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. >> 20 now is barbara mcquaid, and an s nbc legal analyst. she is author of a very important book, attack from within. how does information is sabotaging america. by this book and give it to anyone you know who doesn't believe the news. i want to talk to you first about david pecker. this was very important testimony. it was important to make david pecker the first witness here because it speaks directly to what the aim was in having the national enquirer take these stories and kill them. david pecker said in court that this was actually in furtherance of keeping this from the electorate so that it wouldn't hurt donald trump in the upcoming election. >> david pecker was a very important witness, and i think he came through this very strong for the prussic duchenne and really unscathed on cross- examination. when you hear a prosecution witness that appears to be doing well, i am always careful to say, wait until we hear about what happens on cross- examination, because the whole thing could fall apart. i think he came across as a friend and al
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joining us now, barbara mcquaid. cohost of the hash tag sisters in law podcast and author of the book attack from win. thank you for being here. how would the special council actually get cannon removed from trump's case? >> i think we are a few phases away from that actually happening but they are in this little showdown about whether donald trump could raise this defense of the presidential records act which is absolute legal nonsense. it is not a defense here whatsoever and i think what jack smith wants the judge to do is make a decision on this issue so that if he wants to appeal he could do that. the government cannot appeal. so the judge did deny donald trump's motion to dismiss the case on that basis, but what she said that is still concerning is that donald trump may be able to raise this again as a defense at trial. and i think jack smith will have a problem with that, too. so i don't think this little battle is over just yet. >> do you expect him to follow through on his threat? >> i think the next thing, i
joining us now, barbara mcquaid. cohost of the hash tag sisters in law podcast and author of the book attack from win. thank you for being here. how would the special council actually get cannon removed from trump's case? >> i think we are a few phases away from that actually happening but they are in this little showdown about whether donald trump could raise this defense of the presidential records act which is absolute legal nonsense. it is not a defense here whatsoever and i think...
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attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid is here point former chief of staff of the department of homeland security, miles taylor is here but we start with my friend and colleague, msnbc legal correspondent, lisa rubin, she has just come out of the courtroom forest. >> the courtroom that we are in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i've ever been in a courthouse. it is woodpaneled, but it has no hearts whatsoever. there are more courts than there are anything else, stapled to the wall point the one thing that is says in this courtroom very clearly is in god we trust and get that very pedestrian dreary courtroom is where something really extraordinary happened this afternoon because judge rochon had to go through the failings of three motion letters that the defense has buried him under and most of them are about things that have already been litigated and if not litigated once they have been litigated twice so setting his rulings on things like whether or not evidence can be precluded on grounds of presidential immunity, for example. he said, and i am readi
attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid is here point former chief of staff of the department of homeland security, miles taylor is here but we start with my friend and colleague, msnbc legal correspondent, lisa rubin, she has just come out of the courtroom forest. >> the courtroom that we are in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i've ever been in a courthouse. it is woodpaneled, but it has no hearts whatsoever. there are more courts than there are anything...
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also with me, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney, university of michigan law professor and msnbc legal analyst. so, vaughn, what is the latest there? >> reporter: right now they're going through the process, they finished the voir dire process which allowed the d.a.'s office to ask for about 30 questions -- 30 minutes, questions, specific questions of the 18 individuals who could potentially be jurors. that was followed by donald trump's attorney following up with his own set of questions. todd blanche was keen on asking the individuals their beliefs about donald trump. and multiple individuals, you know, for example, one juror saying that he felt he didn't need to share exactly what his opinion of donald trump was because he felt like he could compartmentalize his opinions about the former president and be able to be a fair arbiter in determining whether donald trump is guilty or innocent. there was another juror, though, who commented he didn't have much of an opinion about donald trump truthfully, but the courtroom, the
also with me, barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney, university of michigan law professor and msnbc legal analyst. so, vaughn, what is the latest there? >> reporter: right now they're going through the process, they finished the voir dire process which allowed the d.a.'s office to ask for about 30 questions -- 30 minutes, questions, specific questions of the 18 individuals who could potentially be jurors. that was followed by donald trump's attorney following up with his own set of...
