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
Front next opening day of trumps trial. And its getting ugly fast name calling, insults, flying between trump and what will be a star witness . Michael cohen. This is the first witness is starting to testify with david how trumps case plus russias new It Girl State Television now fawning over Marjorie Taylor greene, even though she tried but failed to sink america i can aid to ukraine. Here what they are saying tonight about quote on quote moscow, marjorie and Melania Trump now selling more jewelry. Is it to help her husband . Okay. His legal fees. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. We begin with trumps trials spilling out of the courtroom on a day when the prosecution and defense laid out their cases for the first time to 12 jurors and the six alternates its in the room and its on this momentous day, the former President Trump and his former fixer, Michael Cohen, are now in a free for all know, it did actually start in the courtroom. It was during Op
Hunter told cnn edwards did not want the truth to hurt his wife. The issues for internal family and. She was trying to hide it from elizabeth try not to hurt anybody. He didnt want to hurt elizabeth. Or his Family A Key Difference could be the timing of the alleged affairs and subsequent payoffs, which might help spell out the Payments Intent Edwards affair occurred during the 2008 campaign with at least one payment happening after the election was over, long after edwards dropped out of the race in trumps case, the alleged affair happened in 2006, years before he ran for president the payoff is alleged to have been made just two weeks before the 2016 election persecution. And this is about me, but perhaps the starkest difference is how each man reacted to their cases there is no one else responsible for my sans none of the people who came to court and testified are responsible. Nobody working for the government is responsible. I am responsible. This is really an attack on a political
Violated that order seven times, seen as Marshall Cohen hello, and joins me now so marshall, what can we expect . What are we going to be learning over the course the next few days as the historic trial gets underway. Yeah, heavy dose of history in new york city. This has this is an Election Interference case going back to 2016. Their indictment frames this as a scheme to falsify Business Records that Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels routed through Michael Cohen reimburse through the Trump Organization according to the prosecutors, they say that trump and his company basically cooked the books to hide this payment in violation of new york state law. A lot of legal experts are saying its a terrible idea for donald trump to take the stand that he would only hurt himself in doing so. But who else could we expect to see up there . Hes been sort of playing with some fire here in the last few days saying that he wants to do it. He did testify in some of those civil trials earlier this ye
counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to hide an alleged affair with an adult film star and influence the 2016 election. trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump s former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen, though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case. the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret, but prosecutors do not prove their claim. the cover-up was about the election. the woman with whom edwards had the affair, real hunter told cnn, edwards did not want the truth to hurt his wife the issues for internal family issues, trying to hide it from elizabeth, try not to hurt anybody. he didn t want to hurt elizabeth. or his family. a key difference could be the timing of the alleged affairs and subsequent payoffs which might help spell out the