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paul butler, jim messina, danny cevallos back with us. ump's lawyer todd blanch says he's running for president and has the right to speak. how does that compar to the judge's ruling in this case? >> that's not going to work. the judge knows that $9,000, that is $1,000 per violation will not deter donald trump. he's a recidivist violator of gag orders. he probably thinks of it as a campaign expense. it's worth it because politically trump has to discredit the process that could make him a convicted felon and even send him to prison, and trump can do that because he's got the biggest megaphone of any criminal defendant in history. i think the judge is in a difficult position. he knows that jailing trump is probably the only thing that will work to shut him up. the judge also has to be concerned about equal justice under the law. any other defendant who committed contempt of court nine times would be sitting in rikers island right now. >> danny, blanche also raised a fearless issue saying his client should have a right to respond to comments

catherine christian, another msnbc legal analyst, former prosecutor paul butler and former u.s. attorney paul charlton. katy, to you. three notes in total. what are the key portions the jurors wanted to hear for a second time? did donald trump react at all? >> reporter: donald trump didn't react at all to get that over with. he sat there, slumped low in his chair. his eyes were closed for much of the reading of the testimony. he wasn't sleeping. he would open them up, readjust his tie. but he acted as he acted throughout the trial. leaning back and shutting his eyes. the jury wanted to hear the jury instructions over again, a portion. they wanted to hear four key points of testimony. it was testimony regarding michael cohen and david pecker, a phone call that david pecker had about karen mcdougal with michael cohen where pecker said he would tear up the rights. michael cohen said the boss will be angry. pecker is asked, who did you assume the boss to be? the boss was donald trump. a phone call between donald trump and david pecker regarding pay. then essentially, most essentially

and paul butler mentioned. i've heard this from many attorneys, as well.arily like lawyers to be on this jury. but you think about how complicated these charges are. i wonder how the jury will actually be able to take in these charges, when hearing these jury instructions. maybe, and i pose this to lawyers on your panel as well. maybe here it will be helpful to have two lawyers on the jury to help walk through the for the rest of the jurors, what these actual instructions mean. >> do you want to argue the other side of that? do you want lawyers on your jury? >> i generally didn't, mostly for the reason i thought they would not accept the law and apply it exactly as the judge instructs them. >> are you seeing something fascinating -- >> what about this issue of being unanimous. >> that's a really interesting issue. and i think this is one, by the way, that i can understand why all of you said, you know what, you might have been flirting with law school. if there's anything that made you not want to go to law school, it's this document. this is very much in

now is susanne craig, investigative reporter for "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor, paul butler, former federal prosecutor, georgetown law professor and msnbc legal analyst. and claire mccaskill, former senator, msnbc political analyst, and cohost of msnbc's how to win 2024 podcast. i will start with you, susanne because it did feel like today was susan necheles' kind of nadir of the cruelty that donald trump obviously demanded that she throw at this witness. she's not on trial, but you would think. what did it look like in the courtroom? was it uncomfortable for the jurors? >> i don't know how the jurors felt. i know i felt very uncomfortable. it kept building and building. and there's a point where you were both, okay, let's move along, and where are you going with this? but it was hard to listen to. i mean, it felt like something that might have happened 30 years ago. i mean, not today. i mean, they were shaming a sex worker. and made it feel like that over and over again. i mean, it was just question after question about what she did and calling her a sex worker, just things

. >> here with me is paul butler, a markus childress.kus, let me ask you first, how important is this testimony as they are closing it out? how damaging is some of the admissions that michael cohen is making today? >> i think it's been impressive to see the prosecution draw the sting of what we know will come on cross examination. that's something you are trying to do so that when the defense does the hard cross, it's not the first time the jury is hearing it. it's going deeper during the cross-examination. i'm curious to see how michael cohen responds to more probing questions. but the government was able to draw the issues out in the first instance. it's not like they were trying to hide the ball when the defense asks michael cohen similar instances. >> there was talk they should keep the direct as short as possible, not to open up too many avenues for cross-examination. this is pretty extensive. he was on for more than four hours yesterday and again all morning. >> he is the star witness. before he testified, the prosecution had done