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leading off our discussion tonight is barbara mcquaid. she is a cohost of the podcast hash tag sisters and laws. as we approach jury selection day, we can begin to imagine what it will be like for those people sitting there. the judge has said if people declare themselves at the outset to be unfair about it. they decided they would not be able to be fair about it, he say theres is no point if actually trying to pursue them beyond that. where in some, they will do that. they won't let you get out that easy just by declaring yourself to be biased. >> yes, i think in a case like this, if somebody proclaims themselves to be biased, we probably ought to believe them when they tell us who they are. so i think the judge will be very quick to dismiss people who admit to some bias. this is a little different from other cases. i think in many cases they are trying to get out of jury service. there are some people trying to get onto jury service. and the people too eager might be the ones you want to dismiss the most. what i wouldn't want as a prose
leading off our discussion tonight is barbara mcquaid. she is a cohost of the podcast hash tag sisters and laws. as we approach jury selection day, we can begin to imagine what it will be like for those people sitting there. the judge has said if people declare themselves at the outset to be unfair about it. they decided they would not be able to be fair about it, he say theres is no point if actually trying to pursue them beyond that. where in some, they will do that. they won't let you get...
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. >> joining us now is yamiche alcindor is outside the supreme court and also with us is barbara mcquaid. can you talk about the arguments the justices heard today. >> reporter: this is a significant abortion case that came before the supreme court and the issue is a federal law supersedes idaho's state law. the law essentially is saying doctors in the emergency room have to treat and stabilize someone if they come into the emergency room with a souter of emergency situation, it was really interesting to hear these oral arguments because the justices including conservative justices and liberal justices. amy coney barrett and sonia sotomayor will weighing in on health risks versus death. can a doctor in idaho treat a woman in idaho is a health risk. idaho is saying no. idaho's law says she has to be on death door in order to be treated. idaho argued that their law is sufficient, doctors can make their objectsive decisions on whether or not they want to treat a woman she doesn't have to be on death door. amy coney barrett was interesting to watch today, she asked whether or not pros durts
. >> joining us now is yamiche alcindor is outside the supreme court and also with us is barbara mcquaid. can you talk about the arguments the justices heard today. >> reporter: this is a significant abortion case that came before the supreme court and the issue is a federal law supersedes idaho's state law. the law essentially is saying doctors in the emergency room have to treat and stabilize someone if they come into the emergency room with a souter of emergency situation, it was...
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mcquaid. walk us through what happened in court. >> and murdaugh pleaded guilty to the 22 federal financial crimes charges back in september that included money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud. the prosecutors allege murdaugh stole $12 million from his family's law firm, his personal injury law firm clients. they say $6 million of those dollars still unaccounted for. murdaugh had already been sentenced for similar financial crimes in a state court to 27 years. so one of the things that was up in the air today is whether or not the two sentences would happen concurrently. and the judge said that they will. so this would add an additional 13 years on top of the 27 year sentence he already got. we actually got a chance to hear from both sides, the prosecution and his defense lawyers, after the sentencing was handed down today. >> the sentence today was about obtaining justice for the financial victims of alex murdaugh. these victims are not just names listed in a court filing, they are real
mcquaid. walk us through what happened in court. >> and murdaugh pleaded guilty to the 22 federal financial crimes charges back in september that included money laundering, wire fraud and bank fraud. the prosecutors allege murdaugh stole $12 million from his family's law firm, his personal injury law firm clients. they say $6 million of those dollars still unaccounted for. murdaugh had already been sentenced for similar financial crimes in a state court to 27 years. so one of the things...
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nbc news washington correspondent joins us, and a new political contributor barbara mcquaid is here. a veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. her new must read book, attack from within. howdies information is sabotaging america. it is out now. barb, you know we got legal questions tonight. beyond donald trump complaining unjustly about how the legal process works, fox news is now making up fabricating things about potential jurors and donald trump is taking these fabrications and now pushing them out and spreading them. how are we not right back in gag order territory? because that is going to pollute the american people and potential jurors out there. all these things they are saying, they're not true. >> absolutely one of the posts that donald trump made today was suggesting that he said liberals are lying to try to sneak their way onto the jury just so they can convict him. the gag order i think covers this. i think that if i were working with alvin bragg, tomorrow morning when i get back to court, i would be arguing this is condu
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me is charles coleman, former prosecutor, no civil rights and criminal defense attorney and barbara mcquaid, who served as u.s. attorney in the eastern district of michigan, author of the book "attack from within," barbara, i want to start with you on the motion that, the adjournment motion that was filed by trumps lawyers basically saying there is too much pretrial publicity to have a fair trial. and, here's the order from judge merchan. defendant seeks a further adjournment of trial in light of pre-judicial pretrial publicity, which is substantial, ongoing, and likely to increase. the remedy defendant six is indefinite adjournment. this is not tenable. the proper ready to assuage defendants concerns by conducting a thorough, thoughtful, and effective more deer." what do you make of that ? >> i think that is right. there's not going to be less publicity if this case is tried later. is not going to be less publicity if the case is tried somewhere else. so, it, the issue, of course, is there are jurors who have heard too much about this in the past and they can't be fair. as the judge said,
me is charles coleman, former prosecutor, no civil rights and criminal defense attorney and barbara mcquaid, who served as u.s. attorney in the eastern district of michigan, author of the book "attack from within," barbara, i want to start with you on the motion that, the adjournment motion that was filed by trumps lawyers basically saying there is too much pretrial publicity to have a fair trial. and, here's the order from judge merchan. defendant seeks a further adjournment of trial...
