stream of threats after ruling former president trump should be taken off the state s primary ballot. we re following breaking news overseas, in prague, authorities say an unspecified number of people are dead after a shooting at prague university. at the border, we re live in eagle pass, texas, where agents are trying to process thousands of migrants at the bridge crossing. plus, why the governor of texas chartered a plane to fly migrants to chicago. breaking overnight, ten americans jailed in venezuela are now back on u.s. soil after the u.s. frees a major maduro ally. we begin this very busyour with the aftermath of the colorado supreme court s bombshell decision to bar former president trump from the state s primy ballot next year. afr the ruling, threats aimed at colorado s justices flooded social media, according to a report nbc news obtained exclusively from a nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research. it says some of the threats came directly
mississippi, where he ll visit rolling fork. that s 1,200 miles from the courtroom where president trump is expected to be arraigned early next week. according to district attorney alvin bragg s office, we contacted mr. trump s attorney to coordinate his is your repbder to the manhattan da s house on supreme court indictment which remains under seal. details will be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since it is under seal, we do not know the exact charges. bragg has been investigating for alleged payments being made leading up to the 2016 election including $130,000 for stormy daniels. the president has denied any wrongdoing and has responded with outrage writing within a lengthy response, quote, this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called da alvin bragg a disgrace writing he s doing joe biden s dirty work and the american people realize what the radical left democrats are doing here. trump s attorney s
professor at the university of michigan and msnbc legal analyst, yamiche alcindor, nbc news washington correspondent. dasha, we re waiting, we re watching this historic moment. set the stage for us outside of trump tower. well, we have got a calm before the storm here yesterday. we had a massive crowd, a lot of noise today. it has been fairly quiet this is a business district, a tourist district, a lot of curiosity, a lot of onlookers. we have choppers overhead. we have got some anticipation building there are officers, heavy police presence here, some officers directing traffic right now, getting ready for the motorcade to make its way downtown and, look, this is a building, this is a residence that was the center of gravity for the trump campaign back in 2016, the center of his power. now, the place where he begins to make a journey that is unlike a journey that he has made in new york city before now to downtown to the courthouse where he will be arraigned, where he will
Welcome to a special two hour edition of the beat. You know, we are nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of the former u. S. President , donald trump. By next week the case could be in the hands of the 12 member jury. But before that happens, trumps former fixer and personal attorney will be back on the stand monday for a third day of crossexamination. The defense is focused so far on trying to portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted, and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. And through what felt at times like a meandering Cross Examination, they had been able to poke a hole in credibility during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016. That netanyahu testified he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday netanyahu admitted he was having trouble recalling his Telephone Calls on specific d
Stand. Been there all day. Nearing the end of just his first day of testimony. Michael cohen revealing what it was like to work for donald trump and made sure the boss looked good in the public eye. Work that trump would praise him for when he did that. Cohen testified that it would make him feel, quote, like i was on top of the world. Cohen was a guard dog protecting his boss at all costs. Trumps former pit bull today corroborated all of the interactions this jury has heard about over the past few weeks. That includes the allimportant meeting at trump tower in 2015. Thats the one with david pecker of the National Enquirer and donald trump where the catchandkill scheme was originally hatched. Michael cohen testified to conversations about keeping the story of Donald Trumps affair with playboy model Karen Mcdougal quiet. He testified to how he arranged with pecker the 150,000 Payment Mcdougal to bury the story. The jury then heard the only Conversation Cohen had with trump that he taped