is that you, paul butler, i hear laughing?nk the jury already knows that michael cohen is a liar, whether he's a good liar or a bad liar, i don't know how relevant that is given all of the other evidence that the government has. it sounds like blanche has got some time. he's grasping at straws. i don't know if he's trying to hang on until 4:00. >> he's done. >> they just wrapped pup 5:31 they ended on that conversation that exchange that chris was just talking about. >> done with cross or for the day? >> this is the last thing the jurors heard before they have three days off. >> they are also now going into a discussion of the potential defense witness for the rest of the afternoon after the jury is fully dismissed. the defense is going to say whether or not they are going to call anybody. >> the last thing they heard was, is it your testimony you were lying to your lawyers? cohen, no, sir. objection, sustained. you're a liar, yes, i was lying, in this case, the last thing we heard was him say no. in that case, i wasn't lying.

joining me is tom winter, and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler. been following so we haven't spent a lot of time talking about bob menendez, bring us up to speed. >> we're talking about the trump trial. a lot of details we have reported over the past five, six, plus years. we're getting more of the intricate details of the schemes prosecutors allege took place here. we should note that the senator, his wife, and two businessmen charged alongside menendez have pleaded not guilty. we have been hearing from the former in-house counsel, the attorney for the mead company, he questioned the terms o. agreement in a potential employment contract for nadine menendez when she was then the senator's girlfriend. another thing we heard about yesterday was a master class from somebody who used to work at the state department who testified about how the appropriations process works, the kind of details that we really never get into, and the back and forth between the state department and congress and how this all comes together. the reason for eliciting that tes

also with us, paul butler, former federal prosecutor, professor at georgetown school of law and an msnbc legal analyst. jessica roth, former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york and a professor at cardoza law school, and duncan levin criminal defense attorney, former manhattan prosecutor and a former federal prosecutor. great to have all of you here. it was fascinating to be inside that courtroom. as many people have reported before, when they came in, they didn't seem to make eye contact with donald trump. i had a perfect view. i was on the right side of the courtroom. i could see both rows very, very clearly. i could see where they were writing very, very clearly. i could see any reaction. there was none except the pen to paper, and so let me start with that, if i can. i got to tell you, several points there were when the majority of them were taking notes. and perhaps no more busy than when the judge guided them on the law, the offense is falsifying business records in the first degree, 34 counts. the definition of the law. he gave that to them. they seemed actuall

from the courthouse, and also joining us now former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst paul butlerughn, walk us through that explosive testimony about this phone call and how it went over in court? >> reporter: right, this was the prosecution's witness, keith davidson working as the attorney for stormy daniels, somebody who is intimately voefd with the negotiations with michael cohen, and clearly, for the jury, they were able to hear that keith davidson was somebody who had a long-standing, albeit difficult relationship with michael cohen. and in a particular phone call in the aftermath of the 2016 election before donald trump was formally sworn in and while michael cohen was allegedly still waiting for that $130,000 reimbursement from donald trump, he also opened up to keith davidson, which davidson told the jury, told the prosecution about that phone call. and just take a look at this transcript here. this is what he said that cohen told him on the phone, quote, jesus christ, can you effing believe i'm not going to washington after everything i've done for that effing guy. i can'

joining us now is law professor paul butler and janai nelson. paul, first to you.out an alternative map, it's difficult for plaintiffs to defeat our presumption the legislature, in reference to south carolina republicans, acted in good faith. what does this mean for redistricting? for justice alito to say that they should not -- they should presume they acted in good faith after the history of racial gerrymandering and discrimination against black people in the south? >> yeah. this is south carolina where republicans control six out of seven of the congressional districts. there's one district that is led by an african american congressman clyburn. nancy mace won this district in 2020 by just 1%. the republican lawmakers in south carolina wanted to make it a safer district for republicans. the way they did that, according to three federal judges who heard evidence, was they bleached the african americans out of the district. they moved them to congressman clyburn's district. that's what the supreme court was considering. three federal judges -- >> south carolinian

