the lead starts right now. a critical vote possibly just minutes away as speaker mccarthy pushes house republicans to sign off on his debt limit plan. i ll speak on one holdout about the offers. clemency request denied. a parole board votes against sparing the life of kdeath row inmate in oklahoma. plus, disney versusdy san tis. the major new lawsuit accusing the florida governor of weaponizing his political power. everyone. i m in for jake tapper today. we start with our politics lead. do they have the votes? right now, house republicans are in the middle of last-minute negotiations as house speaker kevin mccarthy tries to get his party s debt ceiling plan across the finish line. we expect that vote to start in minutes. he had zero democratic support, and he can only lose four republicans, a narrow margin that forced him to make some 11th hour concessions. but even if he can get this bill across that finish line, it is dead on arrival in the democrat controlled senate
is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he s ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he s beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that s doing political revenge against a former president. that s not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we re glad you re with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world s attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there s a lot of new york police department officers, a lot of barricades. there i
Fresh, gag order violations, even after he lost the last gag order clash tuesday. The prosecution looking at statements that trump put out about witnesses, as well as attacking the jury itself. Prosecutors say the violations are corrosive to the fair trial that he deserves, and that the system requires. They also accuse him of creating an air of menace that could affect these jurors. Also denouncing persistent and escalating rhetoric. Now, the judge found that judge lost his previous defense about this, ruling that he did violate the gag order, fining him about 9,000, and that was just this week. Trump has clearly broken the rules. I say that again, not as a criticism, but based on what we have observed in the trial, what the judge has ruled. Here he was just last night. I dont think theres ever been a more conflicted judge. Crooked and conflicted. Im unconstitutionally gagged, so im not supposed to be talking to you, because he gagged me. Trump there trying to play up the gagging whil
Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho
A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And