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think there s a very interesting day fascinating. and i just want to thank well, the lawyers because they ve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. pleased. welcome to a special day. mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of donald trump s criminal trial. a trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. i mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. the amount of dollars stormy daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. on monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trump s bodyguard man by the name of keith schiller to try to talk to trump. whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off stormy daniel s now from tuesday s transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak wit ....
hi there, everyone. it s now 4:00 in new york. we have major developments both here in the u.s. and abroad. in just a few hours, president joe biden will deliver an address to the nation from the oval office about the hamas terror attacks in israel that killed more than 1,400 people as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. it is his second address from the oval office since becoming president, and it is part of his push for a $100 billion aid package. we ll have much more on that later in the broadcast, but we begin with the dam breaking and perhaps the most criminal prosecution of the ex-president s alleged criminal enterprise, that plot to overturn the 2020 election. this morning in a courthouse in atlanta, georgia, trump s attorney, peddler of the big lie and importantly trump s co-defendant sidney powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts in that sprawling rico case brought by fulton county district attorney fani willis. here is that moment. how do you plead t ....
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. with all the trial news we have been covering, the top story is political news that will help decide the election. because it usually does. today, president biden and donald trump both agreed to do two new presidential debates. the first coming next month. capping weeks of posturing and negotiation. that breakthrough came today as the biden campaign took control of things with a plan that was months in the making. biden using this video to publicly challenge trump. with two partners on board. abc and cnn. if a debate starting next month sounds different than usual, earlier than usual, it is. this will now be the earliest general election campaign debate ever. and that matters actually not only for people tuning in and paying attention, but also for the political strategy at play. which we will get into right now. the times reporting this is what biden wants for a couple of reasons. democrats think early voting helps them more than th ....
caitlin clark. reporter: tonight, her pro career officially begins bringing in new fans and transforming the league. stephanie gosk, connecticut. clark and her teammates will be in new york city this weekend taking on the liberty. if you want to goings you better get your tickets soon. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. ari melber is up next and you do not want to miss tomorrow night s show. senatormitt romney will join me for an exclusive interview. he is reflects on his final year in congress and offering his view on how conservatives should approach the 2024 election and beyond. thanks for staying up late with me. good to be back. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. the final witness for the prosecution. i have lied but i am not a liar. reporter: back on the stand. he went through all his legal troubles. reporter: under cross- examination from the defense. he is obsessed with revenge against donald trump. that s what they are saying. r ....
cutting. not on my watch. he brags about getting roe v. wade overturned. mcconnell and i are going to keep fighting to restore roe v. wade as the law of the land again. my predecessor labels our country of revenge and retribution. i believe we re a nation of hope and opportunity for everybody. we re a country of honesty, decency, faith, fairness. that s the future we re building together. that s president joe biden last night drawing a slew of clear contrasts between himself and donald trump. it comes amid new polling that shows a substantial bump for the president if his predecessor is convicted in the ongoing hush money case. and speaking of that trial, the former president is turning it into a de facto campaign event with a whole bunch of his allies in court with him yesterday. we ll show you who was there and recap the second day of testimony from his former fixer, michael cohen. plus, we ll go through the latest effort from the biden administration to persuade ....