The president has expressed full faith and confidence in me. Fit for duty, the White House Doctor releases his assessment of President Biden calling him a healthy, active and robust 81yearold. The one test he didnt have done. And why. More money, more problems, a judge refuses to halt Donald Trumps nearly half billion dollar fraud penalty. Leaving him less than a month to pay the money or secure what he calls an impossible bond. Plus, the largest wildfire in Texas History grossed more than 1 million acres and counting. How people in one town covered in ash are talking about rebuilding. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin on capitol hill where they push Defense Secretary lloyd austin for answers on his failure to disclose his secret hospital stay last month. Nbcs Courtney Kube joins us now. How did the secretary defend himself . Reporter well, he did make the point over and over, that despite his hospitalization, despite his staff nor he notifyi
insurrectionists across the capitol while being called the most violent, racist names. i am jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, kevin mccarthy is finally speaker of the house. but, what comes next for the new speaker depends on what he had to give away to win the gavel. it was chaos and drama friday when mccarthy thought he had the vote in the bag on the 14th round, only to be thwarted by congressman matt gaetz, a never kevin who voted present instead of four mccarthy, which is strange, because gaetz had already crowed that mccarthy had already agreed to every concession that gaetz had asked for. i am excited and encouraged, i am grateful that speaker doesn t give mccarthy receptive to each and every change we have demanded. and shawn, without the stage right now where i am running out of stuff to ask for. stuff like allowing one member to call for the removal of the speaker and giving seats on the rules comm
Going on now. Former president Donald Trumps New York Criminal Trial we have covered. At this moment Michael Cohen is back on the stand. Another day of the defenses cross examination. Cohen is the prosecutions star witness and weve learned he will be their final one. I mean, what would you say after whatever it is you would call what he has done on that stand . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Team trump is laser focused on shredding cohens credibility. Shouldnt be too hard. He is a convicted liar and he has been profiting off of the former president s legal journey now. On tuesday Michael Cohen even admitted he wants to see trump convicted. A former Legal Advisor to cohen shredded his testimony and his character actually for the defense. He did their job for them. Robert costello, who also worked in new yorks Southern District said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to Stormy Daniels in return for stayi
under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in
i d write next, putin and kim make a deal as investigative reporter crystal grows ab has new details tonight about the spies wants from kim. he s my guest plus larry sabato, one of the nation s most trusted political voices, telling out what costs are, calling him asking what would happen if biden is not the parties nominate who s calling and what are they saying? a new reporting tonight on trump s ground game bigger than anyone knew why he may have the democrats to thank for that. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight, we begin with the longest goodbye vladimir putin and kim jong-un couldn t bear to part this evening embracing on the tarmac, prolonging their goodbyes. both standing there across from each other, waving goodbye once putin got inside is played, he continued to stare at kim almost longingly. then waving smiling ear 30 ear. kim, minister, cheering, squad, waving enthusiastically back. it s hard as they could. it was almo