Is made this morning in a new york courthouse. Donald trump will be the first former president and presumptive president ial nominee to face a criminal trial arriving just minutes ago for the start of Jury Selection in the new york hush money cases. He faces 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records to cover up a Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels in the runup to the 2016 president election. The focus of the trial today, choosing the men and women who will decide this case from a pool of thousands. We have a team inside the courthouse watching it all as it unfolds. We have a team as well with us right now to talk you through it. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. Also with us chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney and senior fib official. Maya wiley a former u. S. District attorney. Williams who is a former prosecutor. Thank you all for being part of our coverage. Vaughn, lets start there at the courthouse. Walk us through what we can
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defense attorney punctuating the defense s last chance to convince the jury to acquit in the first criminal trial of a former president. i m chris jansing, anchoring along side my colleagues andrea mitchell and katy tur has made her way back from the courtroom. we re here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. and in that downtown courthouse, history is being written during closing arguments today. donald trump s attorney todd blanche just wrapped his closing argument, leaning into the word lie, using it 25 times as he tried to attach it to the prosecution s star witness, michael cohen. and the court just broke for lunch. after that the prosecution is expected to start their closing arguments for the jury. can they deliver a powerful argument as to why 12 citizens should make a historic decision to convict a former president of the united states. i want to bring in former fbi general counsel and former senior member of muller probe and msnbc legal analyst andrew weizma
President trump is stepping up the pace here in washington. The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today. Mr trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent american industries. The new administration is making big changes to americas stand on both energy and the environment. This morning, the president signed two Executive Orders to move ahead on a pair of Controversial Oil pipelines, known as the keystone xl and dakota access. Both had been stalled by the Obama Administration because of environmental concerns. Senatorjohn barrasso from wyoming is part of the Republican Leadership and he sits on the energy and the environment committees. I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new Executive Orders and President Trumps busy first couple of days. It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, thatjobs are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, i think we can have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy. The Obama Admini