Primary. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Voting is underway now in South Carolina unless all the polls are wrong, donald trump will score a big victory over nikki haley and move one step closer to securing the gop nomination. This despite facing four criminal indictments and personal financial peril on friday in new york state, judge finalized a 355 million judgment against trump and triggered a countdown for when trump must put up cash or post bond to cover that amount. Plus the roughly 100 million in interest that he was ordered to pay. Thats a huge sum No Matter What trumps net worth might be. And it doesnt include the combined the 88 million that he owes e. Jean carroll after twice losing civil trials to her. You would think the combination of potential jail and financial collapse for the republican candidate would build confidence among his democratic detractors. And independent never trumpers and instead the opposite is true the political question on the minds of many is a
Can. Welcome to columbia, South Carolina, we have a crowd, arent primary is less than a week away, 50 delegates cup are grabs, winnertakeall. Evening, former South Carolina governor and former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley is with us. First, a look at some of the headlines that were following. Former President Trump slamming a new york judge for fining him more than 350 million in his civil fraud if trial and banning him from Running Companies in the state for three years. The former president denied overvaluing his properties on financial statements. He says that the ruling will make businesses leave new york. Listen here. The decision yesterday in new york, you may have read about it, crooked judge, crooked judge. [background sounds] hes a crooked judge. By a radical leftwing judge was a lawless and unsal a atrocity. Its a sham case. There were no vix, no defaults, no damages, no complaints, no nothing. There was nothing. John President Biden apparently mixing up
since the periods of time when we saw the attacks on u.s. forces, in iraq and syria, you either stop or slow down when the u.s. and iran were engaged in either directly or through some other country. that is how we keep a personal abroad. it is not by escalating these words. it is by talking to our enemies. that is what diplomacy is. thank you very much. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. we will start this hour with breaking news. the new york times is reporting that trump former finance chief, allen weisselberg, is in negotiations to plead guilty to perjury for allegedly lying on the stand during trump s civil fraud trial. and while we don t know for certain wished alleged line he might be owning up to, the testimony of the new york times points to the thing that they heavily suggest maybe the lie in this case. it s maybe the most trumpy thing ever. just a few months ago, back in october, allen weisselberg
forman for a very special broadcast. the last man in america, the road to 2024. you do not want to miss it. and, on that note, i wish you all a very good night. i appreciate you being here. for all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you again tomorrow. . i ll see you again tomorrow. the new york times is reporting that trump former finance chief, allen weisselberg, is in negotiations to plead guilty to perjury for allegedly lying on the stand during trump s civil fraud trial. and while we don t know for certain wished alleged line he might be owning up to, the testimony of the new york times points to the thing that they heavily suggest maybe the lie in this case. it s maybe the most trumpy thing ever. just a few months ago, back in october, allen weisselberg took the stand to defend the trump organization and new york attorney general, letitia james, had a civil fraud lawsuit. that is the case for trump and its com
pressure arizona governor juicy to overturn the presidential election results. saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found, it would overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we are learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. to already know trump and doocy spoke after the 2020 election. fact. trump tried to call doocy while he was certifying the election for biden on official government livestream. on november 20th, 30 30 2020, d.c. was signing papers to end the election as he did in front of the press. you have to listen closely, you can hear hail to chief as he reaches into the pocket to silence the call. the ring town is spectacular. do you see did eventually speak to trump, didn t recorded the call. we have some idea what it might sound like because trump, we ll, made a lot of calls in multiple states. trying to overturn the results of this election. for example, here s a recording of trump calling georgia s then chief investigator from