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The gatekeeper, the publisher, the second week of Donald Trumps trial was all about the witnesses who can put the former president at the very center part of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the american people. Good evening. Im abby phillip and youre watching a Special Edition of newsnight and im laura coates and washington dc. And today, i mean, really redefining what water cooler talk really means. Were on a graph the longtime trump secretary took to the stand and she did it by the way, not by choice. She was there under subpoena and she added small but critical details. The prosecutions ca...

fraud trial against him, the penalty part. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news in manhattan where donald trump is already inside the courtroom about to take the stand in his $250 million new york civil fraud trial. these proceedings are just getting under way this morning. nbc's vaughn hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. also with us, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi att...

Atmosphere of hate. as all of that has been going on and what a horrific weekend it was to have all of us develop, we head into a new year where there are still a lot of uncertainty over what a senate trial looks like for impeachment. final thoughts this morning as you can manage our expectations, member of the house judiciary committee, we saw and heard a lot from you last year, what do we expect in the new year? >> i hope nancy pelosi will realize she is not the person who is sole arbiter of the house rules and senate rules, she needs to decide that she started impeachment, went through impe...

Back and not make a lot of rulings but just kind of defer to the agreement that the senate makes. but if as hillary suggested if you don't have an agreement between the majority and the minority then the first question becomes, does the chief justice want to play the role of like more of a judge, right? where people are making motions and he's ruling on them. or does he want to force the senate to make its own decisions? which case he can just refer stuff to them. second question, and this is the other one, is does mitch mcconnell have the votes to overrule him to the extent that rob rob rober...

Hearings. rightfully so. everybody watching the hearings. senate republicans for the last couple weeks had a lot of conversations in closed door lunches inside their conference what it would actually look like pap core group of them, five, met with the white house counsel pat cipollone working through what they would like to see about the senate trial going forward. to be clear no technical rules how a senate trial looks. with the clinton impeachment both republican and democratic leader got together worked on a bipartisan resolution and laid out the structure that way. what's they want to do....