someone to speak for me. and i relish the day that i get to face him and speak my truth. the first trump criminal case to go to trial might not be about classified documents or january 6th, but in the end it might be this woman, stephanie clifford, stage name stormy daniels who brings down donald trump. also tonight, have i some thoughts about ronna mcdaniel and the normalization of the dangerous damned lies from the republican party. plus, not one, but two big announcements involving my friend and colleague, the rachel maddow. stay tuned for that. but we begin tonight with a date now set for the first criminal prosecution of a former american president. of course, i m speaking of donald trump, and that date is april 15th. mark your calendars. no, it is not one of the two trials for trying to overturn the 2020 election or the one for grossly mishandling classified documents when he left the white house. this one is for falsifying business records to hide the hush mone
well it s important to show our support for ukraine. this has been one of the most courageous, inspirational acts by any group of people in my lifetime. they are standing up against a totalitarian maniac, vladimir putin. they are doing what winston churchill urged people to do before the not seized went into western europe. which is to stand for democracies against this incursion. now i was very encouraged talking to her, because what she told me is, they are ready to finish the job, if we will just give them the tools. churchill at one time told america, give us the tools, and we will finish the job. what was encouraging in her message was they have the will to fight, they have the leadership to fight, they have the people to fight, they simply need artillery and other weapons systems that they need. we have them, we should provide them again, unfortunately the republican party is blocking that, again because they are afraid of donald trump. and it is a national security i
good evening. we begin with today s major breaking news from new york, with that jaw-dropping number. $453 million that is the amount judge arthur engoron has ruled donald trump has to pony up in his new york civil fraud case which includes nearly $100 million in interest. that number will continue to grow until he pays. and if that was not enough to ruin trump s weekend plans, engoron also ruled trump is barred from personally running a business in new york for the next three years. yes, the man who built his whole brand around being a successful and wealthy businessman and real estate tycoon has been hit with an unimaginable fine. engoron s ruling also hit the elder trump s sons finding eric trump and donald trump jr. $4 million apiece and allen weisselberg $1 million. letitia james reacted to the ruling. donald trump may have authored the art of the deal, but he perfected the art of the steal. this long-running fraud was intentional, egregious, illegal. today, we are hol
affair. d.a. s father john floyd called by fani willis s side to corroborate her testimony. but as far as the key question of when she started dating her colleague nathan wade, he said this. when did you learn that your daughter had a romantic personal relationship with mr. wade? about seven weeks ago. i just found out when other folks found out. we are keeping our eyes on the courtroom where any moment now that hearing is scheduled to resume. plus, devastating consequences. that s what president biden promised in 2021 for russia, if vladimir putin s staunchest critic alexei navalny died in prison. now that it s happened, the president didn t waste any time blaming putin. while insisting russia has been paying a price ever since navalny was arrested he also said the u.s. is figuring out what else can be done. it s not every day someone faces the possibility of losing $370 million. that s exactly what donald trump is facing as we wait for the huge decision from ha ne
went that far. plus, the high stakes arguments at the supreme court, the smoke signals from the justices and what it could mean for colorado s bid to ban donald trump from the ballot. also ahead, trump s nevada win, his march toward the gop nomination, and how long can nikki haley hang in the race? we made it to friday, thank you for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with a defiant president biden firing back against blistering accusations in a special counsel report. robert hur writing in a 340 page report that while there was, quote, evidence that president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials, there wasn t enough evidence to charge the president and prove beyond reasonable doubt his guilt adding that a jury would likely see him as a sympathetic, well-meaning man with a poor memory. even suggesting the president didn t know the date his son beau died, prompting this response in an impromptu news