Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york and it is all happening today. We are picking up our special coverage of the tangled legal web now being faced by the four times indicted expresident donald trump today. A collision of two of his criminal cases with massive consequences, not just for the man, the party he leads, but also for the presidency. Our countrys democracy. The Supreme Court heard arguments this morning on trumps claim of president ial immunity leaving the fate and timing of the federal Election Interference trial, a big blank Open Question for now, but what is happening at this hour and what is certain is that the trial that could end up being the only criminal trial that expresident faces before americans go to the polls again in 2024 is the one brought by alvin bragg over falsifying Business Records to cover up hush money to a porn star and keep that silent ahead of a national election. Former National Enquirer ceo david pecker is still on the stand and hes being cross exami
Himself for possible investigation. He was saying he survived this, but we did see gop lawmakers say that Jeff Sessions should recuse himself. Let me ask you this. How much of a wedge will this drive between the white house and the gop . Do you see that down the road . It has potential to. This is scandal after scandal. Russia, we need a full independent investigation as to what degree russia was involved in influencing or attempting to influence our elections here in the United States. They are doing it in france and Around The World and have been doing it for a long time. Its shocking that republicans would be refusing to investigate that. I dont care if its a democrat or republican. When a foreign power is attempting to influence our elections. I want you to to followup on shawn a point. Jeff sessions made a mistake and
owned up to it. Nothing to see here. It is not a mistake. This is a man who has been live and breathing and speaking the language of law since he graduated in 1979.
michael cohen met this qatar man who heads basically a government investment fund at a transition fundraising breakfast in early december, and then he ends up having sort of a side meeting with the man when the qatar delegation comes to visit michael flynn, the incoming national security adviser at trump tower in december, 2012. what cohen says to them is he hears they re going to be making a major investment in u.s. infrastructure, and he says i can help you do that. i can help make that work and pave the way. you have to give me $1 million up front. and the qataris declined. he then took a home equity line to pay stormy daniels. i m so sad for political fiction writers. their careers are over. stephanie, i think you can build infrastructure without paying $1 million to the president s fixer. i m pretty sure you can as well. thank you all very much for this
a factor that s important to the testimony that don junior gave and he was asked by one of the members of the committee, when you saw kislyak and flynn and kushner meeting in your office in trump tower in december at 2017 after the election, 2016, rather, no, i did not. he said why not? because i didn t know what it was about and i was sweaty from the gym, but he thought he may have shaken hands and months later in march of 2017 as you read in the beginning of the show. did i meet with people that are russian, i m sure. i m sure i did, and none was set up that i can think about at the moment and it s his answers about meeting with russians and seeing meetings going on between russians and the team, et cetera. the most benign interpretation of this is that yeah, you have busy people, but you know, by the same token when you have donald trump jr. saying look, the reason i took the
month affair with trump beginning in 2006. there s also the lawsuit brought by the former apprentice contestant. a judge ruled yesterday that it could move forward. she claims trump defamed her when he ridiculed the groping and kissing allegations that she made against him. she says that trump kissed her against her will when she visited him at trump tower in december of 2007 after she left his reality show and later groebed her when they met for dinner later that month. and then there s the latest from stormy daniels. and a lie detector test. this photo from a video of a may 2011 polygraph exam that indicates stefani clifford was truthful when she said she had an affair with donald trump in 2006 and a warning, the questions we re about to share with you are a bit explicit. she was asked this.