Good to be with you. Im katy tur alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and chris jansing. Whats happening right now in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial could determine how it all ends. A legal conference between judge merchan, prosecutors, and attorneys for donald trump to determine the charges the jury can consider. And there arent any fireworks to note inside the courtroom right now, no fireworks, but really important conversations, arguments with the conference thats highly sequential, theres gamesmanship at play on both sides. This is the final phase of the proceedings, right, before Closing Arguments begin next week. And jurors now have an extralong weekend. Actually, they have a full week to absorb this weeks testimony. They probably need it. Theyre not going to be back in court until a week from today, next tuesday, when Closing Arguments will start. Prosecutors rested their case against the former president earlier, after another lessexplosive round of testimony from Defense A
all we re asking is go to a judge and have some evidence to get started. warrants aren t that difficult to get. heather: how much of a delay would happen if what he is suggesting went through? what he is suggesting is really basically what is in the bill. if they want it for american purposes for a domestic issue those have to be a warrant. i think that s the concern. maybe semantics here is what is happening. that s what is happening as we go forward in this bill. i think the one thing that is interesting here is you look at this and you have to balance the aspects of personal liberties and freedoms with the national security aspect. senator paul can make his point and i think he is. the one thing that i think is lost here is that we did add a warrant protection in there for this information used for domestic crime on american citizens. there is protection built in there and remember, this starts with foreign intelligence. it is not directed at americans. this section deals with t
releases a review of its war strategy. abc s mike boettcher has a preview from kandahar. good morning, mike. reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. the assessment would be divided into three sections and it will first state that there has been great progress in dismantling, disrupting and defeating al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan and in other parts of the world. the first section deals with al qaeda. the report will state that top al qaeda leadership has been assassinated in drone strikes in pakistan and elsewhere and they ve managed to take away many of the al qaeda safe sanctuaries in pakistan and other parts of the world. secondly, the report deals with pakistan. it says there is greater cooperation between the united states and pakistan but there are still problems there. a giant safe haven still exists in north waziristan province in pakistan, and that is something that will have to be dealt with in the future. and in the coming spring. thirdly, in afghanistan, the repo