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And theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Preferred, better science, better results. I, Hanako Montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn just about 9 00 p. M. Here in new york. Fascinating day 14 of the trump hush money criminal trial. Now in the book Stormy Daniels ramped up two days on the stand. Manager thank to turn a portion of defense crossexamination aimed at undermining her credibility into some embarrassing moments for the former president at one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. Also Saw Testimony from a Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attack finishing he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks he wrote to Michael Cohen. The day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. He is under so we can talk about Stormy Daniels and capping it all off. Stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president , quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in, taking the stand in court oh, wait. Never mind. Back with the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways . I might takeaway. Was that the continued crossexamination of Stormy Daniels was a complete disaster and a fiasco for the defense. I mean, as a rabbit hole, they didnt need to go to it, just was just it just went on and on and didnt cheat. They didnt have anything. Honore. And you got to confine crosses to basically a few short lines of stuff thats good. They didnt do that. I think what happened was they had a day off and necklaces of very good lawyer by reputation. I can even tell just by the way, she conducted as she knows, how to crossexamine a witness and knows how to ask questions but she was shes per client is a Narcissistic Sociopath and who is obsessed with proving the lie, that he didnt have anything to do with Stormy Daniels. And so they went off on this whole tangent on, but basically it doesnt it done in a lot. The defenses position should be it doesnt really matter whether that happened or not, because even though it wears Extortion Money it was Extortion Money, it still could be a crime, but were trying to prove something that happened, didnt happen is just its just counterproductive and it was it just got to The Point Of Ridiculousness where shes asking a stormy about basically a map of south lake tahoe, nevada to figure out whether or not she was walking in or healed one block or two, where she took a cab. It was shuster garbage and it was embarrassing. And to the point where, you know, if you, control the whitney by keeping your across simple and short, you can control the witness, but longer you go, the more the witness can pop off at you. And this woman is way smarter than knockout necklaces, chunk client. And she got some really could i thought i saw jurors at some point trying to do what i was trying to do, which was suppressed laughter at some at some of the shots that stormy got into got into the record. It was just it was just a complete waste of time. The good news for the defense is thats not what this case is going to be about in the at the end of the day the prostate. Let me defense made the mistake. Also a putting this all into connecting what ive just stipulated that were not going to contest what happened yet in south lake tahoe, and were just going to focus the jury in on the faculty, whether or not there is proof that donald trump knew about the records that we claim were event that the Prosecution Claims were falsified. Now, lets leave apart the fact that he signed some of this stuff with a backup. Now next to it and you know, what it carefully read it. It was 35,000 to his lawyers, hadnt really done that much. Four lets leave that aside thats what this issue that if he gets off, thats how hes going to get off. By by leaving this issue open about what happened in that hotel room. They invited the prosecution to dump all this stuff in the record, then they fail to object to a lot at some of the stuff that should have they should have objected to the bit about whether or not he wore a condom let me the judge said that he did think that should have gone in, but there was no objection to think about the amount of money and what how closely he pays attention to that. It didnt get anywhere near as much attention. Is the Stormy Daniels crossexamination, but Madeleine Westerhout, who got on the stand there was the last witness today, and shell be back on the stand tomorrow morning. She was trumps gatekeeper inside the white house and it basically was the liaison who was his Executive Assistant at Trump Organization, trump tower. They trained her of how to basically do that out of the white house. And there was one moment that the prosecution clearly brought up where there was an email between her and rhona graff trumps assistant here in trump tower about buying a frame a frame from tiffanys next door because they didnt have any empty ones for a picture of trumps mother. They wanted to put and rhona graff responded in the email and said, okay, but the frames are about 650 with a 10 discount, can you check with them if thats how much he wants to spend . This is while donald trump is the president of the United States of america, and he was rhona, who knows him better than anyone. Essentially was still