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i want to turn to danny cevallos, one of the lawyers on our panel this morning. let's talk about the case. there are four cases, criminal cases pending against the former president. this is the new york case. there has been a lot of analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the various cases. this is the weakest legally. why is that? >> it's probably the most defensible for a number of reasons. number one, the original theory of the case is that trump falsified business records and additionally because he was doing that to conceal another crime, it's elevated to a felony in new york. the other crime it is a federal campaign violation, which really is an unusual place. it's a novel theory. nst never really been tested in new york courts. falsification of business records has been tested. a crime that is prosecuted. the prosecution must prove not only that the business records were falsified but additionally that it was in concealment of a crime. the defense there could simply be it wasn't for campaign purposes. it was to reduce the embarrassment that i would hav
i want to turn to danny cevallos, one of the lawyers on our panel this morning. let's talk about the case. there are four cases, criminal cases pending against the former president. this is the new york case. there has been a lot of analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the various cases. this is the weakest legally. why is that? >> it's probably the most defensible for a number of reasons. number one, the original theory of the case is that trump falsified business records and...
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lockland cartwright, susanne craig, danny cevallos. finish your answer. >> there were other protected species at ami. and i think that the difference here is they weren't running for president. >> harvey weinstein apparently. >> he was one of them. and so ami -- >> what is a fop? >> a friend of pecker. you're on a no-fly list which means you're a protected species and there are no negative stories about you, and harvey weinstein inked a deal to produce something called radar tv, which never came to fruition, but it contained a lot of meetings between dylan howard and harvey weinstein, and requested came my way for damaging information on women that went on to recuse harvey weinstein of sexual assault. >> let's talk about these various meetings that pecker winds up in the white house. >> there were a couple really memorable meetings that david pecker talked about today. one involved a meeting right after donald trump is elected. and he gets a call from donald trump's secretary saying the president-elect would like to see you. david peck
lockland cartwright, susanne craig, danny cevallos. finish your answer. >> there were other protected species at ami. and i think that the difference here is they weren't running for president. >> harvey weinstein apparently. >> he was one of them. and so ami -- >> what is a fop? >> a friend of pecker. you're on a no-fly list which means you're a protected species and there are no negative stories about you, and harvey weinstein inked a deal to produce something...
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msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, danny, thank you so much. >>> and we'll now turn over the coverage to ana cabrera. >>> right now on "ana cabrera reports," we're following two big breaking news stories this morning. donald trump's hush money trial resuming moments ago, and the judge just issued a ruling on gag order violations. finding trump in contempt. we'll have the latest from the courthouse. >>> we're also tracking breaking news from columbia university, protesters storming and occupying a campus building overnight. the new warning from the school this morning. >>> good morning. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with our breaking news at the courthouse in lower manhattan, where the second week of witness testimony just resumed in donald trump's hush money trial. and the judge starting the day with a new decision on trump's gag order violations, ruling just moments ago that trump did in fact violate the gag order nine times. and fining him $1,000 for each of the violations. let's bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, former prosecu
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back with us, glen kirschner, kimberly atkins store and danny cevallos. i want to talk about yesterday, the prosecution cited four new alleged violations by trump of the gag order, including two recent attacks on michael cohen, a recent interview where trump referred to the jury as 95% democrats. and calling the prosecution's first witness david pecker who was still testifying, quote, a nice guy. how do you think the judge would consider these new alleged violations of the gag order and why do you think it has taken him so long to decide on the initial series? >> yeah, i think that, jose, the second answer is really to the first. i think judge merchan here is moving very deliberately and carefully. the last thing he wants is for his ruling, when it comes to whether or not donald trump is held in contempt and what that penalty is if so to be the basis of appeal that could delay the trial and certainly not cast doubt on -- amount to any sort of reversible error in the end. so he's moving carefully here. what i'm likely to -- what i think will happen is we'l
