Thank you for joining us. Cohen lies, biden lies, thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura now, consider what the jurors who have had to sit there in manhattan in that courtroom for four weeks had likely learned about the prosecutions star witness. Is he a convicted perjurer and a tax evaried. He secretly tapes and doesnt give get permission lied about the reason for trump security. Now on top of all of that he has admitted that he is a thief. Yeah. The fixer inflated a contractors invoice to the Trump Organization from 20 k to 50 k and pocketed the difference. Now, i was wondering when we were going to start Hearing Evidence of an actual crime at this trial and today was it. Now, any legal expert worth his or her salt would at this point know that the credibility of Michael Cohen is cooked. The fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing 60,000 through fraud which would be larceny in New York State is more serious of a crime than falsifying business recor
Received 150,000 in the leadup to the 2016 election as part of a catch and kill scheme with the national llenquirer to stay qui about her affair with donald trump. That means that Stormy Daniels testimony, the testimony that wrapped up today, will be the only testimony this jury hears that is directly from a woman accusing donald trump of trying to keepsi her quiet about an affair before the 2016 election. Now, there are lots of reasons why ms. Mcdougal might not want to testify, and there are lots of reasons why the prosecution might not want to call on her to testify. Were going to get some expert help unpacking all of that and what that a means for this casen just ar second. But Karen Mcdougal not testifying also makes the testimony we did get today from Stormy Daniels all it more important. And it makes the crossexamination of Stormy Daniels today, makes that all the more m important. Now, the defenses crossexamination today is probably most accurately described by a phrase i am lo
Defense. She was mocking Stormy Daniels. Donald trumps attorneys mock and shame Stormy Daniels. She wants the jury to think Stormy Daniels is a liar and she is crazy and also wants the jurors to judge her for her occupation. And the peoples witness apparently holds her own. And she said if i was going to make this up, i would have made it a much better story. Tonight, The Wild Cross Examination of the woman at the center of the coverup and why trumps denial of the affair hurt his defense. The denial puts the jury in the position to choose who they believe. And the two big rulings that caused the defendant to storm off. Im not supposed to be here. Plus, is a sitting republican senator helping skirt to the judges gag order . This is just a bunch of democrats saying we want to make sure that donald trump cant talk. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. Donald trump selection Interference Trial rolled on today. There were some fireworks and there was a
arrest. unfortunately issue he s a freeman and they were not able to do that. ashley: carl, has anyone at the state or ag s office said how difficult or easy it will be to get him back into custody after he was released? well, they are they ll be able to get him back. the law is on our side as far as getting back. everything was improperly done getting him removed from prison. the fact that the prosecutor that prosecuted him originally, mr. david pasqual is keeping us informed and abreast of what is going on. we are confident we can get him back. it just seems like the solicitor
origins theory. by the end of april 2020, the bio engineered weapon theory seemed to have been laid to rest. they put out this remarkable memo in which they agreed with the broad scientific consensus the virus was not man-made or ag genetically altered. what gives you a high degree of confidence this originated from the wuhan institute of vir virology? i can t tell you that. i m not allowed to tell you that. over the course of 2020, however, more and more revelations emerged related to the wuhan institute of virology. at least three staff members were sickened early on. they were so sick they had to go to the hospital. here in china, that s not necessarily unusual given there is no primary care system but to be hospitalized with an unknown respiratory illness, shows this virus was spreading perhaps even in 2019 in wuhan.