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des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that ....
donald trump not to be charged. that s former federal prosecutor andrew weissman with analysis on the meeting yesterday between donald trump s attorneys and the department of justice concerning the classified documents case. we ll go through all the new developments straight ahead. plus, one down, one more to go. mike pence is officially in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination with new jersey governor chris christie expected today join the field later tonight. and an update from ukraine i it appears the long awaited counter offensive may be underway. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning. there s a potential new key development in the investigation into former president donald trump taking classified documents with him to mar-a-lago after he left the white house. nbc news has confirmed that attorneys for the fo ....
drones houthi launched from yemen this morning, this comes as the international shipping industry is on high alerts for attacks in the region. i m griff jenkins. aishah: hi, i m aishah hasnie. that makes the houthi drones shot down 37. military officials reporting these are only defensive measures. lucas tomlinson is live from the white house on these attacks. if they want to disrupt international shipping it appears they are succeeding, a number of shipping companies told them to go dead in the water or get to a safe port. hard to do in yemen. the national security advisor is holding iran responsible for these attacks. while the houthis are pulling the trigger, so to speak, they re handed the gun by iran and iran has a responsibility to take steps themselves to cease these attacks. there have been over 20 drone and missile attacks against international shipping in recent weeks. to date, there has been no response. shot down a $32 million reaper drone off the coas ....
Hello again. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting in new york. Jose diazbalart should be with us in just a moment. Technical difficulties. But right now, want to bring you up to speed, the court is in Morning Recess in former president Donald Trumps hush money trial, which is now in its 15th day. Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg is in the courtroom for todays proceedings and nbc news has learned through multiple sources that former president Donald TrumpsAttorney Michael Cohen will begin his testimony on monday. And is expected to be on the stand for several days. Lets discuss more about all of thi ....
it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am ana cabrera in for josé diaz-balart. garland s appearance comes as house republicans recently advanced a bill to hold him in contempt of congress for not handsing over the audio recording of special counsel robert hur s interview with joe biden. i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy. joining us now, ali vitali from capitol hill, and you have been monitoring this all our, and a federal prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst also joining us. for those who are just joining us, what stands out to you so far from what has unfolded so far? think i the point we ended last hour making is the one we should take into the next part of the hearing. i expect the hearing to get back under way in the next few minutes, because jim jordan is a fast walker between here and the hearing ....