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. >> stay with me as i bring in our legal analyst, nbc news legal analyst, danny cevallos, and former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock. what a week. here we are. we now have a jury fully seated. a 12-person jury plus the six alternates. we got the alternates just within the last couple of hours. we have moved into the sandoval hearing, and yasmin outlined what's happening inside the courthouse. before we talk more in depth about that, first, danny, are you surprised we're at this point already? >> i'm nonplussed. if you had asked me six days ago, i would have said jury selection, i would have said more than two weeks. i might have even said three weeks, and in fact, after day one of jury selection, i was doubling down on that because it moved so slowly. it seems like an era ago. on monday morning, they didn't get to jury selection until the afternoon, and barely made a scratch on the surface, but oh, how things picked up after that. for lawyers out there who have picked juries and i have had cases that have taken many weeks to pick juries, it's astonishing that the jud
. >> stay with me as i bring in our legal analyst, nbc news legal analyst, danny cevallos, and former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock. what a week. here we are. we now have a jury fully seated. a 12-person jury plus the six alternates. we got the alternates just within the last couple of hours. we have moved into the sandoval hearing, and yasmin outlined what's happening inside the courthouse. before we talk more in depth about that, first, danny, are you surprised we're...
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s office and msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian, and legal analyst, danny cevallos. we're going to be talking about david pecker and the other witnesses expected on the case tomorrow. i want to start with the opening remarks today. both by the prosecution and the defense. prosecution about 45 minutes, almost to the exact second, 30 seconds into it. the defense was supposed to do 25 minutes, ended up 35 minutes. there were some interruptions. how did you see both sides today? >> they both did their job. the prosecutor is supposed to be the facts, they gave a complete narrative, chronological. the opening statement for the prosecutor is a detailed preview of the evidence. i call it the table of contents, and they did that. they laid it out. it was very straightforward. not emotional. the lead prosecutor is not an emotional person. i thought they did their job. the defense i have heard some critique. i thought the defense did their job. if they have nothing to prove, where the prosecutor has to connect the dots, the defense, there's no connecting of dots, this is huey.
s office and msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian, and legal analyst, danny cevallos. we're going to be talking about david pecker and the other witnesses expected on the case tomorrow. i want to start with the opening remarks today. both by the prosecution and the defense. prosecution about 45 minutes, almost to the exact second, 30 seconds into it. the defense was supposed to do 25 minutes, ended up 35 minutes. there were some interruptions. how did you see both sides today? >> they...
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joining us now msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos here on set. danny, thank you so much for joining with us. so walk us through just your reaction to this. it's a law that dates from 1864. is there legal, you know, justification for now saying, yeah, it's enforceable? >> well, here's the supreme court's approach and how they arrived at this. you have the 1864 law, and the argument was that later on arizona passed a law that banned abortion after about 15 weeks. and the argument there was, well, this later law, it's not exactly permissive of abortion. but since it covers the same thing that 1864 law has to be out now, right, because you passed a law later on that covers the kpamt same thing, that the arizona supreme court concluded tat that later passed law was based in part on a right guaranteed by roe. and roe no longer exists after dobbs. so if that later existing law no longer is good law, then you revert back to the one from 1864. and that's often an issue with some of these statutes. a lot of them don't expire. if it's still technically a la
joining us now msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos here on set. danny, thank you so much for joining with us. so walk us through just your reaction to this. it's a law that dates from 1864. is there legal, you know, justification for now saying, yeah, it's enforceable? >> well, here's the supreme court's approach and how they arrived at this. you have the 1864 law, and the argument was that later on arizona passed a law that banned abortion after about 15 weeks. and the argument there was,...
