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
expected to be extended. we are in day zseven and more hostages expected to be released this hour. this as secretary of state tony blinken is meeting the top officials in tel aviv. and yet, a shooting in gaza may threaten the truce. and now, the strike back at advertising. tell them to go blnk themselves says elon musk. how is that working so far? i m john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. the new york republican george santos slammed his colleagues for bullying him. he is facing an expulsion vote tomorrow coming in the wakes of the ethics report that he ripped off campaign donors and used the money for himself, and santos has plead not guilty to a slew of charges. let s begin with what you are hearing on capitol hill, manu raju. i have been talking to lawmakers about the george santos issue, and the republicans are deeply divided of whether or not to expel him from the house of representatives. some of them are torn about whether or not to vote for
happened this past week, which was really the last week of argument in this historic criminal trial of donald trump. the first ever for a former president, as you certainly know by now. this final week was a short one, but a lot happened. michael cohen was back on the stand finishing his four days of testimony, and trump s lawyers began and ended the case. in one week we saw the d.a. and the defense team both rest. and we saw the defense witnesses, who, at times, stumbled. here is how it played out. the defense wrapped up with michael cohen after three days of cross-examination. it was a grueling three days. the prosecution has now rested its case. the defense has also just now called its first witness. robert costello back on the stand later this morning after yesterday s fireworks. he was nearly tossed from the witness box and his entire testimony was nearly stricken from the record. an extraordinary moment. his whole attitude on the stand can have the defense
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jury to buy. It most certainly is and prosecutors will hammer one concept, follow the money. In these fraud trials, if you follow the money trail, that will lead you to the conclusion that you will finding when in the prosecutions mind is guilt. Theyll see readily Paul Manafort made exponentially bigger amounts. He set up the business and the shell companies. So its a very tough sell for the defense team to say its the lower level, the subordinate whos in position to take orders from the man above thats the true mastermind. Follow the money and that will lead you to the Promised Land for the prosecution. If i were rick gates, i would have taken a larger cut for myself, which he apparently did. Joining us now, ken dilanian. Ken, we were just speculating about this last night about when this might happen and it sounds like its a little quicker than we might have thought and that we are going to hear from gates
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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you cant lie on a loan application. Time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isnt. Including everybody. We begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. The president of the United States is an unindicted coconspirator in a felony Campaign Finance case. If that isnt enough, the Special Counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. That are the former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. The president s reaction today is beyond telling. Hes attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising Paul Manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. Both Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort face prison time. What now for the president is
the big question here in washington. There are democrats who say