Eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york alongside my colleague and friend chris jansing. For two hours of special coverage on what is expected to be a dramatic and consequential day in Donald Trumps hush money trial. The prosecutions star witness on the stand right now. Prosecutors spent a year preparing Michael Cohen for this moment. He is the witness that prosecutors need to directly tie trump to the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse, also with us kristen gibb against, Charles Coleman and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy salaam. Thank you all for joining us. Lets go to yasmin first. What is the latest inside that courtroom as Michael Cohens testimony begins . Reporter were getting some demeanor notes, guys, as to how Michael Cohen is interacting with the prosecution when answering his questions, also kind of some color from inside the courtroom when Michael Cohen was asked to identify
Welcome back to the weekend, everyone. Donald trumps 2016 Election Interference Trial resumes tomorrow morning with a very key witness. Multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that Michael Cohen will take the stand. His testimony over the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels is expected to last several days. The Prosecution Plans to call one more witness before resting its case. Who exactly that other witness is remains a mystery. Joining us to discuss it all is a former member of the probe, andrew weisman, who hosts the Podcast Prosecuting donald trump. And Lockland Cart right is here, he doesnt have a webby but he has the ticket. So andrew, you have for the duration of this offered up a master class for anyone who has been following the numerous trials here. I sit at your knee for a lot of this stuff because you bring a lot of the elements of insight and understanding to make it clear for us what we are looking at. I want to play for you Michael Cohen. He is the guy starting
Defense for donald trump and spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to. The details of her alleged trust with the former president of the United States. Now, the crescendo of this hourslong stint on the Witness Stand. All led up to this trumps attorney, susan necklace, heavy handedly, the asserting that the Adult Film Actress had made it all up necklace youve bragged about how good you are about writing porn movies and writing really good stories and writing really good dialogue, right daniels . Yes. Necklace. And now you have a story youve been telling about having sex with donald trump, right . Daniels. And if that story were untrue, i would have written it a lot better. There was laughter in the courtroom Daniels Hover of course, is not the only headline witness to take her turn under the oath. The jury also heard from Madeline Western Out thats a former for gatekeeper really to the president and the head of oval office operations. Shes out ri
Anderson cooper back in 2018. Lets take a quick listen to what she said so you. Signed and released a statement. It said im not denying this affair because i was paid and hush money. Im denying it because it never happened thats a lie. Yes. If it was untruthful why did you sign it because they made it sound like i had no choice. But the exact sentence used was they can make your life hell in many different ways. Now, donald trump will have a different view, has expressed a different view of what happened between him and Stormy Daniels. Lets just remind ourselves of some of the comments that donald trump has made about Stormy Daniels i have no idea who these women are. Have no idea. I have no idea. The stories are total fiction there 100 made up they never happened. They never would happen, never met this person, these people, i dont know who they are i dont know who they are now whether they had sex are not in 2006 is not directly relevant to the crimes charged here, but it could be ve
Large of jurors currents and author of the book the crisis of zionism. Another hour of velshi begins now. Now. Good morning, its sunday oo may 5th. Many republican lawmakers have spent the weekend in Sunny Florida where the gop held its annual spring retreat this year. Some of them will have to face the bleak situation that faces them on capitol hill. Thousands of her presenters will be back in session tomorrow. There is one big issue hanging over their heads. Marjorie Taylor Greene is continuing to bow to force a vote to oust the speaker of the house, mike johnson, which she intends to bring in the floor in the coming days. If you didnt already know, marjorie Taylor Greene is big matt that johnson worked with ha democrats to negotiate the passage of some major bills, particularly the latest package of foreign aid that includes 60 billion for ukraine. Aid to ukraine has become a ne contentious point for Many Republican members, driven in no small part by Donald Trumps opposition to sen