Watching. I will be back tomorrow in the Situation Room six pm eastern. Cnn tonight with Victor Blackwell starts right now. Hey, wolf. Good evening. I am Victor Blackwell blackwell. Trumps former impeachment attorney, a lawyer for one of the mafia bosses that Rudy Giuliani prosecuted eric tegans champion, daniel dale, and linette lopez. But first, if democrats are not worried about next years election new numbers suggest they should be. Listen to this. Into new polls, General Election is a dead heat if the matchup is President Biden versus a dead heat, despite trump facing his fourth indictment, 91 charges in all, and several trials next year while people will be voting. Something else noteworthy, as we talk about the health of americas democracy nearly 60 of republicans today think that biden was not legeyt it elected legitimately. Also today, Fulton County da fani willis that she wants trump travel start the day before super tuesday. And of course, trump is intensifying his rhetoric
up in blue and yellow, of course the colors of the ukrainian flag, so was the empire state building in new york city. and we ve got a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, turbulence on wall street. why stocks are tumbling right now, and what it means for your wallet. plus, the u.s. moving to seize $75 million worth of luxury real estate in miami beach, the hamptons, and new york city. the owner, a russian oligarch. we ve got the new details on that. also what happened in the first court hearing connected to the deadly shooting on the rust movie set. and court action set to resume shortly. our nbc news reporters are here with all the latest developments, and we begin in south carolina where alec murdaugh is due back on the stand any minute now. nbc s catie beck is outside the courthouse. we were watching together that withering cross-examination from the prosecution today, accusing murdaugh of manufacturing
You have to your point, to both of your points. You have the physical evidence meaning the documentation, the text messages, the signed checks. You have all of the corroborating witnesses, david pecker, and now you have Michael Cohen. Is this proof beyond a reasonable doubt . Well figure that out eventually, but its all pointing in the right direction. What more do they need from Michael Cohen . Theyre going to need that direct evidence that he acted in furtherance of donald trump i think theyre going to be able to do that well with sounds like the prosecution is really doing a great job laying out the calculated narrative through Michael Cohen but then also corroborating it in a meticulous manner with the text messages. There was an objection but it was overruled. This conversation that cohen was testified to is supported by the documentary evidence. When they get to Stormy Daniels theyre going to be able to show the checks, the ledgers, all of that stuff. I think theyre doing a reall
that there in fact was no fraud in that he had lost the election, and so it is all a piece and goes to the issue that is going to have some jury appeal, and it is going to be important for the jury to understand that he knew the whole time that the election was not stolen, and it had in fact gone to president biden and he was just trying to overturn the results so he could stay in power, and one more note there. i would just say that if he got in front of the jury, and trump s defense team would say, yeah, maybe he believed that then, but perhaps he changed his mind as he learned more, and help me to understand the defense case here, and put on the defense hat here, and what is the defense? that is absolutely correct. okay, in february 2020 he was given this briefing in oval office, and he thought that it looked great, but as the situation unfolded he came the
a weekend, one of the things we always talk about is what do you want to send the jury home with because they re not supposed to watch any coverage, right? they re not supposed to discuss with the other jurors or with anybody else, but you know they re going to be thinking about it all weekend, so put on your prosecutor s hat. danny, put on your defense hat. if you re the defense attorney, danny, what do you want to leave them with? what do you hope they re thinking about over the weekend? you may not have control over that because the prosecution controls cross-examination right now. and don t think for a minute they re not thinking about stalling as they need to to run this to the very end of the day, and let the jury just marinate in what they want them to think about over the weekend. has a seed of doubt been planted at all. throughout the entire trial? oh, yeah. it s a tough call. the prosecution has a good case here. the reason you know that is that the defense may have