second defamation trial brought by e. jean carroll. what trump told jurors when he took the stand in a case that could be in a jury s hands by this afternoon. plus, breaking news from the u.n., the top court stopping just short of ordering an immediate cease fire in gaza. what that court is now demanding that israel do in its war against hamas. and later, alabama puts a man to death using nitrogen gas, the inmate s stark finals words and the heated debate over the first new method of execution in more than 40 years. hello, thank you for being with us. it is friday, 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with donald trump back in a courtroom this morning for closing arguments in the second e. jean carroll defamation case, and a jury could get this case as soon as this afternoon. this after the former president took the stand in his own defense for just minutes yesterday after days of delays and speculation. let s get right to the courthouse a
rebalance and expand this road to supreme court? bus, when donald trump looks and amir, does he see richard nixon staring back at him? how one disgraced ex president pave the way for the latest disgraced ex president. msnbc exclusive tonight, the former prime minister of pakistan joins me to discuss human rights and democracy in his country and the case against him. why we in america should all care. good evening, i m mehdi hasan. perhaps the two most important weapons in american politics right now are not 435 and 500, the number of house members in congress. or 40 and 44, the pulling the embers for joe biden and donald trump respectively in the latest survey. but six and three, that is the ideological division on the highest court in the land. six conservative justices versus three liberal justices. it is how we all powell fruit supreme court cans to vote on a lot of the biggest issues that come before them. six against three, before we get those cases tonight, cases that h
all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trump s team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesn t mean they ve given up. that doesn t mean it s inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. here s what s brand new and we ve never reported this before, our cameras caught trump s legal team going into doj in washington today and we got footage of them leaving. they spent roughly two hours inside and wait until you hear who they met with. i will not make you wait longer than this. this wasn t some routine catch-up. we have reporting that they sat down face to face in a very rare showdown with the man who has been leading this high-profile rest gagz of donald trump. they sat down with special counse
of the southern city of khan younis. hamas says more than 20,000 people have died since the war began. meanwhile, israel has released footage of what it claims to be tunnels, dug by hamas under gaza city, in the north of the territory. it says the structures, which cover a large area, were used as a base by hamas leaders. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell told me more. so, this was this footage that has been brought out by the israeli military. we can t independently verify it, but they say it shows a very advanced tunnel network, which was under the heart of gaza city, and actually connected the homes of senior hamas officials in gaza, including yahya sinwar, thought to have masterminded the 7th of october attacks, and also came out with some shafts close to other key areas near the shifa hospital, for example. when you look at the footage here, you can see that the structures are well built, we are told they included blast doors, that they are connected to the ele
and the diplomatic effort to bring a pause to the fighting with negotiations continuing for a fourth day to attempt to secure a unanimous un security council vote on the suspension of hostilities in gaza. meanwhile separate talks are understood to be continuing to arrange another exchange of hostages held by hamas, for palestinian prisoners detained in israel. egypt and qatar are thought to be trying to broker a deal and the leader of hamas which is considered to be a terrorist organisation by the us and many other countries ismail haniyeh, has travelled to egypt, to meet the country s intelligence chief. he s already held talks in iran, which is one of the closest supporters of hamas. israel has released footage of what it claims to be tunnels dug by hamas under gaza city, in the north of the territory. it says the structures, which cover a large area, were used as a base by hamas leaders. the fighting continues inside gaza, where the un says israel has issued evacua