Good morning. Its 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Testimony under way for day 12 of former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. The jury hearing from former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey Mcconney who played a role in reimbursing Michael Cohen for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels. Just before testimony resumed, the judge fined trump another 1,000 for violating the partial gag order imposed on him. Thats in addition to the 9,000 he was fined last week for previous violations. The judge also warned trump directly, future violations could see him sent to jail, saying, quote, it appears that 1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. With us now to talk more about this msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Michael zeldan, special counsel to robert mueller, hes a professor at American University and David Aaronberg state attorney for california. Yasmin, its been an intense day in the
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manafort on political campaigns in ukraine. The prosecution called him as their first witness to have him describe how much work manafort was doing in ukraine and how lucrative it was. Before we came on the air, we got a rush version of the transcript from todays hearing. Im not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but heres one little bit of the prosecutors Opening Statement worth hear. Th
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Trump tower meeting for over a year. It ended up being a meeting about adoption. We know donald trump jr. Was told they might have information on hillary. President trump tweeted as much way back over a year ago, july july 2017, if any of these sheep in the media would ever do any work, they are lazy, they are overpaid. Most politicians, he tweeted over a year ago, would have gone to a meeting like the one don jr. Attended in order to get info on an opponent. Thats politics. And in September Of 2017 the New York Times reporting donald trump jr. Told Senate Investigators that he set up a june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Sadly in an effort to malign President Trump, your friends not really in the mainstream media, they forgot even their own reporting. Their own reporting. Thats how bad they are. Thats how desperate they are to get the dem
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run
Working for stone in 2010. In august 2017 she took over as stones scheduler, but she says she did not work for him during the 2016 president ial election. Kristin davis is a good friend of mine. She is a brilliant woman who has paid her debt to set. She was not working for me during 2015. She worked for me during a portion of 2016. She went back to school to learn i. T. Skills. She has helped me build some websites. She has no knowledge whatsoever of any russian collusion, collaboration with wikileaks, or anything else having to do with the 2016 election. Stone is not only under suspicion, but might be a target of the special counsels investigation. Already muellers team has interviewed two people close to trumps longtime confidant. A third was held in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. Ari melber broke the news last
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