folks, for the appeal. yet another trump associate is heading to prison. broke. humiliated, and begging for money. also, the republican front-runner himself was on the witness stand today, for all of three minutes, as the defense rests in the e. jean carroll defamation case. plus, the horrifying post-roe consequences. nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape in the 14 states with abortion bans. but we begin tonight in new york, where donald trump fresh off his new hampshire primary victory, making him the all but certain republican presidential nominee, addressed a much smaller crowd today. a nine-member federal jury in the second civil defamation trial brought by writer e. jean carroll. separate jury last year found trump liable for both sexually abusing carroll in the late 1990s and defaming her in recent years. yeah, let s just take a moment to remember that. the presumptive republican presidential nominee is someone who has been found liable for sexual abuse. he was mia du
the reidout with joy reid is up next. tonight on the reidout you re the president of the united states. you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. yeah, that s what he told fox. but new reporting tonight indicates prosecutors have in their possession tape of trump after he left the white house acknowledging that he was holding on to highly sensitive material, which he did not, in fact, declassify. also tonight, the latest on the debt ceiling bill, which comes up for a critical house vote just a short time from now. the great lawrence o donnell joins me to discuss. and maryland governor wes moore will be here. he and other democratic governors are enacting bold, progressive policies that help people instead of hurting them. imagine that? in sharp contrast to the
Built on lies . The former president on trial for Fraud Lashing out repeatedly at the judge and new yorks Attorney General with his Flagship Properties and his Family Business at stake. Could he lose it all . Go ahead and try, House Speaker mccarthy says a defiant message who want him out. Californias governor, gavin newsom has made his pick. Whos replacing the late senator Dianne Feinstein and what candidates running for that same seat have to say about her. And back on the bench, the Supreme Court opening a new term with major cases on social media and free speech on the docket. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with Lisa Rubin Outside The Manhattan Courthouse where former President Trump is in court for his civil fraud trial. I think one thing that was immediately apparent was trumps anger and i wonder what you saw and what you think at least how it compares to Previous Court appearances where youve seen him . Well, chris, i have now been
kirschner msnbc legal analyst. hugo lowell, reporter for the guardian. david k. johnston reported for trump on decades and author of the big cheat how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. i m going to go to you first, hugo, to tell me the latest of what you know about this reporting. yeah. look, we confirmed this shortly after the cnn report that in july 2021 trump sits down far meeting with ghost writers of mark meadow s memoir and margo martin, this press aide. trump has all of these conversations recorded because he doesn t trust the journalists or the other people on the other side of the table. okay. but this is what seems to have bitten him in this instance just to be clear, this is at bedminster, this is not at mar-a-lago. in the summer months, trump goes from mar-a-lago to bedminster. he spends the summer in bedminster. bedminster is interesting
and tax returns. what house democrats could learn from them in the remaining weeks they control the chamber. now with us, the author of the big cheat. the house committee doesn t have much time to investigate donald trump s taxes if they wanted. they only have control for the next month or so. what are the immediate questions that could be answered by these documents? they can tell us definitively whether donald manipulated the value of the assets. when you own a building, you get to write off the costs of it each year and saves you tax dollars. we know that trump manipulated values from four years ago all over the place to deal with loans and insurance documents. so that would be one of the first things to look for. and, second, to look for numbers