Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with Breaking News in former president Donald Trumps legal troubles. Just in last hour, the new York Court of appeals rejected trumps efforts to overturn the Gag Order in his hushmoney criminal case. Joining us now, msnbc legal correspondent lisa ruben. Good morning. What more do we know about the Courts Decision . Reporter you know, sometimes when a court acts we see an entire opinion. Other times when they reject an application we can see as little ads one word, the word rejected or denied. This is more in that latter category. All we know that the court has said is that former President Trumps application for them to hear an appeal on the Gag Order before his sentencing was rejected because in the courts view there was no substantial constitutional question directly involved. And i want to pause there on the word directly. That may be the Court Signaling that they understand that, for example, the entire case does present a v
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have a critical decision to make on this program. we re going to do our best to bring you access to the candidates as they re available. last night we kicked off our town hall series in termsale of the election seasonri and tha all important caucus state oftef iowa. we did iormet with former president donald trump . now the president s state after show for a considerable periodsw of time and took a lot of questions from town hall parties, events. take a look. and i want to talk about issues first, because those are the real issues that impactpactp people s lives. there are other issues. i ll askeopllives. about, but it to start with what matters. peacd and butter issues, peacet and prosperity. and and the future drive electin ,in my opinion. so we have a border thatcont, is out of control. why woul wd they open upgn the border? do you think this was by design? do you think by the end of this year, joe biden, by estimates, will have allowed in estimat se a half million i
uk officials in france are preparing to fly home a british teenager who was found after being missing for six years. alex batty, now 17, disappeared after travelling to spain with his mother and grandfather. the boy was discovered on wednesday near the city of toulouse. in the past hour, manchester police gave a short update to the media. i think ithinki i think i speak on behalf of the whole of the greater manchester police when we say we are relieved and overjoyed to say we received the news from the french authorities they believe alex batty has been found safe and well. it has been six years since his disappearance. this is a huge moment for alex, his family and the community in oldham. alex went missing whilst on holiday in 2017 when he was just 11 years old. on wednesday, a member of the public reported a potential cycling in toulouse area of france. the young man identified as alan alex was taken to a french police station. the young man and alex s, the spoke on a vide
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