Three 60, the defense of the trump trial rest, but not without a damaging crossexamination of their only witness. Also, new photos. We have never seen before in the classified Documents Minns case allegedly showing a trump aide and codefendant moving boxes inside maralago before trump attorneys were to check for classified files and severe turbulence on Board A Singapore bound plane from london, one dead, dozens injured. How it happened tonight. Good evening. The defense of donald trump ended today in a manhattan courtroom. The former president whos Madeild Accusations outside the court chose to remain silent and not speak to the jury under oath. One witness, the defendant did want the jury to hear an attorney named Robert Costello. The defense called him yesterday to try and undermine the credibility of the prosecutions key witness, Michael Cohen. But today, prosecutors badly undermined his. They used emails involving costello sent within weeks of Michael Cohens arrest by the fbi in 2
Decade doing trumps dirty work. Credibility issues are why the prosecution used the 20 witnesses who proceeded cohen to basically corroborate his story before they even put him on the stand. It is also why trumps defense team has singlemindedly sought to state their case on discrediting him. Even in cases that might not be read crucial to rebutting the prosecution. For that reason the defense may think they racked up a victory for themselves today because during the crossexamination this morning, cohen admitted that he stole from the trump organization. In addition to the reimbursement for the hush money for stormie daniels, cohen was also given 50,000. That money was supposed to be a repayment for what cohen spent to hire a tech from to rig an online poll on trumps behalf. We dont have time to get into that detail. But as cohen said on the stand, he only paid trump 20,000 and kept the rest for himself. Asked point blank today whether he stole from the trump organization, cohen said, y
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Starts now. Tonight, new week, new witnesses. Donald trump faces new testimony as his Criminal Trial resumes along with a possible ruling on his alleged gag order violations. Plus, what elon musk wants from china that he cant get here in the u. S. And what that could mean for national security. Then, inside magas plans for a second trump residency. A warning about the movements new strategy to remake america as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. Great to be back with you and we are now 190 days away from the election and week two of testimony in Donald Trumps New York Terminal Case begins tomorrow morning, which is just hours from now. When the trial resumes in the morning, we expect to hear more from Michael Collins former banker. Then when trump gets a day off from court on wednesday, he is headed to the key swing states of michigan and wisconsin for Campaign Events before returning to New York City for two more days of co
Just Vice President , and shes also just a total disaster. Shes this craven and calculating political animal, but she spends all her time having to put out fires of her own making, fires of her staffs own making. Shes just a disaster. And one of the sort of signature production things in the show, one of the things that the show does to great effect is that they use every last second of the show, during the end credits of each episode, the image on the right side of the Screen Squishes down a little bit, and they highlight in this while the credits are rolling, they highlight these campaign screwups and their various pr disasters. The end credits are like the best thing in the show. It the end credits in one show might be her ranting to her staff after a puff piece Television Interview turned out to be substantive or her awkwardly trying to connect with High School Students who are visiting the Vice President s office. If you have seen the show, you know about this excellent trickn bas