Guy On Trial News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Figliusi, elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house, now co-host of the podcast "words matter." sam stein, how did you get here? >> oversight. >> he's the politics editor of the daily beast. and michael steele, former chair of the rnc. all msnbc analysts. joyce vance, let's start with you. during the course of your career as u.s. attorney, i mean, you welcomed and prompted a lot of people to say it at the expense of the u.s. government and various federal prisons. and so let me ask you, as u.s. attorney, what's going on when you have a guy on trial, in federal court in virgin...

Would prevent mass killings. after what happened today and the march for our lives in ten days, there is a movement that has been created. these students are going to. >> i'm pushing you because the argument we keep hearing from the right is it's all about mental illness. once they got this guy on trial, they want to execute him. so all there talk about it was mental illness, forget about that. now they want to -- they don't think he's mentally deficient. they want to execute him. >> here's the thing. of course, we should talk about mental health. we can't demonize people with him mental illne...

Turkey, mueller is also, according to nbc news, investigating whether flynn was shopping another plan, as well. a plan to spring a guy who was facing federal charges in new york, but who turkey desperately wants freed. now, the guy who's facing charges is in federal custody. he's charged in federal district court in new york. he's being prosecuted by the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york. and the charges are related to potential violations of sanctions on iran. this turkish guy, who's facing these charges, though, he's very rich, he's very well-connected, including to...

These charges, though, he's very rich, he's very well-connected, including to the turkish government, and even to the turkish president's direct family, and turkey really doesn't want that guy on trial. turkey has been trying everything they can to get the charges against that guy dropped and to get him freed. they have attacked the new york judge and the prosecutors in his case. they hired rudy giuliani and the george w. bush era former attorney general, michael mukasey, to lobby on this case, basically to try to negotiate between turkey and the united states, to get the charges dropped again...

there, or are you alone? >> reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. we're sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didn't know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didn't know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, which is 11:45 eastern. that's when the judge will come in, give the jury instructions, about 15 ...