The people of new york versus donald j. Trump. I should be in florida now. I should be in a lot of different places campaigning, and im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors lay out a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. And the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david Rachel Maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a real road map today as to how this case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight Rachel Maddow, joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen sake, stef knew rhule, katie pham, and nbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President
scrutiny for a former president and to break it all down, i have a super team. i have the avengers of legal teams here. i m going to need them because i m no captain america. i m joined by neal, former acting solicitore1 general, georgetown law professor, susan craig, new yorkçó times investigative reporter, hugo lowell and paul butler, former federal prosecutor, georgetown law professor and msnbc legal analyst. thank you so much. paul, i ll start with you.çó i m going to ask the simple question. i m going to ask the question that i heard at the barbershop today inw3 preparation for todas show. is he going to jail for this? that s justñre1 the first thingt regular people askq before we gt is donald trump going to jail for this? probably not. that would be a question for the judge if he ends up being both prosecuted and convicted. but, what we are hearing about the legal theory would be either a ñimisdemeanor or low-level
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we have the big climate summit coming ahead and president biden needs to build a head of steam at the g20 to try to show some leadership in glasgow on these critical issues about ca n we gt some collective action on turning back the effects of climate change and some breakthroughs on the carbon emissions. that s really going to be a very tall order. you mentioned it briefly. i want to explain to viewers and show them what happened. when biden met with the french president emmanuel macron today, admitting the u.s. poorly handled a submarine deal with australia and the uk, which undermined france and cost them a multi-billion dollar deal. take a listen. is the relationship repaired? to use an english phrase, what we did was clumsy. it was not done with a lot of grace. i was under the impression that france had been informed long before that the deal was not
you decided to work with another preside president, president obama on the my brother s keepers. first of all, you are friends with president obama. beautiful brothers in the world and you are buddies. that makes it by itself higher. what do you do? do you play one on one basketball? i ve always seen him at the white house a couple of times, we ve played golf a couple of times and made a swing through the bay area so we gt to sit down and talk about what he s doing with the foundation, post presidency life and whatnot. so getting a glimpse what that means for him. but that is still surreal thinking about that. it was pretty cool. what is that connection? it s empowering. he has an inside look at all the deep rooted problems in our