checking to see if that was too much money for him to spend on a frame and for her to expense it. And i think that is where were going to see this go tomorrow, that they are trying to get to the fact that he was a penny pinch or any paid attention to where every cent went and we paid this guy 35 thousand a month and he has a reputation around this town of Stuffing Law Firms like you could, you could, you can make a long list on ellies notepad here. The recording that Michael Cohen secretly taped of his client trump, does seem interested in the details of payments. I mean, hes talking about in cash, yet can we do we do it in catch shirts . Let me ask you this question. Is it seems to me that there is a lot of evidence that trump in general was very scrupulous about how he was spending his money. And in general, for all looked at documents very carefully before he signed them. But theres not any evidence specifically that he looked at these documents. Do you think thats enough for it let me there is evidence he signed those checks with the backup but thats not evidence that thats not are they separate georgie evidence that is. Its clear okay. And im looking at as objectively as i can as a form prosecutor and as the current criminal but instead, donald trump sign the checks. Ive said that thats not the crime theres kaitlan. You point about one the county told on the checks youre up, your point about the frame . Its clear that he watches his money, but thats not the crime. It is that secondly, leap of how does it then get written down back in new york city . Where is it listed . How is it listed . Is it listed as reimbursements to Michael Cohen or is it legal fetal Michael Cohen, there has been no proof whatsoever that donald trump had anything to do with how its listed . On the ledger in trump tower . Can ive tried to reframe this for a second now, ill pose a question to your george if the prosecution stands up tomorrow and says, your honor, at this point, we rest can they possibly when they would have to dismiss the case, its not necessarily. Am i think theres enough circumstantial evidence that they could infer it, but they need to put some more on right . So you know, so it would be i agree with that. I think if the prosecution rested tomorrow, it doesnt go to the jury. So they need something from Michael Cohen, right . Yeah. Theyre going to need what do you think they need from Michael Cohen basically is going to explain the missing link that he needs to the meeting in the oval office in 2018 where they basically discuss how to do this. And i think and i think theyre gonna do across on michael, that is great. Attempt to be brutal the way they attempted to brutalize Stormy Daniels today. And a lot of people have low expectations for that. But the fact that matter is given everything that they appointed two so far from the commencement of the hush of the catchandkill scheme to the Everything Everything like just fell off like just hold it up what michael has been is going to say has basically been pre corroborated. So its going to be that but it is going to be the key moment. I think thats exactly right. And that bridges the gap that i think were seeing here, which is there has to be that last link. And Michael Cohens going to say its that meeting in the oval office in 2017, were going to hear about actually set the foundation for that today because the woman who testified had an email, so showing that this meeting was happening doesnt tell us whats what was said, but the jury knows that meeting happened to Michael Cohens testimony about that im sorry. Go ahead and ask. This is going to be a dumb question, but the fact that these payments were split up over the course of a year to me, seems like one of the most fishy elements of this whole scheme. If he were just going to reimburse Michael Cohen, he could have just written a check that money was there. But the fact that they split it up, it seems to strongly suggest they were trying to make it seem like something that it was not. Ive retainer that was being paid over the course of a long period of time. Right. And the gross up like, well, yeah, i mean i mean, you know, god, regardless of the amount the means to me, i think the prosecution hasnt explained this or touched on this, but that seems strongly suggestive of a scheme to make it seem like something that it was not. And thats exactly the point its not enough for the prosecution to show common shop sign these checks. He knew they were intended to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush money payments. They have to show that this was part of an effort to falsify to falsely structure these labels and the pull down menu as lawyer fees, Attorney Fees in order to cover up the fact that they really like how does but how does Michael Cohen help . On that question . Well, look at the end of the day. Whats a Reasonable Doubt are real doubt has to be that there has to be some plausible Alternative Explanation for all these things that happened and at the end of the day, its going to be i think its gonna be hard for the jury to believe that donald trump didnt know that these payments were four george at the end of the day . Yeah. And experienced lawyer of you magnitude, you know what you would save if you are trying this case, you know what you would say. The jury