joining us, rebecca, a former manhattan district attorney, and paul butler, former federal prosecutor professor at the georgetown university law school, and also an msnbc legal analyst. chuck, what elements of the prosecution's case do you think will stick with the jurors? >> hopefully from the prosecution's perspective, all of it. i mean, they have called 20 witnesses and introduced scores of documents. the idea from the prosecution's perspective is the entire chronology, the whole story resinates with the jury. in fact, you use summation, you use the closing argument for that purpose. there's a tendency, i think, by human beings to remember the thing that happened most recently, and not the thing that happened four or five weeks ago. so in a good closing argument, they will knit all that together, ana, with charts or some sort of summary, and the prosecution will relive, replay the entire case. it's a documents case and also a witness case, and among the witnesses, many of them tied mr. trump to the overall plot, but certainly mr. cohen was most essential in connecting trump to the

joining us to talk about this, joyce vance and former federal prosecutor paul butler.s start with you. court not in session today. it will kick off tomorrow. they will start with a hearing on this gag order. donald trump is on the campaign trail today. how much trouble could he get himself into in the next 24 hours or so? >> yeah, with donald trump, you never know. right? it's clear that this post does not cross the line established by the gag order. the judge has made himself fair play. trump will get into trouble if he continues to talk about witnesses. he was particularly sharp about michael cohen and stormy daniels in past weeks. he seems to have moderated his behavior. if he crosses the line again, the judge made it clear, future violations may have to be dealt with by custodial time. >> that means he could potentially be put in jail? >> absolutely. the law that the judge is operating under ties his hands. it only gives him two remedies. up to $1,000 in a fine. the judge wrote yesterday in his order that the law doesn't give him the flexibility to set a fine amoun

i -- andrew weissmann, charles coleman, and paul butler with andrea in washington.ve all been saying this is the star witness. this is the moment we've been waiting for. but the truth, andrew weissmann, is that this is the moment we've been waiting for. the cross-examination. some think that todd blanche, who has the trust of donald trump. how does he approach this? where does he start? >> so, the good news is, that i don't think you have to be particularly skilled to do this cross-examination. there's so much material. things you can go with are, all of the statements that have been made by michael cohen, in support of donald trump, denying all of this going on. in other words, before he cooperated, to say this is all just essentially a witch hunt. two, you can go vitriol saying he much he wants to see the result here. three, you can go to the fact that he took an oath, just like the oath he took before he testified today, and violated it. and bring that out. fourth, you can go to the fact that he taped his own boss. he taped donald trump without telling him. and s

joining us, mary mccord, paul butler, former federal prosecutor, and barbara mcquade.ck with us as well. let's start with you, vaughn. what's the latest out of the courtroom? >> reporter: there's another paralegal from the district attorney's office who is being used to enter records in before this jury. one of the phone calls that was acknowledged here and a reason why the prosecution would bring this individual forward to openly discuss these records was one particular phone call that interrupted an audio recording, or we believe -- or the prosecution contends interrupted the audio recording taken by michael cohen when he was with donald trump ahead of the 2016 election, that september. folks will recall he and donald trump -- it sounded as if they were talking about the karen mcdougal payment of $150,000 being executed before the call suddenly got cut off. there were questions about whether he edited it, deleted the back half of it. what this phone record here that is being admitted into evidence shows is that potentially there was an incoming phone call that would

yet paul burrell is princess diana's former butler and friend.if harry and meghan are lacking her commitment to philanthropy . make sure you stay philanthropy. make sure you stay tuned for that. but before that, our illegal immigrants are about to pour into northern ireland to avoid being sent to rwanda . it's avoid being sent to rwanda. it's avoid being sent to rwanda. it's a game of kind of illegal migrant ping pong taking place between us and the republic at the moment, isn't it? but also, after nigel farage did this aukus a little campaign today to say that the government should not sign us up to the pandemic treaty. >> i think it's a very bad idea. >> i think it's a very bad idea. >> well, he's ruffled a few feathers because now the tory health minister has accused him of peddling myths, while the man himself, nigel farage, is ready to give us his unmissable response. he joins me in just a couple of moments, so welcome back to patrick christys. tonight on gb news. coming up. reaction from former butler and close personal friend of princess d

