Right today at you core. Com im laura coates alongside abby, phillip, and our panel here in Washington For A Special Edition this in im laura codes live and were at the end of a very long week in the trump Hush Money Trial. Court is actually dark on monday, but theyll get what gland again on Tuesday Morning at 9 30. So just what exactly will juror is take away from what they heard in court today. And when they need to be thinking about over their long weekend while there were three witnesses, it took the stand today. It had david pecker who wrapped up more than ten hours or testimony over a period of four days, he was as also trumps former longtime assistant, rhona graff, who was only on the stand for what, a half an hour, then Michael Cohens former banker, gary farro, who is likely to continue testifying this coming tuesday the prosecution wants jurist remember, peckers testimony that his intention was to never publish Karen Mcdougal story of an alleged affair with trump from the tran
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escalation of this conflict beyond what it already is, brie. i can t get inside putin s mind to figure out what his next step is going to be. he chlearly wants to control ukraine. he s going after major population centers and trying to move on kyiv. what he may be thinking about in addition to that, we can t know. what we don t want to see is an escalation of this conflict, certainly not in the nuclear realm, whether nuclear power plants being attacked or nuclear weapons being used. there is no reason for that. he still has options available to him, yes, militarily, but also diplomatically. that s what we want to see. we want to see mr. putin be serious about trying to de-escalate and found a way to end this conflict. since the beginning of the conflict, and i do want to be clear, i believe this is before you had putin and his foreign minister raising these nuclear threats that they re kind of bandying about, the u.s. increased e-6 mercury flights. airplanes that can take over
is he going to pay for all of those pledges? are you suggesting it could come out of what you have just been describing? come out of what you have ust been describin: ? ~ ~ ., describing? well, i think we need to be ve , describing? well, i think we need to be very. very describing? well, i think we need to be very, very careful describing? well, i think we need to be very, very careful about - describing? well, i think we need to be very, very careful about saying i be very, very careful about saying he has promised £20 billion worth of spending because i certainly don t have a clue what that means, because the kind of numbers he has been bandying about don t really make any sense. it is unclear whether some of it is new money, it is unclear over what period of time, and so on and so forth. all of that said, all of the indications seem to be that because borrowing looks like it will because borrowing looks like it will be lower than otherwise, he is going to spend at least some
and he was kind of pushed on that earlier today, anderson. and he said, well, you know, this was different. there were specifications and that sort of thing, kind of went back and forth on it. but the bottom line is we don t know the specifics of what this day of reckoning might be. it is worth noting that he did not call for biden s resignation or for his impeachment. and it s also worth noting how we saw so many house republicans and even some senate republicans bandying about impeachment, kind of we were seeing it weaponized and used almost not flippantly but kind of bandied about and weaponized in this way. that s been evolving over the years. that was worth noting as well. what is important here, though, is no doubt republicans want to make this an issue in 2022. as we noted in the piece, you know, they don t have the power right now to set up any investigations, to get any investigations going because democrats control both the house and senate but that could shift in 2022. and t