large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. this is in a way that we ll document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. this will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the justice department for trying to steal an election. now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. it alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. and trump knew they were false. i ll put on the screen what we re watching for. want to share what we re learning. s this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and don t know. in the last several moments, the most heads up you ll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. some
records? or as peter baker put it in the new york times, republican voters may be care if their leader slips money to a porn star to keep quiet, but will they be indifferent about impeding authorities seeking to recover clandestine materials? that s today s poll question which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most were quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis said the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department or if it s something different, he said. ditto for south carolina senator tim scott on the weaponization charge. another went further comparing pardoning trump immediately upon his own swearing-in. chris christie ke
senate judiciary committee pressed not only on the failed taylor swift sale and whether his company is now a monopoly in the concert business. it is not just about taylor swift. there is something going on. it is about prices, hidden fees that are way too high. site disruptions. dana: chad pergram has more from capitol hill. i have a few friends trying to get tickets for their daughters and their daughters are constantly asking them did we get tickets yet? the answer is no. what could they find out today? fans of taylor swift and ticketmaster are never, ever, ever getting back together after the debacle involving the singer s concert series last year. senate committee is probing antitrust issues for live music events. it should surprise no one that the taylor swift concert pre-sales failed in this way. in fact, what we need is now enforcement of laws and conditions that were envisioned at the time live nation and ticketmaster merged. website meltdown during a pre-sa
going on now. former president donald trump s new york criminal trial we have covered. at this moment michael cohen is back on the stand. another day of the defense s cross examination. cohen is the prosecution s star witness and we ve 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? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. team trump is laser focused on shredding cohen s credibility. shouldn t 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 york s southern district said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to stormy daniels
bill: how was the weekend? dana: you? bill: excellent. you ve been waiting for this, right? dana: i read about it all weekend. bill: cohen is on stand. prosecution is relying on cohen as their star witness. questions over his credibility could make his testimony damaged goods in the eyes of the jury. we ll soon find out. former president said this before he went into court today. this trial is lagged. it is dishonest, a disgrace to new york and a disgrace to the country. i should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long. this is a biden prosecution. it is election interference at a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before. bill: eric shawn brings us up to date outside the courthouse. 30 minutes in and how would you summarize it. we are, bill, good morning. the people call michael cohen. with those dramatic words the testimony of former president trump s loyal fixer and lawyer on the stand now testifying aga