and chris hayes has come out of the courtroom -- out of the courthouse. to us, chris, about what you're watching. you were in the overflow room? in the courtroom? what were you seeing? >> i was in the courtroom -- i was in the courtroom. i was seated right -- i was in the courtroom, seated right behind this weird phalanx entourage. >> behind the speaker. >> yes. we hind those folks. it was fascinating. i thought cohen maintained, from my accounts of what i read, he was succinct. he sounded earnest. he was in a register and tone that we don't normally associate with michael cohen. there is a number of striking moments. one of them was the back and forth about the attempts by a lawyer named bob costello to get michael cohen under a retainer to essentially keep him in the family when all of this is starting to fall apart after the fbi has raided michael cohen. there's a number of points that e-mails from mr. costello are read into evidence, that have a very, you know, mob movie feel to them. kind of combination of flattery and menace in equal measures. you'r

i'm here with my colleagues stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes. in a courtroom in downtown manhattan just after 5:00 eastern time this evening the foreperson of the jury rose and delivered the jury's unanimous verdict, donald trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. it's a scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight it is officially a criminal scheme. he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions we enter uncharted territory as a country. for the first time a president has been criminally convicted, and for the first time one of our two main political parties is about to nominate that same man for president after he has been convicted of 34 felonies. that is where we are tonight. there's been no official reaction from president biden tonight to a jury finding his predecessor and 2024 competitor today guilty on those charges. i shou

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> this was very much a defense. she was mocking stormy daniels. >> donald trump's attorneys mock and shame stormy daniels. >> she wants the jury to think stormy daniels is a liar and she is crazy and also wants the jurors to judge her for her occupation. >> and the peoples witness apparently holds her own. >> and she said if i was going to make this up, i would have made it a much better story. >> tonight, the wild cross- examination of the woman at the center of the cover-up and why trump's denial of the affair hurt his defense. >> the denial puts the jury in the position to choose who they believe. >> and the two big rulings that caused the defendant to storm off. >> i'm not supposed to be here. >>> plus, is a sitting republican senator helping skirt to the judge's gag order? >> this is just a bunch of democrats saying we want to make sure that donald trump can't talk. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. donald trump selection interference trial rolled on today. the

am rachel maddow, i'm here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to nominate that same man for president. after he has been convicted of 34 felonies. that is where we are tonight. there has been no official reaction from president biden tonight, to a jury finding his predecessor and his 2024 likely competitor, donald trump, guilty today on so many cha

i wanted to ask chris hayes to come back in while we are waiting for the d.a. in how people process this. we are all prosetsing this. this is a huge and historic moment, donald trump convicted on all felonies. people were tuned in last month -- let's listen in. the d.a. who won this conviction is about to speak. d.a. brag in new york city. >> good evening. first and foremost, i want to thank the jury for its service. jurors perform a fundamental civic duty. their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system. we should all be thankful for the careful attention that this jury paid to the evidence and the law and their time and commitment over these past several weeks. twelve everyday new yorkers, and of course our alternates, heard testimony from 22 witnesses, including former and current employees of the defendant, media executives, book publishers, custodians of records and others. they reviewed call logs, text messages and emails. they heard recordings. they saw checks and invoices, bank statements and calendar appointments. this type of white c

i'm chris hayes. it's been 24 hours since reporting by "the new york times" revealed that a flag championed by the far right christian national movement, displayed widely by january 6 insurrectionist as they storm thedonald trump also flew all summer long last year over the beachhouse of supreme court justice samuel alito. that news about that flag came days after we learned that his home in virginia also displayed an upside down american flags in the weeks after the violent sacking of the capitol. another symbol, adopted and embraced by trump stop the steal support. in that case, alito responded to questions in an email statement saying his wife , you know, the wife, hoisted that inverted flag in a dispute with their liberal neighbors. why? it does not say. in the days since news of the second right-wing flag broke, there has been no response from the court or its chief justice john roberts who now faces a growing chorus of voices calling for him to appear before congress and explain the conduct of t

i'm chris hayes.. the manhattan election interference trial rolled on today. there were some fireworks and there was a lot of mudslinging. some of it even came outside the courtroom, not from trump, but from another florida man. united states republican senator rick scott. a real live senator missing votes to be there. we will have more and what he was doing there and what he said later in the show. inside the courtroom, as stormy daniels finished her second and final day of testimony with three hours of grueling cross examination, trump slurs put most of their energy into painting her essay liar, gold digger, and worst of all is for the defendant, a trump heater. for most of those three hours, susan necheles grilled daniels about every source of every penny she made from strip club tours to tv shows to candles. yes, candles, that portray the adult film star as patron at one point she asked, you were selling yourself to people who hated former president trump is someone who would get trump indicted, right? >> she replied, was now selling myself to anyone. i fe

chris hayes has the night off. donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10 of your county, of his criminal trial. today's proceedings began with another hearing on the repeated, i mean repeated, violations of his gag order. will talk about that a little later. things got interesting once keep davidson return to the stand. the former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off, karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. from the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on the 2018 statement he wrote on behave of daniels. seeming to deny her affair with trump. he admitted with trump's sitting in front of him, that the stormy daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. it was a nondenial denial you could say. the statement read, quote, i recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i had a sexual and/or romantic affair with donald trump many years ago. i am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false. it's a strange part of the statement. davidson used

i'm chris hayes along with alex wagner. thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of donald trump's criminal trial. we will be join bid rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell to break down what we heard. my experience was firsthand watching him testify in the courthouse. how did he do? he finished direct testimony with the prosecution before an intense cross-examination with the defense in the afternoon. he told the jury the story that is by now a familiar one. michael cohen's transformation from a loyal conniving energetic hustler to a fierce trump critic. who has now spent years cooperating with various investigations into him. the transformation from trump acolyte to trump critic. he sat ten feet away from the man responsible for that. much like his former boss, michael cohen is a guy whose got a long record of not telling the truth. from where i was siting in the courthouse. when it came to core allegations. cohen did seem sincere. when he was on the level. the mayor central question, one that might deci

. >> tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom with rachel maddow, katie phang and msnbc political experts, when special coverage of trump on trial begins right now. >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes, along with alex wagner. thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of donald trump's criminal trial. we will be joined by rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell in a minute to break down what we heard from the most pivotal witness in the case, michael cohen, today. in my case the experience was first-hand as i watched cohen testify live in the courthouse and the big question today, because cross began, is how did michael cohen do? the morning began with finishing direct testimony with the prosecution before an anticipated cross-examination with the defense in the afternoon and from the stand, well, he told the jury a story that is now familiar in the broad outlines. michael cohen's transformation from a loyal, conniving, energetic hustler on behalf of donald trump, who admired and emulated his boss, to a fierc

good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. after five weeks the first criminal trial of a former u.s. president is nearly over. the defense rested this morning. i called only two witnesses and despite all his bravado and insistence is to the contrary, donald trump was not one of them. we knew that. instead we heard briefly from a paralegal about phone records before a man named robert costello took the stand. costello is a former federal prosecutor. a very close associate with rudy giuliani, the twice indicted former mayor of new york city, we will have more on that later in the show, and also donald trump's personal attorney in the white house. giuliani that is. i think it is fair to say that costello's testimony backfired on the defense, though how much remains to be determined. trump's attorneys main reason to put that man on the stand was to contradict and impugn the credibility of the prosecution's key witness, michael cohen. it turns out costello might be the only person in the country who can make michael cohen seem eve

. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, it's been just over 24 hours since reporting about the new york times revealed that a flag championed by the far right christian nationals movement, displayed widely by january 6th insurrection is, as they stormed the capital, also flew all summer long last year, over the beach house of supreme court justice samuel alito and of course that news about that flag came days after we learned that alito's home in virginia also displayed an upside down american flag in the weeks after the violent attack at the capital. another symbol adopted and embraced by the stop the steal supporters. alito responded to questions from the times and emailed a statement saying his wife, you know, the wife, hoisted the inverted flag in a dispute with their liberal neighbors, why? he doesn't say but in the days since news of this second right- wing flag broke there's been no response from alito or the chief justice john roberts who faces a growing chorus of voices calling for him to appear before congress and explained the conduct of the members of his court.

good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. today one of the nation's most punishing and restrictive abortion bands went into effect. in the third largest state in the union. in the state of florida it is now a felony to perform or actively participate in an abortion after six weeks gestation. that is just two weeks after a missed period, before many women even know they are pregnant. the band is at least statutorily provide exceptions for rape, incest, and human trafficking and to save the woman's life from physical impairment. what we have learned from the exceptions from other states and what providers in florida say is that they don't work. that there will be serious consequences. a florida doctor telling nbc news it will cause delays in care that will cost women significant health hazards or risks. as of today, 17 states then all or most abortions including the entire south, that block from texas to florida. three more states ban the procedure after 12 or 15 weeks. one of those three, arizona, recently upheld a civil war e

good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it was uneventful day in the manhattan election interference trial of donald trump. the morning started with the former president of the united p states being held in contempt of court, fined, threatened by the judge with jail time for violating his gag order in the case. we will have much more on that in a moment, but it was the first event in a day that included testimony from four witnesses for the prosecution. plus the jury heard from a personal banker for michael cohen and he testified that cohen was in a big rush in 2016 when he created a new company called essential consultants llc and asked farro to speed through a payment from that company tool lawyer keith davidson. on the forms he said the money was for a retainer, but in fact it was to collect on behalf of his client, stormy daniels, to buy her silence in the lead up to trump selection. the prosecutor asked farro whether the bank process might have gone differently if cohen had told the truth about what he was up to, that

good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. there is another flag. last week we got the bombshell news that the household of a supreme court justice samuel alito had flown an upside down american flag in the days after january 6, according to the flag code of 1942 that should only be done as a signal of dire distress and extreme danger to life or property. after the 2020 election and in right-wing circles that symbol, the upside down flag, became widely associated with donald trump's attempted coup. the idea being that the election being stolen from trump, which it wasn't, had cast the nation into dire distress. in this respect that upside down flag was an endorsement of the big lie false claims of a stolen election and it was infamously flown at the deadly insurrection itself. in a terse statement to the new york times justice alito confirmed the upside down flag flew at his house, later claiming in an interview with a friendly outfit that his wife inverted the flag following an argument with liberal neighbors. he still did not explain why a sitting

good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i think it is fair today was the biggest day of donald trump's criminal trial so far. this morning the star witness for the prosecution took the stand. stormy daniels, also known as stephanie clifford, the woman at the center of this case, took the stand today. daniels is the former adult film actress who prosecute -- who prosecutors say had a sexual encounter with donald trump back in 2006 and was the recipient of a hush money payment in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election to hide that fact from the american public. there is no disputing that the details are salacious. some viewers may find them uncomfortable to hear, but the encounter between donald trump and stormy daniels is of significant relevance as this man once again competes to be the president of the united states. the question of whether or not donald trump illegally interfered in the 2016 election by engaging in business records fraud, by shielding information from the voters via hush money payments that were concer

chris hayes has the night off and will be back tomorrow night. donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10, if you are counting, of his criminal trial. today's proceedings began with another hearing on the ex- president's repeated and i mean repeated violations of his gag order. we will talk about that later in the show for sure, but things really got interested once davidson returned to the stand today. he is the former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off. karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. from the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on a statement he wrote on behalf of daniels, seeming to deny her affair with trump. he admitted with trump sitting in front of him in the courtroom that the stormy daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. basically a non-denial denial, you could say. the statement wrote i have recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i have a sexual or romantic affair with donald trump many, many years ago. i am stating with complete clarity that this i

. >> this is interesting from chris hayes. he said from his perspective. and we heard him earlier.when you dip into a trump speech or a fox segment with lots of references to preexisting controversies and narratives that you might not be able to follow if you're not up to speed and i think that was kind of where my question was going. like, it does seem a little here, there, and everywhere. and can everyone who doesn't sit on a television set or sit on their couch and watch us 24/7, know what some of this stuff is or care? do they understand what he's trying to do here? what do you think, catherine? >> cause confusion. defense attorneys, i always say, throw it up on the wall and hope it sticks because you want the jurors to go back there and like not know what the heck is going on, which means reasonable doubt for one or two people. so an inordinate amount of time prosecutors telling him not to speak. trying to get cohen back to himself. >> saying he plays by his own rules. i know you have to go, there have been eight objections by our count over the last 24 minutes. tell us your t

that was rough. >> all in starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, and chris hayes. today, we heard the most colorful, explosive testimony yet in the trial of donald trump. it came from one of the prosecution's star witnesses, one of the people closest to compton the 2016 campaign, his press secretary, hope hicks. prosecutors laid out in the very first sentences of their opening statement when the trial began, "this case is about donald trump vision of a criminal scheme to correct the 2016 presidential election. they described as a conspiracy to influence the election by concealing negative information about mr. trump in order to help get him elected." what are they arguing? it is that donald trump's motive for committing the 34 counts of falsifying business records from it was to win the white house. the prosecutors are showing the jury the crime of falsified records stemmed from a key moment in the presidential campaign. it was just one month before the election when the washington post published the access hollywood video capturing trump on a hot microphone braggi

nicolle wallace, chris hayes, ari melber, jen psaki, and catherine christian. special coverage of trump on trial begins. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former president trump. i am here along with my colleagues lawrence o'donnell, katie phang, nicolle wallace, chris hayes. today's proceedings, unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old agatha christie style british detective story. you've been following along, more or less, and you know who most of the characters are. you can remember most of their names. you know the basic plot of the mystery, but then, there is this great health a moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretends with some other character. in their conversation, they give you all the answers. it is okay you have not been paying close attention along, they in this conversation will recap the whole story. not only will they get to the big answer, the big whodunit, think of the solutions to all the other little mysteries and red her

i am rachel maddow with chris hayes and nicolle wallace. the one-of-a-kind lawrence o'donnell who was in the trial today will be joining us at any moment. he is still down at the courthouse. he will be joining us as soon as he can get to a camera. also onset with us, ari melber is here and katie phang is here. katie was in the overflow room at the courthouse, as well, today. we will be joined by joy reid and alex wagner and jen psaki. andrew weissmann is standing by with us at msnbc headquarters. we will be joining lisa rubin i believe at a camera outside the courthouse, moments from now. this has all been breaking as we have been discussing about it. there is a lot to get to. we know that even though you know this is important news and history in the making, you also have a life, a job, school, childcare. lots of people have traveled to deal with after the holiday weekend. we know you have stuff to do. as this trial draws to a close, as the days in court get longer and longer, tonight going until 8:00 p.m., just moments ago, we know it is

. >>> tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom, with rachel maddow, lawrence o'donnell, katie phang, and msnbc legal and political experts when special coverage of trump on trial begins right now. >>> good evening from new york, and chris hayes along with alex wagner. thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of donald trump's criminal trial. we will be joined by rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell in just a minute to become what we heard from the most pivotal witness in the case, michael cohen today. in my case, the experience was first-hand, as i watched michael cohen testify life in the courthouse. the question looming over today, particularly today because cross-examination began, how did michael cohen do? the morning began with michael cohen finishing his direct testimony with the prosecution before a much anticipated cross- examination from the defense in the afternoon. from the stand, well he told the jury the story that is, by now, a from there one, at least in the broad outlines. michael cohen's transfor

so, chris hayes has rejoined us as we approach the 8:00 p.m. hour. we are looking today at something that has never happened before. something that many people historically have seen as a dividing line. the speaker of the house was all the way up and when he was convicted he went all the way down. republicans were done with him. george santos was a less important republican. when democrats are rod blagojevich, people forget he was a popular governor before he was on the apprentice and convicted and ultimately pardoned by trump, because of course he was. traditionally these are disqualifying events. we are not here to tell the nation how to respond, but i am curious why you think that is important to remember. because a jury of his peers convicted him on all counts today. >> traditionally i think you have seen political leaders and voters make a difference between charges, a trial and conviction, which i think makes sense. there have been people who face trials and have not been convicted and voters say okay. menendez is standing for a second trial. h

i am rachel maddow and i am here with the great chris hayes and nicole wallace. the one and only lawrence o'donnell who was in the courtroom today in the closing arguments in the hush money, former president donald trump, lawrence will join us in a moment. he is still down at the courthouse it will join us as soon as he can get to a camera which we think will be in a moment, but who knows. here on set, ari melber is here and katie phang is here. she was in the overflow room at the courthouse as well. we will be joined over the course of these next two hours by joy reid and jen psaki ends stephanie ruhle. legal experts, andrew weissmann. he is standing by here with us at nbc headquarters. we will join lisa rubin and i camera outside the courthouse moments from now. this has all been breaking as we have been discussing about it. there is a lot to get to. we know we friend you know this is important news and its history in the making, but you have a life and a job in childcare and lots of people have traveled to deal with after the holiday weekend. we know you have

. >> good evening, i'm chris hayes, the criminal trial of donald trump was turned over to the jury today. 12 of trump's fellow new yorkers, i say that somewhat tongue in cheek, deliberated four-and-a-half hours today before being dismissed for the day. shortly after 4:00. this afternoon, the jury sent two notes to the judge requesting to rehear four sections of witness testimony. court will reconvene tomorrow morning at 9:30 with the court reading them back before the jury continues deliberating. now, the one consistent rule about juries is that you just do not know what they are going to do. when you put 12 random strangers in a room, the outcome is never obvious. but there are three possibilities broadly. the jury could acquit donald trump on any ieor all of the 34 counts against him. all 12 jurors have to agree on that unanimously. we could get a hung jury if all 12 jurors cannot agree either way. it only takes one hold-out for that outcome. or the jury could decide to convict trump if they agree he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. again, there are 34 separate felony count ins pla

i'm here with the great chris hayes and nicole wallace. the one and only lawrence o'donnell who was in the courtroom for closing arguments in the new york election interference hush money trial of former president donald trump. lawrence will be joining us any moment. he is still down at the courthouse. he will join us as soon as he can get to a camera. onset with us, ari melber is here. and katie phang is here. she was in the overflow room at the courthouse as well. we'll be joined over the course of these next two hours by joy reid and alex wagner. jen tsaki. we will be joining lisa rubin. this is all. there is a lot to get to. we know that even know you know this is important news, you have a life. you have a job. child care. as the days in court get longer tonight. we know it is hard to follow it all in realtime over the course of the day. we will talk about the big picture of what happened. where we are in the process. we will talk about the main points made by both sides in their closing arguments and we will talk about how the points

chris hayes will be back tomorrow. alex wagner tonight starts right now. >> wow, winning. >> starting to get the >> actor charlie sheen's very public break down in 2011. amid struggles with substance abuse and a public feud with his boss on his very popular television show, charlie sheen turned himself into a national spectacle after a barrage of claiming he was a warlock and that he had tiger blood and most of all that he was winning. and charlie sheen was not the only celebrity in the middle of ath well documented crisis. >> now to the latest crisis for star lindsay lohan. she may now be facing new charges in california. >> seen here leaving a manhattan police station early thursday after the actress was detained under allegedly punching this woman in the face. just hours after being released in new york prosecutors also announced the troubled star is being charged for lying to police and reckless driving after car troubles in june. >> there was so much of this in the early 2010s, celebrity downfall, substance abuse

i'm chris hayes. it was an eventful day in the manhattan election a different style of donald trump. the morning started with the former president being held in contempt of court. fined, threatened by the judge with jail time for violating his gag order in the case. we will have more on that in a moment. it was the first event in a day that included testimony for four witnesses. first, the jury heard more from gary farro. a personal banker for former trump lawyer michael cohen. he testified cohen was in a rush and 2016 when he created a new company called essential consultants llc and asked farro to speed through $130,000 payment from that company to keith davidson. he said the money was for a retainer, but it was for davidson to collect on behalf of his client, former trump paramore stormy daniels to buy her silence in the lead up to trump's election. a prosecutor is farro of the bank process could've gone differently if cohen it told the truth of what he was up to? he was set to pay off adult film a

>>fu on that note the idea this- it feels like -- and i'm paraphrasing my brilliant colleaguebr chris hayes here. it has become less about what we should doss in israel i'm seein this nationally, than a sort of usefulis cudgel to beat the lef with,ud an anti-woke. it's law and order running up against the woke liberal elites andke their spoiled children. >> and you know what part of that is because it's actually now almost impossible to support the war. even in israel people ipisrael's military a are admitting this war is not going to destroy hamas, that thaconsequences of this warce is actually going toe bad for israel, it's actually going to create a generation of palestinians more radicalized from israel then we've seen before. this is a distraction. people should be talking about why were all these people for months p upon month after month supporting this utterly catastrophic destructive war that willve make everyone less safe? >> how do you grade the biden administration on d that? because they too have focused on the unrest on the campus without necessarily getting into the specific

i am chris hayes. i think it's fair to say today was the biggest of donald trump's new york criminal trial so far. this morning, the star witness for the prosecution took the stand. stormy daniels, the woman at the center of the case, testified under oath today. daniels is a former adult film actors who prosecutors say any sexual encounter with donald trump in 2006 and was the recipient of the subsequent hush money payment in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election to hide the fact from the american public. there's no disputing the details are salacious. some may find them uncomfortable to hear. the encounter between donald trump a stormy daniels is relevant as this man once again competes to be the president of the united states. the question of whether or not donald trump interfered in the 2016 election by engaging in business record fraud by shielding relevant information from voters from hush money payments should be front of mind for voters as the rest to vote for him again which is one of the r

i'm chris hayes. >>> for all of donald trump's attempts to subvert and sabotage the democratic process, to steal the last election in 2020, overall the system held. i mean maybe barely, but it held. when push came to shove, the vast majority of people involved in the election and institutions stared down a novel attempt to destroy the rule of law and they did the right thing. the system might have bent, but it didn't break. in dozens of cases, for example, more than 60, judges up and down the system state and federal court including judges appointed by trump and other republicans ruled trump's claims of voter fraud were complete nonsense and individual lawyers and legal officials, republicans in and out of the white house stood up against trump, too. >> there is almost no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person would choose the american president. >> the president said, suppose i do this. suppose i replace jeff rosen with jeff clark. what do you do? and i said sir, i would resign immediately. there is no way i'm serving one minute under this guy, jeff clark. >> i told

good evening, i'm chris hayes, one of the nation's most punishing and restrictive abortion bans went into effect in the third largest state in the union pick in the state of florida, it is now a felony to, quote, performer actively participate in abortion after six weeks gestation. that is just two weeks after a missed period before many, many women even know that they are pregnant. the band does at least statutorily provide exceptions for rape and incest and human trafficking. could, what we have learned from those exceptions, providers in florida say is that they don't work, that there will be very serious. for the doctor telling nbc news court is going to cause delays and care that are going to cost women significant health hazards or risks so as of today, 17 states ban all or most abortions, including the entire south, that block there, texas to florida. three more states bed at 15 weeks, one of the three, arizona, recently upheld a civil war era law banning nearly all abortions. today, just two republicans in the entire state senate to join all democrats in the state senate to r

and i think that the substance of what's happening on the ground there and our colleagues chris hayes made this point, i thought it's a smart one, it's much harder to talk about and debate and more important and vital than even some of the domestic politics in our country. i would say on the republican front what today sort of exposed in terms of their reaction and as a reminder to the public is that even for people who may be frustrated with the president's response or the president's support for israel, the contrast on the other side is that donald trump, the members of his party, republicans, many republicans, not all of them in congress, think that israel should have a free license that netanyahu should i should say to do whatever they want here, and they should have any weapon they want, that it should be unchecked. this is the view if not but many. that is a reminder to a lot of people for those frustrated about the president's pace, they're frustrated by, you know, his continued support for israel and for prime minister netanyahu's actions there, the other side is much worse an

i'm alex wagner here with my colleague, chris hayes, who was in the courtroom today, as former trumpttorney and fixer, michael cohen took the stand for a second day in a row. today the defense began its cross-examination, which did not start off that well. here is trump attorney todd blanche. mr. cohen, my name is todd blanche. you and i have never spoken or met before have we? michael cohen, we have not. mr. blanche, but you know who i am, don't you? cohen, i do. mr. blanche, as a matter of fact, you went on tiktok and called me a crying little-- this is a euphemism here-- poop- - didn't you? cohen, that's probably something i would say. judge merchan called lawyers to a sidebar, the official court transcript tells us what went down. here is the court. judge mershon, why are you making us about yourself mark easter blanche, i'm not making this about myself your honor, i have a right to show this witness's bias, and he has expressed bias about the lawyers, just on who he represents. the court, it doesn't matter if he has bias towards you, it doesn't matter. the issue is whether he ha

. >> chris hayes referred to him as a picture of equinimity.have new reporting in the new york times that i find absolutely staggering. that for days in an around january 17th, 2021, neighbors told the new york times that justice samuel alito, one of the nine justices on the supreme court, had an american flag hanging upside down outside of his house. that inverted flag was being used as a symbol of the stop the steal movement. this is the justice who is very engaged. continues to be in and around issues concerning trump's role in the january 6th insurrection. apparently had a stop the steal flag flying outside of his house. he says and in denial, i had no involvement whatsoever of the flying of the flag. it was briefly placed by mrs. alito in response to a neighbor's objectional use of yard signs. this is nothing but a neighborhood snafu. a little battle between neighbors. rachel, do you have thoughts on that news coming against the backdrop of today? >> i mean, it is unsettling. it is gross. first of all, everybody has different marriage rule

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chris hayes' point there's no way allen weisselberg didn't show him those numbers and explain why itght. >> weisselberg again worked for fred trump. he's been around a while here. and for donald trump, right, and seeing these numbers here and being the micro manager that he is, i think there is acknowledgement by michael cohen today he did no work for him in the year of 2017, so there was nothing to actually bill him for in reality and, in fact, he did more work for him in the year of 2018 when he was trying to work through arbitration action against stormy daniels, so for michael cohen, telling this jury very explicitly like you can see all of the writings on this bill here, but i didn't do anything in 2017 as the invoice suggested. >> you're going to hear the state say, michael cohen has told you that, of course, he told donald trump and you know what, he had 130,000 reasons to tell him because as he said, i wanted to get repaid. >> yeah. >> so he actually had 130,000 to get repaid and because it was going to be income he had 260,000 reasons to do it. and the same thing for allen w

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i am in for chris hayes. wellstar witness michael cohen testified at his new york trial yesterday, the former president was joined by the entourage of defenders. according to reporting from rolling stone, in the early days of the trial the former president was infuriated by a lack of visible support from his allies. where are they, trump complained earlier this month? his allies now appear to have heard those complaints and showed up in force. trump received visible support from multiple members of his family. his son, eric, along with daughter-in-law laura and a who's who of republican politicians. surrogates included vivek ramaswamy, florida congressman -- north dakota governor doug burgum and even speaker of the house mike johnson. trump's entourage was united in their message as they all spoke to the cameras. >> all of us are here as friends of donald trump, supporting him in our personal capacity. >> president donald trump is in a set of these charges. >> the american people have already acquitted donald

. >> chris hayes referred to him as a picture of >> and enemy >> we have new reporting that i find absolutely staggering, that for days, around january 17, 2021, neighbors told the new york times that justice alito, had an american flag hanging upside down outside of his house. that inverted flag was being used as a symbol of the stop the steal movement. this is a justice who is very engaged around issues regarding trump's role in the instruction, apparently had a stop the steal flag flying outside of his house and he says i had no involvement of the flying of the flag, it was briefly placed by mrs. alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable language on our yard signs. >> this is just a battle between neighbors, rachel, do you have thoughts on that news coming against the backdrop of today? >> i mean, it's, it's unsettling, it's gross. i mean, first of all, everybody has different marriage rules but it's my wife's fault is probably never within the marriage rules when you're talking to the new york times about something that you've done that has brought enough scandal on you and t

sticking around for our special coverage of today's closing arguments along with rachel maddow, chris hayes whole gang and that starts right, three, two, one, right now. >>> closing arguments in the trial of donald trump. tonight, the defense makes its case for reasonable doubt. >> president trump is innocent. >> the real argument

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chris hayes will be back here on all in next week. alice wagner tonight starts right now. alex, last night you asked me if you could play the role of simone sanders. i came up with the right retort. that is like asking if you can be diana ross. you can ask to be a supreme, but you can't ask to be diana. >> we've got diana in the studio. >> she can't see you. >> i mean -- i am just a hanger on. i'm just following the band selling cheese sandwiches out of the back of my volvo looking for a miracle. just trying to be part of the magic. that is all i'm doing. >> i know what that is like. >> we love you. thank you, alex. have a great night. >> i miss you guys. have a great weekend. oh, what a week. i think if there is one visual that really sums up this week that really sticks with all of us, it is this one. no matter how many times i see it, it doesn't get any less surreal. that is four republican elected officials, including two sitting members of congress and one sitting governor -- four grown men -- all in donald trump cosplay outside trump's criminal trial this week. at le

i am alisa menendez in for chris hayes. if there's one thing that donald trump and the republican party want you to believe is that they love the american flag. they stand up for it whenever they can. back in 2017 when trump lasted athletes for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality. >> i think it's very disrespectful to our flag and our country. and when you get on your knee and you don't respect the american flag or the anthem that's not being treated with respect. >> 120 20 when trump reacted to the summer of protests by demanding a ban on flagburning. >> i think flagburning is a disgrace. we have a different court and i think that it's time that we review that again. if you wanted to try to pass a very powerful flagburning statute again anti-flagburning, i hope you'll do it because will back you 100% all the way. >> but later that year when voters rejected trump's reelection bid trump and his supporters took it personally and many began to fly the american flags upside down. something

chris hayes will be back in the chair tomorrow, of course. alex wagner tonight starts right now. hi, alex. >> i feel like the conversation around young voters is one of the most elusive things to pin down. the polling is all over the place. but, it seems like a problem, right? the degree to which it is a problem is exactly unclear but it seems like an issue that needs to be addressed. >> so important and the points that cornell belcher and alexi mccammond and tim miller raised his you don't capture every issue. it is important to stay centered on what is front and center for voters, even if it doesn't seem like what is front and center in the news. it is hard to figure these things out. >> campaigns are hard work. thank you, jen. >>> do you remember winning? >> winning. winning. i hear and i there. >> winning in what sense question >> just winning. starting to get the concept now? >> actor charlie sheen's public breakdown in 2011. amid struggles with substance abuse and public feud with his boss on his very popular television show, charlie sheen turned himself into a national spe