Back 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now the first witness has taken the stand and Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up, try all the leads, starts right now former publisher, david, first to testify today about what prosecutors are alleging was a criminal conspiracy and cover up of Donald Trumps alleged tryst with a film star in director Stormy Daniels. How strong is this case . Here, the line of Defense Trump himself offered today right outside the courtroom, plus the first order of business when court resumes tomorrow did trump violate judge merchans gag order . The fine line for the judge as he considers this ruling and a crisis on college campuses, perhaps most at Columbia University in new york protests there spiraling into tense confrontations. Jewish students harassed the atmosphere so charged inperson classes were called off today. Can safety on campus be restored . New york city mayor eric adams will be here in minutes welcome to t
We will tell you what happens straight ahead. First commercial grown delivery, markets looking to rebound from yesterdays fed selloff. Take a look, dow industrial up 50 points as you see. Nasdaq and s p also higher this morning. In europe investors are waiting on the bank of england this morning. A decision expected this morning. We will bring it to you as soon as it hits the tape. Meanwhile dax index of twothirds of a percent. The ftse in london down a fraction. In asia fractions lower, nikkei up a fraction, staying in positive territory near yearly highs. Hang seng down one and three quarters percent in hong kong. Finally here, star wars rogue, we have sneak peek, promise no spoilers. Mike huckabee is here, peter. Nice to be with you. Maria so nice to have you onset, governor. I like your holiday tie. I only get to wear it occasionally, so here it is. Dagen i wore red for you. Thank you, darling. I appreciate it. Dagen we argue but we love each other. Maria technology meeting, quick
Tom brady and the patriots crush the steelers for a return trip to the super bowl. Brady into the end zone. Their opponent the Atlanta Falcons. After a dom naying performance of their own against the packers, the hype for the big game already well under way. Flash back mondays, elton john asked fans to create videos of the song. This is january 23rd, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller everybody back in town. Natalie is. I got hugs all around. Are you ready to go back to the 70s . Im so ready. If were playing benny and the yes, sir youve got me. Were going to have your forecast coming up. It is our top story. Dangerous storms, tornadoes cutting a deadly path across the south as a new Severe Weather threat emerges. Well get als forecast, but first gabe ghoulier is in hargity, georgia. Reporter this trailer upended. The death toll is now 14, 18 dead throughout the south. You can see the sheer communities ha
Since National Security Agency Whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified nsa files to media oututlets that exexposed global mass surveillance operations by the u. S. And british governments. If snowden returned to the United States from russia where he now lives in exile, he would face charges of theft of state secrets and violating the espionage act and face at least 30 years in prison. This week his supporters launched a new call for president obama to offer snowden clemency, a plea agreement, or a pardrdon before the d d of his termrm. I am cfortable with the decisions i made. Bubut i dont think it i is up e toto decide thehe direction of e future of ouour society. I believeve p participatory muilateralal we should inintentionally trtry to removee outside influence of paparticulr individuals, and that includes myself. And that is why i mymyself do nt ask for a pardon. Amy today we will host a debate about whether snowden should be pardoned with h trevor timm, executive direct
But lets step back from this ask see whats going on. He lost about a billion dollars if were to believe the 1995 tax return. Now, if you substituted donald trump for, lets say, apple or ibm or General Motors and put in the company name experiencing loss, would it carry the same weight as it does when you can say of the Trump Organization its donald trump . That was the case then, these are some losses over the past years, but we dont give them the same type of scrutiny as were giving donald trump. Now, to be fair, it is mr. Trump who is running for president of the United States, it is mr. Trump who for the first time in a long time is not releasing tax returns, something that was a common procedure on both candidates part, democrat or republican, over these many, many years. But we felt it good to go over this with a tax expert. He says the tax code itself is the issue, and i had the pleasure of chatting with you a little while ago before the show, and you said that hes not breaking a