Second prison . No, but i mean, he cant hurt me a country that bills itself as the worlds oldest democracy we sure do love a strong man. And from teddy roosevelt, all the way up to our Reality Tv President nowhere produces more of them than the Empire State and i got it in an age where Congresss Approval Rating hovering somewhere around sewer rants, we want to vote for the politician who can finally just get things done that was Elliot Spitzer to a tee but when New Yorkers sent the sheriff of Wall Street to the Governors Mansion we all learned the hard way that white nights can have dark Secrets Spitzer was caught breaking his own Sex Work laws. A level of hypocrisy we could never forget Eliot Spitzer blazed a trail through New York that had him in Spitting Distance of the white House Right up until the moment he set himself on Fire Sound like the setup for a bad joke, but bear with me do you see the New York you dream of begins tonight so theres this honest politician named Eliot Spit
challenger takes s new slogan to a key state. then the largest bank failures since 2008. s v b, silicon valley bank imploding in just 30 hours. how did it happen and what are the consequences? and our friday night cap is here talking all about the biggest stories of the week and some you may have missed. the 11th hour getting underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is finally friday and you know what that means! means we are closing out the week with a friday night cap and you do not want to miss a minute. so get comfortable and settle in because that is coming right up. but first, the twice impeached ex president, he s getting ready to spend his weekend huddling with lawyers in florida to figure out a strategy for dealing with an escalating legal threat. we told you last night donald trump has been invited to appear before a manhattan grand jury investigating the 2016 hush money payment to former porn star stormy daniels. trump s lawyers tell nbc
Have a good show. Thank you, nicole. Welcome, everyone, to a twohour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. Im ari melber, we have our Special Coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutors star witness taking the stand. You may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. The former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. And recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against Defendant Trump. Big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. The star witness takes the stand against donald j. Trump. Form fixer Michael Cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. Cohen on the stand. An extraordinary showdown today in court. The man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying. The expresident coming
Reached with them. Daniels was doing what many people view as a conventional form of celebrity extortion. She wanted to cash in on her story. But whats interesting is that donald trump was trying to kill false stories as well as stories that were allegedly true. There was a story involving a door man who said he had an illegitimate child. She wanted to kill that, too. Thats not strange for celebrities or politicians. Indeed, many members of congress have engaged in ndas throughout the years. So this is a standard part of politics and entertainment. Now, what they are showing the jury now is that she had this economic motive all along. But also her credibility is in tatters. The real question here is going to be how more sort of narrow the scope of the testimony will be. It is obviously going to be narrower. It is a Cross Examination when it comes to trump. They have a lot of material involving her own conduct, her own life. And you may see the prosecutors start to object as to the scop
house. let me tell you, dream of people. butler s, the housekeepers, they would all stop by and they would grandma s room was like the confessional marion robinson was 86-years-old thanks for joining us ac30 60 with anderson starts now tonight are 360. the former president on loads and the verdict that made him a convicted felon and republicans join him and attacking the criminal justice says stem, what s ahead in his case in new polling on the political impact also tonight, someone who knows what it s like to get inside his head or to the deal goes right. are tony schwartz and how his former subject may have they ll the days ahead and breaking news, the details of president biden s new ceasefire proposal for gaza, the timing of it, and the reception. it s getting good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight. i with what comes next legally politically and otherwise now the donald trump is a convicted felon. both he and president biden weight in today, the presi