rachel maddow compared me to michael bloomberg. i laughed. i am much less well off than that. we have invested 500,000 dollars in our campaign and taken $50,000 in donations. this is run on a shoestring. you are supposed to have a billion dollars to run for president. that is crazy. host: what is the path forward? what happens at the democratic national committee? guest: we are negotiating the details but my goal is to give the people of the american samoa voice on stage to share more about their culture and issues they care about. there are many territories that don't get enough attention. puerto rico is one of them. they are overdue for statehood, guam, virgin islands. many areas don't get enough air time and people don't know that we have these colonies that are now territories all over the world. host: how many times have you been to american samoa? guest: i have never been there. that is probably one of the biggest surprises. i did for zoom town halls and spoke to a class of the school children, hired three people on the ground who did a fantastic job. i basically took th

we'll have special coverage of both trump trials led by my colleague rachel maddow starting at 8:00 p.m. do not miss it. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >>> just when we thought the big news from arizona today was the house of representatives repealing the 1864 bill, we now have 11 republicans in arizona indicted. it is 7:00 p.m. in arizona right now. alex. and there's 11 indicted fake electors there who may be struggling. >> maybe thinking about? >> what they want for dinner. >> maybe thinking about what they should do in the medium term. maybe thinking not be on the stand. maybe being witnesses for the prosecution maybe. maybe, just maybe. >> and we all discovered tonight that in arizona law, coconspirator is written without a hyphen. never seen that before. there are 50 states. >> that's a sign of the times isn't it? how do they punctuate co- conspirator in arizona? we have seen the word a lot. sign of the times. >> thanks. >> have a good show. >> thanks alex. >>> well the breaking news of the night is that donald trump's name appears in another indictment.

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> i'm giving you one. it's coming to you tomorrow. >> okay. thank you, my dear. >> thank you, rachel. >>> all right, thanks to you at home for joining us. really happy to have you here. have you ever seen "veep"?ou it haired for seven seasons on hbo.fo julia louis-dreyfus won a slew of emmys for it, like six consecutive emmys for it. she plays vice president selina meyer who is just this instantly iconic american tv political figure. if you have ever seen, even if you haven't, you probably know about the character. she's really ambitious. she wants to be president, not just vice president, and she's also just a total disaster. she's this craven and calculating political animal, but she spends all her time having to put out fires of her own making, fires of her staff's own making. she's just a disaster. and one of the sort of signature production things in the show, one of the things that the show does to great effect is that they use every last second of the show, during the end credits of each episode, the image on the right side of the screen

we will have special coverage of both of those big trump trials led by my colleague rachel maddow at 8:00 p.m. do not miss it. >>> that's our show tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. just when we thought the big news from arizona today was the house representatives repealing the 1864 bill, getting three republicans to switch, we now have 11 republicans in arizona indicted, it's 7 p.m. in arizona right now, alex, and there's 11 indicted fake electors there who may be struggling with what they want for dinner at this particular hour. >> maybe thinking about what they should do in the medium term, maybe thinking not be on the stand, maybe being prosecution witnesses, just maybe. >> yeah. we all discovered tonight in arizona law co-conspirator is written without a hyphen, never seen that before, but there's 50 states. >> that's the sign of the time, isn't it? how do they punctuate co- conspirator in arizona? sign of the times. have a good show. >>> well, the breaking news of the night is that donald trump's name app

