Welcome back to the weekend. In less than 24 hours, Michael Cohen will take the stand for his fourth day and Donald Trumps Election Interference trial. He was berated by Heated Cross Examinations Last week by trumps team. Today will be the 19th day in court. The prosecution signaled they wont be calling anyone else to the stand and the defense said last week that trump still has not decided if he will testify. Joining us now is our msnbc justice and Legal Affairs analyst, Anthony Coley. Director of the office of Public Affairs and Senior Advisor to attorney general merrick garland. And legal analyst Kristi Greenberg. A former federal prosecutor and former Criminal Division deputy chief for the Southern District of new york. Say that five times. I want to read you something. This is from the New York Times. The trump trail nears the end. If the jury chooses to believe the governments evidence, a conviction is warranted. Although noted that mr. Cohen remains the linchpin of the case. The
Voters. what we re seeing in this registration data is something that makes us take a step back thinking that maybe this wave that we, you know, a lot of people think they might be seeing may be it s not a uniform one. from what we re looking at in the registration data. we re pouring into the early voting data next couple weeks to see what we find. one thing we have seen in midterms recently, the things have moved in increasingly national ways, particularly towards the end. we saw it happen in 2006, 2010, 2014. is that your understanding of the basic structural facts of how politics and elections work? i think that s a reasonable description of what has happened in recent cycles. i m not sure whether i would be confident in saying that s how elections work. we re pretty late at this point. in 2006 a lot of the wave had sort of broken by now. the other thing i would note is there s a distinction between what s happening at the national level and what happens at individual house r
Montana, for instance where you re not seeing the same trends uniformly across states. no, the absolutely that is actually 100% true. what we re seeing is in some places, you know, the democrats are doing great. so, for example, tester, when you re looking at that registration data, if we re thinking about senate races, his numbers are way up from 2016. then you go to florida and the numbers are essentially the same as 2016. and then you go to indiana, the democratic numbers are actually down. we re seeing that we ve poured into this target smart data, senate races and house races and we re not seeing something that s uniform across the board. and even as you said we had all these special elections and primaries and everything in 2016, what we saw is a lot of sort of enthusiasm of people who are regular general election voters. what we re seeing in this registration data is something that makes us take a step back thinking that maybe this wave that we, you know, a lot of people t