Live Breaking News & Updates on The Catch And Kill Trial
Stay updated with breaking news from The catch and kill trial. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Form of being restrained by individuals. they are available outside the courtroom. as soon as that name is released we know what he s going to do. well, a few things. first, their nonrelease, it s not a small point. you can guarantee that the two trump lawyers are going to have a hellish weekend. it s one thing to prepare solidly to cross-examine someone you know will be, but it could be anyone at all. that s a serious sort of sanction for his misbehavior. but second, yes, it is exactly as you say, there s been on the one hand, judge merchan made quick work of things, but yet there are these eruptions of kind of chaos and stress and we have almost a tale of two trials. and as it goes forward, those will be the sort of high points that people remember and this trial could be really freighted ....
It was an incredible moment to see as a journalist and as a citizen here in new york, it s something you imagine seeing in a war zone. i have reported in war zones before, but you would never imagine seeing it in downtown manhattan, in my hometown, when they report on the former president of the united states. yeah, and jim kavanaugh, just to listen to yasmin explain that, it s harrowing because even that type of protest is not a protest that is typical in the united states. we did see it with the young man who protested, it was a free palestine protester, a military veteran, lit himself on fire. that was a rare kind of western version of this. these are protests that during the vietnam war we would see tibetan monks do. this was nat kind of protest. it s very unusual in western society for someone to do that. and it also doesn t appear to be related to this trial. but this trial is going to attract just intense media attention. it s going to attract media, ....
U.s. president is slated to get under way bright and early monday morning. in the state of new york versus donald trump. the jury of 12 plus six alternates was sworn in this afternoon, much more quickly than anymore anyone expected. but the reality that we re now faced with is my industry, the media, which has struggled with how to cover a former president who fomented an actual insurrection and is running for president again now has to figure out how to cover the absolute spectacle of him being on trial. the historic undertaking is understandably attracting a global media presence, which of course, is what trump wants and thrives on. expect him to use the media packed outside the courtroom to do his trump show every day of the trial. but the crush of media gathered in manhattan is far outpacing the population of what donald trump also wanted to see. he had called for a massive outpouring of supporters to rise ....
Which means it s going to attract whoever wants to use that media for whatever purposes they have. including tragic ones. exactly, joy. first, let me say what great reporting here. you re at the spot of a big event, a trial of a former president, and you witness, you know, a horrible suicide, a violent death. that s what this is. that s what yasmin witnessed and described for us. this is why we have a free press. i think michael can elaborate on that for us deeply, but this is why we have a free society, because we can have correspondents that can report what s actually going on because we can t all be there. look, this person traveled from florida. and i have worked these cases where people strap bombs on themselves, they blow themselves up, they kill themselves. fire, explosives, firearms. we were also involved in that with atf, and i think you saw atf agents on the scene because they re the government s bomb ....
Tonight on the reidout i gotta say, chris, now i m looking at there s a man on fire, chris. in the middle of a square in front of me where protesters were standing. an individual has now set himself on fire. nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian today reporting on the shocking self emilation of a man outside the trump trial. as it happened, this as the historic trial draws media attention from around the world. also tonight, just a short time ago, judge merchan denied a last-minute appeal by trump and declared to the former president and everyone else in court, we re going to have opening statements on monday morning. this trial is starting. and we begin tonight with our new reality as a country, and in the media, as our first ever criminal trial of a former ....