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. >> we should be expecting more of david >> rachel maddow was in the courtroom to see it all. >> we got a road map to how the case will go. >> as donald trump goes on trial . >> he seems old and tired and mad. >> tonight, rachel maddow , joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o'donnell, alex wagner, jen psaki, stephanie ruhle, and legal experts are all here. special coverage of trump on trial begins now. >>> thank you for joining us for this special prime time recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u.s. president. the first ever criminal trial of a major party's presumptive nominee is a candidate for president. i am rachel maddow at msnbc headquarters along with lawrence o'donnell and chris hayes and jen psaki. we will be joined by joy reid and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle. are legal experts andrew weissmann and catherine will keep us on the straight and narrow. lisa ruben is here and susanne craig who were at the trial. lisa and suzanne and katie were in the overflow room today. i was in the actual courtroom which makes it sound like i got the better see. i will tell you, t

rachel maddow, we're a little jealous that you were there.ch for coming out and talking to us. i do want people to know they're going to hear a whole lot more. i have literally set my alarm for 7:55 in case i'm having dinner or something. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern rachel will have special coverage of the trump criminal trial. much more on what she saw in the courtroom today. >> every monday night we get excited at 8:00 with jen psaki and 9:00 with rachel. >>> up next, we'll have more from the courthouse. our legal experts are there. their takeaways from today's historic opening statements. when our special coverage continues right here on msnbc. a continues right here on msnbc. you know, i spend a lot of time thinking about dirt. at three in the morning. any time of the day. what people don't know is that not all dirt is the same. you need dirt with the right kind of nutrients. look at this new organic soil from miracle-gro. everybody should have it. it worked great for us. this is as good as gold in any garden. if people only knew that it

. >> we should be expecting a lot more of david >> rachel maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. >> we got a real road map today as to how this case is going to go. >> as donald trump goes on trial. >> he seems old and tired and mad. >> tonight rachel maddow, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o'donnell, alex wagner, jen sake, stef knew rhule, katie pham, and nbc legal experts are all here. special coverage of trump on trial begins now. >> thank you for joining us tonight for this special primetime recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u.s. president, the first ever criminal trial of a major party's presumptive nominee as their candidate for president. i'm rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters along with lawrence odom and chris hayes and jen sake and katie pham. we'll be joined by our colleagues, our legal experts, they're going to be keeping us on the straight and narrow. we've got lisa ruben here tonight and suzanne craig of "the new york times" who were both at the trial today. lisa and suzanne and katie were all in the overflow room at the trial today. i was in

special coverage of trump on trial, new york versus donald trump, with the whole team, including rachel maddow, who was inside the courtroom for today's opening statements and testimony. that starts right now. >> the people of new york versus donald j trump. >> i should be a lot of different places right now campaigning. i'm sitting here. >> for the first time in history, prosecutors layout a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. >> this case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. >> tonight, the opening statements from the prosecution and the defense and the first witness takes the stand. >> we should be expecting a lot more of david . >> rachel maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. >> we got a road map as to how the case is going to go. >> as donald trump goes on trial. >> he seems old, tired, and mad. >> tonight, which maddow, lawrence o'donnell, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, msnbc legal experts are all here. special coverage of trump on trial begins. now. >> thank you for joining us tonight for this special primetime recap of the fi

i am rachel maddow. i am at msnbc headquarters with my colleagues, nicolle wallace and chris hayes and lawrence o'donnell and ari melber. katie was at the arguments today. thanks for hustling back to talk about it. we know that you at home are a real person with a real life and you may not have been able to follow the proceedings in real time this morning and this afternoon. it is our job to come to these things and it was hard for us to cover all of this all at once. we did know it was coming. we prepped for it, we delegated, we listened to things that one .5 speed, we skipped lunch and dinner, but we got it for you and for us. this is our primetime recap of today's events. we will jump right in and start tonight with the supreme court. former president donald trump claiming he is immune from prosecution from all and any crimes he committed while serving as president. it is a claim so audacious it was widely perceived to be a shocking hail mary when his defense first proposed it. the federal court that

if you sent rachel maddow back biden, not breaking news but this week what stood out to me is how manyeople are starting to blur ideological lines and caused traditional forks down partisan lines. let me explain. very smart guy, tom pater called out nbc for firing rhonda mcdaniel and pointed out the double standard. it's. >> if you are going to say you will deep platform 85 billion americans, that's a lot of people. they say is not about that, she liked. bill clinton lied under oath last time i checked, he's been on msnbc. she's an election denier. stacey abrams was election denier about her own election, liberals trigger backlash when the use these means to get to their and. >> kind of surprising. robert kennedy junior, lucian in mind, probably yours to when he's at this about who's a threat to america. >> president biden is a much worse threat and democracy in the reason is president biden is the first candidate in history, first president in history that's used the federal agencies to enter political speech. >> cnn almost cut the cable not one. they look at tall biden is mor more --

