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And Demolition Man . Our reporters are following the latest developments. Lets begin with nbcs katie phang who has more. What happened and where does it all go from here . Reporter yeah, so now that the dust has settled a bit and weve had a chance to look at the order that judge mcafee ordered this morning, i want to start by saying to viewers this is not a ruling on the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney fani willis. What it is is something that happens in common course in any ...

intense fighting back underway in gaza. could another temporary truce be on the way? cnn has learned that israel and hamas are continuing to negotiate actively negotiating the release of more hostages. the latest on that. plus former president trumps attorneys are in a fulton county courtroom right now defending their client for the first time as they try to have his charges in the georgia election subversion case thrown out. and kicked out of congress. an historic move the house e...

>> a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by ...

, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. >> donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table weve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard a...

Say that while the first guilty doesnt mean you get 33 others, the folks at this table like you know a whole lot more about this case than the general public and one of the things we know is that counts one through four pertained to the earliest checks that were written by the donald j. trump revocable trust, not donald trump personally. those were checks that did not bear his signature. they bear the signatures of one of his sons with allen weisselberg. two checks were written in february and t...

Ever could. >> the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken. >> joining our discussion now, adam klasfeld, a fellow at justice security. lisa rubin, msnbc legal correspondent. both were in the courtroom when the trump verdict was announced. also with us, andrew weissmann, former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. lisa, i want to take you back to that moment and to the breaking, the final breaking of that suspense and hearing that f...

Its just not in there. >> well, except it is in there. it is in there because it says on all of these fronts with cohen and with flynn and with manafort that they werent solo acts. each and all say, and i was in contact with the administration. i was contact with the campaign. i was talking to people about this. i was coordinating. they knew. >> not what they were talking about. we dont know what contacts they were making under what circumstances -- >> cohen says it was about the deals with the ...

Minimum. manafort we dont know. >> im talking about man forright now. as it relates to manafort, we dont know what those contacts were about. the michael cohen, they spelled that out explicitly as it related to the payments to the women. thats clear. but also there is a big question. just because he pled guilty doesnt mean it was an actual campaign finance allegation. we talked about this some time. this goes back to the john edwards case where he was not convicted of campaign finance violation ...

Be worried. we have seen two of his closest advisers, one personal in mr. cohen and one political in mr. manafort so we have to see how this plays out. mueller is moving his investigation expeditiously, efficiently. well see where it goes but i dont think just because it didnt include the presidents plea should have any weight one way or another. well see what comes next with the mueller investigation. >> if we take a step back we see the presidents former campaign chairman is going to prison. t...