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joining us is criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock. the direct is over. cross-examination is happening. why was the direct so short? i'll start with you, danny. >> she's not that critical of a witness in terms of her story to tell. she's mostly establishing places, dates, times, especially necessary with a character like donald trump who never e-mails, which, by the way, as a defense attorney, i can tell you how often people are undone by their own e-mails or text messages or messaging apps or whatever the case may be. you don't have that with donald trump. you have to call someone like this witness to establish things like where he was on a certain day what communications he had. even who was in his contacts because it seems like someone else was in control of his contacts. a bit of a throwback to the way this would work in the 90s or the 80s. but this is a witness that won't be nearly as exciting as david pecker. probably why the people put her next. usually try to stagger, if you have a witne
joining us is criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock. the direct is over. cross-examination is happening. why was the direct so short? i'll start with you, danny. >> she's not that critical of a witness in terms of her story to tell. she's mostly establishing places, dates, times, especially necessary with a character like donald trump who never e-mails, which, by the way, as a defense attorney, i can...
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. >> laura jarrett, danny cevallos. that concludes this nbc special report. we have much more reporting to do on the situation at the courthouse. can you find the latest in our reporting on our streaming network, nbc news now. can you also find all the latest online at nbcnews.com. and, of course, a full wrapup toni >>> we begin our midday newscast with breaking news. san francisco emergency crews are asking you to avoid the area near the panhandle. the san francisco department of emergency management how this posting on x about 45 minutes ago. crews are on the corner of oak and fulton investigating several auto burglaries that happened this morning. if we have updates within the broadcast we will bring those to you live. >>> as you just talk in the special report from nbc news, the full jury has been seated in the former president trump hush money trial and a person in a designated protest area set themselves on fire. at this time we are working to learn more about that incident. trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts the facility was ordered to shut down
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and joining us now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. thanks for waking up early because i think one of the biggest legal issues i have to ask you about from watching and listening yesterday is the argument from trump's attorneys that the justices have to distinguish between personal and official acts of a president. what did you make of that argument? it got pretty dark at various points. >> yesterday was a day of doomsday hypotheticals, which really echoes the socratic method that is taught at law schools where you give someone a hypothetical, you speak the facts, and you take it to maybe an absurd result, but that's how you suss out what the law is. and that was on full display yesterday. essentially trump's side concedes if it's purely private conduct, then an ex-president can be prosecuted. if it is a presidential or official act, he is immune. the challenge, of course is what's the difference? how do we know what is purely presidential and what is official? and then ruly on the government's side there was a concession as well. they
and joining us now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. thanks for waking up early because i think one of the biggest legal issues i have to ask you about from watching and listening yesterday is the argument from trump's attorneys that the justices have to distinguish between personal and official acts of a president. what did you make of that argument? it got pretty dark at various points. >> yesterday was a day of doomsday hypotheticals, which really echoes the socratic method that...
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even if he was, this is not a case he's going to win. >> you're getting an amen from danny cevallos. >> i totally agree. jill brings up some great points. the defense has a difficult case here. they can't just point at cohen and say, liar, liar, pants on fire. because the state here has assembled evidence that corroborates what cohen says. cohen's lack of credibility may not be as big a problem as many including me originally thought because there are going to be documents. and maybe the people's star witness isn't michael cohen. maybe it's david pecker. a couple reasons why. they opened with him. they never would have opened with him if they weren't feeling comfortable about him as a wednesday. he has less credibility problems than michael cohen and also he corroborates the documents and cohen's testimony. in the end, david pecker may be the state's star witness, not michael cohen, who really may just be sort of a side show when this is all said and done. >> i want to ask you about that. because the other problem they're going to have going after michael cohen, he did the crimes for
even if he was, this is not a case he's going to win. >> you're getting an amen from danny cevallos. >> i totally agree. jill brings up some great points. the defense has a difficult case here. they can't just point at cohen and say, liar, liar, pants on fire. because the state here has assembled evidence that corroborates what cohen says. cohen's lack of credibility may not be as big a problem as many including me originally thought because there are going to be documents. and...
