Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j
Someone who had been searched could run to a different court as he had and blocked the government from continuing even though an earlier judge had said that the search was lawful. and that was a reasoning on that was always really hard to follow, what would it mean for the entire system, and they said, no, that just does not work and they shut it down. in other legal news in new york s closing arguments, they re under way in the tax fraud case. the defense is trying to pin this on allen weisselberg alone claiming the company didn t know about these off the books compensations. the prosecution says it wasn t that they didn t know what they were doing that was illegal, it s that they didn t care. who s made the stronger case so far? well, you know, they re wrapping up their final arguments right now and donald trump is not a defendant in this lawsuit and each side is trying to make the arguments about him
One way or the other. the profession continues to bring his name up to say that he benefitted, the organization benefitted from weisselberg, what he was doing, and the defense, of course, is that he was acting pretty much alone and for his own benefit. and i will say that he did continue to fall on his sword and what he had to say in this trial consistent with his guilty plea and to really take it all upon himself. so always very hard to predict a jury verdict. but we shall see. all right. thank you both. this morning, republican outrage is intensifying against ye formally known as kanye west after the rapper went on an anti-semitic tirade yesterday. during an interview with alex jones, a fully masked ye praised hitler and repeatedly invoked anti-semitic stereotypes. he tweeted an image of the star of david interwoven with a
How does this impact donald trump, at least politically, as he continues to tease that second run? i m not sure that these are the kinds of things that could hurt trump politically, especially coming after years of investigation, what amounts to essentially allen weisselberg wasn t running a very good organization. i m not sure that voters would then turn around and blame the president for or politically harm him in? ways. it seems as though, unless former president trump himself is actually indicted,or aro beonthat, convicted by a jury of his peers, it seems unlikely this will affect his political career. there have been any other number of revelations over the last many years that just rolled
Discovered, transactions, deposit. you take the deposit, match it with the financial statement, and you match it together. it s a scheme. what does donald trump have on allen weisselberg. you ve had that in the past. what is it? when he became president in 2007, it looked like he still only trusted allen for finances, so i think they were doing a lot of things together, that they were not supposed to be talking. i don t want to saying anything that could get myself in trouble, because i m nervous in and out that allen did get indicted, that there s going to be backlash on me, but i think that they i think they re all trying to protect ives other, but i don t think the trump family understands he s that