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hi, everyone. happy friday. it is 4:00 in the east on an interesting and important day of breaking news including a pair of decisions from the supreme court, and one for the massive implication of the very ability of our government to function, and another one throwing a wrench in efforts to hold the january 6th insurrections legally accountable. both of the rulings held by the nations highest court and that court is dominated by a 6-3 right wing super majority. and all of those unders...

committed the crime of falsifying business records with the intent to influence the 2016 election. then, the prosecution will recap their case and tied together testimony from their witnesses and the evidence including documents with handwritten notes accounting for just how the hush money payment was to be reimbursed to michael cohen, who testified that he did it at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. closing arguments will take up most if not the entire day, st whic...

arguments go. appreciate it. >> look forward to you explaining it all of us including me. donald trump will be back in court tomorrow morning for closing arguments in his new york election interference trial. he has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to haida hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels before the 2016 election for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. nbc news report said a dozen members of the public have alread...

election for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. nbc news reports a dozen members of the public have lined up and are continuing to do so even in the rain to get a seat for the historic moment. closing arguments will be both the prosecution and the defense final chance to weave the evidence into the narrative of their case. in new york, the defense goes first. arguing that the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that john -- donald trump committed a cr...

from prosecution based on their official acts in office. many legal scholars have speculated that one route the supreme court can take is they decide if theres some level of immunity, perhaps it doesnt apply to the conduct charged against donald trump in this election case brought by jack smith, and that could cause further delays in that case because it would require it to be tossed back to the judge to decide which of these things were presidential acts and which werent. theres anoth...

reports," democracy is never guaranteed. a powerful message from president biden this morning marking 80 years since allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy and warning of the threat against the west today. plus, breaking news here at home this morning, with decisions expected in just minutes from the supreme court as justices near the end of a very busy term. also ahead, a dramatic new twist today in the gilgo beach serial killer case, the new charges the suspect now faces. ...

Ryan reilly joins us now from the supreme court. what have we heard from the court this morning as they release decisions, and what cases are we still waiting on? >> reporter: we got three decisions, but none of them were the big ones were looking for, which both have to do essentially with donald trump. one of them would impact all of the cases that jack smith has brought against the former president, including the one in florida and the one here in d.c. that had to do with his efforts to overt...

Microscopic. >> interesting. the conspiracy to defraud the u.s. seems fairly straightforward in terms of what that portends and actually means, barb, but what about tampering with the witness? we spend some time talking at the top of the show about how tampering with the witness might not actually mean tampering with a witness, similar, but that it could actually be that umbrella for a potential obstruction of an official proceeding charge. what do you think this might mean, barb? >> my guess is...

But that voters in battleground states, where the fake electors were advanced, their rights wouldve been interfered with by convincing mike pence to disregard the legitimate votes of folks in those 5 to 7 states. maybe somewhere in between, every voter in the country, and something much more microscopic. >> interesting. the conspiracy to defraud the u.s. seems fairly straightforward in terms of what that portends and actually means, barb, but what about tampering with the witness? we spend some ...

Proceeding charge. what do you think this might mean, barb? >> my guess is the target letter identifies the statutes of investigation without describing a whole lot of detail. and so the statute is 18 united states code section 1512, and as you mention theres an awful lot of stuff packed into that statute, and the title of it is tampering with a witness. so it could be that maybe donald trump or others suggested to a witness they not tell the truth or something like that, but it strikes me as fa...