Hello again. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting in new york. Jose diazbalart should be with us in just a moment. Technical difficulties. But right now, want to bring you up to speed, the court is in Morning Recess in former president Donald Trumps hush money trial, which is now in its 15th day. Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg is in the courtroom for todays proceedings and nbc news has learned through multiple sources that former president Donald Trumps Attorney Michael Cohen will begin his testimony on monday. And is expected to be on the stand for several days. Lets discuss more about all of this with nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, who is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Also joining us, Catherine Christian, Former Manhattan assistant District Attorney, who is an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, break right now, but set the scene for what has happened so far this morning. Reporter yeah, good morning, ana. Madeleine westerhout
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
After tense and dramatic testimony, filled with more than a few moments that would make any one of us blush, the trump election interference hush money trial today got down to brass tacks, a flood of evidence, phone call data, texts, tweets, documents, that cast new light on the mechanics of the scheme to silence Stormy Daniels and conceal the Hush Money Payments. They set the stage for one star witness and possibly the appearance of another witness who is not on anyones list to testify. Read out loud in court today messages sent between Stormy Daniels publicist, Gina Rodriguez, and the National Enquirer editor dylan howard. These Text Messages show that those two were in talks for months about buying Stormy Daniels story. On october 7th, 2016 april 7th, 2016, rodriguez text but stormy was his mistress. Dylan howard texts back, i bet she was. Can you email me what you have on that . Few months later this exchange from june 28th, 2016. Gina rodriguez texts, she doesnt want to go on the
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