Right before they took a break, the prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case reminded the jury Michael Cohen is not the one on trial here. Despite a crossexamination that got heated, just as he was finishing, and yet an admission by trumps former fixer on the stand did leave the d. A. s office with some clean up to do. Im Chris Jansing alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and katy tur. Sorry, Michael Cohen acknowledged under oath that he stole 60,000 from the trump organization, that he did it out of anger that mr. Trump cut his bonus. The prosecution is trying to use their second shot at questioning Michael Cohen to redirect the focus back to the former president. Were going to bring you live updates as we read them when Michael Cohen returns to the stand in just a few minutes after the lunch break. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is live at the courthouse. Catherine christian is still with us. Also with us, andrew weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert Muellers special counsels
Michael cohen is back on the stand momentaryly. Defense appears to be nearing the end of its Cross Examination. The judge believes testimony and evidence will wrap up this week. Summations to come next week. Were not done yet. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer, hope you had a glorious weekend. Dana im dana perino and the americas newsroom. When you said were nearing the end. We are. Bill we thought we might get deliberations this week. Based on what the judge just said that is not going to happen. Dana were awaiting president s trumps decision if he decides to take the stand. Here is what he said this morning on his way into court. Thank you very much. Im here instead of campaigning. As you know, i was supposed to be in a very different state this morning. The judge actually decided to call it early and yet it looks like well have a very big gap between days and it will be determined right now in court. But we are here about an hour early today. Supposed to be making a speech for po
Welcome to a special two hour edition of the beat. You know, we are nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of the former u. S. President , donald trump. By next week the case could be in the hands of the 12 member jury. But before that happens, trumps former fixer and personal attorney will be back on the stand monday for a third day of crossexamination. The defense is focused so far on trying to portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted, and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. And through what felt at times like a meandering Cross Examination, they had been able to poke a hole in credibility during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016. That netanyahu testified he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday netanyahu admitted he was having trouble recalling his Telephone Calls on specific d
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Saturday night at nine easter a 60 starts now good evening on what was a blockbuster de in the criminal hush money trial. The former president in blockbuster because after what has at times been a meandering crossexamination, the prosecution is most important witness, Michael Cohen today, trump attorney todd blanche was able to repeatedly raised questions about cohens honesty. Not just in the past, but his honesty and his testimony before this jury this week i was in the courtroom this morning just before the lunch break. Blanche presented Text Messages to cohen between him and former trump bodyguard Keith Schiller. The messages were from october 24, 2016 and they appear to contradict it. Testimony cohen gave monday on direct examination that goes to the heart of the alleged scheme to falsify Business Records earlier in the week, cohen testified about texting schiller. He said under oath that he needed to talk to trump urgently schiller was always by his side. He testified that he you