Ladies And Gentlemen of the jury, one of the luckiest juries around because you got to meet mr. Reasonable doubt, you saw him walking. Hear you. So ill take the stand. If theres any human being on the planet earth yeah, it should be his pictures should be net to the definition Reasonable Doubt. Its Michael Cohen. And if you do the crossexamined mike, why hi, or being a fraud, i cant shut make the defendants credibility if no, as he takes the stand is not on trial because its not because hes been saying all sorts of stuff to show any line in lying well, cone for submitting fake cases to a judge when he answers Probation Lie to a federal guy, that he lied about that it has something to do with what hes saying on the credibility are going to troy his credibility not going to tell everybody is in there is a guy spent christmas and oldest ago, everyone, should know that interrupt this really intellectual debate that were having. But can i ask you a question about the Michael Cohen thing because we have heard every thing about his credibility. We will when he takes the stand, which we expect next week, Madeleine Westerhout is there to testify today and tomorrow about a meeting where theres an email. Shes asking for Michael Cohen descend Social Security numbers, date of birth, everything you need to get into the white house. Theres the date of when that meeting is. We actually have this sound by of Michael Cohen when hes testifying before the House Oversight committee in 2018 about that meeting at the white house. And essentially, what happened so picture this scene in february of 20 month into his presidency im visiting President Trump in the oval office for the first time. And its truly awe, inspiring. He showing me all around and pointing to different paintings. And he says to me something to the effect of dont worry michael, youre january and february reimbursement checks are coming. They were fedexed from new york and it takes a while for that to get through the white house system. As he promised, i received the first check for the reimbursement of 70,000 not long thereafter okay. So we know that the meeting setup, we have someone who is testifying about the fedex and how that worked, and youve Michael Cohen testifying that. So its not like its just his word alone. There is other kaitlan does that he got checks for michael whos allowed to be reimburse. You also prove that donald trump donald trump confirm that he was fully aware it was being really correctly the crime. Yeah. But thats being reimbursed again, the other side of tables doing the perfect Defense Lawyer thing, which is basically a chop up all bit by bit, who are making. I think thats entirely fair because yes, i think it is quite its going to be very clear to the jury that these this money was a reimbursement. It wasnt illegal fee but the corporate records being falsified, how do you tie trump to the corporate records being falsified . That i think is still problematic because he knew what thats what thats what was going on. That it was being done on his behalf, that hes signing these things that say that theyre legal reimburses. He knew and hes getting and its grossed up, but he couldnt he think he didnt figure out that. Wait a minute this was 130,000 and im writing checks for 35,000 a month i mean, hes a dumb guy, but hes not that as Michael Cohen publicly said, that trump knew that these, that it was being filed as legal expense. Not that im aware of. Michael cohen has publicly sayyed 1 million times that trump is as guilty as can be. And i think this is important when were talking about this meeting, right . But but he hasnt gotten to the debt level of legal specimen, but hes at a podcast is written ill call event you would think if that was right, something he was going to testify to, he would have mentioned and this is exactly the point were going to get into a meeting here. We know the meeting happened. Theres documentation of that, but what happened in what was said is going to entirely come down to Michael Cohens word. And its really not a question for the jury of whos a bigger liar, Michael Cohen or donald trump. Prosecutors have the burden and if the jury hears Michael Cohens account of what happened, including what he just said there and decides we dont trust this guy beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Theres no number on it, but a very high standard, then they have the right to say not guilty. I think its not a trump versus cohen. Its do we trust cohen . To that level of reasonable . I think arthur is making a good point about the dropdown menu, but i still have questions about whether thats really the standard. I mean, if if if there are kingpins who are convicted of crimes that involve things that they dont physically have to do themselves. I mean, do they have to do the dropdown menu themselves to be guilty . Im so i guess where do we go what is between doing the dropdown menu yourself and what the prosecutors would have known that theres a limited whether he knows its a dropdown menu, but theres a limited number of ways to code and expense. I mean, if hes been a penny pinch your monitored expenses and fedex packages, what do you have known . Oh, yeah. There are six things you can code it as legal legal issue. Lead prosecutor. Number one, the price you got to prove that, but