As former President Trumps lawyer for tried to discredit her story and her motivation for telling it, often using her career in the adult Film Industry for reference one exchange reading quote, necklace, the lawyer saying you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real. Daniels responds, wow, thats not how i would put it. The second in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. The sex is real. Thats why its Pornography Necklace than asking, now, you have a story youve been telling about having sex with President Trump daniels answers, if that story was untrue, i would have written it to be a lot better. And thats not the only moment where trumps team highlighted daniels work in the adult Film Industry. Caitlin know, its certainly not. They repeatedly pointed to that and there was another moment where trumps attorney, Susan Nicholas daniels and choose questioning her, and nicholas asked her and im quoting trumps attorney no
Ended up getting indicted. Newly released Court Transcripts show his outbursts earned him a stern rebuke from judge juan merchan. Judge merchan saying to trumps attorney, todd blanchethis, i understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually, and thats contemptuous and has the potential to intimidate the witness and the jury can see that. Trumps attorney, mr. Blanche, quote, i will talk to him. Judge mer shonn speaking to the court, so i am speaking at the bench because i dont want to embarrass him. Mr. Blanche, i will talk to him. The judge, you need to speak to him. I wont tolerate that. Mr. Blanche, i will talk to him. Now, one of the moments that inspired that and angered trump so much was Stormy Daniels description of part of their encounter in a hotel room in 2006. For reference heres how she described it on camera for 60 minutes in all its cringeworthy glory. It started off all about him, just talking about himself
Number of inflammatory statements and there is this argument that because hes made so many of these statements in the past, that perhaps the public has become somewhat numb to it. So these recordings might not end up having the same impact it would with any regular person simply because of the person whos saying it, which is pretty amazing. And i remember when who was at comey he said, lord, i hope theyre tapes because trumps always saying theres tapes when there arent tapes, but its gonna take them more than tapes, right . Which will take more than two, which is seconds are so much tape. Yeah. Wow. All right all right. Jason carroll. Thank you very much. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us as always, well see you back here tomorrow night. Same time. Ac30, 60 Anderson Cooper starts right now good evening. We are following two big stories tonight. One, the enormous tension right now over what happens next in gaza after de, this all celebrations over hamas saying they accep
Tonight. One, the enormous tension right now over what happens next in gaza after de this all celebrations over hamas saying they accepted a Ceasefire Deal than apprehension jennifer israels war cabinet rejecting it, and the idf beginning limited strikes on Territory Issa of raffa. Wheres really forces have ordered civilians to leave the white house as you know, has long opposed any major incursion into raffa. And today, President Biden spoke with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yahoo Administration Spokesman saying the president asked about israeli intention for the city and plans to keep civilians. Theyre safe. Were going to live updates on the situation throughout the next two hours of our special primetime cupboard tonight, we begin though with another de, unlike any other and the former president s, new york Hush Money Trial, de 12 started with the judge Finding Donald Trump at contempt. Again and telling him directly the next time could mean jail though he said it, its the last t
President ial election, prosecutors in the Trump Election Interference Hush Money Trial today have turned to the core of the actual crimes, the actual criminal acts and criminal charges against the expresident. That scheme to cover up Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels, using falsified business records. On the stand right now, Trump Employee deborah tarasoff. She handled payroll. Her testimony is critical. She explains that only donald trump could sign checks that came from his personal account. Thats the one used to reimburse Michael Cohen for the Hush Money Payments. Trump did that, even after becoming president of the United States of america. She also testified that if trump did not want to sign a check, he didnt have to. She was one half of a double whammy against the expresident today. Testifying after mcconney. He was a codefendant of the expresident. That was back in the Civil Fraud Case Against Trump and the trump org. He testified that most of the money used to reimburse M