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i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
the air national guardsman accused of stealing and sharing classified documents appears in court. and the government says he has a history of threatening to kill people. then, dozens of americans trapped in sudan, begging the u.s. government to help them get out. why do u.s. officials say they can t help, even though other countries are carrying out evacuations? plus, tears, smiles, and laughs. brittney griner holds her first news conference since her release from a russian prison. never going overseas unless i m representing my country at the olympics. what the basketball star had to say about her famgame and th other americans still being wrongly detained in russia. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m in for jake tapper. we start today with our national lead. this afternoon, the man accused of leaking classified u.s. intelligence on the internet appeared in court where a judge decided that the suspect will stay behind bars, at least for now. prosecutors argued th
11:00 a.m. eastern. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin with that breaking news from the northeast just in the last couple minutes. a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in new jersey. it was centered in new jersey. rattled residents from philadelphia all the way up to boston. any injuries as a result are unknown at this time. in new york city where it was felt and felt pretty intensely, governor kathy hochul said her team is assessing impacts and damage that may have occurred. i want to dip into wnbc our coverage in new york. let s listen in. this morning in the area of new jersey. what we re waiting for is secondary information about how shallow or deep this earthquake was because certainly it was felt far to the east, far to the north, to the south and southwest around our area and, of course, certainly within the five boroughs of new york. the last quake in new jersey was at white house station on march 14th. that shows you how often we feel some sort of earthquakes in the tri-state ar
this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. tonight s big story is trayvon martin. was the shooting self-defense or not? here s what george zimmerman s attorney told me last night. the reason that trayvon martin is dead is not because he was black or because he wore a hoodie or because he was walking in the rain. it s because that 6 3 young man made a terrible decision and a bad judgment and decided to smack somebody in the face and smack their head into the ground. that s one side of the story. does anyone believe that? also the most trusted man in jacqueline kennedy s life. it was a secret service agent who protected her when the president was shot. his firsthand account of that dark day coming up. but first, back to trayvon martin. with me now is gloria allred and charles blow. also is arsenio hall. first, i want to hear from our legal minds. this has become an incredibly complex legal battle now. the attorneys i had on last night, george zimmerman got very fi