down goes lawrence butler and seattle scored five in the fourth off paul blackburn.wo run homer. he had a five rbi game. a's lose eight one. they've lost five of six. the forty-niners opening rookie mini camp this weekend. nick sorensen enters his rookie season as the forty-niners defensive coordinator, replacing steve wilks, who was fired after just one season. the longtime niners assistant has respected the players and fellow coaches, and he says he expects to see a talented defense playing at a high level again next season. >> i want them to see that we're still the standard of what we've always been, an attacking defense that plays fast, we play violent, we play with speed and we finish. we all know the standard here and you know we all want to win. we all want to play great defense and that's the expectation. but i have that on myself. i just know what we want to get done and what i want to get done. >> nba playoffs nikola jokic and the defending champion nuggets trying to avoid going down zero three to the t. wolves jamal murray 18 of his 24 in the first half d

down goes lawrence butler and seattle scored five in the fourth off paul blackburn.oore two run homer. he had a five rbi game. a's lose eight one. they've lost five of six. the forty-niners opening rookie mini camp this weekend. nick sorensen enters his rookie season as the forty-niners defensive coordinator, replacing steve wilks, who was fired after just one season. the longtime niners assistant has respected the players and fellow coaches, and he says he expects to see a talented defense playing at a high level again next season. >> i want them to see that we're still the standard of what we've always been, an attacking defense that plays fast, we play violent, we play with speed and we finish. we all know the standard here and you know we all want to win. we all want to play great defense and that's the expectation. but i have that on myself. i just know what we want to get done and what i want to get done. >> nba playoffs nikola jokic and the defending champion nuggets trying to avoid going down zero three to the t. wolves jamal murray 18 of his 24 in the first

down goes lawrence butler seattle scored five in the fourth off paul blackburn. dylan moore a two run shot. he had five rbi in the game. a's lose eight one. they've lost five of six. how about some football? the four niners opening rookie minicamp this weekend. nick sorensen enters his rookie season as the niners defensive coordinator. he replaces steve wilks, who was fired after just one season. the longtime niners assistant has the respect of the players and fellow coaches. he expects to see a talented defense playing at a high level next season. i want them to see that we're still the standard of what we've always been an attacking defense that plays fast, we play violent, we play with speed and we finish. >> we all know the standard here and you know we all want to win. we all want to play great defense and that's the expectation. but i have that on myself. i just know what we want to get done and what i want to get done. >> after dropping two games in denver nba playoffs, nikola jokic and the nuggets, the champs in minnesota for game three. jamal murray 18 o

down goes lawrence butler seattle scored five in the fourth off paul blackburn. dylan.e eight one. they've lost five of six. how about some football? the four niners opening rookie minicamp this weekend. nick sorensen enters his rookie season as the niners defensive coordinator. he replaces steve wilks, who was fired after just one season. the longtime niners assistant has the respect of the players and fellow coaches. he expects to see a talented defense playing at a high level next season. >> i want them to see that we're still the standard of what we've always been, an attacking defense that plays fast, we play violent, we play with speed and we finish. we all know the standard here and you know we all want to win. we all want to play great defense and that's the expectation. but i have that on myself. i just know what we want to get done and what i want to get done. >> after dropping two games in denver nba playoffs, nikola jokic and the nuggets the champs in minnesota for game three, jamal murray 18 of his 24 in the first half denver up 15 at the break. jokic had a

down goes lawrence butler seattle scored five in the fourth off paul blackburn.t five of six. how about some football? the four niners opening rookie minicamp this weekend. nick sorensen enters his rookie season as the niners defensive coordinator. he replaces steve wilks, who was fired after just one season. the longtime niners assistant has the respect of the players and fellow coaches. he expects to see a talented defense playing at a high level next season. >> i want them to see that we're still the standard of what we've always been, an attacking defense that plays fast, we play violent, we play with speed and we finish. we all know the standard here and you know we all want to win. we all want to play great defense and that's the expectation. but i have that on myself. i just know what we want to get done and what i want to get done. >> after dropping two games in denver nba playoffs, nikola jokic and the nuggets the champs in minnesota for game three, jamal murray 18 of his 24 in the first half denver up 15 at the break. jokic had a big game. just missed t

