Special coverage of the donald trump Hush Money Trial until then. Thanks very much. Thanks for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts, right now outfront next two Crucial Court hearings for former President Trump in manhattan, former Tabloid Executive testifying today about working with trump to kill stories that could hurt the campaign. And the Supreme Court. Tonights signaling a good further delay. Trumps january 6 case. After the arguments today exactly what trump wants their im from the white house lawyer ty cobb is here, plus violent clashes on College Campuses before its a tasers and tear gas used on propalestinian protesters. As a Major University cancels its main graduation. Lets go out front and good evening. Im erin Burnett Outfront tonight. Aid Breathtaking De and the trump trials two hugely consequential moments happening in two separate court rooms, two separate cities at the very same time crossexamined amination beginning for the first key witness in trumps criminal tria
Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
keep pushing forward with this, and there are a lot of other liars. to me, that s the weakness in the defense coming in. to point it out, it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 pacific right now. they did bring up the catch and kill yeah, and related it back to cohen. that specifically, duncan, the idea that catch and kill is not illegal. we have talked about that before and that s true. they brought out the testimony and he s bringing in during the argument other catch and kill instances, schwarzenegger, and others, and this is different. the reason it s different is catch and kill is not illegal and maybe it s a questionable journalistic technique but it s not illegal. prior to 2016, the national enquirer and donald trump never engaged in this together, and why is that? this is borne out by the testimony of david pecker, and then they talked to michael cohen about this, and the timing of it and the fact that it was taking place after the access hollywood testimony cam
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. This is something under discussion, something been on the president s mind and appears its been on the president s mind lately as well. To hear the president yet again go after Attorney General Jeff Sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. Where do things stand on that. You heard him earlier on fox, What Kind Of Man is this, once again seizing on this recusal Jeff Sessions decided to go with early on in the administration to stay out of the russian investigation. That has obviously been under the president s skin ever since then and he went after Jeff Sessions. What changed, a watershed moment often this Punching Bag Relationship the president constantly beating up on Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions fired back showing what a lot of people in washington have been waiting for for a lon
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Out of millions of dollars. The president says he is a friend of ours, as they used to stay in the mob. Jim acosta joins us. I understand youre learning more about the advice the president is getting about issuing pardons related to the russian investigation. Reporter thats right, anderson. I have been told by a source inside the president s legal team he has been advised for months now to avoid any pardons in the russia investigation including Paul Manafort. Interesting to point out earlier this evening the Washington Post was reporting Rudy Guiliani told them in just the last several weeks, Rudy Guiliani had to talk the president out of pardoning Paul Manafort until it is over. Whats interesting here about all of that is that at the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was not under di