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reached with them. daniels was doing what many people view as a conventional form of celebrity extortion. she wanted to cash in on her story. but what s interesting is that donald trump was trying to kill false stories as well as stories that were allegedly true. there was a story involving a door man who said he had an illegitimate child. she wanted to kill that, too. that s not strange for celebrities or politicians. indeed, many members of congress have engaged in ndas throughout the years. so this is a standard part of politics and entertainment. now, what they are showing the jury now is that she had this economic motive all along. but also her credibility is in tatters. the real question here is going to be how more sort of narrow the scope of the testimony will be. it is obviously going to be narrower. it is a cross examination when it comes to trump. they have a lot of material involving her own conduct, her own life. and you may see the prosecutors start to object as
the deals on top before they re current job today donald trump is just perhaps one social post away from potential jail time as is his trial enters a very critical week. welcome to a special edition alarm codes live hours from now, donald trump will enter a de 13 of his criminal trial. and the big question everyone s asking tonight, are we going to hear from stormy daniels or michael cohen? and if so, when are they going to take the stand now according to prosecutors, we are now halfway through their case in chief. i made that sound far more exciting. i didn t perhaps to you, but we just have about two more weeks left. and yes, there will be a very key moment. and by key moment, i mean messy to have daniel s and adult film star testify about an alleged sex scandal that prosecutors say she was paid to keep quiet so that it wouldn t hurt trump s 2016 campaign. but forgive the broken get to record that i m about to sound like, but that s not what the heart of the case is really
about its main graduation ceremony after weeks of protests and dramatic arrests. the frightening moments during a livestreamed sermon. a man pulling a gun on the pastor. but it fails to go off. how he was stopped. the final countdown after years of delays. tonight boeing is set to launch its first crewed flight of its starliner capsule. and a historic battleship like you ve never seen before. visitors flocking for a rare glimpse as it gets a makeover. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. the news traveled fast in gaza tonight, where celebrations broke out after word began to spread that hamas had accepted a deal to end hostilities in gaza. but hopes of a pause in the fighting were just as quickly shattered when israel declared the deal hamas was embracing was far from israel s essential demands. and so instead of a deal tonight israel is raising the stakes, pressing forward on its threatened military operation in rafah, p
that is going to do it for me tonight. now, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. if i seem a little off my game tonight, it is because i made a mistake last night. i started to read jen psaki s book before going to sleep, which means i almost didn t ever get to sleep. it is the can t put it down for me for a bunch of reasons. for example, can you imagine a white house chief of staff changing a diaper in the white house on a baby that is not his baby? let s start there. that took a real twist at the end. i thought i knew where you were going but then it s like somebody else s baby. now you got me. guess whose baby it was? and then, okay, jen psaki has worked for the last three democratic nominees for president. you want to guess which one she was terrified of? you are doing a very good job at john kerry, barack obama, joe biden, but one was she terrified of? enter will be coming later when jen psaki joins us. which one gave he