one more thing, anderson, theres another piece of this. Its not just a bookkeeping. They then have to prove beyond and a Reasonable Doubt it was done to commit another crime. And we havent what evidence is there been so far articulating what crime that is allegedly when i was in quarternary heard theyre going to call a federal Election Law Expert or maybe a state Election Law Expert. So theres, theres the Bookkeeping Products and then theres next year contribution isnt that what it is, but its a no because it came out of his own money . No. No no. And the federal Election Campaign act, it would be illegal if i were running if i were running for something or other and i wanted to contribute money to my campaign and kaitlan fronted the money and then i reimbursed her and then i didnt disclose it. Id go to jail. Thats a violation and thats a violation. Its not hard. George conway, its good to have you. Thank you. Coming up next more from the full Trial Transcript just out also, in light of all weve just been saying, in so many ways about Michael Cohen here, what he is saying for self nine about the prospect of taking the stand and later form Deputy Assistant attorney general, harry litman joins us. 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And that way i can yeah, this to pass well be looking ahead to that until the moment comes and no doubt, looking back on it for a long time as well, right now, john berman is back with more from the proceedings today. You guys were talking about how there has been a lot of evidence and a lot of testimony, but how closely donald trump looks at finances, looks at things about money and Madeleine Westerhout, who was his white house assist in gatekeeper, was asked about an exchange that she had over an invoice that came in front of her. And this is the testimony from the prosecutor, rebecca mangold, asking the questions, whats the total amount of the invoice westerhout says 6,974. Mangold says looking at how the handwriting towards the time do you know whose handwriting that is . Westerhout says, i believe thats rhona graffs. Thats trumps Organization Assistant mangled says, can you read whats written in ms Grass Writing and then westerhout says, dear mr. President , if wing foot, which is a golf club in western new york, will allow me to suspend your membership for for eight years. Do you want me to look into it or do you want me to . He continue paying annual dues and the food minimum i believe thats just rg. The initials. Do you see the handwriting below that westerhout says yes. Who says that . Westerhout says thats the president mangold says, do you know what type of pen was used for the president s handwriting . Westerhouts says, it looks to be a sharp we for sharpie all over the testimony so far that mangle says, whats written below the note in mr. Trumps handwriting, westerhout says hey, man, says, is their handwriting Something Else written in the president s and then western he says, yes, asap. Okay. In other words, yes. Pay the 6,000 dues to win foot asap. Okay so again, this is donald trump being paying very close attention to his golf dues with the food privileges, and they showed the document in the courtroom. It actually said, yes, pay. Okay. Yeah. Itd been making clear one, shes checking. Do still want to pay this membership while youre president of the United States. And he said, yes but then also its when Madeleine Westerhout testifies about the other financial conversation, what the frame that she had and so i dont know where theyre going with this tomorrow. Its going to be much more about Michael Cohen and his appearances at the white else i assume, but they are clearly trying to get it what they could even see from rhona graffs emails and her concern about his spending are the urine the court before the beginning of her testimony, Madeleine Westerhout, what did you think for while and theyve the first question was, are you here because you want to be here, are you here under subpoena . And she made it clear that she was there on to subpoena. And it was schumanns pier to be a particularly nervous, it was very simple questions was about fedex is and how the checks went back and forth. And if there was one missing and she made it clear there were checks, he refused to sign are not told her they would go and come back to her unsigned. My understanding was in the afternoon, she was very gracious ive talked a lot about him and millennia or at least touched upon and how he would call her and he was she paints a picture of him being a doting husband, which i dont really know if thats an accurate statement, but thats what she said. How before he got that he was going on marine one, he would call are and look out the window and wave and then she just broke out crying. I think because it looked that witnessed. Weve spoken about this that Witness Stand is i dont testimony one time against a client who took a phone number and put it on my name. So i run representing him a while and representing him. This is all Public Record while representing him, he takes out a phone number and puts it on the Arthur Aidala and hes make any like, criminal calls that was in my name. And then i had to go and testify against my own client and record, which i tried no no. What i was really nervous. I have no problem in many to you. I was