this saturday, you can in c joy reed and rachel maddow live at the apollo. is going to streamline peacock as well. if you want to see me live, there are a few tickets left for an event i am doing for my book prequel, this saturday night in kingston, new york. a few tickets are left in kingston, new york. it is time for the last word. >>> something to watch on a saturday night. of course the breaking news is the celtics 1 out of two. i arranged with the nba commissioner to make sure the celtics are not playing after 10:00 pm on any night. >> people ask what we do with our political capitol. that is a noble use. >> being the multitasker that i am, i was watching you and the celtics and i loved that you went into detail but i just can't get tired of reviewing the detail of who has not shown up for donald trump when he is begging them to show up at this trial and pretending there are problems. i have been doing my crowd reports by walking down there and it's such a pleasant want. three was my last count. i think it is an important story. we saw this terroristic

for now, it's time to hand this thing over to rachel maddow. that evening, rachel. >> at evening, it's so nice to see you there in that chair. how does it feel being here on prime time at night? >> the pressure is enormous, but i'm having fun. i'm going to leave all the breaking news to you, my friend, because it was breaking there for a moment. >> we arranged for all that to happen during your our. it's a form of hazing for you. you came through. you're in the green, don't worry. don't worry. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. right off the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so.in in a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. he lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago. there were huge financial penalties he was ordered to pay in that case. he is going to appeal the judgment, going to appeal the ruling in that case. but he in the meantime has to put up a bond while he files that ap

for now, it's time to hand this thing over to rachel maddow. >> at evening, it's so nice to see you there in that chair. how does it feel being here on prime time at night? >> the pressure is enormous, but i'm having fun. i'm going to leave all the breaking news to you, my friend, because it was breaking there for a moment. >> we arranged for all that to happen during your our. it's a form of hazing for you. you came through. you're in the green, don't worry. don't worry. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. right off the top, there has been breaking news in the last hour or so.in in a couple of the legal cases involving former president donald trump, one of these we have been watching for a few weeks. he lost a big fraud case against

join me and simone sanders toundzened on the weekend on msnbc.now, it's time this thing over to rachel maddow mr. michael steele. it's so nice to see you there in that chair. how's it feel being here in primetime at night? >> the pressure is enormous. but i'm having fun. and so i'm going to leave all the breaking news to you, my friend. because it was breaking there for a moment. but i know you

they trapped him in the cage we call the courtroom a cage in these like king kong they're sending rachel maddow looking at it liken animal like wow his hair is orange look at his eyes he lookh angry he's mattie's upset watching him. they don't provide legal analysis to a region was like he's bigger than i thought he was there acting like it's a zoo creature what happens with king kong your member's not going to be good he's going to bust outou of the cage eventually they won't be able to keep them. >> they did kill king kong the. >> it was in the building in the forties. >> i did not . see the end of the movie. >> it was a bad day for king kongay.s >> wrote the otherev movie iswa s different. >> what did you think that the media montage.bl >> jessie's take aboutow king kg is blowing my mind. >> i think the quote star wars e think thy e problem is they want to put them in jail desperately the judge wants to put him in jail there clever then iphone this when they are awake not woke his the risk worth the reward you lock him up ease a martyr's like i'm home's republican no you rally the bass indep

that does it for me tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. hi, rachel. >> hello, jen, tell me the title of the book, full title. >> the book is called seymore, i'm going to bring in a copy a couple days when i come up to new york. i wish i had this book 20 years ago. and for you, i have some stories in there about dealing with bullies like the kremlin who i've dealt with. please tell me your publication date. >> may 7th >> may 7th. may 7th, say more, communication, jen psaki. i am changing my calendar and moving anything around, thank you very much and congratulations. thank you. thank you. this is one of the best ones that it has. i'm grateful that science tells us when to expect it and how to protect our eyes so we don't all blind ourselves staring at it.s it was fantastic. so it feels amazing to be able to see these things. a fantastic reminder that we are all, you know -- we are all -- infinitesimal blips in this huge universe. but also, that we are part of at something that is unimaginably huge, something that is bigger than the world. it

