Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. After five weeks, the first criminal trial of a former u. S. President is nearly over. The defense rested, this morning, it called only two witnesses. Despite all his bravado and insistence to the contrary, yeah, donald trump was not one of them. We knew that, right . Instead, we heard briefly from a paralegal, attorney Todd Blanches from about phone records, for a man by the name of Robert Castella took the stand. Costello is a former federal prosecutor, a very close associate of Rudy Giuliani, the twice indicted former mayor of new york city. More about him later in the show. And, also, Donald Trumps personal attorney while he was in the white house. I think it is fair to say that costellos testimony, this week, backfired on the defense. How much remains to be determined. But, trumps attorneys main reason to put that man, Robert Costello understand, was to directly contradict and impugn the credibility of the prosecution three witness key w
Angeles and this is americas late news, fox news night. Killed on the street and they dont see you in the future of america but they are wrong. Today in georgia, they wont allow water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in a election and what in the hell is that all about . Trace reaction still coming in with President Bidens bummer of a message to the graduates of Morehouse College in atlanta calling to speech divisive, defeatist and desperate attempt to win back black voters. The war in gaza prompting the International Criminal Criminal Court to have warrants for hamas leaders and israel Prime Minister. This is creating a moral equivalence after September 11th between President Bush and Osama Bin Laden or George Woodward between fdr and hitler. Trace reacting with disgust and prosecution resting in new york versus donald trump after a Bombshell Omission from Michael Cohen the man many calling one of the worst witnesses anyone has ever seen because it is the former p
A recap of the days news. Sessions you should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Its a dirty disgrace, would that be a problem . You bet it would be. If he had sent Jeff Sessions a memo to that effect or said it in a meeting, would that be important evidence . In an inquiry into Obstruction Of Justice . It certainly would. I know that, im not an attorney, im sure you know that as well. Because he types it out on twitter for the whole world to see, including Jeff Sessions, are we supposed to ignore it as just the president blowing off steam . Why . And its far from the first time that we have been told so treat the president s public statements as something else, something other than what they say. Remember this from july of 2016 . Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. This is why this is important. This is how the new york times
cnn has learned the president s tweet today was just hours after his legal team updated him on the poss
A recap of the days news. Mines youre able to prepare quite fully, and theyre not able to have the off the Cuff Statements or have a genuine authentic action. Preparation doesnt lead to you being able to have an assessment of truth telling. I want to ask you one more question. Theyre reporting that the president s lawyers want to reject it, but the president is pushing them to keep negotiating. At what point does the president do it against their counsel snil. I think given this president ial administration, any time, remember, the beauty of being able to have the Negotiation Tactic here is that he can have his lawyers in the room. As long as hes negotiating, he has the ability to say my lawyers can come with me, if it gets to the point where he has
is himself speaking his mind. Does that explain why the president was so freaked out on twitter this morning and this week. Hes got a lot of reasons to be freaked out. If his impetus was the fact that mueller wants to ask him about Obstruct
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks during a guilty plea session. But today in Federal Court in manhattan Michael Cohen said guilty, your honor eight times and hes also said at the direction of twice. And both times he meant at the direction of the president of the United States. And so today donald trump made history by becoming the first president of the United States to be accused under oath in Federal Court of ordering someone to commit a federal crime to win a president ial election. At the direction of. Have to be illegally pu