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Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor da ....
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. You start having i. D. , voter i. D. Requirements. Maybe it is folks who wont have i. D. So you end up getting a situation. When you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. I think the number was Something Like 1,400. Came out of franklin. I think it may have been in the
democratic part. A lot of them end up being counted. Theyre cast provisionally and then theyre reviewed afterwards. All ....
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math im talking about does have the potential. I dont think to etrace 1750 for. But to get it inside half a percent. To cut it in half. It seems to have potential. So we have to wait. And again, state law saying they
have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. Just a terminology question. Our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. Remind folks what that means . Y ....