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 Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention 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 and taking the stand in court oh, wait. Never mind. Back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. Was that the continued crossexamination of Stormy Daniels was a com
Captioning. Brought to you by meso book. Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 3214000 good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the trump, new york Hush Money Trial. I was privileged to watch some of day 11 hi, the courtroom today was both fascinating was fascinating to see up close. Hope hicks, once a top advisor to former president , testifying for the prosecution, recounting first the access Hollywood Tape coming out then the Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially damaging account of what the former president s said in retrospect when the daniel story finally broken 2018, then moments later, hope hicks started crying. Hicks in that final answer saying, quote, it was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out. Before the election wh
Starts now good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the trump new york Hush Money Trial. I was privileged which to watch some of day 11 inside the courtroom. Today was both fascinating was fascinating to see up close. Hope hicks, once a top advisor to former president , testifying for the prosecution recounting first the access Hollywood Tape coming out, then the Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially damaging account of what the former president s said in retrospect when the daniel story finally broken 2018, then moments later, hope hicks started crying. Hicks in that final answer saying, quote, it was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the flexion, which could bolster the prosecution case that the former president was motivated by campaign and not necessarily Family Concerns and suppressing both that and the Karen
Sides. Frankly, painting him as someone who had some time times in her words, go rogue, but also casting doubt on the Defense Theory that cohen paid off Stormy Daniels on his own initiative in general, the picture she painted was a handson donald trump deeply involved in the details of his business and his campaign, motivated largely by political considerations. And that he was fully aware of what the payment to Stormy Daniels had ball what him in 2016, weve just gotten the full Trial Transcript from today, including the context of hope hicks is final answer to the Prosecution Question about what then President Trump said in 2018 when news of the Daniels Payout finally broke and im quoting now from that transcript he wanted to know how it was playing and just my thoughts and impinge opinion about this story versus having the story a different kind of story before the campaign, had michael not made that payment joining us once again tonight, new york defense attorney arthur aidala, cnns
About that. All right, jason, thanks. Thank you very much. Thanks to all of you, anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage. The trumps new york Hush Money Trial date ten saw prosecutors, but for more alleged gag order violations before the judge. And the Defense Paint paint expected witnesses, Michael Cohen and current witness, Keith Davidson, is the true culprits in this case, not trump. Davidson has represented Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal and secure deals for their silence about alleged affairs with trump and the crucial months before the 2016 election. But any effort to make them the villains and donald trump, the victims countered by prosecutors who played the Phone Conversation hello, cohen secretly recorded and cnn exclusively obtained featuring donald trump taking an active role in the Karen Mcdougal deal need to open up a company for the transfer of wallet that info regarding my friend david so im going to do that right away. Id actually come up to