really hard testifying and then what youre testifying, get someone who clearly shes fond of and you look around that at room and its packed with people. Yeah. Its a motion this is not actually relevant to this particular case, but but it is interesting to me that bringing up millennia and the family, i mean, madeleine was fired from the white house because she was trashing other members of the trump family to the media when at a dinner. So the bag gage and one of the reasons she feels so bad is because as shes sad publicly, she feels bad that she had a moment of poor judgment and in the process said a lot of bad things about the trump family. Now, with trump sitting in front of her, she had an opportunity. It looks like she took it to say some nice things about trump to say the nice things about his relationship with his wife. And so on and so forth i know, but what, im so interested in about these financial things is they have done a great job of showing how meticulous trump is about even small expenditures from someone who claims to be a billionaire. But the thing that i it keeps coming back to is did trump know how these expenditures were characterized on the corporate records . Because thats the crime in this case, and thats not covered by that testimony. Theres nothing in any and i kinda stack of transcripts down my office like its tall as i am, which is six, four none of it gets lets do that. But what you do see is what theyre leading up to, which is Michael Cohen who is going to have to answer to all this. And even in the Madeleine Westerhout testimony, it was setting the table for Michael Cohen. Theres the exchange you showed his testimony before congress, but they talk about an Email Exchange that westerhout had with cohen prior eric to this February 2017 meeting, the prosecutor says, whats the subject line of this email . And this is an email change with Michael Cohen, westerhout says wednesday meeting mangold. Can you please read the content of the email to the jury . Was her out says yes michael were firm for four 30 on wednesday. What i need from you as the following full names and appears on you your id, date of birth, Social Security number, us citizen, yes or no, border us, yes or no current city and state of residence. Thanks. Madeline prosecutor says, do you recall why you were sending this email . And then westerhout says mr. Cohen was coming in to meet with the president mangold says, do you recall seeing him when he came to visit westerhout says not specific typically, mangold says, did this visit ultimately occur . Westerhout says, yes so so much of what the prosecution has been doing over the last three weeks is Pre Corroborating Michael Cohen when he gets on that stand, they want the jury to think, oh, i remember this. I recognize this. We saw a document about this. We heard another piece of testimony about this, even if if its a small thing like this, now they know, yes, that meeting absolutely happened. So when Michael Cohen gets up and says what what happened in that meeting, theyll go okay, at least hes not completely fabricating that there was an Oval Office Meeting we used to call an oak tree corroboration as prosecutors, meaning if theres a murder scene and someone mentioned oh, yeah, it was next to an oak tree. I dont go take a photo of the oak tree doesnt prove that the murder happened, but it can help support your witnesses just on a small detail. It can help prop them up. Thats what theyre bracing for it. I think its gonna come down to when michael gone because i agree with everything hes saying, at least saying its going to come down to like, honestly, three sentences in that meeting so because just to be clear, its gonna be i think hes been proven beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Hes tight with money. He signed those checks. He knew what where they were going to, what they were four its going to come down to Michael Collins and i said to him, im just going to register them as Legal Expenses and not for real. Okay. And trump itll say trump nodded on trumps said, okay. And then itll say, and by the way, you know, were doing this. We dont forget we did this. So that you would win the election or its gonna come down to like sentences, not whether the checks resign. Immediately to plan thats unfair. Theres a whole universe of witness theres more to it than just like what you made the point a minute ago. So it wasnt Michael Cohen putting in the writing down right now. But what bobby said was how high or how low, right . Does the hierarchy have to be . I think if trump just says file it as Legal Expenses, even though its not i think thats enough that someone else he directs someone else to do it is to me that the prosecution has to establish why didnt they do it the other way, right. Like, what is the other way and why didnt they choose that path . To me the most obvious other way is just to give Michael Cohen when the money say that it was a reimbursement for anything, literally could be for anything. They didnt do it that way and the question is, why that question has not been answered by the prosecution. In addition to them not answering the question of not only why did they do it that way, but did trump recognized that there was a choice made about how how to do it, and that they chose the illegal way, essentially, dont berman. 