good to be with you, i m katy tur. the hush money trial of former president trump. defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohen s direct hm. cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a quote surrogate of mr. trump s 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 enquirer s 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: they re 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 dan
pronounce a verdict about donald trump or to get on a political is a trout guy that i got interrupted. sorry, a courtroom break after michael cohen testified this morning the donald trump told him, take care of it. the it were claims being made by adult film star and director stormy daniels calling add it, cohen adding quote, this was all about the campaign get cnn special live coverage continues with markup today with us welcome to cnn special coverage of former president trump s hush money criminal trial. i m wolf blitzer in washington. laura coates is outside court in new york. today, trump s former for fixer and lawyer michael cohen has taken the stand so far. the prosecution s star witness has testified about his work for trump zeroing in on two instances where he worked with the national enquirer s david pecker to catch and kill negative stories about trump and that includes a false allegation from trump s former doorman about trump supposedly having fathered a love c
politics nation. tonight s lead, campaign countdown. happy mother s day to all the mothers. this weekend marks 100 days to the democratic convention in chicago and less than six months to election day. showing the contest between former president trump is as close as it can be. but the contrast between the two men would approach to this race could not be more stuck. the biden team has been with the president and vice president and using them to highlight the administration s side and point out the threat to democracy that is posed to their opponent. as he spends his weekdays tied up with his hush money trial. then jetting off to the rallies of the supporters, like the ones he held beachside last night in wildwood, new jersey. only time will tell whether the reason over wage will win out when they head to the polls. we start tonight with michael tyler. michael, thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for having me, and happy mother s day down in atlanta. i should say that. y
and tonight to trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working and the other might be working. again. it s the former president of the united states. the first deny, deny, deny in minutes, the eight-year history of the many, many times that trump has repeated his denials about stormy daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story. now the adult film star, as you can imagine, telling a very different version of events, the jury under oh, today and sayyed 100 center street. now, daniels left out the way the most salacious details, but not much else. she chronicled how that night and lake tahoe in 2006 escalated from chatter to a dinner invitations that is hotel suite to silk pajamas deposing and his boxers on the bed to sex. trump. listen, they scowl extra across his face from much of the nilly five hours that she s spent on that witness stand. trump nudge. did i say nudge lightly? nudge his laura is as repeatedly to object as prosecutors prompted dan
good friday morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news in a courtroom in manhattan where witness testimony has just resumed in donald trump s hush money trial, and back on the stand is the forensic specialist from the manhattan d.a. s office who inspected data from michael cohen s phone including text messages and secret recordings. nbc s vaughn hillyard is standing by for us outside the courthouse. also with us former u.s. attorney, former state court judge carol lam, and state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg. vaughn, start us off here. the judge started everything by pushing back on some of trump s comments yesterday about his potential testimony in this case. what can you tell us? reporter: right. trump has repeatedly bemoaned the fact that this gag order has been placed on him preventing him from speaking about witnesses as this pertains to this criminal proceeding, but also the jury. bu