Monday morning when crossexamined amination continues in the prosecution certainly has its work cut out for them. The lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Court has just ramped up for the de and Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial. It is a day you should remember because if if donald trump, the former president is acquitted the History Books may well point to Michael Cohens testimony today as the biggest reason cohens crossexamination will resume. Next week, were told after he endured hours of brutal questioning on The Stand Today, trumps Defense Attorney todd blanche laid out cohens past lies under oath, and then introduced evidence claiming that cohen has also lied in this trial under oath cohen previously testified on tuesday, i believe, about a key october 2016 phone call. He says he had with donald trump about the hush money reimbursement. But todd blanche today reveal Text Messages and a call log from that day tha
Is your job and thank you all so much for joining us. This is seen under central as johnson said its metal coverage of the trump trial starts right now, this was Cnn News Central us federal a live view of the criminal courthouse here in manhattan, where we are told doctors legal team will be on a mission today, zeroing in on Michael Cohens admitted and allege lies before president and all it is on his way to the courthouse right now is the defenses preparing to up where it left off, grilling trumps longtime fixer. You can see them there waving to the cameras as he gets into his motorcade. Over the last 24 hours, trumps legal team its been preparing for this moment for colins returned to the Witness Stand. Im told and plotting their strategy to undermine the prosecutions star witness. The question is whether they can the jury, but also their client im Kaitlan Collins here in new york. Object. Saverin, washington dc. Youre watching special seen in live coverage of former president Donald
Index for the first time today after 139 years of history, just seconds to go before the close and the lead with jake tapper starts now ladies and gentlemen, two president ial debates have been sets. The lead starts right now President Biden and former President Trump, putting it in writing, saying that they will face off in two debates, one and just weeks here on cnn. The political jams already are flying okay, really seriously, where is Rudy Giuliani . The onetime Trump Attorney is still missing nearly three weeks after word of an indictment and officials in arizona trying to serve him with papers, charging him in alleged election scheme and their states. So how extensive has this search been plus the charges that could soon beyond the way for boeing . One of the biggest Plane Manufacturers in the world after all those investigations into deadly crashes of 7307 Max Airplanes this is Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We are starting with Breaking News in the money lea
Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
Defense for donald trump and spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to. The details of her alleged trust with the former president of the United States. Now, the crescendo of this hourslong stint on the Witness Stand. All led up to this trumps attorney, susan necklace, heavy handedly, the asserting that the Adult Film Actress had made it all up necklace youve bragged about how good you are about writing porn movies and writing really good stories and writing really good dialogue, right daniels . Yes. Necklace. And now you have a story youve been telling about having sex with donald trump, right . Daniels. And if that story were untrue, i would have written it a lot better. There was laughter in the courtroom Daniels Hover of course, is not the only headline witness to take her turn under the oath. The jury also heard from Madeline Western Out thats a former for gatekeeper really to the president and the head of oval office operations. Shes out ri