We know that closing arguments in Donald Trumps you are new york Hush Money Trial begin tuesday. They are expected to take y us the day, and then it is just a matter of how long it takes the jury to reach a verdict. That is, if they are able to reach a verdict at all. We will get back to that. First, lets not forget that this Hush Money Trial is just ne one of Donald Trumps many indictments. It was bad news for him this s week in one of the other cases. Intros classified documents case, one in which he is accused by federal prosecutors of illegally hoarding classified documents in mara lago and trying to hide them from the federal government, newly unsealed documents this week revealed new evidence with Obstruction Of Justice for the former president. Quote, once trump realized that Security Cameras at maralago could capture his employees moving classified Government Information that officials were attempting ntto retrieve, as th government issued a subpoena for the camera footage. Tru
Welcome back to the weekend, everyone. Donald trumps 2016 Election Interference Trial resumes tomorrow morning with a very key witness. Multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that Michael Cohen will take the stand. His testimony over the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels is expected to last several days. The Prosecution Plans to call one more witness before resting its case. Who exactly that other witness is remains a mystery. Joining us to discuss it all is a former member of the probe, andrew weisman, who hosts the Podcast Prosecuting donald trump. And Lockland Cart right is here, he doesnt have a webby but he has the ticket. So andrew, you have for the duration of this offered up a master class for anyone who has been following the numerous trials here. I sit at your knee for a lot of this stuff because you bring a lot of the elements of insight and understanding to make it clear for us what we are looking at. I want to play for you Michael Cohen. He is the guy starting
Updates of the days news. Theres a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, and mueller is going to have a lot to answer for and in ohios congressional Special Election the race is tighter after a late addition to voting tallies. Officials in Franklin County announced yesterday an additional 588 previously uncounted votes had been found in a columbus suburb. The result has given Democrat Danny Oconnor a net gain of 190 votes. He and republican Troy Balder S son are separated down from yesterday. Balderson declared victory tuesday night, but oconnor is waiting for all votes to be counted. Whatever the outcome, these two will go headtohead again in november when they compete for a full term in congress. The Trump Administration is hitting russia with new sanctions, punishing Vladimir Putins government for the poisoning of a former russian
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And they knew what was under scrutiny and they knew that mueller was not going to exonerate trump for a long time. I have two gentlemen on deck. Pete williams wants to get in on this conversation. Pete . Two things to bear in mind. One, we now have the report. We have barrs letter, we have the report. We can reach our own conclusions about whether barr accurately characterized it. And the second thing that i would point out is that he is going to say that he only redacted 8 of this report. So, the public has seen most of it and most of those redactions are in part one, if i may say, the less controversial part about collusion or coordination. Pete, its tougher for him to account for the no collusion portion of his News Conference. Yeah. And, you know, in his letter he doesnt actually use the phrase collusion. He talks about coordination or conspiracy which is sort of the language that the Mueller Report uses. Collusion is the term that he used in the News Conference before the report c
this morning s one big thing. turning down the counsel s offer and the bid in access to president trump and the timeline they re putting on wrapping up the russia prose. richard blumenthol weighs in. and rashida tlaib joins the conversation to discuss her campaign and the potential of becoming the first muslim woman elected too eed to congress. morning joe just moments away.