upwards of 776 today,i m here to say it is in the history books. we surpassed the scale of the storm and intensity and vers on ty of the winds. we will talk about that today and the generations of the blizzard of 22. western new york hit by a blizzard republican governor sends more migrants to the east coast will warning several children dropped off outside the vice president s house. and vladimir putin makes a suspicious statement about ukraine to end the conflict. good morning welcome to way too early. i m cori coffin in for jonathan lemire several people have died in the storm that impacted people this weekend. thousands of flights have been delayed. the storm is impacted erie county, new york hard where 12 people have died new york state officials report that the area was hit with four feet of snow at times, the storm s hurricane-force winds caused whiteout conditions. it caused the city s airport to shutdown new york times reporting that nearly three days, tha
Good friday morning, it is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with Breaking News in a courtroom in manhattan where Witness Testimony has just resumed in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial, and back on the stand is the forensic specialist from the manhattan d. A. s office who inspected data from Michael Cohens phone including Text Messages and secret recordings. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is standing by for us outside the courthouse. Also with us former u. S. Attorney, former State Court Judge carol lam, and State Attorney for palm beach county, florida, Dave Aronberg. Vaughn, start us off here. The judge started everything by pushing back on some of trumps comments yesterday about his potential testimony in this case. What can you tell us . Reporter right. Trump has repeatedly bemoaned the fact that this gag order has been placed on him preventing him from speaking about witnesses as this pertains to this criminal proceeding, but also the jury. But donald trump notab
colleagues who have been covering the trial from the beginning. msnbc s legal analyst lisa rubin, new york times investigative reporter susanne craig, and former federal prosecutor and former sdny criminal division deputy chief, kristy greenberg. katy, let s set the stage for what s going on at trump tower where we anticipate him speaking in about an hour, right? the assembled press is here. this is the first time i believe everyone has been back in this lobby since the donald trump transition. donald trump is going to come town his golden elevators behind me as a man running for president again, as a former president, yes, but also as a man who has now been convicted on 34 felony counts. the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime and certainly the first one, former president to be running again now that they are convicted on all of those felony counts. and he s doing it, guys, at the literal scene of the crime here in trump tower. this is where david pe
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Said i know my client is charged in conspiracy but he really colluded. Thats different. Thats a different word. It is nonsense people focusing on the Dictionary Definition when crimes do not care about how we define them. Betsy, Rudy Giuliani is not the only one saying collusions does not matter. Clearly there is a message and strategy is going on here. Let me play what the congressman had to say. If hes proven to have not told the whole truth of the fact the campaign looking for dirt and someone offers it, you listen to them, nobody is going to be surprised. There is something in politics that you take for granted. What is it politics that we are expected to take for granted now Betsy Woodrow . Thats certainly a question. The reality is Cyber Security experts and Law Enforcement experts and political operatives across the spectrum all agree
reporter: i think the january 6 hoek 6 hope hicks interview with a focused on the big lie and that was great contribution they showed that trump knew the election was lost and he did not have a path back to the white house. he continued to pressure his vice president mike pence and others this came through with the testimony and home hicks text messages if you go through the january 6 text that hope got at 2:19 p.m. on january 6, it shows they were trying to find ways to get trump to call off the attack and he refused to do so that stems directly at the heart of trump refusing to call off the attack and contributing to the corrupt attempt. let s talk about the january 6 committee final report that