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also here on set, danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. shaq, start us off. i was watching the testimony all throughout the morning. i cannot imagine what it is like to be those parents in their shoes, reliving that day, once again. walk us through it. >> reporter: yeah, gut wrenching statements you heard from these parents and we're still waiting to get their reaction to this sentence. we didn't see any visible reaction in the courtroom, but right now it sounds like the parents are still in the courtroom talking to the prosecution and then we'll see how they're reacting to the sentence. that sentence coming down in the past hour or so, the judge sentencing the two parents, now convicted and sentenced of four counts involuntary manslaughter. the judge convicting or sentencing them to 10 to 15 years behind bars. when it is all said and done, when you count in the formulas there, you'll see them behind bars for a period of about 7 to 8 years because in the state of michigan, you usually serve about two-thirds of the sentence. and they'll be getting credit for t
also here on set, danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. shaq, start us off. i was watching the testimony all throughout the morning. i cannot imagine what it is like to be those parents in their shoes, reliving that day, once again. walk us through it. >> reporter: yeah, gut wrenching statements you heard from these parents and we're still waiting to get their reaction to this sentence. we didn't see any visible reaction in the courtroom, but right now it sounds like the parents are still...
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attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, danny cevallos and kristen gibbons, great to have all of you here. what is the latest with the gag order under way? >> reporter: good morning, ana. the prosecution is currently before judge merchan going through each of these ten social media posts, saying that donald trump is willfully and flagrantly violating the gag order that was placed on him at the beginning of the month, which precluded him from attacking witnesses and potential juro or jurors as it related to the criminal proceedings before him. we should note throughout the ten social media posts over the course of the last week and a half, there are direct mentions of the likes of michael cohen and stormy daniels, but there is questions that are going to be left to judge merchan as to whether they actually violate the gag order placed on donald trump or not. whether they actually have to do with the criminal proceedings before him. there was one other social media post from last week after the prosecution had brought forward the relief for donald trump having broken in thei
attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, danny cevallos and kristen gibbons, great to have all of you here. what is the latest with the gag order under way? >> reporter: good morning, ana. the prosecution is currently before judge merchan going through each of these ten social media posts, saying that donald trump is willfully and flagrantly violating the gag order that was placed on him at the beginning of the month, which precluded him from attacking witnesses and potential...
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and danny cevallos, how does this system compare to earlier in the week? >> we are hearing that some of the conversations were not just with michael cohen, but with donald trump as well, and so of the concerns changed from over time, to i don't want my wife to find out, to i am concerned about the campaign. and this is, again, it can be devastating to the defense, because it is going to mental allegedly falsifying biz and so the people will have to prove the falsification of the business records, but for the felony, they have to show that it is for the purpose of helping the campaign so that the people can prove a violation of what appears to be new york election law. >> and also, yamiche broke down what we heard at the supreme court today, and what about the trump's arguments and what we are hearing from the defense? >> well, the trump's where and of course, there is a gray area. and the government has a trickier argument, because they would like to say, hey, what they are saying, trump, they don't have absolute immunity for all official circumstances is
and danny cevallos, how does this system compare to earlier in the week? >> we are hearing that some of the conversations were not just with michael cohen, but with donald trump as well, and so of the concerns changed from over time, to i don't want my wife to find out, to i am concerned about the campaign. and this is, again, it can be devastating to the defense, because it is going to mental allegedly falsifying biz and so the people will have to prove the falsification of the business...
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msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. sorry about that, we thought we'd hear trump. obviously, we've heard what he has to say a thousand times. lisa, what do we expect today? one of the first witnesses is david pecker, but do you expect that opening statements get finished today or just, technically, what are we looking for in terms of getting accomplished today in court? >> mika, a lot of the judicial housekeeping you'd expect to be taken care of before the trial really starts has all been brushed off judge merchan's plate. he's decided all the pretrial motions. we have a jury that has been sat. i expect that very soon after 9:30 this morning, we will get to opening statements. while neither of the parties has outlined exactly how long they will take, as danny knows better than anyone, an opening statement is your opportunity to preview your case for the jury. and while you want to do that in a way that gives them an overview, you also don't want to exhaust them. i expect that neither side will take more than roughly 60
msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. sorry about that, we thought we'd hear trump. obviously, we've heard what he has to say a thousand times. lisa, what do we expect today? one of the first witnesses is david pecker, but do you expect that opening statements get finished today or just, technically, what are we looking for in terms of getting accomplished today in court? >> mika, a lot of the judicial housekeeping you'd expect to be taken care of before the trial really starts has all been...