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> i'm giving you one. it's coming to you tomorrow. >> okay. you, my dear. >> thank you, rachel. >>> all right, thanks to you at home for joining us. really happy to have you here. have you ever seen "veep"?ou it haired for seven seasons on hbo.fo julia louis-dreyfus won a slew of emmys for it, like six consecutive emmys for it. she plays vice president selina meyer who is just this instantly iconic american tv political figure. if you have ever seen, even if you haven't, you probably know about the character. she's really ambitious. she wants to be president, not

i am rachel maddow at msnbc headquarters along with my colleagues chris hayes, lawrence all dollar , katie phang. katie was sick the arguments. thank you. we know you at home are a real person with a real life and you may not have been able to follow the proceedings in real time. it's our jobs to cover these things and it was hard for us to cover this all at once. we did know it was coming and we prefer it and delegated. we listen to things at 1.5 speed. we skipped lunch and dinner but we got it for you, and for us. it's our prime time recap of today's events. there is a lot to get to. we will jump in and we will start with the supreme court. former president trump claiming he is immune from prosecution from all and any crimes he committed while serving as president. it is a claim so audacious, it was widely perceived to be a shocking hail mary when his defense first proposed it. the federal court the first heard this claim just overhand smashed it. ruling against him comprehensively in words that were designed to be set to music, basically. , quote, this court cannot conclude that o

that does it for me tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. alled seymore, i'm going to bring in a copy a couple days when i come up to new york. i wish i had this book 20 years ago. and for you, i have some stories in there about dealing with bullies like the kremlin who i've dealt with. please tell me your publication date. >> may 7th >> may 7th. may 7th, say more, communication, jen psaki. i am changing my calendar and moving anything around, thank you very much and congratulations.

rachel maddow will tell us how we got here and what is broken about our system. it starts right now. >> i feel like that's a lot to live up to. what it all means is not what you say on the chiron. that happened in the lead-up to the election in 2016, not the election this year, not the last presidential election but the one before that. if this trial is about something that happened in the 2016 election nearly eight years ago, why is it that it's only coming to trial now it turns out that is kind of a funny story. funny in a bad way because it turns out this case springs specifically from one of the worst and most dangerous revelations we ever had about the whole trump presidency one of the worst things that happened while trump was president, something that for me is absolutely front of mind when i think about what is the worst that might happen in a second trump administration and i will tell you why. so it was almost exactly one year into trump being president, january 2018 "the wall street journal" broke the story that something that looked really illegal hap

rachel maddow will tell us how we got here and what

we will have special coverage of both of those big trump trials led by my colleague, rachel maddow, startingt 8:00 p.m. do not miss it. that is our show for tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> these defendants deceived the citizens of arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election. these are serious indictments. we intend to

coming up this weekend, my colleagues jordy reed and rachel maddow. you do not want to miss it, are hosting a very special conversation in new york city's historic apollo theater, all to talk about to his new book, met grandmotherly. you can catch it all on saturday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. set your dvr if you've got hot plans on saturday but for now i wish you from all of our colleagues across the networks of his neck a very good night. thanks thanks >>> thank you for staying up late with me. i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. >>> thank you at home for joining me this hour. have you ever seen veep? it aired for 7 seasons. it's julia dryphus. she won six consecutive emmys for it. she plays vice president myer who is an instant iconic political figure. even if you haven't, she is very ambitious, she wants to be president not just vice president and she's a total disaster. she's a political animal but spends all her time having to put out fires of her own. making fires of her staffs own making. she's just

