Hi, everybody. Its thursday. Its 4 00 in new york. It is also day 18 of the people of the state of new york vermont donald trump, the expresident s former Attorney Michael Cohen is just off the Witness Stand. The jury is done with their service for the day. Prosecutors and attorneys for the expresident are dealing with the all important question of what happens next. Its happening right now. A hearing over what the defenses case will look like and if they will make a case, if they have a case to present the updates from that hearing that is happening as we meet well bring them to you right away. All this is in the wake of a rather desperate and uneven attempt to undercut Michael Cohens credibility. It was to be generous, hit and miss, defense attorney todd blanche had a Second Chance at cross examining Michael Cohen after a day of rest yesterday. He moved around from topic to topic so quickly that todd blanche decided that todd should apologize to the jurors who would decide Donald Tru
Attack. All right. Max foster, keep us posted on the developments here. Thank you very much. And we have a brand new our with new news coming in and seeing a new central starts right now Donald Trumps former fixer blasted by the defense fiery crossexamination. Trumps lawyers that using a day off today to prepare another round of tough questioning for the man who says the former president plotted a scheme to cover up a Hush Money Payment to a porn star. Now with less than six months to go until the election, President Biden saying the poll numbers arent accurate, but should democrats be more concerned plus, the future of human creativity up in the air, google showing off new ai features that many Online Publishers fear could put them out of business. Im sarah sayyed or john berman, kate is on assignment this is Cnn News Central so this morning, what will Donald Trumps lawyers ask . Next . What will Michael Cohen say next . And how much more explosive could this crossexamination get as e
How do you view your time as governor . I had 2,800 happening now, the first biden trump did 27th, right here on cnn standby for new details on this extraordinary early face off white ball with candidates said yes. And how this very highstakes event is breaking the mold for president ial debates. Also tonight, Michael Cohen is bracing for round two of his fiery crossexamination in Donald Trumps hush money trial. The next moves by the defense could go a long way toward deciding if jurors believed the long term im trump fixtures incriminating testimony against his former boss at a cnn exclusive this Our Inside The Illegal Gun Trade in haiti, a cnn team flies over the country, devastated by Gang Violence to see how Deadly Weapons are smuggled and why thats making efforts to feed starving being people even more dangerous welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer in urine, the Situation Room our top story tonight, the deal is now done, and the da
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
Welcome back to the weekend. Alicia menendez and michael steele. Week 14 of the election interference trial wrapped up with a new star witness and some devastating bombshells. The former Communications Director spent many hours on the stand and went into details about how they have managed these scandals that plagued the trump campaign. Joining us mal, katie phang, and susanne craig. I saw you Fact Checking. Newly you can tell that phang was still working. Katie, this was a big week in this trial. Keith davidson, how did you see this week ending up from the way that it began . I do not think that a lot of people knew the impact that hope hicks would have, so close to trump that there would be this protective veneer and she threw down some information that i think really helped the prosecutions case, how do you see this case . This week was a mixed bag, all good for the prosecution. There are a lot of us that are looking for the Marquis Maine witnesses. The custodian of records, these p