Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
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
More coverage of this coming up. Thank you for joining tonight and thank you all so much for joining us tonight. Seen a news night with abby. Phillip starts right now the trucks show makes its main character bystander. Thats tonight on new sign good. Evening im abby phillip in new york tonight, donald trump becomes savoy year in his own story. Today, the country her the beginnings of a story about donald trump. But this time, he no longer controls that narrative instead, its new york prosecutors who are painting a picture of an alleged hush money coverup scheme where the victims were the american public. Now in 20 own version of events, he says hes innocent, a victim of Michael Cohens vendetta and Stormy Daniels opportunism. But hes not a control of that narrative either. Trump, who believes he is his own best spokesman and defender, will now have to leave it to his lawyers. Now, as you can imagine, this is why weve seen trump letting loose outside of the court. Hes trying to take back
Good saturday morning to you. We have viewers with us from around the world this morning, its saturday, april 3, 13th. Im Victor Blackwell with you, victor, im amara walker. Heres what were working on for you. This morning. Breaking news out of sydney, australia a Stabbing Spree at a packed Shopping Center leaves at least seven people, including the accused attack are dead. What were learning about them, attack ahead and a live report from the scene rise this tensions, Israeli Forces target hezbollah strongholds in overnight airstrikes. As the uss iran is moving Military Assets in place for a possible attack. The developments are ahead in live team cover, and were just two days away from the first criminal trial against a former president in us history, would donald trump . He says about testifying as High Profile Hush Money Trial in new york, plus major abortion ban, backlash and arizona after the state Supreme Court upholds a Civil War Era Law, the weekend protests and Vice President
Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. And thanks for joining us this hour. In the summer of 1974, the Special Counsel who was investigating the Watergate Scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the Judiciary Committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators
had turned up about Criminal Behavior by the president at the time, president Richard Nixon. Now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s Campaign Chairman, who would also have been his Attorney Genera