Finished Cross Examination from alvin braggs office. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer. He is off the state is done with his questions. Who is robert costello, right . He is telling the jury the shame bombshell claims he told to Congress Last week and told us, too, on our program. I think he was with martha as well. Who is he . Former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, from new york. He had a falling out partly due to alleged outstanding legal bills which there were many, formal federal prosecutor and defense lawyer. Costello is on the stand yesterday saying Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own and he repeated that numerous times, okay . We reported on that many times. He has said that on television the last week many times. So here we go. Go ahead. Dana what we can show you a little bit of that from costello. Watch here. I probably came back to this subject ten o
At times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that shes crazy line of attack against her. At one point Attorney Susan Necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. To which daniels replied wow thats now how i would put it. The sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. To try to prove that Stormy Daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trumps Defense Lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which Stormy Daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. Trump. Team trump also suggested that Stormy Daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. A line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the expresident s team. As nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trumps story, trying to hurt his election bid. Wouldnt that bolster the prosecutions arguments trump had for w