new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker, how is our girl? argument for absolute immunity goes before the supreme court. this court never recognized criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney who was willingly to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up for the party with president nixon? if everybody thought presidents couldn t be prosecuted, then what was that about. if it feels completely, s because we destroyed our own democracy. rachel maddow, nicolle wallace troy reed, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, all here as msnbc special coverage of trump on trial begins. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously we have nearly three hours of oral argument at the united states supreme court of the former president claiming he is immune from prosecution for any crime he did while president and debt
u.n. thomas pickering on whether there is a potential endgame for israel in all of this. also ahead, a vote could come as early as this week on the next step in the house gop impeachment even as his son hunter turned the table on the committee leader demanding that he testify. it comes as court declared insurrectionist donald trump has a new sales pitch. he s a candidate who will protect democracy. all of that plus the santos saga ends in congress. so i am no longer congressman santos. i m just regular old professor major general reverend astronaut santos. protector of the realm, princess of genova. coming up, i m going to talk to a screenwriter who saw his fictional story about a conman in congress come to life over the past year. stay tuned for that conversation. you don t want to miss it. we ll begin this hour with the breaking story out of the middle east. the pentagon confirmed the uss carney shot down two drones after multiple commercial vessels were attacked in the
details about payments mr. cohen arranged with woman who alleged sexual encounters with president trump, including mr. trump s knowledge of those deals. the journal report which cited people close to cohen and others familiar with prosecutors discussions posted late last night. it preceded a tweet from the president at 1:10 in the morning washington time, trump writing in all caps, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. and republican leaders remain silent but the rank and file did weigh in. former presidential candidate mitt romney tweeted yesterday, the events of the last 24 hours confirm that conduct by high-placed individuals was both dishonorable and illegal. also confirmed is my faith is our justice system and my conviction that we are a nation committed to the rule of law. senator ben sasse released a statement writing, quote, paul manafort is a founding member of the dc swamp and michael cohen is the goth am version of the
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senator john mccain. it will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u.s. capitol, just the 31st person to do that. joining me now, presidential historian, douglas brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we haven t seen. you don t see this for anyone other than a u.s. president, perhaps robert kennedy, the one exception to that. maybe not sense robert kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u.s. senator. i think that s exactly right. the fact senator mccain will be lying in state in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol building one of only 31 others to have had that honor. we do it for presidents or supreme court justices. the country has fallen in love
with john mccain this week. we always loved him and admired him. the more we re learning about his life-long career in politics and military service the more we re kind of nostalgic and longing for the virtues that he had. t
Won. first, i guess, just your lawyer. so you read legal filings in a different way than i do. just, your reaction to what we are learning through just these first two sets of filings that have been made public. yeah. so, in addition to a voting rights lawyer, i m actually owe so a campaign finance lawyer. and i can tell you that what you described is, i think, actually, potentially quite a bit worse. at its best, at its best, for the legal position of fox, it was handing off bidens ads before they were public. now, that would violate the campaign finance laws. but what i suspect it is, when you read the language, chris, and you can go back and read it carefully now, it sounds like fox had information that they were providing. so i suspect what was actually happening is that fox knew not just the content of the ads, but for example, what demand was for different points. what rates might change for