hush money scheme. it may very well also be a court appearance that proceeds an indictment of a former president of these united states michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer went before a grand jury in manhattan today in what may be alvin bragg s end game a years-long investigation based on hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels payments made nearly seven years ago. here s what cohen had to say earlier today before he went in for his grand jury testimony this is not revenge, right? what is this is about accountability i don t want to see anyone, including donald trump, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, simply because i fundamentally disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. new york times reports this, quote, the manhattan d.a. s office has already questioned at least seven other people before the grand jury, hearing evidence about the hush money deal that s accor
To have said all i need you to do is to find me 11,000 votes unchanged. I think if you look at that context it is pretty clear that petitioner is acting in the capacity of office seeker, not as president i am focus on the legal test. I am not hearing any objections to it. Other than i think the d. C. Circuit place more Content Consideration off limit then i went. I want to understand on the court immunity, or whatever word we use, it seems to me that we are narrowing the ground of dispute here considerably. Do we look at motives . The president s motives for his actions . For example, he has lots of power as weve discussed, but he might use them to enhance his election in his personal interest. It is not a relevant consideration when we look at core powers . I think of this more as looking at the objectives of the activity as opposed to the subjective motives in the sense that you are i think there is concern about seeing a electoral motive to be reelected as such. Every firstterm pres
hunter biden facing felony charges. the president s son is accused of a scheme to avoid paying at least one point $14 million in taxes. we will break down the latest indictment and how he is responding to it. and we are following the sentencing hearing for the michigan high school shooter. dozens of heartbreaking victim impact statements being read in court, detailing the survivors and their families have been through. and amid threats from donors to pull money, emergency meetings among top officials at now growing calls from lawmakers to resign. the president is not budging, at least so far. we followed these major developing stories and more all coming in here to cnn news central. we begin with president biden s son, hunter, indicted again, and this time he is facing the most serious allegations yet, three felony charges he tax abrasion and fraud. among the nine charges that accuse him of avoiding more than 1 million dollars in taxes. president biden
about purchasing her life rights for $130,000, what i did, each and every time, is go straight into mr. trump s office and discuss the issue with him when it was ultimately determined, this was days before the election, that mr. trump was going to pay the $130,000, in the office with me was allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization, he acknowledged to allen that he was going to pay the 130,000, and that allen and i should go back to his office and figure out how to do it. so, cohen in testimony, again, that has never been called into question, what i just played, goes into trump s office and directs trump directs cohen and weisselberg,