attorney general supervision of the trump case. and the case of potential criminal prosecution drawing closer. then, connecting the dots between new anti gay laws in florida to a right-wing mobs attempt to storm a drag show. and elie mystal puts this radical turn from the supreme court into perspective, win all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, welcome to this holiday weekend, i hope you are kicking back right now, enjoying. there s a question i have been wrestling with all week, which is why did cassidy hutchinson former trump administration official, the star witness of tuesday s january 6th earring, why did she decide to come forward and testify publicly? hutchinson was a trump ally, one might even say loyalist. and she already testified in three committee depositions there was a recorded, behind closed doors. then something happened and she agreed to come out and testify publicly. and the committee felt confident enough in her testimo
Michael cohen testifying. I watched him inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss just a few feet away. Defense started their Cross Examination. We have been reporting on that along with our colleagues here. How it has been going. Asanother pivotal day. Michael cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the anstand. It is a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment we have been waiting for. The crossexamination. Will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination . It has been an explosive last hour of testimony. It is getting testy. Michael cohen is about 45 minutes now into todd blanches crossexamination. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the credibility of the star witness. That is some of what went down. Prosecutors have you confirmed something new. Cohen is their last witness which means they are on track to rest their case here because there will just be this Cross Examination i told yo
Starts now. Welcome, everyone. Its a special twohour edition of the beat. Im ari melber. This is the second day of convicted former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying. Inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss and by the afternoon the defense started their crossexamination. Weve been reporting on that. Heres how its been going. Another pivotal day in Donald Trumps criminal trial in new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the stand for a second day of testimony. Its a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment weve been waiting for, the crossexamination. The burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination. Its been an explosive last hour of testimony. Its getting testy. Michael cohen is 45 minutes now into todd blanches cross. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the thats some of what down today. Prosecutors have confirme
Particular story about kavanaugh, to continue to develop through the weekend. Republicans definitely want to steam ahead with voting on him as soon as next wednesday or thursday. Its hard to see how that happens while this story is still developing, but watch this space. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again on monday. Now its time for the last word with lawrence oh dodge. Good evening, lawrence. You know how this show starts at 10 00 or i should say is supposed to start at 10 00 . Mmhmm. And every once in a while it starts 15 seconds later, 30 seconds later. My fault, sorry. And its a pretty organized and ritdialistic thing, and thats the way its supposed to work. But we can change that. We can change that on the fly if we have to and if something happens and if there was some kind of giant breaking news event, we would deal with that whole concept differently, and the Senate Judiciary committee can do exactly the same thing. Ask that is what they did with anita hill when
with the january six committee. remember, he voluntarily turned over 1000 documents, before appearing to suddenly shift gears and decidedly stonewall. now we don t know why exactly meadows changed his mind, why he changed direction. all we know, in terms of what is publicly reported is that just weeks after the january six committee formed, trump s pac gave meadows nonprofit a donation of 1 million dollars. so, one view of the situation, based on the timeline, could be, trump dangles the carrot for potential witnesses, and may hope for a pardon in the future or a donation or, who knows what else in exchange for their silence. the ex president s tactics are not always of the carrot variety, right? back in 2019, former trump fixer michael cohen testified before congress that trump tried to intimidate him from speaking publicly. by coming today, i have caused my family to be a target of personal, scurrilous attacks by the president and his lawyer,