Questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight, the Trump Hush Money Trial. Im abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes. That is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today Michael Cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecutions case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. If you remember from trumps periphery to trumps, go refer to trumps. Do everything fixer. And that included the alleged Hush Money Deal designed to silence Stormy Daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. Well, mr. Trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measure
so maybe i can understand that. but, you know, it s not like we didn t know who donald trump was two years ago. that s the thing. and that this stuff is particularly new that s right. and innovative from him. maybe the idea that republicans you can t trust republicans because this is actually who they are, that may motivate some of those people in those suburbs. the bet he made in 2016, which bore out, the bet they re making again is republicans are going to come home in the end. they may not like it, they may complain. but in the end they re going to come home to the republican party and they re going to come home to donald trump no matter how disgusting the rhetoric is. that s the bet they re making. yeah, and now we have literally blood on their hands, right now we have donald trump s rhetoric and all the things that he s saying inciting violence among white supremacists, literally we have 11 jewish people who are dead right now because this guy s inspired by the kin
didn t know who donald trump was two years ago. that s the thing. and that this stuff is particularly new that s right. and innovative from him. maybe the idea that republicans you can t trust republicans because this is actually who they are, that may motivate some of those people in those suburbs. the bet he made in 2016, which bore out, the bet they re making again is republicans are going to come home in the end. they may not like it, they may complain. but in the end they re going to come home to the republican party and they re going to come home to donald trump no matter how disgusting the rhetoric is. that s the bet they re making. yeah, and now we have literally blood on their hands, right now we have donald trump s rhetoric and all the things that he s saying inciting violence among white supremacists, literally we have 11 jewish people who are dead right now because this guy s inspired by the kind of person that donald trump is and the kind of people he assoc