Welcome to our special new york versus donald trump. Im ari and we will get into this Criminal Trial. Defendant trump reeling in the first week of testimony in new york. We are covering that on tonights special. Well have new reporting on the damning testimony. Experts on the law to the sordid world of new york tabloids. We have experts on that believe it or not. We have a Beat Special Report on a new separate indictment against a trump lawyer Boris Epstein who first admitted his role in the now indicted elector plot on the beat. This week, they asked a bunch of trump friendly questions about the potential problems with prosecuting a president. If you listen to the Oral Argument you may have noticed it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. Up the east coast, an actual trial of a former president was Going Forward and the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and what we get into tonight. This very first week of the new
Welcome to our special new york versus donald trump. Im ari melber and we are going to get into this criminal trial. Were covering that tonight in the course of this hour. Well have new reporting on the damning testimony, experts from law to the sorted world of new york tabloids. We have experts on that, too, believe it or not. We also tonight have a Beat Special Report on a new separate indictment on a trump lawyer, Boris Epstein, who first admitted his role on the beat. To hear all of that tonight. This weekends with a remarkable contrast from d. C. To new york. Let me tell you what i mean. In Washington A Trump Friendly Court asked trump friendly questions about all of the problems with prosecuting a president. If you read about it, it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. While right up the east coast an actual trial of an actual former president was Going Forward and the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and th
tonight on the reidout right now at 11:28 eastern, i m asking you to step out to begin deliberations. the jury has been dismissed to begin deliberations. the jurors are now leaving the courtroom to deliberate. and we are told they are expeditiously to begin deliberations. for the first time in american history, a jury is deciding whether a former president of the united states committed felonies. and as the deliberations began, the jury made several requests to the judge. meanwhile, trump and his defenders are bracing for the verdict by attacking the judge, lying about the jury instructions, and increasingly portraying trump as a martyr. reporting on justice sam alito s insurrectionist flags. he s now throwing his wife even further under the bus. and refusing to recuse from trump cases, earning a pat on the head from trump himself. after 22 days in cord, following 22 witnesses, giving more than 80 hours of testimony, plus more than seven hours of closin
hi, everyone. here we go. it is 4:00 in new york. oh, to be a fly on the wall behind these closed doors. in the courthouse that has seen no shortage of famous influential or wealthy criminal defendants. 12 new yorkers and seven men and five women are right now debating the fate of a former president of the united states and they have questions. the jury in the historic trump criminal election interference hush money trial is at this moment deliberating on the 34 felony counts trump is charged with by the manhattan district attorney. just in, in the last few minutes, a second note has been sent from the jury, they re asking to re-hear judge merchan s instructions to them and earlier they are requested testimony from david pecker and michael cohen. our journalists are standing watch and they are updating us and we ll update you as soon as we know anything. as of 4:00 p.m., the juries that deliberated for four hours after yesterday s marathon day of closing arguments, more than
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Change the narrative around this meeting. I want to step back and give us an understanding of how Michael Cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. Yes. Im most interested in how this plies with voters. Im seeing a parallel to what Rudy Giuliani said this summer. Michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. I would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. They say, you know what, Michael Cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees visavis the don junior
meeting until the Senate Committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. I dont see the political implications of this at this moment. We have seen this play out with flair and flourish