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And the fact that you went after her right on Opening Statements attacking whether attacking your claim that they had never had sex, you didnt attack that there was a falsification of business records. You didnt attack any of the other elements of the offense. You said my client denies that there was ever a sexual encounter. Again, as i said, before, right off the bat, that puts your clients word against ms daniels word that in my mind allows the people to do what they can to rehabilitate her and to corroborate her story. Your motion for a mistrial is denied joining us now is former us attorney Deputy Assistant attorney general, harry litman, who has been in the courtroom during the trial. What was the dining . Amaq life between the judge and the defense team in those tanno 15 minutes . Yeah. It was not like a standard legal argument. It wasnt low key and academic bristled, and there was a sort of dynamism to it that you dont normally have, which by the way, he has not in previous messages to the Defense Table . When i was there last week, he he said two blanche that was the day after trump had claimed that he wasnt allowed to testify in a very calm way. He said, let me just maybe your client is missing forum. Let me remind him. Its his total legal right. He was bending over backwards to become this is a different tenor. I think thats right. Its not as if he was haranguing him, but it was definitely very sort of pitch tie in he attack the professionalism of nicholls. He said, i cant trust blanche, but it was if he let them both speak their piece and then it was its almost as if hed already crafted an opinion that he could hed said id gone back and read the transcripts. Youre wrong about this, but he really it was fairly blistering and he wasnt simply denying on the merits but actually a sailing the lawyers for trying to thinking not objecting more by the defense was a misstep either trump team for sure. And it was one of the things he actually cited and again, i mean, this was the point that seem to have no answer. Theyve made this probably because trump insists on it. The big dispute was there any sex at all and when they do that and opening merchans point was, that means all these messy details as they called them. The other ones messy details are credibility for for someone in Stormy Daniels is positioned. In other words, you have to let her explain. The jury. Can evaluate overall the truth of the story thats been so put at. What was your perception of the crossexamination by necklace . Yeah. All in all i thought it was not so effective. You really look for control and christmas on cross, and not only did she take a lot of xi landed a couple of jabs, but again, because of this dynamic amaq that theyve said it never happened. She needed a Knockout Plants and came nowhere near that. I thought. And then i think whats a little over aggressive and the jury perceived it in particular, when she basically implied since youre a porn star, you how could you possibly be cowed by a 60yearold billionaire looming over you. It seemed almost insulting in that way. So i thought that she took a lot of chant lead with their chin a lot and got got hit with it and have very last question, isnt it a fact that you are making no and thats the end so as opposed to sort of leading the jury to think that result in its own. And she went for broke a lot and it was a mistake where youve been in the courtroom. Whos winning . What the d is one, because the basic dynamic they have really from pecker, very good choice for starters drawn the whole narrative we had today. It was one of five pretty big day to day that you normally one, two things happen in accord, thereby five or six pretty big things. And one of them, a lot of people i didnt even notice, but came in through stormy his admission in the stormy suit that he did in fact reimburse cohen right. So i mean, thats a pretty big one. Where did they go from here . The weisselberg writing. So weisselberg and cohen do it together. They were they freelancing the basic story . I think is drawn. There may be Technical Details and as you know, a couple of lawyers on the jury about stitching up the precise intent with some of the precise 34 pieces of paper, they always had that problem. But the bottom of the narrative, in part, because of the stakes theyve drawn in never happened with stormy and emphasizing that i think the dac winning i can somebody remind me. I mean, i should know why isnt own weisselberg testified a couple of wanting one, hes in prison. I know but thats actually not someone bring a guy in and he gets up in front of the jury, says, i take the fan, they dont know what hes going to say if its clear you all by myself, like so hes not going to you may say, donald trump knew nothing about this. I was the bookkeeper for 35 whatever in 40 years, i was the one who classified it that way. Thats why he wouldnt be special problem. They sort of have a with rhona graff who they went through quickly, keith schiller. Are we going to see him . He comes in a lot today. There are some people who are super loyal to trump and they are shying away the defense call weisselberg. Sure. Well, they might talk about a crossexamination, but he would also probably take the fifth again. Regardless