Lisa ribbon, Suzanne Craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. Plus nicolle wallace, and Catherine Christian as special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues. Big night. Todays proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style british detective story. Youve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. You know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. Its okay you havent been playing close attention all along. They are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to the big answer, th
Tonight, the Michael Cohen testimony begins. The guy we saw this morning was credible and calm, if not a little freaked out. Donald trumps former fixer testifies that the candidate himself led the conspiracy. The most repeated line of Michael Cohens testimony was just take care of it. This is a total disaster. Women will hate me. The most important thing the jury heard today, he wasnt thinking about his wife. This was all about the candidate. Tonight, Rachel Maddow recapped the testimony with Lawrence Odonnell, lisa rubin, Suzanne Crane and katie phang, who were inside the courthouse. Plus, Nicolle Wallace, chris hayes, jen psaki and Catherine Christian as a special coverage of trump on trial begins, now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc Primetime Recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues, Lawrence Odonnell and katie phang and Nicolle Wallace and chris hayes. Big night, you guys. Todays proceedings , expec
all the investigators felt like their work was important. but mostly in the educational campaign component, how to convey to the american public and walk them through why they should care about this. the accountability portion is the key piece of the puzzle to a lot of people who have been working on this for years now. and we already know that lot of the key witnesses involved with received target letters in other capacities, someone like mark meadows who was possibly probably the person who might be able to give you the most accurate number of the amount of people who tried to get to president trump on january 6. we know that he is cooperating with the january 6 team before the grand jury. and so how far that
get them all to coordinate and apply the severe economic sanctions on russia. and effort to end the war. but uniting america has been elusive. hasn t it? that s an even greater challenge apparently. for him. was there anything he said in his address that signalled he could unite this country? and indeed his own democratic base. i think it s really important to look at the context at which he took over. he took over obviously after the trump presidency. that proved to be incredibly, extraordinarily and polarizing. the whole question of unity has been a campaign component. and for him and it was there throughout the speech. the international situation is something that solidarity demonstrated is something that president biden would like to see mirrored at home. i think that the ukraine crisis could provide that kind of opportunity. the crisis in ukraine is a crisis around way of life. it s around democratic ideals.