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. >> channeling my inner rachel maddow. who knows why. i mean, james comey is the fbi director. >> right. >> there are many reasons for an fbi director to be briefing a president. >> yeah. >> maybe not always this president, but i mean, that is -- >> it's in the transition. i think this is the much written about time when they all come up and brief him. >> yes. >> comes out and trashes the intelligence agencies because he learns about the tape. >> and he sort of pulls him -- famously giving -- this is when you are a president elect, you are given actually even when you're running, you're given certain briefings and certain other briefings when you're actually the elected and james comey, you know, if you believe what he said in his book pulls him aside to tell him so he wouldn't be embarrassed about this. it is possible that is, in fact, this meeting. but then there's that and according to david pecker there's this discussion about karen mcdougal and how is she doing and essentially is she still quiet. >> he says that he did not mention t

that means rachel maddow could be seated and donald trump couldn't say maddow is on my jerry and sheing at me, he can't say that or they are going to throw me in jail. that's not right. the american people know it is not right. this whole charade has happened, his poll numbers have popped. >> dana: let me give you the floor. floor. >> greg: what do i do with it? >> dana: don't do that. >> greg: trump has got to be really, really pissed. he now has to go to barron's graduation. now he has to sit through three hours of tedium. you want to do that, watch "fox & friends." i kid, i love that. michael cohen, we have to remind everyone, michael cohen was trump's lawyer. trump's lawyer. if someone broke the law over the legal advice given to you, wouldn't that be on the lawyer who gave you the advice? you have to enter the legal payment this way, because there is no other way to do it, how in the right mind can the lawyer testify against me as the chief witness. this is lawfare on boots, and it is another example, you look at christina -- what is her name, christina bottom, a lawyer for spee

. >> one of the ways he's done it, he did manage to do it, suzanne, the great rachel maddow did an excellent piece. when donald trump had control of the justice department, they're trying to make it sound like this is a case of nothing. william barr when he came in and became attorney general tried to eliminate this case and essentially eliminate michael cohen against trump. this is from jeffrey berman's book who was the head of the southern district of new york. when michael cohen pleaded guilty our office continued to pursue investigations related to other possible campaign violations. when barr took over in february 20189 under jeff sessions he not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations but incredibly suggested that cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges be reversed. we've had interference with the system, suzanne, it wasn't by joe biden it was by donald trump's attorney general, william barr. >> right. and i think that's -- michael cohen can tell you a lot about that. you sort of wonder what the future holds if he is elected again. it's scary to think -- i think there was

when you see rachel maddow, joy, all these reporters flock to this courthouse to the trial of the centuryng how tall he is, how he's walking, if he's angry, if he makes i contact. they are treating him like a caged animal because they are terrified of him. >> yeah, look, i want joy fired for cultural appropriation because she stole donald trump's hairstyle. i mean everybody talks about what you can and can't wear. a woman analysed donald trump's hair, how is the immediate response not, you dream of him so much you've stolen his hairstyle, joy? this is racism that is beyond the pale. i don't know how he can even stand for this but you are right, maddow is making 30 million a year to show up once a week. joy, she wrote all of the homophobic stuff on the website that claimed that their work time travelers who went back and actually wrote it instead of her. the entire network at msnbc is filled with imbeciles and they won't even acknowledge what you and i talked about last week. this is a bogus case, total garbage, there's no truth to the case. >> jesse: how dare you, joy was half. she was ha

>> tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o'donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc's special coverage of trump on trial begins now. >> who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hours of oral argument at the united states supreme court about the former president claiming he is totally immune from prosecution from any crime he did as president. and at the exact same time, he is being criminally prosecuted in the a new york courtroom. the first star witness against him had his first full day of testimony. who has the time? literally, there isn't time to pay attention to all of this. let alone everything else that is happening, too. because of that, we are here to help. i'm rachel maddow here with my colleagues. katie was at the arguments for the supreme court. thanks for hustling back to talk to us about it. we know you at home are a real person with a real life and may not have been able to follow today's proceedings. heck, it's our jobs to cover these things and it

