Lisa ribbon, Suzanne Craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. Plus nicolle wallace, and Catherine Christian as special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues. Big night. Todays proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style british detective story. Youve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. You know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. Its okay you havent been playing close attention all along. They are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to the big answer, th
Of the case takes the stand. Tonight, the Michael Cohen testimony begins. The guy we saw was credible and calm if not a little freaked out. Donald trumps former fixer testifies that the candidate himself let the conspiracy. The most repeated line of Michael Cohens testimony was, just take care of it. Just take care of it. This is a disaster. Women will hate me. He was not thinking of melania but all about the candidate. Rachel maddow recaps the testimony with lawrence odonnell, lisa rubin, susan craig, and katie phang who were inside the court has. Nicolle wallace, chris hayes, ari melber, jen psaki, and catherine christian. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Good evening and thank you for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Trump. I am here along with my colleagues lawrence odonnell, katie phang, nicolle wallace, chris hayes. Todays proceedings, unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style bri
Word. The 11th hour starts now. Storms on the stand, What The Adult Film Star said about donald trump and the Cross Examination from defense. Biden condemns antisemitism as israel seizes a key Border Crossing in gaza. Marjorie taylor green, backing off her immediate threat to house the speaker as The 11th Hour gets underway on this tuesday night. That evening, once again. We are now 182 days away from the election and it has been six years, three months, and 25 days since the first report that Stormy Daniels was paid to keep quiet during the 2016 election about her alleged sexual encounter with donald j trump. Today, Stormy Daniels herself took the stand and told her story to a jury, while donald trump sat watching 10 feet away. Here is Laura Jarrett with moore. Reporter donald trump was seated just 10 feet away as the woman at the center of his hush money coverup trial testified in vivid detail about their legend sexual encounter nearly 20 years ago. Prosecutors say he was desperate t
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom for what
if he wanted to, he could hop on the stand and testify. he could have called keith schiller if he wanted to. he could ve called allen weisselberg. in the same way, he made a choice to call bob costello. not the best choice in the world given how that went. he also was free to cross examine david pecker and to say he was a liar. he did not. david pecker, as lisa said, was close to the defendant. he was a key witness. he could have cross-examined hope hicks and said she was a liar. he did not. she provided deeply damning testimony. the same thing for jeff mccarney and on and on. what do all of the witnesses that did testify have in common? they were all people loyal to and aligned with donald trump, so for the people who say this was a witch hunt and it s unfair and it is a sham, these are donald trump s friends and allies and employees who