To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
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how concerning is, it carmen, that there is clearly a killer suspect at large, police have yet to track him down, what does that do form a police leadership perspective. what would you do in a situation like this? everyone is going to be on, hiler is nothing more important than bringing the victim into custody. we don t know what he will do next. he is probably on the run, and that is just the facts. so we are going to have every cop everywhere local authorities looking for anything else suspicious at this time that we are trying to track down the suspect. it is absolutely paramount. the car, in the shooting took place in a predominantly 65% according to the latest census, asian american community. it happened during the lunar new year celebrations, yes a
And sims recall as private huddle in which he and shiler, the long time body guard and confident, helped him draw up an enemy s list. this is trump we re going to get rid all of the snakes, even the bottom feeders. he told him. but wait till you hear what 230r former chief of staff john kelly. former chief of staff john kelly. eria and just chow down midday? -you mean, like, lunch? -come on. voted most likely to help people save $668 when they switch. -at this school? -didn t you get caught in the laminating machine? -ha. [ sighs ] - box, have a great summer. danielle. ooh. danielle, control yourself. i d like to slow it down here with a special discount for a special girl. danielle, this one s for you. with a special discount for a special girl. when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea.