joining us now from lower manhattan is tom winter. tom, talk if you can about the remarkable security implications for mr. trump and keeping a former president safe through all this as he goes through the legal process. >> reporter: that's exactly right, lester. there have been enormous security implications because of this trial. you've seen some of the apparatus behind me over the last couple of weeks. we saw it just in the last several hours or so as we saw the president head up the highway here in new york city. he'll maintain that secret service detail, as danny alluded to. tonight in a statement to nbc news, the secret service says, we're going to continue our mission, their words. they say they're going to continue obviously with trump is a former president, so he'll get protected status because of that. he is the presumptive republican nominee. after the convention, his security profile will only increase from there, added with the potential complication if he was to be sentenced to jail, if that was to happen at rikers island

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nbc's dasha burns is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. dasha, what's the reaction been? tell us about the scene outside the court that played out today. >> reporter: well, lester, ever since we heard news that a verdict would be coming, we've seen people of all stripes filing in and out of this public park that is across the street from the courthouse where people can exercise their first amendment rights. they can come here to demonstrate whether they're for trump, against trump, or whatever message they want to give. now today, a large police presence here, much larger than anything that we've seen. just to make sure that all of these protests, all of these conversations are peaceful. i will tell you, once we heard the verdict, once the public was aware of what this jury decided, there were boos and there were cheers. people on all sides of this issue in this park here today. i'll tell you, lester, what's been really fascinating to watch is members of the public simply getting together and having -- having it out, having debates. we're actually witnessing that right no

right now and the ludicrous trump tile in lower manhattan. the defense reminding jurors that this entire case is based on the word of a guy who lied directly to them. they even star witness michael cohen as the gloat. the greatest liar of all time. the prosecution has been droning on for hours. joining me now outside the courthouse is fox news correspondent nate foy. nate, what's the latest? >> nate: hey, judge, the prosecution is five hours in to making closing arguments. court normally ends 4:30. right now 7:00. still waiting for former president trump to leave the courthouse and speak as he is expected to do. within the past few minutes the prosecution has been interpreting tweets and quotes from trump's books and interpreting what they believe he meant during those or in those excerpts. today the prosecution also revealed the underlying crime that trump is accused of. he is accused of unlawfully influencing the 201 election by

cbs's robert costa once again tonight from the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> reporter: former president donald trump appeared to be closely watching as his defense tore into the credibility of michael cohen, who has acknowledged lying under oath in past cases. >> the last time i appeared before congress, i came to protect mr. trump. today, i am here to tell the truth. >> reporter: as the prosecution's star witness, cohen said he lied because of his loyalty to trump and has testified he paid adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to suppress her account of an alleged sexual encounter with trump to stave off a scandal ahead of the 2016 election. and cohen has testified he called then-candidates be eight to update him about the transaction. but on thursday, defense attorney todd blanche accused cohen of lying about the call and instead claim cohen was reaching out to trump's bodyguard to get help because he was receiving harassing phone calls from a 14-year-old prankster. part of it was the 14-year-old, cohen testified, saying he discussed the prank calls while also updating trump about t

we want to take you to lower manhattan and former president trump. >> are you a victim of extortion? >> the country is on fire. there are protests all over the country. i have never seen anything like this. many graduation ceremonies are being canceled. they canceled in columbia, they are canceling a lot of them. we have a president that refuses to talk because he can't talk, you know that. some of the statements made about this witch hunt on cnn, fake news cnn, michael moore said the proof of falsifying records has not been accomplished. on "good morning america" they said we heard that expense payments to lawyers are legal expenses. we paid a lawyer expense payments. we didn't put it down as construct costs, the purchase of sheetrock, the electrical cost, the legal expense that we paid we put down as legal expense. there is nothing else you could say. you don't have to put down anything, i guess but we put down legal expense, was legal expense. is that a correct statement, mr. attorney? and everyone is saying oh, that's the fraud. that's what they're trying to get. we called it a l

yesterday evening. 0n court in lower manhattan yesterday evening. stark. he said we are living in a far—fetched state. —— fattest state. crooked joe biden was behind it. he also suggested thatjoe biden was trying to win in the courts in a way he cannot win on the election campaign. there is deep danger in

steve right now donald trump is heading to lower manhattan.w him a few moments ago where his fate rests in the hands of 12 jurors who will be given their second day of deliberations just about 32 minutes from now. >> brian: seven men, five men. video of the president leaving the tower ten minutes ago and goes to the s.u.v. going to get right to the courthouse. it is being led by cops. >> ainsley: the court day is 9:30 to 4:30 and a lunch break. jurors can extend the day to 6:00 p.m. >> lawrence: the judge will pick up on that last question about the jury instructions. the question is, is the judge going to go through all those instructions or a certain part? >> brian: we'll have a verdict the next time we're on the couch. i think it is happening today. i just think they're ready to go. i have a hunch. >> steve: go with his gut. >> brian: we'll hear about it and never forget where we were when we heard it. >> lawrence: the hope the jury follows the facts wherever it takes them. >> steve: that's what bill and dana will do for the next two hours.

he had to go looking for them in lower manhattan?can't campaign outside of a courthouse your parties prosecuting your opponent in. the most powerful man in the world sent an actor who plays a mob boss to intimidate the jury before deliberations. watch. >> 20 hours fell just over here this part of the city was like a ghost town but we vowed we would not allow terrorists to change our ways of life. donald trump destroy not only bleeped the country but the world. under trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. don't mean to scare you but maybe i do i can tell you right now he will never leave. >> jesse: biden made an actor read a script in lower manhattan seeing his opponent is worse than 911 and then the actor slipped and went off script and admitted he's trying to scare you. with politics, you can admit you're trying to scare voters. it's not the movies but watch a when there is no script. >> reporter: what your response to republicans running on january 6 because you care about biden's record? >> i would say that's o

cheryl: former pot donald trump hush money trial set to resume this morning, in lower manhattan at courtroomously, a lot of things going to be on the table, here. he are reportedly slammed case in a private retreat in palm beach, florida recused president running gestapo -- gestapo administration, obviously, we have that very emotional testimony on friday from hope hicks his 2016 campaign press secretary telling jurors president was concerned over stories about alleged favor with storm storm would impact his family potentially because embarrassment i bring in republican will strategist madison firm lead attorney jonathan madison thank you for being here one question this morning, is it we expect to see michael cohen on the stand this week is it rare prosecutors have not laid out witness list for this week to be clear defense going to walk in courtroom not know who is going to be on the hand i mean that is normal operation procedure? in a criminal case like this? >> you know incredibly rare, downright unharder of as a member of legal profession i am shocked this kind of conduct is being allow

. >> in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we'll have more of the actor's warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. >>> and of course we'll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president's criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we'll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration's response to the tragedy. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, may 29th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump's fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in the former president's hush money criminal tile, wrapping up last night around 8:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom. judge juan merchan will give the jury its instru

the other one is in lower manhattan and here is former president donald trump. >> thank you very much. so as you know, we're -- late last night we got back from michigan. we went to wisconsin and michigan yesterday. we had tremendous rallies. sold out rallies, packed. the enthusiasm has never been better. that was a great thing. it was nice to be able to campaign one day without being in this ridiculous show trial. biden trial i call it. but it was quite a day yesterday and many of you were there and i appreciate your being there. the coverage was very fair. the economy, people are asking me about the economy. it is doing terribly. interest rates are obviously not going to be able to be reduced prior to the election because inflation is roaring back. gasoline is way up. other things are way up and it is roaring back and they're very surprised. i'm not surprised. they say they are surprised. that's what they say. the economy looks pretty bleak for interest rates and i don't think there is any way they can cut them. inflation, remember, is a country buster. when you have inflation, that

what we saw at the courthouse in lower manhattan wasn't what we have seen. certainly in recent years. dan abrams, a final thought from you as judge juan merchan, as you say, will rely on suggestions from a probation officer, sort of extraordinary to wrap your head around this, that the former president of the united states, like any other convicted felon, will have to sit across from a probation officer, be asked several questions, and then that officer will suggest to judge mershon where to go from there. right. >> the probation department will make a recommendation, but i think in this case, the judge is going to kind of do this one on his own. yeah. you know, in a typical case, you need some advice from the probation department. you need to interview. you need to learn about the defendant. they provide a whole list of information, etc, about the person that's supposed to help inform the judge's sentence. here the judge knows a lot about donald trump. i'm not sure he's going to need a lot of assistance from the probation department. not sure that he's goin

back to you. >> astrid martinez in lower manhattan. astrid, thank you very much. >>> turning to the catastrophic weather. finally most of us are getting a break today from storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes across the country over the long holiday weekend. at least 23 people were killed including two children. this was in texas, arkansas, kentucky, oklahoma, and virginia. cities and towns now left to pick up the pieces. cbs's meg oliver reports. >> reporter: shattered homes littered the landscape across valley view, texas, after saturday night's tornado killed seven people including two children in cook county. others barely surprised. >> the loudest thing i'd ever heard. i never had been through anything like that before. >> reporter: a dark terrifying scene as an ef-2 tornado with 135-mile-per-hour winds whipped through this truck stop. hugo para shouted for everyone to take shelter in the bathrooms. mangled metal is all that's left. cbs's dave malkoff spoke with para who witnesses say saved more than 100 lives. >> i said let's

jarred hill in lower manhattan. thank you so much. >>> supreme court justice samuel alito is rejecting calls to recuse himself from cases involving the january 6th insurrection and the 2020 election. democrats in congress demanded alito step aside after photos surfaced two of flags linked to the so-called "stop the steal" movement flying outside his homes. in a letter to democrats, the conservative justice blamed his wife saying he had nothing to do with flying any flags. he writes, quote, i was not even aware of the upside down flag until it was called to my attention. as soon as i saw it, i asked my wife to take it down but for several days she refused. >>> turning to the israel-hamas war. and israel is increasing its military forces in rafah as troops move deeper into the southern gaza city. the idf says that they have seized control of an 8.5-mile corridor along the gaza-egyptian border. the military says that they found about 20 cross-border tunnels which they say hamas has been using to smuggle weapons and oth

that's the latest here in lower manhattan. i'm jay gray. now back to you. thank you jay, we will continue to follow the proceedings as they unfold in the next few days to the. to alert. we'll send alerts straight to your phone. that's if you have our downloaded app. nbc bay area. or go to our website at nbcbayarea.com. opening statements today in david papps state trial. he is a man facing charges that he broke into the home of former house speaker nancy pelosi and attacked her husband. both sides laid out their case. the district attorney's office has video of his break in and of the actual attack on pelosi, as well as depapes own statements about why he did it. depapes public defender says they want the jury to consider his mental state at the time. here's nbc bay area's sergio quintana in san francisco. assistant district attorney sean connolly's opening statement jumped right into the serious injuries paul pelosi got when he was hit in the head with a hammer and the disturbing police body camera video when officers arrived and witnessed the attack, drop

you are a move outside the courthouse in lower manhattan.terday, the scene was described by one legal expert as pandemonium. america trump supporters wearing horns and painted faces, and actor robert de niro in a shouting match with hecklers. >> take that stupid hat off! take that stupid hat off. you're a bunch of clowns. >> the chaos unfolding as closing arguments got underway in court. trump's attorney, todd blanch telling jurors they cannot convict trump based on testimony from the prosecution's key witness, trump's former fixer michael cohen. blanch called cohen the greatest liar of all time. the mvp of liars, and said cohen is bent on revenge with an ax to grind blanch, telling the jury this isn't a referendum of your views on president trump. this is a very easy and quick not guilty verdict. in his final pitch to the jury, which took nearly five hours, prosecutors josh steinglass downplayed cohen's role in the case, characterizing cohen as nothing more than a tour guide through a mountain of evidence, steinglass argued trump choreograp

they only election interference going on right now is the election interference of lower manhattan inoom. judge merchan is part of it, the prosecution is part of it, and as we saw today with the biden hench and then sending the good fellas down there, the biden administration is involved all along. that is what america is facing right now. in a court of law in lower manhattan with some of the greatest cases have been argued, some of the most incredibly talented prosecutors have argued cases, this is a total black mark on the entire lower manhattan courthouse and the district attorney's office of new york. >> judge jeanine: you know what, alvin bragg is an embarrassment to the greats like hogan and morgan and it is a sad commentary when you see him coming into the jury room, coming into the courtroom to show himself in front of the jury like this is so important while violent crime is being ignored. laura, thank you so much and thank you charlie and ed to. >> thank you for filling and tonight, judge. it is unfortunate to travel today in the united states. but thank you so much, and bes

. >> let's bring in our guests, joining us live from the courthouse in lower manhattan.ailey, i'll go to first. what has been the immediate reaction given this is the first criminal trial of a former president? it happens five months out from the election. kailey: we cannot underscore enough how significant this day is in american history. this is not only a former president of the united states but the current presumptive number republican -- republican nominee who stands a convicted felon, found guilty of falsifying business records, it is an incredible moment. donald trump has maintained, as he did so outside the courthouse, today, his innocence. he says he will appeal this. he also has said that this is a justice system being weaponized against him. even though that may be factually inaccurate. and all the way, he is actively campaigning to be president once more. and already we have seen a number of surrogates for the president including a number of republican members of congress who have come out in defense of him, against the way the justice system work here. it i

supreme court live in new york city lower manhattan were michael cohen is back on the stand. of testimony he is now facing cross-examination by the defense. kim strassel joining us now for "the wall street journal" and fox news contributor. kim, your thoughts as you have been listening to everything coming out of that courtroom and where the soul goes next? >> hi, sandra. i think the most important thing is to follow up on what andrew mccarthy was just saying. people are talking about how this was the prosecution's last witness i would argue it was their only witness. if you look at everyone else they put up there, we had some technical experts dealing with the small details, we had stormy daniels, i think the only real purpose of putting her up there was to essentially confirm there was a nondisclosure agreement which by the way was not ever really disputed. may be that and an attempt to impugn donald trump's character which i think may have backfired. in terms of donald trump's ability potential and later to ask for a mistrial, but cohen is essentially the guy that everythi

they showed up and made a campaign event out of a lower manhattan trial de for president trump in the best that biden can do is roll-out a washed up actor so i mean, i was like it did give the trump team andat one point, i think the verdict is gonna change anything. well, we'll see i think that one of the problems that you hear from a lot of concern democrats right now is that there have been many moments so far where we have been told either the reporters told privately by campaign officials or they've sort of said it publicly that this is the turning point for the campaign. this is when the dynamics are about to ship. this is when people are going to focus in and plug-in. and that's going to benefit joe biden so far, every time has come and gone. and this may be a different moment, but if so, it will be the change from all these other moments that we've had so far that we're supposed to be well and politico put out, let's put the political headline up on the screen. this from from yesterday about democrats freaking out. basically, there it is dems in full-blown freak out over biden.

the radical left have now proven in lower manhattan that they will croix the institutions of americaitutions of america just to keep political power just to stop their political rivals. this is unconscionable, it is un-american, and it is requiring the american voters to go to the polls on november 5th and defeat joe biden. donald trump has to become the 47th president or what you saw in lower manhattan will continue in america. stuart: do you think that trump wins many november -- in november because of this? >> well, i'll tell you, i thought he was winning in november before this happened because with joe biden has been a disastrous president, and donald trump has done a great job when he was president, the 45th, he did a great job. so i thought that alone was enough for him to beat joe biden, plus we all know joe biden can't even stand up for more than ab an hour, and he's not even with us, not even coherent. but that being said, when you add in the lawfare from the radical democrats, i think that does significantly help donald trump become the 47th president of the united states

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that's why there's crowd in lower manhattan. that's why there's -- >> not even remotely.is supporters want to come down there but lower manhattan's shut down. it's not. i took a cab to the front door of the courthouse and people were just roaming around freely. it's an out and out lie. >> their families are just telling them don't get mixed up in business that gets you locked up. and that's an important message to send. that doesn't mean that individual poll worker es and people like that aren't justifiably afraid of the wing nuts threatening them, but i'm not worried about another january 6th. >> you spent most of your adult life focused on the bad guys and locking them up. what made you decide to change your tune and now write about them in a fictional way? >> i was pushed to do it by one of my nonfiction editor, and i found it addictive, because i'm still thinking about the bad guys, by i have the freedom to make it up, take readers into places that i can show them through the vehicle of fiction. and it's kind of fun. and i keep it current because my kids are in law en

that place is on lockdown in lower manhattan.is difficult to move around when the former president is coming there. we saw him 20 minutes ago before he made his way into court. what's the whole deal with michael cohen? how did he get on board the trump band wagon? here in 2006 he was on a condo board in new york city that donald trump owned and that's when the relationship started, all right? ten years later after that you've got the allegation that he paid daniels to cover up that affair. then he said his commitment to donald trump is so iron clad he would take a bullet for him. in 2018, 12 years now removed, no longer working for trump and everything starts to fall apart. you have all the guilty counts for the criminal counts, including the unlawful campaign contributions for daniels. that was in august of 2018. where are we now, 2024. we got six more years. november 2018 pleads guilty lying to congress. 2018 goes to jail for three years. come up to september of 2020. a big deal now for trump's lawyers in court about publishing

legal circles in lower manhattan are -- it's a small world. >> dana: yesterday this was news to us but apparently not necessarily news to the prosecution but it was brought up. this is trump's attorney saying to michael cohen, so, you stole from the trump organization, right? cohen says yes. and you didn't just steal the 30,000, right, it was actually grossed up and it was $60,000. it was news to a lot of people and the jury heard it. now you wake up today and how does it sit with them today, the jury? >> it's got to be very bad, dana. the kind of thing. it shouldn't have been surprising. not only not have been surprising to the prosecutors, they should have elicited it to draw the sting. it is always very bad when you get -- you have some piece of bad behavior that hasn't been revealed and it comes out on cross if you are the government's witness. and i think that was probably striking to the jury. although i have to say we're at a disadvantage, particularly in the overflow courtroom. they go the extra mile so you can't see the jury. i always want to know how the jury seems to be reac

he is about to enter new york's courthouse in lower manhattan, day 12 of criminal trial proceedings about to get underway. we don't know the witness. the judge agreed with prosecutors not to give the names to the defense. trump will speak any moment and we'll carry it for you live when it happens. meanwhile, breaking news from overnight. israel's war against hamas could escalate with the idf telling palestinians to leave rafah. we'll show it to you in a map coming up. hope you had a joyous weekend. we go on monday. i'm bill hemmer >> dana:. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." so we're also getting word that just moments ago, columbia university announced it will cancel its university-wide graduation ceremony after weeks of protests. activists causing chaos on campuses over israel's war on hamas that may escalate to another level. >> bill: cease-fire talks with hamas stalled over the weekend. israel launches retaliatory strikes against rafah after a hamas rocket attack from there yesterday killed four israeli soldiers. >> dana: keep in mind rafah is the last hamas stronghold

in and outside of court but first foxbusiness correspondent wendy who is covering the probably lower manhattan the cross-examination of the prosecution store with this michael cohen has been underway for about 45 minutes now and just when i stepped out of the courtroom, to come speak with you, defense attorney todd blanchett was going in and michael cohen to reveal to the jurors as possible alter your motives in making money out of talking about the former president. blanche was asking about your social media accounts, is tiktok presence canada podcast that he runs from attorney has also displayed photos that show i just waited say -- working call -- offer people the opportunity to buy $32 short for example that displays a photo of the former president in a jumpsuit behind bars. there was another item, martha, that says "convict 4 45," a coffee mug it says, "sent him to the big house, that the white house, oh and cohen of course confirm that all these references were made in the direction of the former president donald trump. but we can expect a lot more cross-examination there is going to be

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lower manhattan. michael cohen day two for him in the criminal trial of donald trump. the former president will be there. expect him to make comments on his way in. we'll bring it to you live. big day and especially cross examination. i'm bill hemmer. tuesday. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." >> bill: you would love it, really. it is an extraordinary -- just to see the psychology of everything that goes on around you. this is a two-story drab courtroom. >> dana: was it freezing in there? >> bill: it was warm. you can see the 18 jurors. six alternates and in addition to the 12. you sit there six, seven hours a day. i thought it was captivating and riveting. cohen's best moments was after the break. spent 11 minutes staring right at the jurors for the first time. most of the time he is looking at the prosecutor. prosecutor wants him to talk to the jurors. for 11 minutes he was explaining what jobs were offered to him by way of rinse priebus at the white house after the election early january, pre-inauguration. the jurors were captivated. all 18 wer

was cleared out in lower manhattan.aeli protests -- george washington university, there was a statue of washington vandalized. what might be the image of the week, lucas. good morning. >> that's right, bill. good morning. all is calm and quiet here at george washington university. university founded in 1821. george washington, the statue of him is still covered in a palestinian flag. final exams for undergraduates start tomorrow. the famous lebanese singer woke up some students singing here. she is christian, by the way. right now we're going to take you into this encampment where we have seen some students wake up. there is a call for cleanup this morning, bill. field day, if you will. but so far all is calm. we have not heard -- it hasn't been very noisy like we heard yesterday. i want to bring in right now paxton, a law student here at george washington. paxton, talk about what it is like being a jew on campus here at gw. >> certainly right now there is a lot of stress and anxiety among the student body as a whole bu

we have seen the biden campaign stay away from the lower manhattan courthouse over the last six weeks of the trial, but this morning was a little different. not only is robert de niro outside the courthouse speaking a few minutes ago, but also former capitol police officers are here, and can you articulate what your message was here by coming to new york on the closing days. >> i didn't even know the trump trial was going on, and i just saw the cameras and said let's get the message out. it's important to echo how much of a threat donald trump is to democracy. we have to -- the only way we stop that is at the ballot box in november by electing joe biden. >> reporter: you have taken active roles for the biden campaign, and you have had active roles in talking about the january 6th attack. why? >> i am here to use that experience that day, the traumatic brain injury and the heart attack at the hands of donald trump supporters inspired by his lies about the 2020 election, and what so many other police officers went through that day, simply doing their jobs and responding to the capitol a

everybody needs to make the pilgrimage to mar-a-lago and now making pilgrimage to lower manhattan.hoice about a vice president soon. and it's got to be somebody who projects stability. right now you know, trump ran as disrupter in 2016 and that's how he won. that's the wrong message. people don't want disruption chaos on campuses a days on the world and border. he needs to be the candidate of stability. pick somebody who is going to unite the party. bring the republican party together swing voters and project stability. those people are showing up in lower manhattan. >> bret: do you buy that. >> you can't really be a potential v.p. contender if you don't take a strong position against this lawfaren i'm not sure if you can have a future in the republican party period if you are not speaking out against this. again it shouldn't be a partisan issue. attacks on the courts. using the courts go after political opponents that destroys rule of law for everybody. it would be good if you saw individuals eking out against this. >> bret: don't talk just about politics we talk about policy. thi

you can sent robert de niro to lower manhattan and see how he postings up.d the reality is, even if that backfired on him and the campaign, that is what everyone was talking about yesterday. they were not necessarily talk about how badly joe biden was doing. and secondly, by putting that out there in the news that he is going to be making an announcement, that gets everyone thinking ahead and expect leading about the news to come. they are no longer looking backwards. they are taking, oh, what is joe bailey going to say? so for -- from a pr standpoint, i thought it was pretty savvy. >> john: all right. >> kerri: not appropriate. savvy. >> john: jonathan kim let's talk a little bit about the jury since they are the center of attention right now even though they are noshing on probably what i expect would be some good new york deli. seven men, five women, three number one is a man who works in sales. are a number two, a man who worked in investment banking. mentioned that. new york. number three is a man. he is a corporate lawyer. durer four to imminent securi

down there but lower manhattan is shut down. it is absolutely not. i took a cab to the front door of the courthouse, and people were just roaming around freely. it is an out and out lie. >> their families are just telling them don't get mixed up in some business to get you locked up. and that is an important message to send. it does not mean that individual poll workers and people like that are not justifiably afraid of the wing nuts threatening them. but i am not worried about another january 6th. >> you spend most of your adult life focused on the bad guys and locking them up. what made you decide to change your tune and now write about them in a fictional world? >> i was pushed to do it by one of my nonfiction editors, and i found it addictive. because i'm still thinking about the bad guys, but i have the freedom to make it up, to take readers into places that i can show them through the vehicle of fiction. and it is kind of fun. and i keep it current, because my kids are in law enforcement. so i check with them and say have

we will have the latest from the courthouse in lower manhattan.me back to the fourth hour of "morning joe." it's 6:00 on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. in the east. you are looking at new york city where our top story of the hour is about to play out in the next hour right here. joining us now the host of the podcast "on brand" with donny deutsch, and special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the "fast politics" podcast molly john fast, she is an msnbc political analyst. less than an hour from now judge juan merchan will give the jury in donald trump's criminal hush money trial its instruction. this comes a day after both sides presented their closing arguments. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett has the details. >> reporter: donald trump waking up this morning with his legal fate soon resting in the hands of 12, after both sides wrapped up a marathon of closing arguments. >> this is a very dangerous day for america. >> reporter: prosecutor joshua steinglass inn plorg the jury to use, quote, common sense, argue rg the former presi

let's go to rehema ellis live outside the courtroom in lower manhattan. what do we expect today?in this case before there is cross examination. i want to tell you a little bit about what's happening in the courtroom. the jurors came in only moments ago. before that, michael cohen came in. we should tell you also in the courtroom today sitting in support is eric trump there with his father, also lara trump. she the rnc cochair married to eric. and pictures were taken and trump was talking with his attorney a little while before everything got under way. there might be more questioning to michael cohen about what this trial is really all about. that is how those repayments were made to michael cohen. yesterday under direct examination, he was asked by the prosecutor, would you have made those payments to stormy daniels without getting a signoff from mr. trump? and cohen said no. asked why not, he said because everything required trump's signature. in addition to that, i wanted the money back. he's talking about that $130,000 that he took a home equity loan out in order to pay storm

[panting] >>> beautiful look at lower manhattan at 17 past the hour.ay 13 of donald trump's criminal trial which resumes later this morning, a day after the judge issued his sharpest warning yet of potential jail time for the former president for continuing to violate his gag order. at the start of court yesterday, judge juan merchan found trump in contempt for a tenth time, fining him an additional $1,000. but in his ruling, the judge stated, quote, it appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. judge merchan also acknowledged the magnitude of potentially jailing trump and how disruptive to the proceedings it would be. stating, quote, "the last thing i want to do is put you in jail. you are the former president of the united states, and possibly the next president, as well. there are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort for me. but at the end of the day, i have a job to do. so, as much as i do not want to propose a jail sanction, i will, if necessary." willie? >>> when the trial resumed, prosecutors delved into the d

we are not the first downtown, lower manhattan went through the process and a lot of cities had to have a open mind about what the future holds and i'm very optimistic downtown will be reimanaged and reborn and absolutely amazeic in the future. not just about housing, it needs to be about housing and educational entertainment and what last night showed us first thursday, it was absolutely amazing for everyone there. there were thousands and thousands of people there from all over who were just enjoying themselves, and so i know that this entertainment zone is going to be equally successful and i'm very very exseated about it. in terms of what this does, it really-this would be impossible had we not changed the law, because under california law, until sb76 went into effect a few months ago, the rule was, the law was in california that you can have a street festival, you can have a street closure, you can do all that, but the local bars and restaurants can't sell into it. you can bring a outsideveneder vendor but the mom and pops bars and restaurants locally owned on the street can't part

courtroom as his legal team seeks the potential appeal of the verdict that came out from that lower manhattan courthouse, frances? >> okay, vaughn, thanks for the breakdown. >>> one way or another, this verdict is bound to have an impact on the election. for more on the reaction to the conviction, here's alice barr. >> reporter: from a manhattan courtroom to capitol hill and the campaign trail, reaction is pouring in to former president trump's criminal conviction. >> i mean, he had all the money in the world to defend himself, and he was still found guilty from his peers, and that's the way it should be. >> it's a bunch of hooey. i'm going to vote for trump either way. >> reporter: the former president putting the focus on the november election. >> the real verdict is going to be november 5th, by the people. >> reporter: the biden campaign making a similar point, noting that while the conviction shows no one is above the law, quote, there is still only one way to keep donald trump out of the oval office, at the ballot box. new polling out just before the verdict shows roughly two-thirds of a

