Hi, everyone. Happy friday. Were monitoring the ongoing criminal trial of donald trump. Were on day iegt eight of of this election Interference Hush Money Trial. Today brought the introduction of websites number two and three for the prosecution. Right this moment, the prosecution is questioning gary farro. He was Michael Cohens banker at First Republic bank. He set up the Home Equity Line Of Credit through which Michael Cohen paid stormy and was reimbursed by donald trump. Its the financial transaction thats at the heart of all of this. The second witness was a woman by the name of rona graph. You may not know the name, but she was in the room for jirs about everything. Shes Donald Trumps longtime assistant. She worked at the Trump Organization for 34 years. She also noted that she was on the stand because she had been subpoenaed and that the Trump Organization is paying for her attorneys. In a very brief line of questioning from the prosecution, alvin braggs team had her authenticate
guy but doesn t have a good system. he doesn t know how the communications flow. reporter: the speculation that ruddy was speaking for trump since he d just had drinks with the president at trump s mar-a-lago club. i m a member of the club. reporter: where ruddy has been a member for decades. with all this power, why doesn t he join the white house? i run a fairly large media company, news max media, so it would be hard for me to leave it. i feel i can be more helpful to this president by speaking on shows like yours to give people the other side of the story. he said he wants to be helpful to the president. they re friends. he s a member at mar-a-lago. you say he has close ties to the clintons. even fueling conspiracy theories. they went on a trip together in
trump. these documents also allegedly fear there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. now, again, i am telling you this is just coming out. so you know. but if it s true, it s obviously extremely serious, and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? senator franken, i m not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians.
the washington post the washington post, had this to say, president trump held a bizarre cabinet meeting monday where he claimed to have accomplished more than any president since fdr before giving the administration the opportunity to shower him with praise. were you encouraged to praise the president or say something nice about him? absolutely not. the president doesn t script the cabinet and we re given the ability to say what s on our mind. you have to remember that this was really the first full cabinet meeting where that group had ever been in the room together, and so people were not given instructions but people weren t used to knowing each other, and so what the president does is he actually opens up these meetings to the press that i think is really unusual and so you saw something that frankly no one had a script for. the president made some major promises to vets, secretary she will kshulkin, when he ran for office. one of them was veterans who have fought in america
conditions are. erin? michelle, thank you very much. incredibly tragic, horrific story as we will keeping following exactly what happened there. there are new details tonight about what really happened, by the way, at president trump s bizarre cabinet meeting yesterday. it was the first meeting of the full cabinet and started with the members going around the table praising the president on camera. in a moment you ll hear from david shulkin. he was there. he praised the president. he s the secretary of veterans affairs. but first i want to play a portion of the meeting. it s an honor to be able to serve you. thank you for the honor to serve the country, a great privilege you ve give given me. i want to thank you for getting this country moving again and working again. i can t thank you enough for the privilege that you ve given me and the leadership that you ve shown. on behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the