the shipping canal this week. nasa astronauts butch wilmore and williams gave a special look inside the star liner couple. docked at the international space station on thursday. the veteran is a board that station for 80 days before returning back to earth. and the parachute an assisted landing. this will be first for a nasa mission. and what we know about the rescue of four israelis during daylight hours in central gaza. a very good day to all of you. from msnbc world headquarters in new york. this is breaking news from israel. a first look at these emotional moments. four were reunited with family after being rescued during a daytime rate in central gaza. this video provided by the israeli defense forces. they include noa argamani. she became the face of the hostage crisis with harrowing video circulated after her abduction on october 7th. they were all held captive for 250 days. our reporter is life in tel aviv. meanwhile, president joe biden is in paris, france. and he
Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really serious charges in new york, Tax Evasion Charges in new york more than 5 million and four criminal counts of tax fraud and facing a charge of grand larceny. A big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost
nothing. He was able to work out some sort of deal where all of that prison time and
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
immediate response. a source with knowledge tells the daily news shortly after the subpoena went out michael cohen personally contacted the tax department to talk. the source would not say what the response was from the tax department but typically in such cases where someone has a lawyer, investigators deal with their counsel and not directly with the person. in new york state, barbara underwood and the tax department are the ones that brought these devastating charges against gene friedman, the taxi king all these movement felony, put that pressure on him and flipped him. it appears that cooperation deal probably led to the charges michael cohen just pled to. boom. now the same dynamic duo, new york attorney general barbara underwood and tax department of new york state are investigating
nixon quit of americans, should nixon be tried in a criminal trial, 56% of americans said, i m still so outraged and indignant i think nixon should go to trial. that was a big worry for nixon and nixon would call up members of the senate and cry to them, literally cry, i can t take anymore, please get me out of this. he had a little bit more bravado with other people. he would call up friends and say, well, if it happens and i go to jail, some of the best political writing in history has been done in jail. look at lenin and gandhi. wow. he was citing lenin as his potential prison author inspiration. he had come a long way from his early years in southern california. nixon stayed on as president for months, a scandal ridden few months, after he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in watergate. you helped us out last night in