Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen, i cant say it publicly but im for you and im going to vote for you. Im a republican but screw it, i cant vote for this guy . Theyre not saying theyre going to vote for me, theyre saying i agree with you. Do you say to them, why dont you Say Something publicly . Where is jeb bush, where is george bush, where are these guys . Why dont they say, hey, im interested in saving democracy for our grandchildren . I dont think the election is over yet on that score. If you notice traffic was especially snarled in New York City today, asked and answered. That was President Biden in midtown, manhattan today to be interviewed by radio legend howard stern. While former President Donald Trump was in Lower Manhattan back in a courthouse for his criminal trial. And that is where we begin tonight. At the end of the first week for a 12member Jury Empanelled in the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Today was the final day of the prosecu
Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to show this wasnt about the campaign, which is what you did, this is standard operating procedure, they said that over and over and over again yesterday. Let me give you one of the later pieces of back and forth, and this is steinglass trying to, again, disprove that bove had just done, the Defense Attorney. How many, meaning of these stories, did you coordinate with a president ial candidate for the b
Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am jose diazbalart. Any moment now, testimony will resume in former president trumps hushmoney trial. The National Enquirer publisher, david pecker will be back on the stand detailing what prosecutors call a conspiracy to win the white house in 2016. Trumps lawyer denied any willful violation of the judges gag order. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying Business Records related to a hushmoney payment made to an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard, outside the courtroom in manhattan, and senior fbi official, gerald coleman, and a former prosecutor, and a former new york Assistant Attorney General who led the investigation into Trump University. So as we await, vaughn, court to resume, take us what we have been seeing this morning so far . Reporter over the course of nearly an hour and a half, the gag order hearing that was in the works for the better part
Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Statements process. Judgments made from the bench that i want to talk about with you quickly, first, when it comes to the evidence if, in fact, the former president decides to testify, judge juan merchan is allowing six various cases to be decided if donald trump it was. Talking about the trump payroll judgment, the trump civil fraud gag orders as well along with e. Jean carol assault case and the defamation case. A couple more things happening in court this morning. The former president spoke about ho
the new warnings are coming from the republicans this morning of what a second donald trump presidency could look like. and big pharma is colliding with the supreme court and happening is billions of dollars of stake as victims of the opioid crisis weigh in. and a stunning and controversial decision of the body that governs college football playoffs leaves florida state out in the cold. they will not be playing in the college football playoffs. with kate bolduan and john berman, i m sara sidner and this is cnn news central. 42 days and that is how close we are to the real test of the 2024 election, and the iowa caucus is kicking off january 15th, and this is a new warning from the republicans themselves about the republican frontrunner and what a second donald trump presidency could mean. former reagan official robert kagan calls a possible trump second term a possible path to a dictatorship. and another quote says it could plunge the country into a constitutional cri