brian: they are staying home. there is going to be a walkout at 1:00 and told everybody to stay home. ainsley: still protesting. some people protesting at the columbia gate aren t students around allowed to be on campus. lawrence: to a floater. openings statements in former president trump s new york hush money trial set to begin in just hours. the first witness has been named publisher of the national inquirer david pecker will be on the witness stand today. ainsley: eric shawn is outside of the new york state supreme court, hey, eric. hey, ainsley, hi, guys, good morning. we will hear the case against donald trump today. and we will hear the case for him. as opening arguments begin in historic and sensational trial. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has brought these charges. he says the former president tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential race. by paying off stormy daniels to hide their alleged affair and part of a plan that paid off playboy playmate karen macdougall to hide their alleged affair, too. also american voters would l. not find out about the sex
Limitations. but the hatch act says that you can only do certain things, even as a chief of staff. so when he tries to make the argument that he is acting under the law and that s how he gets into federal court, he cannot make that argument because he is violating the law when he is working for donald trump. so, mark meadows on the witness stand today, a mistake? or a strategy? it certainly makes me want to cringe as a defense attorney, he was subject to cross-examination, he was on the stand for hours. and the defense doesn t know what the prosecution has in this case. the prosecutors do, they were able to cross examine him with an eye towards a trial. and anything he said could be used against him at that trial. so risky move for sure. yes, i mean, from the political view of sabrina, what is trump world thinking and seeing when they see this all unfold? well i think they are watching this very closely.
Do certain things even as a chief of staff so and he tries to make the argument that he s acting under court of law and that s how he gets in federal court, he can t make that argument because he is violating the law when he s working for donald trump. mark meadows on the witness stand today, a mistake? it certainly makes me want to crunch as a defense attorney. he was subject to cross-examination, he was on the stand for hours. the defense doesn t know what the prosecution has in this case. the prosecutors do and so they were able to cross examine him with an eye towards the trial and anything he said could be used against him at the trial. so, risky move for sure. from the political view, serena, what does trump thinking and seeing when they see this all unfold? i think they re watching this very closely. meadows is not the only one who
Rabbi jeffrey myers, the rabbi of the tree of life congregation, he took the witness stand today, and we actually have a chance to hear the 9-1-1 call that he made while the shooter was inside the synagogue killing other members of his congregation. and, it is really chilling allison, because you hear him incredibly composed on the phone, talking with a dispatcher, saying exactly what the address of the synagogue is saying, exactly where he, as other members to the best of his knowledge is. you can hear the gunfire, and he goes silent. and, a good period of time, and he still stayed silent, and today in court, robin myers was asked why did you go silent for those few moments. he responded i was praying, and i was expecting to die, at that
Story. that person is her friend, lisa birnbach. she was on the stand today and described to the jury what happened that day. according to carroll, she called birnbach and told about the alleged rape in the bergdorf goodman store, and she remembered it was 1996 and was around 6:00 or 7:00 in the evening, because she was feeding her children dinner, and she was in her kitchen and carroll called her and said you will not believe what happened to me. she described her as breathless and emotional, and sounded like she just got adrenaline, and birnbach said she remembered carroll saying he pulled down my tights, and she whispered to carroll, you were raped and you need to go to the police.
Today an important marker in special counsel jack smith s investigation of the former president, donald trump. the former top trump aide went back on the grand jury witness stand today and did so without the ability to say that some questions are off limits. a court ruled recently bar could not bar potential witnesses from giving witnesses. scavino is a witness to trump s actions, including on january 6th. carroll testified in detail for 13 hours over two days. what are we learning today? reporter: well, john, carroll called another witness, a woman who is intended to bolster her
my heart is with this 8-year-old little boy. i don t care if he was here legally. i don t care if he was here illegally. he was in my county. five people died in my county, and that is where my heart is. yet another gun rampage. this time in texas. governor greg abbott, who has done much to boost the nra culture of guns before kids in that state, wasted no time reducing the murder victims, including a 9-year-old child, to, quote, illegal immigrants. also tonight, e. jean carroll was back on the witness stand today, facing cross-examination about her allegation that donald trump raped her. where was trump? well, he was 3,000 miles away in scotland, digesting the news the judge had rejected his motion for a mistrial. and roy wood jr. is here to talk about his best zingers against clarence thomas, tucker
Overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds
The witness stand today. and seated right to his left was the very judge he was talking about on one of his shows. take a listen to this. you say, mr. jones, that you re taking these court proceedings seriously. you re approaching them in good faith. but the truth of the matter is you ve been broadcasting repeatedly a picture of our judge on fire, haven t you? objection, compound, your honor. no. the person on the left of this image is our judge, correct? yes. the person on the right is another judge you don t like, right? yes. okay. i wasn t in the courtroom, but i heard the judge was chuckling about this. but you can see that must have been a very awkward moment for jones to have his own graphic up there on the screen showing the judge s face covered in flames. well, i mean, elizabeth, the jury was also able to ask jones questions today. and here s one of the questions read by the judge. and i just want to play this for our viewers.
This was just not a familiar environment for him. and mark bankston mark bankston, the family s lawyer, really underscore that by presenting him with several examples of incentive-ism which he lied under oath. yes, outside the courtroom his show continues. but of his stick for the show is to say that this is a show trial, but there s a script that the jury and the judge are following. he even has connected the judge to pedophilia in a bizarre way. that moment, awkwardly, was brought up while jones was on the witness stand today, and seated right to his left was the very judge that he was talking about on one of his shows. take a listen at this. you say, mr. jones, that you are taking the court proceedings seriously. we are approaching them in good faith. but the truth of the matter is, you ve been broadcasting, repeatedly, a picture of our