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we have updates in the other special counsel s investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let s get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let s start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it s more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donald trump hasn t been known to pay his bills. that s something you re on the hook for down the line if, you know, no matter where this goes, once you re on the case you re stuck with it no matter what, even if there s a dispute about payment or what have you. whoever signed on for that is in for the long haul. with donald trump, a significant retainer agreement, cash up front in order to take o ....
i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial i ....
sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this time telling her, quote, you are on the verge of spending some time in lockdown. now sit down. then after the jury was brought in and e. jean carroll s lawyer was in the middle of her closing statements, donald trump abruptly stood up and walked out of the court according to our reporters in the room. that s when the judge said, quote, the record will reflect that mr. trump rose and walked out of the courtroom, said the judge. what did carroll s lawyers say that got under his skin and how w ....
good evening, lawrence. good evening, law alex. lawrence i just got my hands on this filing while you ve been working here. we ll very much on the fly going into live coverage of it. you will not be surprised to know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered a of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weizmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a ....
know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weissmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias in the prosecution, a political bias, that there for the crime wasn t committed, in effect. the outline of this bias comes in the middle of this filing on page 42, no, 45, under the heading, special counsel coordin ....