And corruption. Just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. Texas senator a democrat, called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. What happened here was and a tossup. This was an easy bank shot. Every one of these republicans saw this evidence that they should have all voted for conviction, but they made the Political Choice rather than the expedient choice rather than the hard decisions. Sometimes you have to risk the consequences when its about integrity when its about justice. Clearly, there was no justice indexes today. Donald trump, ken paxton ally, wasted no time in congratulating paxton. Trump posted on social media the texas House Speaker republican should resign for pushing this disgraceful sham. Paxton is back to worth. He reports the verdict reached saturday after a twoweek trial in the senate chamber, clears the way for paxton, a three term republican, to return to a position he has used to advance and conservative agenda th
demeaning him and his company. just moments ago the former president walked out of court for lunch break. his scorched earth political playbook is very familiar and has been successful in the court of public opinion. but could trump s behavior spell the end of his business empire in new york? the staggering financial stakes. the bloodiest part of the war between israel and hamas may be happening right now. israeli engaged in what s described as close quarters urban warfare, trapping hamas fighters inside along with thousands of desperate civilians. so what s next? a lot to get to, but we start in new york city where just a short time ago donald trump s testimony went from combative to, in the ends of our nbc news producer inside the courtroom, completely out of control. the former president ranting on the witness stand, attacking the judge for finding him guilty of committing fraud saying, quote, the fraud is on the court, not me. it follows several hours of repeated clas
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Disconnect with trump and the National Security team on the subject of russia meddling. President ranting about the russian hoax hours after his top intel officials called out the kremlin for interfering in the upcoming 2018 midterms. At the rally in pennsylvania, he ta touted about the helsinki summit. We got along really well. By the way, thats a good thing. Not a bad thing. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Everybody said that was great. A couple of hours later, i started Hearing Reports that, you know, they wanted me to walk up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Son of a hours earlier, key members of the National Security Team Appeared in the white house
briefing room to warn the country the Russian Election interference is ongoing. In regards to the russian involvement in the midteterm electio elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to t
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as to what the scope of that interview might look like and the ongoing negotiations with the president s legal team and an interview that would be partially done in person. And then there would perhaps be some questions in written format. So it doesnt really seem like much progress because its something is that we were talking about earlier this year. Whats quite clear is that, the president s legal team does not want him to sit down with the Special Counsel. And i think Rudy Giuliani himself has al
the documents back. and those are not the questions clearly being addressed to your point. i don t know if we ll ever hear those answers. also not the questions being raised by those supporting the president saying this is ridiculous and is this politicize. does it change anything. there is a real misinformation factor here. he watched the former president ranting and raving from the front steps at bedminister and it was really disappointing to talk about the socks case. first a lot of us are like he is talking about this thing? it is ten years old. as it is if any of us gave a