from washington today where we have a special show for you tonight on this first day of steve bannon s criminal trial. we re seeing this first sketches of the twice indicted trump aide in court with clues about the process as he faces up to two years in prison. john flannery joins me here in washington in person tonight, and we ll hear directly from a top economic figure in the biden white house, brian deese. plus, pulitzer prizewinner and author david kornacki on set with me. so we would argue it is a big show, or as good as any show we could bring you. we begin with the news about a new witness going to face this house january 6th probe tomorrow. it s a trump white house aide who sent so rogue he was punished for sneaking coup plotters in the white house. he worked for peter navarro, the now indicted aide who plotted the overthrow the election, and if you watch the beat you might recall a little bit about navarro s aide, garrett zeigler. we reported on his role before, ev
To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati