You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
Here. And the white house ought to explain why that wasnt followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. Yes . Has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i. T. Networks since this investigation has been going on . Im not aware of anything like that. Thank withdrew veyou very much. Thank you. Okay. Steve kornacki in new york. That is adam schiff. Just finishing up u a Press Conference there on capitol hill. Adam schiff the ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, of course, the House Intelligence Committee had been pursuing interference of the status of that committees investigation now some quwhat i question. Theres been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that
statement you just heard there, that Press Conference,
adult film actress back in 2016 to keep her mouth shut to stop her from going public with allegations of an affair with donald trump, which he denies the payment was made through donald trump s than attorney michael cohen. he he is a star witness for the prosecution the theory of the case, alex, according to the prosecutor s, is that those payments that were given back to michael cohen through the trump organization, that they were falsified records. they were claimed to be legal expenses when really it was a hush money payment types teddy 2016 election to keep that information away from the voters. you mentioned michael cohen. we don t have witness lists yet that has not yet been revealed, but we have a sense of who could be called& these are some big names that many people are familiar with. yeah, big cast of characters from back 2016 michael cohen, he s a big one. stormy daniels will tell her side of the
defense, fearing trump will post about those witnesses on social media. is that normal to not share witness lists with the opposing side? one, can you blame them for having some level of skepticism on this very issue, often number two normally the prosecution when they call ready, they are under the obligation to present a witness list or someone for the jury to ask if they know certain witnesses who might in fact be a part of the trial and they know the general basis of those who might be called, but they re also asking for the chronology and the order of how the witnesses we call, which is part of a legal strategy the prosecution, we are all wondering about who will go first, knowing that primacy and recency is the method by which prosecutors and trial attorneys govern themselves. the first thing a jury hears the last thing they here are going to be the most resonant with the jury. and so they d also like to know some aspects of strategy and for that, prosecutors are under no oblig
prepared, but lawyers always exchange witness lists during trial. it s just a way of making the trial move more smoothly. the judge, i think, expresses the appropriate sympathy for the position the district attorney is in here. we are watching witnesses or rather watching jurors who are excusing themselves in essence from trial because they are concerned about the publicity, the spotlight that a former president of the united states might bring to bear on them. the district attorney is obligated to protect their witnesses and that s exactly what we re seeing happen here. we are seeing them say and a judge agree, that the former president of the united states could be a threat to these witnesses if knows who s next on the witness stand. they re going to try to avoid every opportunity for him to target them. let s check back in with yasmin, any updates from the courtroom? what stands out? reporter: yeah, they re on seat seven right now, still going through that questionnaire. two thi