of who calls him he doesnt unless you want to meet trump, a solid. And then get indicted again, its me. I yes, thats possible. But i it seems like if you were going to take the fifth in this subject, you are going to take the fifth in this subject, but maybe not, maybe not on what would you do . Hes not on the Defense Wit Look at defense hasnt called anyone yet and they dont have to have someone on their witness list. The only thing i want to say about stormys crossexaminati on, first of all, jeffrey mentioned this a long time ago i do think theyre trying to please trump the lawyers are and thats a balancing act thats, you know, you gotta guy play and youll lot of money to be his lawyer and he wants it out there that that did not happen. Susan necheles leading with a chin, theyd put up a piece of paper saying you signed a document saying you never had sex with donald trump, right . Yes, i did. So that was a lie, right . Right . So there was right. But the lie they need is that whole story has concocted. Thats the thing because i agree with you, but i think normally even when the very big shot lawyers say, heres how its going to be you shut up now and listen to me. Thats what his phone would do. What do you do . Youve represented some big egos, big personalities. Im sure theres been times bank. You back that bag. I mean, i you know, you back. Im like, listen, bro, are you walk a long time you got to trust me on this and we can talk to i mean, ive thought it will talk to three other lawyers if they disagree with me, well do it your way. Okay. But so several times on tuesday, trump was nudging Susan Nicholas to get up an object and we saw or do it at least twice after he nudged her and today, the whole criticism from the judge was, why didnt you object more . I mean, it was trump was obviously clearly was a mistake. Look, we all make. We always talk about trump influencing his attorneys and trust me, he does and its incredibly difficult to be at trump attorney. Weve talked to many of the former ones, but but he was the one urging her to object more. She was not objecting more and maybe what ellie said before. It also like you dont wanna make it look like youre hiding from the jury like, oh, my gosh, shes got something we dont want anyone here, so its a balancing act. Her libman. Thank you back and had the pushback from a key ally before the president who came to the courthouse today would be have you or anyone you know, ever been stationed at Marine Corps Base campbell june camp luck, junes water was contaminated by fuel leaks. If you add any Water Contact while it camp on june had been diagnosed with cancer or parkinsons . Disease, you may be entitled to compensation as marine who was stationed at camp on june myself for four years. This cause hits close to home. So if youve been stationed or visited Marine Corps Base camp june and have cancer parkinsons visit camp lins june injury. Com. Morgan and morgan for the veterans. 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He also has aspirations to replace Mitch Mcconnell is the leader in the senate both things that obviously require him being in Donald Trumps good, gracious, graces, weve seen this before. We solve the Vague Ramaswamy show up at another courthouse, Marjorie Taylor greene. Its a way to endure themselves to trump. He remembers people who are with him at his low points mark meadows, for example, 2016 after access hollywood, when people were thinking about walking away from donald trump, mark meadows has white other congressional spouses went on the Campaign Trail to say, be with this guy, despite this tape, he never forgot it. He kept jim jordan close to me, kept mark meadows close because the remember that. So donald trump will take note of this. Hes, hes gonna, hes gonna appreciate us and it was voting today that i mean, there they were casting votes on important bills today. You know, theres, you know priority, theres potato, potato how much do you think the aggressive crossexaminatio n actually pleased donald trump today . I think it. Probably, please trump, but i think it really hurt the defense. I think this juxtaposition where you have Maddie Westerhout Up and theyre talking about oh, you are 28. You made some mistakes, but then attacking Stormy Daniels, who was 27 at the time. But this encounter with donald trump took place. The jury can piece that together and see that there is such different treatment for these two women there is the hard part of being serving donald trump. The client is that often k12, his instincts and what he wants to see is actually totally unhelpful to the case youre trying to win for him. And i think that they went went away too far today its funny, anderson, i can just say a guest. Its been now on cnn, retired judge George Grosso who comes on my radio show with me every night. Hes been the court every day. It just shows you how people react differently. He said on my radio show tonight, today was the best day for the defense. That combination of attacking stormy and then the Secretary Bragging about the trump family and how one day he said theyve never had a day, so consistently. Blink would positive stuff for trump. Im not saying hes right, but it just shows you how you dont know what jurors well, thank and to be clear, i do think it was a good Knotty Westerhout was