i m lindsay. i am in for yasmin. breaking news, nbc news confirms that the doj is now investigating the laboratories. that is the company at the center of the national baby formula shortage. meanwhile, merrick garland sends a clear message to jim jordan and other house republicans. hands off of the investigations. he promised to meet with kevin mccarthy. this is an invitation with a warning. no negotiations on the debt ceiling. a florida judge ordered donald trump to pay for one lawsuit that never should ve been filed. a former president withdraws another against the attorney general. ron desantis takes aim at an african american studies class. critics argue that he is taking his anti woke strategy too far. plus, alec baldwin in the charges against him in the rust set shooting. and this. drop it, drop it. a terrifying scene at an indiana walmart caught on body cam footage. we have that for you coming up. we re gonna start with that breaking news. the doj is investigating
So what we could expect from the prosecution as they continue their questioning of daniels is why ultimately there in those closing weeks of october 2016 she decided to go, number one, with the 130,000 payment. An agreement to sign this nda with trump and cohen versus say going to an outside publication and having her story going public there in the closing days of the 2016 election. But then we could also likely hear the prosecution ask her about her further understanding between her conversations with Keith Davidson, who was her attorney at the time, about what she understood that this agreement entailed. And what led over the course of 2017 into 2018 to her ultimately going public with her story after it was first reported about in the Wall Street Journal and sitting down for an interview with 60 minutes in which she detailed her allegations. Donald trump, we know from testimony from david pecker, previously last week, had suggested that donald trump was irate when she went public a
Welcome to are special, new york versus donald trump. We are going to get into this criminal trial. The first week of testimony in new york. We are covering that on tonights special. New reporting on the testimony. Experts from law to the sordid world of new york tabloids. We also have a Beat Special Report on the new, separate indictment against a trump lawyer who first admitted his role in the now indicted plot. This weekends with a remarkable contrast from d. C. To new york. In washington, you may have noticed a trumpfriendly Supreme Court, slow jack smith prosecution and asked a bunch of friendly questions about the potential problems with prosecuting a president. If you listen to that oral argument, you may have noticed it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. File right at the east coast, an actual trial of an actual former president was Going Forward in the republic did not crumble. It is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and what we are go
risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden s envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it s just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we re just beginning at this point. let s talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they d widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that s really going to inflame what s happening there and could widen the conflict? absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and ac