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let's bring in senior washington correspondent hallie jackson and nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos. we will hear from danny pecker but the aforementioned michael cohen, the president's former fixer, a man who wrote a book called "revenge" about his former boss. he is also a convicted felon. >> much has been made of his lack of credibility and he has that problem, but prosecutors routinely use cooperating witnesses with much worse character issues than michael cohen. you will have trials and i have had these where the cooperating witness comes in in shackles and prison gear. the point is prosecutors often go to other bad guys to get testimony against the defendant bad guy that they want to convict. this is nothing new. the prosecution's already been seeding the jury, prepping them for the fact, hey, you may hear from people who have credibility issues in this case, but the state here as a lot of corroborating evidence. i think that comes a lot in the form of david pecker, who i think is quietly going to be really the government's star witness here, not so much michael cohen. >> hall
let's bring in senior washington correspondent hallie jackson and nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos. we will hear from danny pecker but the aforementioned michael cohen, the president's former fixer, a man who wrote a book called "revenge" about his former boss. he is also a convicted felon. >> much has been made of his lack of credibility and he has that problem, but prosecutors routinely use cooperating witnesses with much worse character issues than michael cohen. you...
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joining us now, msnbc league analyst danny cevallos. good to see you on the set. let's talk about wrapping up the testimony. the defense tried to break down his credibility as a sleazy tabloid. do you they were successful? >> first, you always challenge a witness's memory. they did that, but with a cooperator, you point to all the deals he has made with prosecutors. in this case, he had immunity deals not only with state prosecutors but federal prosecutors as well. you always explore that as a kind of bias. hey, you're here testifying to please these prosecutors here in the room, aren't you, something to that effect, to just show that he might be inclined to taylor his story in a way that best helps the government and not your client. on the hole, they attacked his kredsability. the most fact-specific thing they hit, he had done this with lot of celebrities for a long time and really framed this as helping trump as a longtime friend and celebrity and not necessarily the campaign. he said it was to help trump and to help the campaign, so that may be enough to meet
joining us now, msnbc league analyst danny cevallos. good to see you on the set. let's talk about wrapping up the testimony. the defense tried to break down his credibility as a sleazy tabloid. do you they were successful? >> first, you always challenge a witness's memory. they did that, but with a cooperator, you point to all the deals he has made with prosecutors. in this case, he had immunity deals not only with state prosecutors but federal prosecutors as well. you always explore that...
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nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos. prosecutors were recommending 22 years on these financial charges, he gets 40, is there a message in there that they're trying to send? >> the message is from the judge, prosecutors asking for 22 and the judge gives 40, the judge is sending a very clear message that he thinks it's more serious than the prosecutors in charge of saying how serious the crime is, it's relatively rare for the judge to go above the guidelines like that, the statistics show they're more likely to go below guidelines, the judge maybe goes in between or goes a little bit below, so the fact that the judge went above what the judge was asking for, it sends a message. >> murdaugh is serving two life sentences, what do you think the strategy is here to fight all of these cases in. >> when you're in prison, you have nothing else to do every day except to think all of the different things to get out. even if you're murdaugh several of them in both state and federal court the odds are virtually nil that you'll get ou
nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos. prosecutors were recommending 22 years on these financial charges, he gets 40, is there a message in there that they're trying to send? >> the message is from the judge, prosecutors asking for 22 and the judge gives 40, the judge is sending a very clear message that he thinks it's more serious than the prosecutors in charge of saying how serious the crime is, it's relatively rare for the judge to go above the guidelines like that, the statistics show...