. >>> the rachel maddow show, she will tell us how we got here and what it means, what's broken aboutstarts right now. >> it's a lot to live up to. what it all means is never thing you want when you are on television. like rachel is terrible, nose nothing but history, and no one will believe her. >> th

rachel maddow said it. and free press works in a democracy. so we have to treat this like murder or like a hurricane. we are okay saying we are not good with this. we don't like hurricanes because they kill people. we don't like homicides. we don't like people who work against democracy. and that is not partisan in the traditional sense. every democrat and every republican should be pro democracy in america. >> absolutely. and so alongside the normalcy bias, there is a sort of both sides bias as well where you very much have to say well, this side says x and y and that is where we are now in the campaign. and at this point, it is said so often that it is almost a cliche that this isn't a normal campaign, leading up to what might not be a normal presidency if he were to win. but truly, you know, the press will need to not solve it into the familiar, which is a and b and go ahead and decide that they should be pointing out what they need. and here is where that campaign will put it and that they are the same and just a basic discussion of how th

rachel maddow show starts now. >> tell me the title. >> the book is called, say more. i will bring you a copy when i see you in new york. it's all about how to communicate. i wish i had this book years ago. for you, i have some books about dealing with bullies like the kremlin, for example. in today's news, here is something that is t less of a party trick, more of a dirty trick. have you ever heard the term spoofing? people can use hacking techniques so they can buy software that spoofs their phone number. so the way that might appear in your lifear is you get a call oa land line, if you still have a land line, or more likely on your cell phone. either one, if there is caller id, when you get that call, the caller id says something that i not true. if somebody has spoofed their number, the caller id will make it look like they're calling from somewhere they're not calling from. it will make it look like it's a local number when they're not calling from somewhere e local. or they'll makein it look like it's somebody who you know that is calling you when in fact it is n

rachel maddow and all of our primetime friends will be here for the coverage. i'll be back. now the beat with ari melber. hi, ari. >> we have a lot to get to. i will see you at 8. >> welcome to the beat. i'm ari melber. these are extraordinary times. we're watching history unfold at the supreme court which heard arguments about putting a president on trial. historic, unprecedented, all the words are true about this one. no other president has been indicted like this. trump's lawyers arguing he should be immune, basically totally immune because he was president during those efforts. that is a new relatively made up claim which they lost unanimously before the respected d.c. court of appeals. keep that in mind. that is the recent precedent and context for today, and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the trump lawyer openly claimed that as president trump could have a license to kill american opponents. that was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then. that kind of talk was back today with grave questions about mu

eastern, rachel maddow and team will break down the latest in this case tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> coming up the foreign aid package passed by the house now heads to the senate after months of resistance from hard right republicans. i'll speak with former nato supreme ally commander, retired general wesley clark, about what's at stake for ukraine and why he says the united states is facing a growing threat from putin and his autocratical lies. >>> plus we have a new nbc news poll. we'll break down the head-to- head matchup between donald trump and president biden. the hot button issues voters are talking about. don't go anywhere. you're watching the sunday show. (♪♪) oh no. [scratching] with chewy, get flea meds delivered before the itching begins. (♪♪) or after, but before is definitely better. good job. save 20% on your first pharmacy order and get it delivered right on time. you know what's brilliant? boring. think about it. boring is the unsung catalyst for bold. what straps bold to a rocket and hurtles it into space? boring does. great job astr