incredibly helpful to donald trump today, that there was a piece of her testimony in particular about the fallout from the access Hollywood Tape that really seemed she was trying to suggest that trump himself was not all that worried about it, all the worry was over at the rnc whether that maybe elicit you can speak to that, but whether that is true or not that that undercut the prosecutions argument that trump was the one who was part of the panic about how this was going to i mean, he apologized on video that night. I think we forget that he did apologize because now that seems like something you would never do. Hes was concerned and i think whoa hicks alluded to it or at least those closest to him were they were trying to craft this statement. Matty was at the rnc, so she wasnt part of these conversations. But there was an acknowledgment that this was a very, very real problem. Vice president ial candidate mike pence was very concerned hope hicks testified she seemed. And you have to attorneys, they prepare their clients and maddie very likely watched her pyxis testimony and can take get some takeaway from that. And i think in some ways came more prepared to be a little bit more effusively of donald trump in ways that hope maybe didnt quite it is much leaning into his relationship with melania and she was the real boss. What a great boss he was giving her these opportunities. And then if this key point that he actually was unbothered by the access Hollywood Tape. Its interesting to hear, listen to talk about Donald Trumps political and pr instincts, which are good. I mean, a lot of times he defies conventional wisdom, but hes gotten pretty far by following his instincts, but legal and courtroom is are a little bit of a different creation. Its has to be much more strategic, much more tactical. I wonder if hes his own worst enemy when it comes to this, when hes pushing his lawyers to do things that could be taken both ways. But i mean, my reads certainly was, were destructive to his defense he may be about to find out, i guess well see what im telling stories out of school, but i think please do my educational educated guess is one of the reasons why joe taka pina is not his lawyer in that courtroom is because joe and i were in the das office together. I know very well. Hes a brilliant lawyer. Hes a gradient strategist in that courtroom and say anything you want those jurors love them but joe joes not going to take anything. His client has never going to tell him what to do, never. And i maybe why joe is not in that courtroom and they really used a lot of trumps tactics against him today. Would Stormy Daniels, i mean, she was kinda the embodiment of that in several ways. One, when it came to just his attacks on her and her attacks on him, they were trying to use her post about him that were derogatory as a way to discredit her. And she said, okay, well, i was just responding to him. I mean, he calls her horse face. He called her out at rallies of his. They also were saying, well, you were just trying to make money he off of this, youve got this candle, youve got this tshirt donald trump himself has raised so much money off of his indictments as well. And so that was an interesting part of this to see how trumps own tactics that he has used for years were being used against him. And the crossexamination. And i think that the key figures for the proven the second half this case are going to be Stormy Daniels and then Michael Cohen, who have been just bloodied up this entire trial. I think she was much better defending herself today, but their you know, their honesty called into question and then contrasting that with hope hicks and madhya westerhout, the public didnt see them, but two women who present. So buttoned up, they speak well, theyre authoritative with there are also emotional, theyre also crying over their carrying and love for donald trump and loyalty to him. Its a very interesting juxtaposition that i could see resonating with a jury. I could see them saying, look at these professional women who look up to him, admire him despite all the horrible things weve heard about him, they still want to be with him. And then adjust the juxtaposition to that is that if the jury believes that that same guy is the guy who was in lake tahoe was Stormy Daniels. That really undercuts a lot of it. I mean, stormy herself undercuts trumps credibility as a sympathetic figure. The fact that she exists in its context, the fact that there is even a debate over whether they had its exit that hotel room when he was 60 and she was 27 if anybody on the jury believes that its gonna be really hard for them to buy the sob stories about how great of a boss he was to these other two women. Thanks everyone. The news continues after this break. Welcome to the world, despite Ground Garage glued to the action. Lets get down, lets get funky what are you concealing do Communist Sympathizer Supervisor streaming exclusively on macs im John Morgan Of morgan and morgan with so many Mesothelioma Lawyers on television. How do you choose the right firm for you and your family . Our goal is to get you as much as you deserve 30 was set aside for me. So helium of victims like you, if youve been diagnosed with lisa dealy lma will come to you within 24 hours. 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