The stand under crossexamination when Court Resumes. So it begins another hour here i am john roberts in washington. Sandra this is going to be an interesting hour ahead. Be to consider in Court Resumes at 2 15 p. M. He oftentimes walks back and around 2 10 p. M. So we should be seeing him shortly. I am sandra smith in new york this is america reports. Trumps defense team has tried to show cohen as a untruthful and vindictive, angry he never got a job in the white house. Cohen is dented by his testimony that the payment that was made to Stormy Daniels was done at the direction of the former president. John that is not what he said when he confided to form a Legal Advisor bob costello years ago, here is What Costello told americas newsroom this morning. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything on donald trump. And then when we got into the discussion of the Stormy Daniels nda he said specifically, and i crossexamined him on this, this wa
Good to be with you, im katy tur. The Hush Money Trial of former President Trump. Defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohens direct hm. Cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a Quote Surrogate of mr. Trumps campaign, and the secret recordings he made of the former president. Blanche is starting to dig into the stories cohen attempted to bury about trump. This goes back to early days of this trial, alongside National Enquirers david pecker. Joining us now, Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the court, back with us. Chuck rosenberg, catherine christian, and Danny Cevallos. Yasmin, what is happening right now . Reporter theyre talking about the calls beginning in june of 2016. This is when cohen alleges he informed the former president of the united states, his boss at the time there was a meeting between mcdougal. This was the beginning of the payoff by ami. It was october in which the payoff was made to Stormy Daniels, initial contact bet
My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c
Are being led by an outrageously bullish combination of stocks, that should not be going higher at the same time. Nobody wants to say it, but i dont know if i can recall a moment where we had such disparate stocks climbing together to new highs. You asked me a few weeks ago, i would have told you this combination today is not conceivable. That is what has happened. Dow getting another 350 points today, s p, record close. Nasdaq, you guessed it, record close. This actually defies the whole nature of the conventional wisdom of what can happen when we are at this part in the cycle. For the old days, crashing in 2008. We would be celebrating daily today, so now in a certain respect, they just try to ignore what is happening, so they can o back, go back to talking about how the consumer is tapped out, or something we learned about from some incredibly weak retail Sales Numbers just this morning, or how inflation is still raging, and it is frightening the budget deficit, a Consumer Price ind
Is back on stand this morning. The jury hearing directly from the attorney and fixer for donald trump right now as we speak. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, these hours go by fast. Bill reading e. Mails as fast as we can. He shut down the story of daniels before the election. The former president striking back hard before he went into court as the whole process unfolds for what is what, day 17 . Here he is last hour. Check it out. The gag order has to come off. When you ask me a question about the people that we are talking about, im not allowed to answer. There has never been anything like this in the history of our country. It is a scam. It is Election Interference at a level thats never taken place before. Bill lets get the latest. Eric shawn is at the courthouse now. Where are we . Hello, Michael Cohen on the stand right now and he is bringing the jury to the white house. Bringing them into a meeting in the oval office that he says he had with President Trump newly elec