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
did you hear that? seacrest is on speed dial. he sure wise. congrats to pat sajak and such an impressive run. and way to go ryan, on your new gig. on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazin
this evening. alex wagner tonight starts right tonight with my good, friend alex wagner. ts righ thank you, chris, and thk you as always for joining us this hour. we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case. except it is highly confidential this was done by the military and given to me. i think that we can probably do that, yes? we ll have to
story for the last 18 hours or so. just across the border from where we are right now. huge ramifications for the war and world affairs. it s called the biggest challenge to russian president vladamir putin 23 weir t weir td the man responsible, wa wagner group chief prigozhin and he claimed his forces were fired on by russia and he took his fighters, as many as 25,000 along with tanks, armor, guns out of ukraine where they were deployed to nearby key southeastern city of rostov-on-don and population is 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there, which runs this war here and plus other official buildings. the demand for the top russian military brass comes to him to discuss the complaints. lets to move onto threats to move onto moscow if the demands are not made and another town 30 o 0 miles close toter capitol and vladamir putin lashed out at prigozhin and a once friend and key ally and threatening decisive action. take a li
tonight on $360, the the latest moves and the former president s attempt to avoid any accountability in january 6 in two cases that could make any president immune from anything they do in office and alexandria ocasio-cortez on her calls for clarence thomas to recuse himself from the former president s appeal to stay on the colorado pat skwuks and reports of loose bolts on boeing max 9s. there s still very few answers how it happened we begin tonight for joining us in the former president s push to pick any criminal charges against him disappear. he ll in washington tomorrow in court by choice, we should add, as a federal appeals panel hears oral arguments on his claim of presidential immunity in the january 6 case. today he filed a similar immunity claim on similar state charges in georgia. now if they go his way, especially in the federal case, it could make him and any former president legally unaccountable for any crime they might commit while in office. it s the same n