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Right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole, thanks so much. Today marks a serious, even grim day for defendant donald trump, who of course, was indicted, booked, and had his mug shot taken very famously in an election case regarding possible crimes in the 2020 race in the georgia rico case. He was also indicted by federal Prosecutor Jack Smith in two cases which carry serious charges but, like the georgia case, are actually not currently on track to go to trial by the election. But for trump, the only case where it now matters that he is a criminal defendant is in new york, where trumps trial reached its Inflection Point today as d. A. Braggs team has just told the judge today that the d. A. s office has proven its case based on the evidence and ethus intoning the well known phrase, quote, your honor, the people rest. Thats today in the only case that looks to be going to trial by the eelection. That means the prosecutors literally rest their case and take the position theyve supplied enough evide
In new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And later, on february 8th, former white house chief of staff Reinc
Analyst john judge sefls. The past few days the New York Times says the president is losing controlling of his narrative. As of this week, the statement about his health was not actually from trumps doctor, but had been dictated by mr. Trump himself. That the president has split with the leaders of his legal team and hired the same new lawyer he denied recruiting. And that mr. Trump himself had financed the 130,000 payment intended to buy the silence of the actress known as Stormy Daniels. The Washington Post reports that when Rudy Giuliani went on National Television wednesday night and said the president had funneled money to Michael Cohen for the cost of the porn stars nondisclosure agreement, quote neither white House Counsel don mcgann, nor emmet flood, the white house attorney recently hired to handle the russia investigation, knew that trump had reimbursed cohen before giuliani revealed it. According to a source familiar with their thinking. Adding that the communications and me
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And lat