new york hush money trial. in iran, thousands of people showing up today for the funeral for the country s president as the u.s. and other world leaders worry about what tehran will do next in the region and beyond. plus, three european countries now recognizing the palestinian state today. the u.n. enforces are forced to halt food and aid into gaza as israel fails to provide protection from military attacks. this as cease-fire talks remain stalled. we will talk to the parents of an israeli american hostage. they are here pressing for the release of those being held. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as president trump awaits closing arguments, the judge s instructions and the hush money trial going to the jury, important developments today in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. trump defense attorney todd blanche will try again to get the 40 federal charges in the florida classified documents case thrown out. when judge cannon convenes a hea
week? it s not. it s only wednesday. it s 4:00 in new york. we have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american ex-president. we have learned so much. we have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a presidential election. the prosecution s first witness, former national enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the ex-president, one of mutual benefit. negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trump s rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon andrew weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. david pecker comes back for more tomorrow. court is quiet today. it resumes today. he takes the stand tomorrow. likel
bob menendez, with 13 senate democrats, including his closest colleague, new jersey s fellow senator cory booker, calling for him to resign, along with the former speaker of the house last night. because the skepticism that exists in our country about governance, about this represent party that doesn t believe in governance, we have to stay focused on that. for that reason, it would be a good idea if he did resign. congress is in town with no solution to keep the government open when time runs out in four days, with millions of federal workers worries about their future, funding of ukraine also in the balance. highlights from an interview with cassidy hutchinson. mr. giuliani s remark in response to your allegation about him, which is graphic and gross, was that this was a disgusting lie against him. do you stand by that statement? i stand by my statement and what i described in the book. i agree it was gross. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washingt
and tonight, many t americans long suffering from trump derangement syndrome are downright giddy. sufferinbut yesterday s verdictt a cure for their disease. e trum in fact, the trump campaign, i will argue tonight, is stronger than evewill ar. e e after the verdict, the former president s campaign said it raisedorme what, a massive record,$34.8 mi $34.8 million in just 6 hours. and by the way, that includes tr their site crashing. meanwhile, one flash poll si trump with a sixtrum point bump. and the former president himself is nowdeterm more than ever to save our country for from political warfare. watch this. this is a case where if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone. these are bad people. were we weren t allowed to be allowed to use our election e expert under any circumstances . you saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were our side. they were literally crucified. sideey wer thereg fout because i m doing something for this country and i m doi
Jail sentence. i don t know what judge merchan will do. i think he knows that he s been a judge for a long time. he knows the law. and i hope that he sentences i appropriately. but no matter the sentence, we hope that it s stayed for surepe pendinnding g appeal. because. because it s not even all judge merchan. notright.d it s a district attorney that brought this case. and there s a lot of things los thatd. lasalea well, last question. when you go to the appellate court, the supreme courtt g thh both, look, we re not going to stop fighting. i mean, i don t you know, owd everybody s talking on your show and on other shows about going right to the supreme courws gt. we re going to do whatever we can if that means we re going to the the first departmentof and the new york court of appeals in the supreme court. that s what we re going to do if gh. we can go right to the supremedw court. that s what we re going to do. we re going to do whatever what there s no option that we re slammi