Special coverage of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial. The crossexamination of Michael Cohen already back under way this morning with the defense expected to wrap by mid morning followed by a likely redirect from the prosecution. After that we expect the defense to get its turn. Its still unclear at this point how extensive the defenses case will be, or will it be a defense at all . Joining us to discuss all that, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, a Criminal Defense Attorney and kristin gibb bin fed din, along with former prosecute bernard villalona. Well head out to the courthouse in just a moment as we establish our contact with Yasmin Vossoughian on scene. We can take our viewers inside a little bit to whats happening with this crossexamination, a lot of discussion about what cohen was dealing with in his own Business Dealings during the time of the 2016 election, from his Taxi Medallion Business down to then dealing with david pecker. Theyre also talking about what was he d
Doc, you are on the island and you are saying that they wont go at all. Well, no, i said that once this year, and i think it is december, and we will see whether or not they go, judge, because it is closer, and closer to the coin toss as to what janet yellen says tomorrow, and that is going to influence the markets. Today a trade in the vix, and the reason i bring it up is that a lot of people were voting that the vix goes down lower and one of the reasons is that if ms. Yellin is dovish tomorrow, and they bought a ton of the i think the 13 and the 14 puts with the vix right around the 15 level. Let me stop you. The risk is that she is more hawkish tomorrow. Well, i disagree. For some. Well, i disagree, they dont move and tell the market that they are not datadependent, and not serious about normalizing and lose the credibility of going than not going which is what happened last september frankly, so is they have gone out of their way with the latest barrage of 900 speeches to tell peo
Democrat wins in ohio, michigan, or give me a name. I like tim ryan in ohio, and i like my mayor out of palm beach out of miami in florida. Nick, katherine, harold, that will do it for hardball. Chris matthews is back here on monday. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. Dinner with comey. He mentioned that he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that. New reporting contradicting the president s claims. And tonight, new questions about oval office recordings. Did President Trump record his conversations with former fbi Director Comey . As the president threatens his former fbi director with tapes. Plus, as the Deputy Attorney general reportedly signals no
special prosecutor should we do the pledge . Raise your hand. Who else was asked to take the donald trump pledge . Then david cay johnston. And my extended interview with senator Elizabeth Warren.
Footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. We have doubleteamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information . And what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. Theres no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the Washington Post, no one has figured out where Michael Avenatti got all this Banking Information about Michael Cohen. And weve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. We have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what Michael Avenatti reported p p we have these Big Companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to Michael Cohen. Now we have the treasury Inspector General reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious
reports from the Banking Sector and if thats the way he got this information. If thats the way he got it, and the
I say to him, be like john mccain, the way he behaves, the way he serves his country, the way he conducts himself in public service. I want my boy to be like him. I dont want him to be like President Trump. Senator bob kerrey, i know we are talking about john mccain and the country should be talking about him. But thank you as well for your heroism and the work you did in protecting this country both overseas and in congress. Middle east tensions are rapidly escalating. Palestinian protesters continue to clash with israelis for the seventh consecutive we can at the border of the gaza strip. May 15th is the day after israels Declaration Of Independence and subsequent war in 1948 in which hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their lands. Fuelling more of the unrest is the of mo of the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem, which is scheduled for monday, the same day as
israels 70th anniversary celebrations. Nearly an protesters have been killed by live israeli fire since the viole