Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. And Today Is The Day actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand against donald trump in the trial today. Shes the key witness. So prosecutors had an important goal here today, showing the jury that shes believable, that shes telling the truth, that the facts are on her side. And while defendant trump is not on trial for lying about the underlying encounter. That itself would not be a crime and is not charged, they want to use the d. A. , this testimony to show this was the first of many lies by trump, trump of which if prosecuted are crimes. This is her chance to be heard in a Legal Process that has spanned years and often said has involved many claims about her at the center of this scandal. Donald trumps personal attorney paid a porn star named Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the republican candidate for president. The former president accused of paying 100,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels. Stormy daniels became a H
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The next panel. Before i do so, id like to take one minute to pick up on something that we touched on recently today, the tragic events in las vegas last week. And i would like to turn the mic over to our fellow, your fellow legislator and my good friend, representative chris taylor from wisconsin, who has a quick announcement in that regard. Hello, everybody. I just wanted to build on, and i talked to our nevada folks about this as well, the issue, the gun epidemic and the most recent tragedy, and share a tactic that were using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you. A lot of you may have done this already. We have obviously introduced a lot of gun safety bills, including a bump stock ban, but we also formulated a letter that were circulating to the entire Wisconsin Legislature directed at our federal representatives and President Trump, calling on them to take action immediately to pass background checks, obviously, the bump stock ban, and to allow the cdc to do the Important R
Lettere also forwarded a to the entire Wisconsin Legislature directed at our physical our federal legislators and President Trump to immediately pass background checks, bump stock bands, and to allow the cdc to do the Important Research of guns on Public Safety and public health. I think it would be very powerful in every state sent a letter federally to your delegation calling for action, not just pursue these policies in your state, too, which is always a great option. I have a letter we are currently going to send from our wisconsin delegation if youre interested in taking that are adopting some of that. It would be superpowerful if we had all of our delegations come all of our states send a letter, calling on congress to finally act and this president to act on these very common sense gun safety measures. Just see me if you are interested, he would like to see the letter we are sending. Thanks everybody. [applause] ok, let me introduce our next panel. It is fantastic to be here and