Santa newsnight starts now the circus comes to the courtroom. Thats tonight on these nine good evening. Im abby phillip the new york tonight. Tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. Let me set the scene for you. The trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. Hes a former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen. Now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trumps the tension. But the Presiding Judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. A judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. And the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. The judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Costello, right judge okay. So when there is a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say, jeez. Okay. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroom. Do you, understand that
Possibility, but now were getting to the point where its put up or shut up now his. Attorneys say that they dont call it. Im going to call any more witnesses. And so based on that, it seems like theyre not going to call them. But in trump world, you really dont know until the very last second, do you . And they really dont have to tell us du that very last second. Now, if he doesnt, it will put a lot more weight on Michael Cohens testimony. And today cohens credibility, its quite another hit with the revelation that he had stolen money from the Trump Organization more on that in a new york minute. But there was another person on the hot seat today this time and i rolling sayyed, giving witness who annoyed the judge so much . The judge cleared the courtroom to dress him down. Im talking about robert costello, a former adviser and Michael Cohen and took the stand for the defense today and describe an april 2018 meeting that he had with cohen about the Stormy Daniels payments. Now, from t
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baier. i was away from the implementation of the seas firee and prisoner exchange between israel and hamas. and there is no holiday for america s crisis. what authorities are warninge th about. it is scheduled to begin in about six hours.t ho the first hostage release takes place at 9:00 a.m. eastern tim0g estomorrow. israel has a hostage list, ande the prime minister is making it clear that the war will continue and our correspondent is inwi southern israel tonight.ll hello, jeff 3 that s right, we are just a few hours away from the temporary cease-fire. thewe can hear the booms of outgoing artillery here along the border. the mood is extremely tense. going deeper into a war-torn gossett. the fighting is said to pause for four days. after the morning stoppage and fighting, they plan to freen hostages in the afternoon, 50 women and children, in exchange, israel0 woildr will release 150 palestinian prisoners. it is not without its challenges. we are here at this mili
get you the whole day before the show. so i m going to give you a call right after this for everyone else though. i ll see you next time. i ll see you next weekend, right around the same time. have a great welcome the whole story. i m anderson cooper since its launch, a little more than two years ago, the james webb space telescope has been capturing some of the most spectacular and enlightening images of outer space. we ve ever seen. its mission is to study every phase in the history of our universe the data and the images from web are helping some of our smartest scientific minds answer some of the most intriguing questions of our time, like, where did we come from? is time travel possible? and are we alone? for the past two years, cnn space correspondent kristin fisher has followed two teams of scientists as they were awarded precious minutes with the james webb telescope in an effort to answer these very questions what they found is breathtaking and groundbreaking the j