Lisa ribbon, Suzanne Craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. Plus nicolle wallace, and Catherine Christian as special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues. Big night. Todays proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style british detective story. Youve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. You know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. Its okay you havent been playing close attention all along. They are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to the big answer, th
The final witness for the prosecution. I have wind, im not a liar. Michael cohen back on the stand. We went through all times Michael Cohen has led, his legal troubles, the fact that he has been disbarred. Under crossexamination from the defense. He is obsessed with revenge against donald trump, that is what they are saying. As donald trump roles and with a full entourage, including the Speaker Of The House. President trumps is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. Tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom, with Rachel Maddow, Lawrence Odonnell, katie phang, and msnbc legal and political experts when special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins right now. Good evening from new york, and chris hayes along with alex wagner. Thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. We will be joined by Rachel Maddow and Lawrence Odonnell in just a minute to become what we heard from the most pi
We have a lot to get to tonight after another day of major testimony in Donald Trumps first criminal trial. Michael cohen, trumps former lawyer and fixer was back on the stand today, facing crosses emanation from Donald Trumps current lawyer, blanche. For anyone coming, mr. Cohen has been on the stand for more than 14 hours, with more to come on monday. And nearly all day today, todd blanche tried to undermine mr. Cohens credibility as a witness. Blanche spent half the morning recalling different episodes when Michael Cohen lied publicly. Lying to congress, lying in court, lying about whether or not he sought a part in. Essentially forcing cohen to admit repeatedly that he has been untruthful. Blanche also tried to paint cohen as something of a renegade, a man who spent the 2016 Election Cycle Casting out on his own, speaking to the press both publicly and privately without Donald Trumps consent or his supervision. Blanche tried to call into question Michael Collins memory , his abilit
Welcome to a special two hour edition of the beat. You know, we are nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of the former u. S. President , donald trump. By next week the case could be in the hands of the 12 member jury. But before that happens, trumps former fixer and personal attorney will be back on the stand monday for a third day of crossexamination. The defense is focused so far on trying to portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted, and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. And through what felt at times like a meandering Cross Examination, they had been able to poke a hole in credibility during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016. That netanyahu testified he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday netanyahu admitted he was having trouble recalling his Telephone Calls on specific d
The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. If you love shakespeare, that passage might be on your mind because this week, we saw maga faithful republicans make the latest trump pilgrimage, showing felty at the trial of a man accused of Making Hush Money payments to stormy daniels, former Adult Film Star actress, to stop her from going public with their alleged affair in the 2016 election era. We saw these republicans, indoctrinated by trump, do this not once, not twice, but three times. Three times point monday, tuesday, and yesterday, three groups of the red tie brigade, most, members of the legislative branch of our federal government, skipped out on their day jobs to do Donald Trumps beatings and attacked this nations criminal Justice System. Weve never seen anything like this. While this Performative Display of devotion to trump is a lot of things, unethical, antidemocratic, demoralizing, and karen g, is also, and this isnt exactly a journalistic way o