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cevallos, and glenn kirschner. weisselberg already served 100 days for dodging taxes. now he's headed back to rikers. fill us in. >> so ana, when allen weisselberg arrived at court this morning, you could tell how the rest of the morning was going to go, and that's because he showed up in what can only be described as athleisure. when a defendant shows up in something other than a suit, he's expected to be immediately remanded or taken into custody, and that's indeed what happened with allen weisselberg. the whole proceeding lasted a matter of minutes, and as soon as allen weisselberg told the judge he had nothing to say, the d.a. said they weren't going to deviate from the promised five months in the plea agreement. allen weisselberg was immediately handcuffed by two members of the court officers here and taken through a back entrance where presumably he was placed in the car and taken into custody. >> so danny, weisselberg was employed, we know, for 50 years by the trump organization. he got a $2 million severanc
cevallos, and glenn kirschner. weisselberg already served 100 days for dodging taxes. now he's headed back to rikers. fill us in. >> so ana, when allen weisselberg arrived at court this morning, you could tell how the rest of the morning was going to go, and that's because he showed up in what can only be described as athleisure. when a defendant shows up in something other than a suit, he's expected to be immediately remanded or taken into custody, and that's indeed what happened with...
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joining us now, nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst and rebecca roy fee, a law professor at new york law school. so, yasmin, a lot going on in that courtroom today. >> reporter: a lot of folks are dismissed so far today, 96 walked in, 57 walked out after the two questions that were read by judge juan merchan, can you be impartial, many folks raised their hands, they walked out. do you have conflicts with this trial, can you sit it out or can you wait it out, for the next six to seven weeks? many of them walked out as well. we're at 57 having walked out. that's way more than half. i actually had the opportunity just a couple of minutes ago to speak to a potential juror who in fact raised her hand when asked can you be impartial. and she said no. and subsequently walked out. take a listen to what she had to say. >> when did you realize that this was a trial involving the ex-president of the united states, donald trump? >> we were here on tuesday from 9:00 a.m., but we realized that it is about this case around 4:0
joining us now, nbc news correspondent yasmin vossoughian, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst and rebecca roy fee, a law professor at new york law school. so, yasmin, a lot going on in that courtroom today. >> reporter: a lot of folks are dismissed so far today, 96 walked in, 57 walked out after the two questions that were read by judge juan merchan, can you be impartial, many folks raised their hands, they walked out. do you have conflicts with this trial,...
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joining us here on set at 30 rock msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's start with some of your broad take-aways. yesterday was a day for the history books, the first day where donald trump, a former president of the united states and about to be presidential nominee is a criminal defendant. how'd it go? >> broadly, everything went yesterday in many ways the way i think a lot of folks expected. it's jury selection and ordinarily jury selection is about the most droning tedious process. but when donald trump is the defendant, it must is must-see or must-watch tv courtroom drama, and of course donald trump didn't disappoint. one of the things that stood out to me is donald trump was reportedly either dozing off or bugging his attorneys. that is not a good look. one of the things attorneys like me tell our clients all the time just sit there and look not guilty. now, what that means i have no idea, but it meansthalities the jury is watching absolutely everything. and that jury includes all those people who are in that room right now who may end up on t
joining us here on set at 30 rock msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's start with some of your broad take-aways. yesterday was a day for the history books, the first day where donald trump, a former president of the united states and about to be presidential nominee is a criminal defendant. how'd it go? >> broadly, everything went yesterday in many ways the way i think a lot of folks expected. it's jury selection and ordinarily jury selection is about the most droning tedious...