biden made an actor read ar script in lower manhattan saying his opponenad a st is woe than 911. and then the actor slipped and went off scrip thetng t and admitted he's trying to scare you. >> in politics, you can't admit you're trying to scare voters. it's not the movies, but watch p what happens when there is no script. >> what's your responseur to republicans who say you're running on january six because you can't run on biden'so republin record?rd i'd say that's absolutely absurd. president trump, a threat to your life has got ann immediate question as to whether any media questions a friend. >> that's what happens when team biden can't pre-selectt questions from toadies. gopreselt even more embarrassinn a carjacker set off an alarm. the kind f an a of crime brag doesn'tdoes prosecute. and it drowned out de niro not. >> these guys are the true heroes. they stood and put their lives on the lin fofor the law, lives for trump. they lied under oath. they lied under oath. who lied under oath? no matter what you're telling me , those two traitors. excuse me? those to try to find.

the legal drama unfolded inside the courtroom, the political drama played out on the streets of lower manhattan. trump's supporters and critics sparred outside with the actor robert de niro playing the role of attack dog against the former president this guy get on you go joining me in how to discuss shelby talcott reporter for semaphore. >> i shelby. good morning. thank you so much for being here. the niro is seen outside pretty remarkable the obviously the biden campaign decided they were going to bring him in to do this. let's listen to a little bit more of what nero had to say outside the courthouse i love this city. i don't want to destroy it donald trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country eventually he could destroy the world. i owe the city a lot and that's why it's so weird that donald trump is just across the street he doesn't belong in my city what's your what do you make of first of all, it's nero said, but second, mother biden decision. >> a biden campaign decision to do this after letting this trial kind of unfold while basically trying to wash their hands of it. >>

that's the latest here in lower manhattan and j. great. a still ahead on elsie's 0 ukraine's president followed him. here's a lensky calls for a change of strategy and the war against the russian forces. the, [000:00:00;00] the, the premium president followed the music lensky is seeking the approval of allies to use the weapons they funded to directly hit russian territory. russian president vladimir putin has warned a serious consequences if misses cross the border. john home and reports from keith . the president followed him. is lensky. he's travelling round europe. so i mean weapons deals with belgium, ports of golden spine agreement. but it's not just um, she probably needs, he says, but changes to how it's allowed to use the increasingly his government speaking against the band, particularly from the us on using the weapons. it provides to a tech russian territory and navid just the bunch of storage. even from reconnaissance, you get maps, satellite images, but you cannot respond to i think it's unfair, but we cannot. and this is a f

so talking about security preparations so anderson were outside the courthouse here in lower manhattan. >> so the barriers i've been out here, this is actually the street where donald trump. this is where he goes in every morning through the side door here into the courthouse and you could see here, we're going to turn around now here in many of the barriers are out here already this barrier here in the middle of the street was just added today in anticipation of the verdict this is where sure reporters generally assemble. >> this is where all the live shots are done. the one of the biggest concerns here is just what goes on opposite here in this park. this is where are the protesters will gather, where supporters of the former president and then also the people who are against them. one of the things that's going to be happening here once the nypd once the city gets word that there is a verdict, we expected them to surge more officers into the location. they're trying to do this quickly as far as we know, but things sometimes take a little time because their concern is the longer once

her time here is done inside of this lower manhattan courthouse.re is one additional passage that i wanted to read for you because from the book, this prosecution was using sally franklin as a conduit to actually read passages from several of his books to show that donald trump is somebody who is a micromanager, somebody who is very intrinsically involved in the finances of his company, and one passage from his book, think like a billionaire, she read this, here is something else about god that every billionaire knows. no detail is too small to consider. if people see your signature at the bottom of the check, they know you're watching them, and they screw you less. the words of donald trump, testimony coming just one day after two key trump organization employees who were the ones handling the checks and invoices for the ultimate execution of the reimbursement to michael cohen took the stand yesterday, and now you said it, we wait for stormy daniels to take the stand, about 18 years after her alleged affair with donald trump in lake tahoe. this wa