them all. it s never ending. now, she has to organize everything to make sure the right gives get to the right students. down there, i don t know, wherever. seeing people come together for these kids, i know what it s going to do for their mind said i know what it s gonna do for their potential. and i know what it s going to do for every teacher everywhere that sees this. next time you complain about teachers, please watch that video. and remember, if you need help please ask for it. but if you can give help please give it. and on that note, i wish you a very good and a very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late i ll see at the top of the hour. e top of the hour the former president of the united states is a free man. he can go anywhere he chooses and today he chose to attend his civil fraud trial in new york city
alex night starts to be incredibly fe thing but to be incredibly funny and decent is an entirely different thing. also a rare combination. thank you my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. california congressman kevin mccarthy the shortest serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in the new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, he might have missed mr. mccarthy s ten month term is the country s highest republican elected official, and that s not just because it was so short. it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to when the speaker s gavel and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of donald trump, look the other way. and
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.