A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the Fulton County courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. Democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. Here it is. Donald trump is going to get a Justice System that hes never been willing to afford to others. He always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. Hes gonna get all the due process, hes gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from his peers. And thats why
lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. breaking news, another texas tragedy. a shooter opens fire at a packed outlet mall killing eight people and wounding seven others including a fire the year old child. before the shooter is taken down by police. . what we are learning with the latest mass shooting in america, ahead on the live report plus, the trump tape. the jury and the civil rape independent defamation case gets a look at former trump s deposition. the twice impeached now index president is facing a deadline. plus, trump s defense of him that infamous hollywood comment and later. scotus scandal. collin crow picking up the tuition talk for the justices grand. new ethics concern which the court needs to address a little later. all of this and more is coming up. so, for the third time in just over one week, the country is waking up to yet another mass shooting the latest happening at a packed outlet mall in dallas yesterday afternoon we know at least nine peop
Lifestyle. Also ahead, the starstudded event with an obama cameo. How a state dinner for kenya became a showcase for the allies who President Biden is keeping close during the heat of the campaign season. Plus, they were bitter rivals, but is donald trump warming to the thought of nikki haley on his team . Also could he be reading too much into her comment that she would vote for him. And the Memorial Day Rush is on. What you need to know if youre planning to skip town for the weekend. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian on that hearing for hunter biden. Just got a slew of rulings from the judge about what can and cannot be referenced at trial. What can you tell us as this wraps up . Reporter thats right, chris. The hearing does appear to be over now, and the judge worked through a series of motions by the prosecution and the defense to admit or deny certain evidence. This is a w
Not happen . Initially i dont think theyre going to say, theyre going to know whether or not trump knew about this deal or not. They have gone all over the place. Trump, the ceo, too high, doesnt know whats going on and then something else. I think theyre undecided. As a defense lawyer, you do that at times. You dont have the burden of proof. The prosecution does. So when you stand up and close it, youre going to say, i dont even have to be here to stand up, the only person you have to hear from is them. If i did nothing and the judge would tell the jury and they didnt prove their case, my client needs to be acquitted and thats what the law requires, but i do think jurors as reasonable people expect a counternarrative that makes sense. Theyre here to bring the rational to judge and the prosecution put forward a documents heavy rational and this counterrational of attacking stormy and going on and on again and get morgue and more tangential is undermining their case. How much does the w
Theres no way to unring the bell in our view. Blanche also accused the prosecution of purposely trying to embarrass trump. And trying to enflame the jury following a conversation between the prosecution and Stormy Daniels. Her testimony has now been different after the lunch break. Shorter answers. Less narrative. Lets get right to it. Back with us, nbc news correspondent, Vaughn Hillyard and joining us for the hour, former fbi General Counsel and nyu law professor, andrew weissman, adam pollack and amy parnes. Okay, vaughn, catch us up on whats going inside right this very second. Reporter theyve been going back and forth over that period of time between august of, October Of 2016 when daniels entered into that 130,000 agreement to keep her story silent with cohen. She believed he was a party up until March Of 2018 when she appeared on 60 minutes and publicly detailed the encounter in 2006. It was not until the Wall Street Journal story by the Wall Street Journal in January Of 2018 in