An historic day in washington. The former president and current g portion front runner will be arraigned for eallegedly orchestrating a a plot to overturn the free and Fair Election that he lost. Were keeping watch as donald trump gets ready to leave new jersey, board his private jet and make his way to a federal courthouse just steps away from where democracy was under siege during the january 6th insurrection. Hundreds of Protrump Rioters already face justice inside that very same courthouse. And thats where we begin this hour with paula reid and evan perez. What can we expect to unfold in that courthouse out of the publics view . Once the former president gets into washington, he will be brought into the federal courthouse. Were probably not going to see much of him before he finally gets into the courthouse. He will be processed by the u. S. Marshals as they do with everyone who is arraigned. He will be under arrest. And then he will be brought in at 4 00. The we expect the judge i
The war in gaza as israel prepares to invade rafah. And trump famously doesnt like spending money. But what happens when his Campaign Starts cutting corners . Why republicans are sounding the alarm as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. Good evening, im katie phang in for stephanie ruhle. We are now 179 days from the election, and 15 days into the trump hush money trial. With Stormy Daniels done testifying, day 15 is mostly about records. But things will get heated again next week. Today prosecutors are revealing their star witness, Michael Cohen, will take The Stand On Monday and faceoff against his former boss. My colleague has more. Reporter Tonight Nbc News learning from multiple sources, prosecutors recall their star witness on monday. He called himself Donald Trumps fixer. And now a vocal trump critic. Cohen unleashing on his old boss and book and on social media. Spotted online this week wearing a tshirt depicting mr. Trump behind bars. The judge today Directing Pr
Three times. the theme of being the person who is in between justice or the department of justice and the rest of the world looking at the proxy argument he s talking about, why this is so significant to hear from the former attorney general, who was the highest prosecutor in the land for quite some time, it s this notion of even he believed that donald trump was aware that he lost the election. why is that important? it tries to pour cold water on the idea he s using political speech and he can say whatever he wants. they are alleging as part of a scheme that based on his knowledge, he knew what he was saying would be part of a conspiracy to overturn and overthrow the election results. that s significant to come from attorney barr. that s one of the things that was cited as a collection of people about what knowledge trump had. just for us, you don t have to essentially hook up to a lie detector test.
Any classified briefing on the details of the intelligence presented to trey gowdy? and if he still believes there s cause for concern why doesn t he just declassify the documents? the president receives a number of declassified briefings. i m not going to get into that certainly not here and not today. is that something that the president could declassify if he wanted to and just get it out there? indeed, he could. while there are a number of executive orders that have been written over a number of years to my knowledge trump has not added anything to the procedures for declassification. still, he s the one person who can preempt all the executive orders out there including instantly declassify it. i don t think he want to in this instance. it ll certainly hurt his conspiracy theory when there s no basis to it from those who have looked at it. not only trey gowdy but adam schiff and others have said the
let me read what you re talking about. we have that excerpt. comey writes, this whole thing was weird enough as i spoke, i felt a strange out of body experience as if i were watching myself speak to the new president about prostitutes in russia. before i finished, trump interrupted sharply with a dismissive tone. he was eager to protest the allegations weren t true. these allegation s were made in the dossier which has since the moment it was first published by buzzfeed, i believe, and covered by other news organizations, driven the president mad. can you speak to just tie together comey s interactions with the president, that first briefing about the dossier, and then the subsequent treatment of comey? yeah, that first briefing was on january 6 of 2017 up at trump tower. that s the first time to our knowledge trump was briefed on the actual details in that dossier. it was by comey one on one. there was a bigger group of intelligence chiefs. clapper was there, john brennan