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danny cevallos is a criminal district attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. with me here in studio, carol lam, former superior court judge, former u.s. attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. get us up to speed, vaughn, what's the latest from inside the courtroom? >> reporter: and chris, we expect them to be heading in to lunch break here soon, that is after two jurors have been dismissed and excused so far today. those were individuals who had already been seated, already been sworn, took an oath to go and be a part of this jury for donald trump, but what we saw was juror number two and juror number four over the last hours be excused, and that is where the jury selection process has continued moving forward. at any one time, there are 18 individuals answering questions in the jury box. i can tell you right now, we are at juror potential number 18 that is going through that 42-question questionnaire. we were almost there, but then that individual seated in seat 18, chris, i should note compared donald trump to former italian prime minister ber la skoe knee. at
danny cevallos is a criminal district attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. with me here in studio, carol lam, former superior court judge, former u.s. attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. get us up to speed, vaughn, what's the latest from inside the courtroom? >> reporter: and chris, we expect them to be heading in to lunch break here soon, that is after two jurors have been dismissed and excused so far today. those were individuals who had already been seated, already been sworn, took an...
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joining me, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and legal analyst and jennifer rubin, opinion writer for the washington post and political analyst. she is also author of the book resistance, how women saved democracy from donald trump. a lot of technical matters are going on this week. how do you see them unfold in? >> we have emotions -- motions hearing on the gag order violations. i thought that was a good move to say hundreds of people and we have to get the jury selection. let's push it off and by then there might be more gag order violations and we can probably consolidate it. tomorrow is the day. jury will get instructions in the morning, this general half hour of instruction and then we get to opening statements. they will not be as long as people may think. this will not be an all-day affair. look for people, the prosecution to only take a be an hour and maybe the defense even less because opening statements are really just a preview. you are talking about the facts you to hear. you don't argue your case. you don't get to do anything other than really offer a factual descript
joining me, danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney and legal analyst and jennifer rubin, opinion writer for the washington post and political analyst. she is also author of the book resistance, how women saved democracy from donald trump. a lot of technical matters are going on this week. how do you see them unfold in? >> we have emotions -- motions hearing on the gag order violations. i thought that was a good move to say hundreds of people and we have to get the jury selection. let's...
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msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, as well. thank you, both, for coming on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," billions of dollars in u.s. aid now is finally on its way to war-torn ukraine. we'll talk to "the washington post"'s david ignatius about how he says ukraine can make the best of it. >>> plus, the disastrous impact on the war on russia. >>> plus, the mother of an israeli hostage, hersh goldberg-polin, will react to a propaganda video involving her son. >> i heard you gasp yesterday as you were reading through the news, and i ran in to see what was wrong. you saw the video. >> it was a video of hersh. we'll be talking to his mother. >> unbelievable. >> you're watching "morning joe." we're back in 60 seconds. ck in s at bombas, we're obsessed with comfort. softness. quality. because your basic things should be your best things. one purchased equals one donated. visit bombas.com and get 20% off your first order. >>> mika, willie and i had a rough day yesterday. little known fact, when we escaped from just our
msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, as well. thank you, both, for coming on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," billions of dollars in u.s. aid now is finally on its way to war-torn ukraine. we'll talk to "the washington post"'s david ignatius about how he says ukraine can make the best of it. >>> plus, the disastrous impact on the war on russia. >>> plus, the mother of an israeli hostage, hersh goldberg-polin, will react to a...
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criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos joins me now. so, people clearly and understandably think the flashiest witnesses might be stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, michael cohen. but are they the most important people necessarily to this narrative? >> sometimes the most important witness can be the most boring witness. and especially in a white collar type case like this, you look at gary farro, he's not one of the big names in the case, and even some of the testimony got a little dense, but he's critical to establishing one of the transactions. you could almost say that after gary farro's testimony that the transaction involving michael cohen and davidson, the transfer, the setup of the account, the funding, all of that, you could almost argue that the people have already met their burden already with gary farro. one of the things the defense pointed out, gary farro didn't know much about donald trump, the people will address that on their own. here is another example of a witness whose name you may have heard of but she may not be on
criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos joins me now. so, people clearly and understandably think the flashiest witnesses might be stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, michael cohen. but are they the most important people necessarily to this narrative? >> sometimes the most important witness can be the most boring witness. and especially in a white collar type case like this, you look at gary farro, he's not one of the big names in the case, and even some of the...
