lisa ribbon, suzanne craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. plus nicolle wallace, and catherine christian as special coverage of trump on trial begins. now. good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m here tonight along with my colleagues. big night. today s proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old agatha christie style british detective story. you ve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. you know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. it s okay you haven t been playing close attention all along. they are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to t
the final witness for the prosecution. i have wind, i m not a liar. michael cohen back on the stand. we went through all times michael cohen has led, his legal troubles, the fact that he has been disbarred. under cross-examination from the defense. he is obsessed with revenge against donald trump, that is what they are saying. as donald trump roles and with a full entourage, including the speaker of the house. president trump s is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom, with rachel maddow, lawrence o donnell, katie phang, and msnbc legal and political experts when special coverage of trump on trial begins right now. good evening from new york, and chris hayes along with alex wagner. thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of donald trump s criminal trial. we will be joined by rachel maddow and lawrence o donnell in just a minute to bec
prosecution. michael cohen, back on the stand. susan hoffinger went through the different times that michael cohen has lied, his legal troubles, the fact he has been disbarred. and under cross-examination from the defense. he is obsessed with revenge against donald trump, that s what they re saying. as donald trump roles and with a full entourage including the speaker of the house. president trump is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom with rachel maddow, katie phang and msnbc political experts, when special coverage of trump on trial begins right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes, along with alex wagner. thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of donald trump s criminal trial. we will be joined by rachel maddow and lawrence o donnell in a minute to break down what we heard from the most pivotal witness in the case, mich
of the case takes the stand. tonight, the michael cohen testimony begins. the guy we saw was credible and calm if not a little freaked out. donald trump s former fixer testifies that the candidate himself let the conspiracy. the most repeated line of michael cohen s testimony was, just take care of it. just take care of it. this is a disaster. women will hate me. he was not thinking of melania but all about the candidate. rachel maddow recaps the testimony with lawrence o donnell, lisa rubin, susan craig, and katie phang who were inside the court has. nicolle wallace, chris hayes, ari melber, jen psaki, and catherine christian. special coverage of trump on trial begins. good evening and thank you for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former president trump. i am here along with my colleagues lawrence o donnell, katie phang, nicolle wallace, chris hayes. today s proceedings, unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour