Much for watching. Our Special Coverage continues right now on plead with jake tapper cnn Breaking News and welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper, the criminal hush money coverup trial. A former President Donald Trump is well underway right now in manhattan on the stand, right now is a man named douglas doubts he works for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office, but as opposed to previous days that were focused on bank records today. We are knee deep in shady deals and sleazy details mentioned today, were other Celebrity Scandals involving all cogen and Charlie Sheen more on that in a second. But the reason we heard all of this today was because of this man Keith Davidson, who took the stand. He is the attorney who represented both Stormy Daniels the Adult Film Star and director, and Karen Mcdougal, the 1998 playboy playmate of the year. When negotiating Hush Money Payments arrange to keep them twice quiet about alleged sexual encounters they had with donald trump, ones that mr. Trump d
Tabloid reporter that show the Frantic Scramble to stop it from going off the rails. The chaos that ensued when the Hush Money Payments came to light. On the stand right now is a man named doug daus. Hes a tech expert who works at the das office. He comes after hours of extraordinary testimony from Keith Davidson. The jury saw the agreement between David Dennison and Peggy Peterson alongside a side letter written by Keith Davidson that, as he puts it, decodes the agreement between the two and specificically mentions donald trump. The deals was done before Donald Trumps Election Night upset, a shocker to both keith david sop and National Inquire editor lance howard. Quote, Keith Davidson text the editor in chief of the National Inquirer around 3 00 a. M. Eastern on the night of the 2016 election. Quote, what have we done, Keith Davidson text. Oh, my god, he text him that night. Asked what he meant in his text, Keith Davidson said this was humor. He said there was an understanding betwee
About so where does it all go from here . Plus, did trump cross the line, judge juan merchan may once again punish the former president for violating his gag order, what the prosecution is asking for as they try to get trump to stop. On the surface, it may seem that trumps trial and the escalating violence and chaos on College Campuses have nothing to do with each other, but one of trumps former aides says it may, in fact, be part of a perfect political storm that is Helping Trump, boosting his election odds even as he sits quietly in court. But we start right here in New York City where a lunch break just began after a pretty wild morning at trumps trial. Its the former president accused of a crime, but todays proceedings have been focused squarely on his former fixer, Michael Cohen, his credibility, his likability and the lengths he went to to protect his boss as election day 2016 approached. Cohen hasnt even taken the stand, but his name has already come up more than a thousand time
Im Josh Campbell on the ucla campus in los angeles. This is cnn welcome, to, cnns Special Coverage day ten of Donald Trumps hush money, Criminal Trial. I, wolf blitzer in washington, Phil Mattingly just outside court in manhattan. Court just broke for lunch until about 2 15. But before that, trumps Defense Attorney was grilling Stormy Daniels, former lawyer, Keith Davidson davidson was a point person for the deal to pay daniels to stay silent about her alleged affair with Trump Davidson then dealt with trumps thenattorney, Michael Cohen, phil yeah. Grilling is the right word, wolfe, the sixfigure deal. The parties crafted involved confidentiality and even fake names for both daniels and donald trump the. Question is whether Michael Cohen took it upon himself to draw it up, or if he was actually just doing trumps bidding cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid is with me now. Paula. There has been a need to have a Pop Culture Encyclopedia if my 2005 to 2010 but more importantly
Right now. Here you can see police there with their riot gear on Campus Handling and confronting protesters there who have been in an encampment. These are the propalestinian protests weve seen breaking out across the country. Also with us retired Seattle Police chief and msnbc Law Enforcement analyst, carmen best. Tim, thank you for taking a moment to join us. Walk us through what youre seeing and whats happening there. Well, ana, its absolute chaos here on campus, if im honest with you here at wb madison. Ill step out of the way. Law enforcement officials are in the distance. They have their riot shields out, and theyve been advancing on protesters all morning long. They are clearing out an encampment thats been here since Monday Morning at around 9 00 a. M. That encampment consisted of about two dozen or so tents, but most of those tents are now gone and Law Enforcement are going tent by tent taking them down. I want to walk you over here as well to where the protesters are. You can