hello, and thank you for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with donald trump back in court for the second day in the defamation case brought by writer e. jean carroll. this time with carroll herself expected to take the stand as the first witness. carroll is seeking $10 million in damages arguing trump ruined her reputation with the comments he made during and after his presidency. now, today s proceedings follow an intense jury selection process where trump and carroll came face to face for the first time in more than 25 years. nbc s garrett haake is covering the trump campaign, joining us from new hampshire this morning. also with us nbc s rehema ellis who s following developments in the courtroom along with our legal analyst former assistant manhattan district attorney catherine christian. so rehema, carroll did testify in her first defamation trial, but not with trump sitting right there in the courtroom. set the st
doing? what do we know? reporter: sorry. i had trouble hearing you. can you repeat that? sure. arlette, do we know how the secretary is doing? reporter: so far they ve said that he is recovering well. he said that he was happy to be on mend. he said in a statement we have yet to hear what the latest is about when he will be released from the hospital. i will say austin also released a statement yesterday, where he acknowledged the questions about tr transparency and said, i could have done a better job ensuring the public was properly informed and i commit to doing better. let s talk more about all this. we re joined now by former deputy national security adviser victoria koets. victoria, great to see you. as someone who worked as a senior white house administration official, what generally is the protocol for a sitting secretary, who might be
golf courses and his chocolate cakes that he gifts leaders of china. if he went all in, you got to believe he s one of the few people that could move the number that we saw at the beginning of the show down. almost one in two republicans are refusing to get vaccines. again, that s not only going to hurt them and their families and loved ones and friends. it s going to hurt their communities, states, because in the long run people are going to make business decisions based on what communities are not just friendly to low tax and regulations and a government that wants to be a partner with small businesses instead of an enemy. they re going to look at numbers on how many people are vaccinated. if i m a ceo and i can go into, i don t know, austin, texas, i don t know what the vaccination rate is there. but say austin, texas vaccination rates are higher
a moment ago, which is, you know, he would be very tempted to say, yes, the economy is wonderful, as he said yesterday, the pandemic is better, which he did say. but another less seasoned political leader might say everything is great. everyone relax. the tough thing for a leader is to do both of those things, because he knows if there is a downturn in the economy and that can always happen, terrible inflation might happen. you might have a variant that makes this vista look a little less bright than it does on the fifth of july 2021. then next year he has to run a midterm election which every republican commercial will put those words up saying he was too optimistic, let down our guard, almost like george w. bush with mission accomplished. michael beschloss, thank you
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