so this saturday, may 4th you can see joy reid and rachel maddow live at the apollo on msnbc 9:00 p.m. eastern this saturday night. very excited about that. it's going to stream on peacock as well. also, if you do want to see me live this weekend there are a few tickets left for an event i'm doing for my book "prequel" this saturday night in kingston, new york. all the tickets online msnbc.com/prequel. a few tickets left for saturday may 4th. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next. >>> protests on the campus of columbia university escalate overnight now with the occupation of a building there. we'll have the latest on that situation and the growing demonstrations on campuses across the country. that comes as there's some optimism that a cease-fire in gaza and the release of israeli hostages could soon be reached. we'llbri you those developments out of the middle east. >>> and also ahead a preview what we can expect in court today when donald trump's hush money trial resumes in manhattan. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this tuesday, april 30th. i'm jonathan lem

at 8 pm followed by the rachel maddow show, monday's own msnbc. u.s.tration with israel's decision to strike the iranian consult in syria on april 1. it's according to new nbc news reporting saying israeli leaders did not think through the implications of the attack. including how it might impact negotiations to release hostages being held by hamas in gaza. to help us break down the last roughly 14 hours could mean for the war in gaza we have the editor and chief of foreign policy, ravi agrawal. >> thank you for being with us today, i know you all have been extensively reporting on these developments over the last 24 to 48 hours, but foreign policy has also done a deep dive reporting on the war essentially that has broken out between israel and hamas in the aftermath of the october 7 attack. on the people of israel. where do we stand right now as it relates to gaza and the palestinian people within the gaza strip? >> well, there is so much going on there, the hostage negotiation talks which involves a prisoner release, that's pretty much being stymied

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we will have special coverage of both of those big trump trials led by my colleague, rachel maddow, starting at 8:00 p.m. do not miss it. that is our show for tonight. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> these defendants deceived the citizens of arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election. these are serious indictments. we intend to prove these crimes were committed beyond a reasonable doubt. >> that was arizona's attorney general announcing grand jury charges against 11 fake electors including seven of donald trump's key allies in their attempt to keep trump in power after the 2020 election. we'll go over what the sweeping indictment reveals, plus hours from now the former president will be in new york city for his hush money trial just as the supreme court in washington, d.c. hears his immunity case. our legal expert joins us on what to expect. >>> also ahead, after months of negotiations on capitol hill, president biden signed the foreign aid bill into law, clearing the way for

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and i think just paraen thetically, our colleague rachel maddow showed the covers, and the covers are what really matter for the "national enquirer" because people don't buy it for the content. they buy it for the cover. they see it as they go into every supermarket in america. just about all of the 2016 covers that they showed, these were about, you know, trump wins this. hillary is a terrorist. hillary is terrible. it was just crazy stuff. >> right. so, andrea, mr. pecker's testimony is important because it helps to set the scene. the government chose him as its first witness. and for a reason. you want to give the jury context. not just about mr. pecker's relationship with mr. trump but how the newspaper, maybe that's not an accurate term, the periodical they publish would engage in catch and kill and would help mr. trump by killing certain stories and help mr. trump by running others that were unfavorable to his opponents, laying out that relationship in detail is important. it helps explain not just the context to the jury but why the jury should trust mr. pecker and others who w

special coverage of trump on trial, new york versus donald trump, with the whole team, including rachel maddowe the courtroom for today's opening statements and testimony. that starts right now. >> the people of

. >>> the rachel maddow show, she will tell us how we got here and what it means, what's broken about the system and we will all be watching. that starts right now. >> it's a lot to live up to. what it all means is never thing you want when you are on television. like rachel is terrible, nose nothing but history, and no one will believe her. >> thank you, i want to under promise and over deliver. thank you. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. let's justus jump right in, oka? because here's the thing for everybody that hasn't been paying a lot of attention to this is probably thinking today. if this trial is about something that happened in the lead-up to thepe election in 2016, not the election this year, not the last presidential election, but the one before that, if this trial is about something that happened in the lead-up to the 2016 election, nearly eight years ago, why is it that it's only coming to trial now? it turns out that is kind of a funny story, funny in a bad way, because it turns out this case springs t specifically from onef the worst and most dange

we will have special coverage of both of those big trump trials led by my colleague rachel maddow at show tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. just when we thought the big