Tomorrow at 5pm ET after Day One of Trump’s criminal trial:

Katie Phang hosts special livestream MSNBC on YouTube w me and others

LINK: youtube.com/watch?v=Gb5JRH…

BREAKING: white House NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson: 'Iran has begun an airborne attack against Israel. President Biden is being regularly updated on the situation by his national security team and will meet with them this afternoon at the White House. His team is in constant…

New: Trump again plays his New York criminal trial off his Florida classified docs case — asks Judge Cannon to delay the deadline for him to tell Special Counsel what classified info he intends to use at trial until three weeks after the New York trial storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I’m reunited with Vaughn Hillyard and Hugo Lowell on MSNBC right now! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

He’s not a big fan of a number of provisions in the United States Code, particularly in Title 18

An important point from Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 that I've previously raised in a #KatiesSidebar :

Peremptory strikes CAN be challenged if there is a concern or a suspicion that the real reason a party wants to strike the juror is on the basis of their race, national origin, ethnicity, or…

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge in Trump's NY hush money trial denies request to delay after Trump argued case has garnered too much publicity.

➡️The jury selection process in Trump's NY trial on Monday should go as follows:

▪️ 18 prospective jurors will be put in the jury box at a time and each one will read aloud their answers to the 42 questions in the jury questionnaire.
▪️ Prosecutors can first ask questions of the…

More intriguing question is whether Hope Hicks — who doesn’t appear to have any motivation to lie to protect her career or access given she hasn’t been in Trump’s circle for a few years — will be reserved in her testimony or reveal everything she knows

All that said, as Hugo Lowell notes, DOJ proposed March 18 at the Sec. 5 deadline. If she adopts May 9, but doesn't grant Trump add'l discovery in the meantime, this delay will have been for no good reason -- other than giving Trump's team more time with the docs. Sigh.

Judge Cannon finally set a CIPA Sec 5 deadline for Trump — a month from now and weeks after Special Counsel’s proposed March 18 deadline — but still hasn’t set a trial date or schedule for the classified docs case

Special Counsel proposed March 18 deadline for Trump to file his Sec 5 notice, in order to get to a July 2024 trial. No way that is happening now, given deadline is 7 weeks later. But she also didn’t give Trump the June 17 deadline he wanted — so no 11th Circuit ammo either

ironically the reason why Trump wants FISA restrictions (bc of warrantless eavesdropping) is the same reason liberals afraid of a second Trump admin should want FISA restrictions (to prevent something like FBI Dir Kash Patel using warrantless eavesdropping on never Trump folks)

New: Though Judge Cannon granted the main request from the Special Counsel in the Trump docs case, she used the order to rebuke prosecutors for asking her to reconsider and ruled against prosecutors in allowing testimony transcripts to be public. The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

And there are some issues where Smith categorically lost, such as withholding substantive testimony that's not witnesses identifying (bc of jury pool or testimony coordination concerns).

Bottom line: Smith's team is HIGHLY annoyed by this ruling.