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. >> here to offer some perspective on that, criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos and nbc news legal analyst. danny, good morning. before we get to the testimony, we had a hearing in court about the gag order and alleged violations of the gag order. how do you think judge marchan will handle this? >> i thought justice marchan might have handled this yesterday, but he was catching up on administrative business. i think he's got a really difficult decision. you could say that every single gag order, they're relatively rare, but every gag order is a close constitutional call, because it brings competing constitutional interests directly in conflict. you have a first amendment right to speak, you have the public's interest in a fair trial, and the judge has to control the courtroom and protect witnesses and i think even especially jurors. so this is a difficult choice. i think, as he has done in the past, he likes to split the difference. he might impose fines, probably in the thousand-dollar range, which is significant. the people have asked for that dollar amount, i believe, because th
. >> here to offer some perspective on that, criminal defense attorney, danny cevallos and nbc news legal analyst. danny, good morning. before we get to the testimony, we had a hearing in court about the gag order and alleged violations of the gag order. how do you think judge marchan will handle this? >> i thought justice marchan might have handled this yesterday, but he was catching up on administrative business. i think he's got a really difficult decision. you could say that...
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. >>> we want to turn to nbc's legal analyst, danny cevallos. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a high bar for the defense team toover come to get a new trial. what do you think the significance is of today? >> today is really just about sealing the record. what the defense wants to do is go and reach out to all these witnesses. but just like the prosecutors do in grand jury proceedings, they want to protect these witnesses because i have no doubt some of these potential witnesses are t. you got to protect me. so the problem is that court records are like, i don't want my name out there in the news. i don't want anything to do with this. you got to protect me. so the problem is that court records are presumed to be public and open. so this is not going to be a walk in the park. they have to make a showing that there is substantial interest and a good reason to seal these records and keep the identities of these witnesses private. and if they don't achieve that today, you might see some of the people that they want to bring into court bac
. >>> we want to turn to nbc's legal analyst, danny cevallos. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a high bar for the defense team toover come to get a new trial. what do you think the significance is of today? >> today is really just about sealing the record. what the defense wants to do is go and reach out to all these witnesses. but just like the prosecutors do in grand jury proceedings, they want to protect these witnesses because i have no doubt some of...
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we're joined now by danny cevallos, good morning. so what did you make of these arguments yesterday? >> so, like many people, a couple of days ago, it sounded to me like the defense was out there, just willy nilly calling people on the sly, without telling the court, without telling the prosecutor, and i pictured an intern in the back office saying, um, you know he's innocent and stuff, right? and that's the kind of question that i think everybody would have a problem with. but the i think everybody would have a problem with. but the state, the prosecution came in and said in court, look, we're okay with a survey. we just don't like the questions that were asked. i think they kind of painted themselves into a corner and here is why. because immediately after that, an expert came on the stand and explained how every word in every question is backed by science and research and studies to be something that elicits whether or not there's bias. and by the way, the issue came up of whether or not -- hey, they included questions in there th
we're joined now by danny cevallos, good morning. so what did you make of these arguments yesterday? >> so, like many people, a couple of days ago, it sounded to me like the defense was out there, just willy nilly calling people on the sly, without telling the court, without telling the prosecutor, and i pictured an intern in the back office saying, um, you know he's innocent and stuff, right? and that's the kind of question that i think everybody would have a problem with. but the i...
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msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, danny, thank you so much. >>> and we'll now turn over the coverage to ana cabrera. >>> right now on "ana cabrera reports," we're following two
msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, danny, thank you so much. >>> and we'll now turn over the coverage to ana cabrera. >>> right now on "ana cabrera reports," we're following two