butler, aye. the clerk: mr. peters, aye. mr. mullin, no. mr. paul, no. the clerk: ms. smith, aye. mr. hassan, aye. -- ms. hassan, aye. the clerk: mr. booker, aye. mr. kaine, aye. mr. fetterman, aye. mr. budd, no. the clerk: mr. warner, aye. mrs. fischer, no. mr. barasso, no. mr. sanders, aye. mr. schumer, aye. ms. cortez masto, aye. mr. schatz, aye. mr. blumenthal, aye. mr. grassley, no. ms. baldwin, aye. mr. durbin, aye. mr. wicker, no. ms. warren, aye. mr. thune, no. mr. cornyn, no. mrs. britt, no. mr. tester, aye. mr. crapo, no. the clerk: mr. cruz, no. the clerk: mr. rounds, no. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. mr. wyden, aye. mrs. murray, aye. mr. johnson, no. mrs. blackburn, no. the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. mr. reed, aye. ms. rosen, aye. the clerk: mr. coons, aye. mr. lee, no. ms. collins, no. the clerk: mr. moran, no. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: mr. merkley, aye. the clerk: mr. heinrich, aye. ms. murkowski, no. vote: the clerk: mr. lankford, no. ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye. mr. tillis, no. mr. warnock, aye. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: ms. lummis, no. mr. be

paul, no. . the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. the clerk: mr. scott of florida, no. the clerk: fiduciary and investment risk management association baldwin, butler, cantwell, carper, cortez masto, klobuchar, merkley, murphy, rosen, shaheen, stabenow, warnock. senators voting in the negative -- crapo, ernst, fischer, hyde-smith, johnson, kennedy, marshall, hawley, ricketts, rounds, schmitt, scott of florida, tuberville, young. the clerk: mr. peters, aye. the clerk: ms. hassan, aye. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. vance, no. the clerk: mr. cramer, no. mr. kaine, aye. ms. lummis, no. ms. hirono, aye. mr. tillis, no. the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina, no. the clerk: mr. welch, aye. mr. lee, no. mr. thune, no. mr. reed, aye. mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: mr. cornyn, no. ms. duckworth, aye. mr. casey, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. daines, no. mr. cardin, aye. mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. braun, no. mr. cassidy, no. mr. fetterman, aye. mr. hoeven, no. the clerk: mrs. blackburn, no. mr. schumer, aye. the clerk: ms. smith, aye. the clerk: mr. wicker, no. the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. sullivan, no. mr. schatz, aye. moz murko

paul, no. mr. moran, aye. the clerk: mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. the clerk: mr. sanders, aye. mrs. blackburn, no. ms. butler, aye. mr. trump dur -- mr. durbin, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. mr. kennedy, no. the clerk: ms. lummis, no. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. mr. cardin, aye. mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: ms. cantwell, aye. the clerk: mrs. fischer, no. mr. rounds, aye. the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. mrs. britt, no. the clerk: mr. cornyn, no. the clerk: mr. carper, aye. the clerk: mr. young, aye. mr. vance, no. ms. murkowski, aye. mr. romney, no. mr. mcconnell, no. the clerk: mrs. hyde-smith, no. mr. booker, aye. mrs. hyde-smith, aye. the clerk: mr. as cassidy, no. the clerk: mr. peters, aye. mr. scott of florida, no. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk: ms. rosen, aye. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, aye. the clerk: mr. ricketts, no. the clerk: mr. markey, aye. mr. hoeven, aye. mr. cruz, no. the clerk: mrs. capito, no. pppp. vote: the clerk: mr. hawley, no. the clerk: ms. baldwin, aye. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye. mr. wyden, aye. the presiding officer: the yeas are 56, the nays are

butler , grant harold, former butler, grant harold, talking earlier about, well, the facts that today, sir prince harry, he's going to this invictus event at saint paul's i think. and the king royal's attending either with him. >> just him. >> just him. >> yeah. quite telling. and the king has a garden party at buckingham palace that finishes shortly afterwards. but of course they're not meeting. yeah. >> we spoke earlier to kinsey schofield , who was speculating schofield, who was speculating about whether or not something's changed in the last few days because there was some sort of mood music that there might well be a meeting between the pair. there was last time prince harry was in town . sadly, we've been was in town. sadly, we've been told now there isn't going to be one. has there been a fallout ? one. has there been a fallout? and i wonder if we will find out about that a little bit further down the road. obviously that's speculation, but it certainly feels as though relations are more strained than ever at the moment. >> i think he just can't be trusted from the king's perspective and william's perspective. his brother, he just can't trust hi