Bret 100 percent not. Thanks. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the key prosecution witness in the criminal trial. Concluded his testimony and the prosecution rested its case today. But, before that former trump attorney and selfdescribed fixer admitted to stealing 10s of thousands of dollars from his boss company. When the defense took over, cohen was followed on the stand by one of his former legal advisers. Now, there has been a request by the defense for the judge to dismiss the case from the bench. Correspondent nate foy is outside the New York State Supreme Court again tonight, good evening, nate good evening, bret. Todd blanche requested that the judge dismiss this case on the grounds that prosecutors did not prove that trump falsified Business Records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 president ial election. The judge reserved his decision and trump spoke about that while leaving court tonight. Hopefully the motion to dismiss this
Conflicted. Im not allowed to have anything to do with politics because im sitting in a very freezing Cold Courtroom for last few weeks. Its very unfair. John that was earlier today and now a live look at the New York State Supreme Court building where Michael Cohen is getting his final shot on the stand before the prosecution rests its case against former President Donald Trump. Cohen expected to take The Stand For Redirect after jurors returned from lunch in the last hour. Im john roberts in washington, sander, hope you have a good rest over the weekend because we are in it for the rest of the week. Sandra into a brandnew week and its great to start it with you john. Im sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. Cohen making that admission on the stand. Revealing he stole Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. A key moment for the defense as it tries to attack cohens credibility. John he recalls that he told reporters that trump no nothing about the paym
Lower manhattan. Michael cohen back on stand for what will be his final day of Cross Examinationened Re in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Now the prosecution is gearing up to redirect questioning of its star witness just one more time. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. That first hour went by like that. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning. We were talking about the Sports Analogies we could draw. Well get to that. Dana i use batters box and see if i used it correctly. I was kind of there. We have more. Bill we did a little hockey, too. Dana more to come. Bill thats coming your way. The fireworks not over yet. Former president unleashing on the whole process before he entered the courtroom a short time ago. One hour and 15 minutes ago. Watch. I dont think there is one person that says that this trial is legitimate. And everybody is talking about the judge. The judge shouldnt be doing this trial. He is totally conflicted. He is the most conflicted judge possibly in
David im david asman in for Elizabeth Macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. It is ha been a slam bank day in the trial of former President Trump in Court Watching as former lawyer Michael Cohen was back on the stand and shocking introduction late in the day of cohens former council bob costello who was a witness for the defense. Hes getting a lot of heat from the judge. Fox news nate foy is live outside the New York State Supreme Court with the latest on all this, nate. Reporter hey, david. On top of the two marquee witnesses, some late developments in the courtroom, trump attorney todd blanch asking judge to dismiss the case because blanch argues that prosecutor haves not proven that trump falsified Business Records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 president ial election. You mention this comes as bob costello is on the stand, under crossexamination and the jury has been dismissed for the day and waiting remarks from trump himself and judge reprimanded costello
And katy tur pick up our special coverage, next. Our special coverage, next good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague, katy tur. The prosecution is quickly wrapping up its case in the first Criminal Trial Of A Former american president. The state is gets its chance now to repair any damage done by the testimony of its star witness. Moments ago, the defense wrapped up with Michael Cohen after three days of crossexamination. It was a grueling three days. The Big Wild Card is donald trump himself. Will he live up to his promise to take the stand or put his defense team rest without presenting a single witness . Dramatically demonstrating their argument that the state has failed to meet the burden of proof. Judge merchan has set a new schedule this week guaranteeing the case will not go to the jury until after the long memorial day Holiday Weekend. He announced this morning that Closing Arguments will not take place until next tuesday he says because he does not want