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. >> yasmin vossoughian, barbara mcquaid, david henderson, thank you. >>> back to capitol hill, breaking news there. ali vitali. what do we know? >> reporter: this rule has now passed in the fashion that we expected it to. but certainly in a considerably rare way, which seems to be the word of the day here because of the way that the house is conducting its business. the final vote total is 316-94. 165 democrats and 151 republicans supported the rule. what makes this rare is not the bipartisan nature of it. though it is not typical to see democrats join with republicans to pass rules in bipartisan fashion. what makes this notable is the fact that there are more democrats from the minority party than members of the republican majority voting to put this eventual vote on the floor on saturday. now, we might hear from speaker johnson in the next few minutes, certainly that's something that we're keeping an eye out for because the other thing that is now going to be very much alive is the threat of a motion to vacate because although this was being threatened before the vote, now that we see
. >> yasmin vossoughian, barbara mcquaid, david henderson, thank you. >>> back to capitol hill, breaking news there. ali vitali. what do we know? >> reporter: this rule has now passed in the fashion that we expected it to. but certainly in a considerably rare way, which seems to be the word of the day here because of the way that the house is conducting its business. the final vote total is 316-94. 165 democrats and 151 republicans supported the rule. what makes this rare...
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let me bring in barbara mcquaid. your reaction to what we just heard in that conversation? >> i think she demonstrated why it can be difficult to find an impartial jury in this case because even she, who said she's very busy and only kind of casually listens to the news and hears headlines thought she could not be impartial in this case. and so, one hopes that the people who are self-identifying and saying they have a bias are being truthful when they do that. but i think it is also important to remember that some of the people who are -- self-identifying as people who are unable to serve are also doing it because they just can't serve because of conflicts, their work, family responsibilities and other kinds of things may preclude them from serving. but i thought it was very interesting to hear, you know, she's a little star struck, the way she described him, but she clearly had certain views about him, and i think, you know, demonstrated the process works when she said she admitted she couldn't be fair because of the biases that she has developed herself. >> and what stood
let me bring in barbara mcquaid. your reaction to what we just heard in that conversation? >> i think she demonstrated why it can be difficult to find an impartial jury in this case because even she, who said she's very busy and only kind of casually listens to the news and hears headlines thought she could not be impartial in this case. and so, one hopes that the people who are self-identifying and saying they have a bias are being truthful when they do that. but i think it is also...
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attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquaid. lisa, clearly the judge yesterday very frustrated had enough of the argument from the defense team that donald trump doesn't mean to be posting these things but somehow he's not posting the whole article so it's not bad. where do you think this is finding in. >> a finding on contempt. with what remedy. at this point the d.a.'s office was very clear, they're not seeking any term in jail for trump, one of two alternatives under the criminal contempt statute here in new york. expect to see a written opinion by judge merchand. one of things that the d.a.'s office pointed out that was really savvy was to show in addition to these offensive posts trump has talked about the gag order including a video he posted to truth social fairly recently. saying trump knows exactly what he can and cannot do under the gag order. he's posted about the judge, about the process as a whole as he understands full well, don't flout the gag order. again, expect to see a written opinion from the judge in the nex
attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquaid. lisa, clearly the judge yesterday very frustrated had enough of the argument from the defense team that donald trump doesn't mean to be posting these things but somehow he's not posting the whole article so it's not bad. where do you think this is finding in. >> a finding on contempt. with what remedy. at this point the d.a.'s office was very clear, they're not seeking any term in jail for trump, one of two alternatives under the criminal...
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attorney and msnbc contributor, barbara mcquaid. good morning to you all. let's dive right in with yesterday's historic day at the supreme court where the justices heard oral arguments regarding donald trump's claim he is immune from prosecution for his official acts as president. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett has the case. >> reporter: the supreme court weighing a monumental question that will decide whether the former president goes to trial for plotting to overturn the last election and when. >> i think that the supreme court is very important today. >> reporter: many trump hoping to persuade the justices to find him immune from federal charges. saying this would be hobbled. >> without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know it. >> reporter: mr. trump was indicted on conspiracy and obstruction efforts last year after trying to cling to power. the likely gop nominee, pressuring state officials to reverse the election results. actions doj argues it was for purely personal gain and cannot be
attorney and msnbc contributor, barbara mcquaid. good morning to you all. let's dive right in with yesterday's historic day at the supreme court where the justices heard oral arguments regarding donald trump's claim he is immune from prosecution for his official acts as president. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett has the case. >> reporter: the supreme court weighing a monumental question that will decide whether the former president goes to trial for plotting to overturn...
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. >> and barbara mcquaid, we heard the hypothetical again yesterday of, what if a president decided that the navy seal team six should assassinate one of its political opponents? with that fall under the presidential immunity that you are talking about? mr. sauer there, representing donald trump. so, we had that discussion again, which is running that we are even suggesting that. what was your read of the way things played out yesterday, and what we may hear next? >> well, as mr. sauer said to that question, that hypothetical, it would depend on the situation. wow, e gads, that is terrifying. my read is that there are several justices, the women justices, who are ready to go, that they think that the idea that, perhaps there is some presidential immunity for some official act, but that the acts alleged in this indictment are not those acts and let's go already. in fact, justices barrett and kagan were really pinning down john sauer on trying to say, this is a private act right? you would agree this is a private act? using allegations in the indictment. i think they couldn't pin him down
. >> and barbara mcquaid, we heard the hypothetical again yesterday of, what if a president decided that the navy seal team six should assassinate one of its political opponents? with that fall under the presidential immunity that you are talking about? mr. sauer there, representing donald trump. so, we had that discussion again, which is running that we are even suggesting that. what was your read of the way things played out yesterday, and what we may hear next? >> well, as mr....
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also joining us is legal analyst barbara mcquaid. at the table, former chief of staff myles taylor. but we start with my friend and colleague legal correspondent lisa rubin she's just come out of the courtroom for us. widen the lens. take me through where we are at this hour. we reported on the tragic events outside. we reported on a little bit of the back and forth between trump's legal team and the prosecutors about the evidence should trump take the stand, but i really want to understand what happened in the final minutes where the judge seemed to lose his patience with trump's lawyers wanting to relitigate every individual motion. take us inside that. >> reporter: that's right. the courtroom that we're in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i have ever been in a courthouse. it is wood panelled, but it has no art whatsoever. there are more cords than there are anything else. they are stapled to the wall. and the one thing it says in this courtroom clearly is in god we trust. yet, that very pedestrian dreary courtroom is where something extraordinary happened t
also joining us is legal analyst barbara mcquaid. at the table, former chief of staff myles taylor. but we start with my friend and colleague legal correspondent lisa rubin she's just come out of the courtroom for us. widen the lens. take me through where we are at this hour. we reported on the tragic events outside. we reported on a little bit of the back and forth between trump's legal team and the prosecutors about the evidence should trump take the stand, but i really want to understand...
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attorney and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. they're obviously trying to get ahead of potential credibility questions around michael cohen, and colangelo saying cohen's testimony will be backed up by other witnesses you will hear from including david pecker and keith davidson. it will be backed up by emails, text messages, phone logs, business documents, and it will be backed up by donald trump's own words on tape and social media posts, in his own books and in videos of his own speeches. he goes on to say there will be no doubt donald trump is guilty of falsifying business records, as you consider all of the evidence the people will present. we asked you to use your common sense. just your thoughts about the opening statements and what we've learned from the prosecution so far, what jurors are taking in. >> one thing that i thought matthew colangelo, the lawyer delivering the opening statement for the prosecution did that i thought was very effective. the first words out of his mouth, this case is about -- that is so important
attorney and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. they're obviously trying to get ahead of potential credibility questions around michael cohen, and colangelo saying cohen's testimony will be backed up by other witnesses you will hear from including david pecker and keith davidson. it will be backed up by emails, text messages, phone logs, business documents, and it will be backed up by donald trump's own words on tape and social media posts, in his own books and in videos of his own speeches....