thank you, as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. trump s lawyers, they ve been working to paint michael cohen as a sleazy liar who is hellbent on revenge, conveniently leaving out the fact trump used him as his own personal porno venmo. after calling 20 minutes over the past month, the prosecution rested their case. when he heard, trump was like, i ve been resting the whole case. [ applause ] time to rest. time to rest. michael cohen admitted on the stand today he stole money from the trump organization. only in a donald trump trial would the star witness be the one who ends up going to jail. how lucky is donald trump? donald trump is like a corruption mr. magoo. he s just stumbling around, quid pro quoing, metal beams falling all around him, getting out unscathed. we ll have more from donald trump s hush money trial, including the dramatic exchange in court with a trump ally that led
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour
ten years. that s it for me, cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. he. laura a pam, nice to see everyone, good evening, i am laura coats. welcome to cnn tonight. we ve got news on the trump legal front, including what may be a major case of foot in the mouth disease, everyone. now, he says that he didn t actually listen to his attorneys who told him that he lost the 2020 election because he did not actually respect them, which may turn into a very big problem, of course, for him in the court of law. not to mention in a possible second term i ll explain just why in a moment. plus, this is a step back everyone. new tonight, president biden is now framing s age as experience. something that he is not really shied away from talking about. i ve been doing this long time, i know i don t look that old. [laughter] i m a little under 103. i get it. try being 110 and doing it again. think about it, think about it. i know i am 198 years old. i guess he is in, is it a
green train, this distinctive green train, a massive soviet-era train with bulletproof glass and bottom-resistant steel traveling 37 miles an hour maximum speed should be rolling across the border from north korea into russia right now and that s what this video appears to show although it is not confirmed. we have no way to independently verify it but believe kim jong-un is on his way to vladivostok but if it crossed into russia this is one step closer to a pretty significant meeting with vladimir putin, not the first time he s met with putin but the first time kim jong-un has been asked by putin to this meeting where it is believed that they re going to be talking about some sort of an arms deal which, of course, music to kim jong-un s ears because he can sell his stockpile of ammunition and weapons and get cash in exchange and also even more valuable for him potentially russian intelligence and basically know-how on developing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons which i
tapes that give us a first look at what the former president s codefendants are saying about him and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. he said well the boss, meaning president trump, and everyone understood the boss. the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. i said to him, it doesn t quite work that way, you realize. he said we don t care. that is just one of a series of reportings obtained by the washington post. essentially a tell all interview for a plea deal. the videos have not been independently verified by nbc news. what they tell us about the fraud case facing donald trump is really the question and who d.a. willis is blaming for this leak. let s start with the latest developments here, vaughn. what more do we know about the d.a. s emergency filing? this is kind of in realtime here. we know this hearing is going to be tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in front of the judge and televised. so this emergency mo