Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and 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. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday cohen admitted that he was having trouble
Michael cohen testifying. I watched him inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss just a few feet away. Defense started their Cross Examination. We have been reporting on that along with our colleagues here. How it has been going. Asanother pivotal day. Michael cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the anstand. It is a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment we have been waiting for. The crossexamination. Will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination . It has been an explosive last hour of testimony. It is getting testy. Michael cohen is about 45 minutes now into todd blanches crossexamination. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the credibility of the star witness. That is some of what went down. Prosecutors have you confirmed something new. Cohen is their last witness which means they are on track to rest their case here because there will just be this Cross Examination i told yo
Starts now. Welcome, everyone. Its a special twohour edition of the beat. Im ari melber. This is the second day of convicted former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying. Inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss and by the afternoon the defense started their crossexamination. Weve been reporting on that. Heres how its been going. Another pivotal day in Donald Trumps criminal trial in new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the stand for a second day of testimony. Its a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment weve been waiting for, the crossexamination. The burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination. Its been an explosive last hour of testimony. Its getting testy. Michael cohen is 45 minutes now into todd blanches cross. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the thats some of what down today. Prosecutors have confirme
Talented person. Shes a little shy but thats okay. The people call hope hicks to the witness stand. Donald trump made sure he was easy talking to todd blanche and hope hicks very deliberately avoided any regard , any look at him. Tonight, gripping testimony from a trump insider on the trump campaigns attempt to catch and kill. Suddenly, she just started crying. It felt like a confession she had come forward and said this. What the jury heard about campaign panic over Access Hollywood. I said it, i was wrong and i apologize. Then new reporting on how to project a second trump term and how to predict trumps second pick for vp. Kristi noem is a little too based, shooting the puppy. Your ghostwriter must really not like you if they include that one. That was rough. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, and chris hayes. Today, we heard the most colorful, explosive testimony yet in the trial of donald trump. It came from one of the prosecutions star witnesses, one of the peopl
Daniella, thank you. And thanks to you all for getting up Way Too Early with us on this wednesday morning. Morning joe starts now. When trump hasnt been asleep hes violating his gag order by posting messages attacking, witnesses. And so today the judge finally had his ruling on those. And charged him 9,000. 9,000 may not seem like a lot to a successful businessman but what about to trump . Well have all the developments from Donald Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial just ahead. Nbc legal analyst lisa reuben was inside the courtroom and shell join us in a moment. Well go through trumps interview with Time Magazine. The former president was asked about January 6th Abortion Policy and the upcoming election. And its worth a listen. Or a read. Plus well bring you the latest out of The Middle East, including israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus defiant comments on a possible invasion in southern gaza. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 1st, everybody. Its may .