Monday and theyre saying that they may be able to rest their case by next weeks events, Brin Jin Grass is outside the courthouse following all of it for us and brynn today todays proceedings late. A lot of the important groundwork for the big witness monday, Michael Cohen, what can we expect on monday yes. Equaliser. This is the guy that said he would take a bullet for his boss and he might be who helps the prosecution sink donald trump. So well have to see, of course, hes the person who can bring jurors into that room, into the hello. Office in february 2017, when prosecutors say they hatched this plan to make these Reimbursement Payments ahead of the 2016 election. They alleged that he conspired with other trump org members to figure out how these reimbursements will work. Hes expected to be on the stand for a couple of days now, when the defense gets their turn to ask the questions, of course, theyre going to attack his credibility. Like we have seen them do with other witnesses in
Storm with abby, phillip and bill so were only on cnn and the lead with jake tapper starts right now next up on the witness stand, the people plan to call Michael Dean Cohen. The lead starts right now Donald Trumps former lawyer, known as the fixer, The Next Star Witness in line, and the new york hush money cover up case. What is the impact of this trial on trump himself ill ask one of his attorneys from the 2021 impeachment, plus former Trump White House aide anthony scare, a mooc well be here for his perspective and old faithful is back in the news. Steve bannon, Aka Sloppy Steve for donald trump possibly one step closer to jail time hi, im Paul Manafort. Could be closer to working with his old boss. And one of the biggest competition shows in the world rocked by ugly protests, objecting to the mere participation of a contestant from israel. So what exactly is driving these moms prompting Security Concerns for the israeli contestant welcome to the lead on jake tapper, brace for impac
Special edition of news night. Im Maddie Philip in new york alongside Kaitlan Collins tonight re spect and the cost of compliance with the court. The judge has issued a if he does and if he doesnt threat to former President Trump over his repeats he did breaking of a gag order and the paper trail takes a star turn no headline Witnesses Today in court. But instead, the jury got a crash course in the nittygritty details of the Trump Organization. It was a De Of Show And Tell that included multiple checks and Financial Disclosures bearing the signature of donald j. Trump. That is a critical piece of evidence that the prosecutors need to show that their case doesnt just rest on the word of pr jurors like Michael Cohen, theres also that question of a direct attack on the rule of law. The words of judge juan merchan, starting today addressing violation number ten they gag order that limits what the defendant here i can say. The judge seems poised to move past the fines, lamenting that those
president is four criminal trials. look at the case tomorrow with it a job. they know jury has ever had before deciding whether or not to convict a former president united states and current candidate for the office again, of as many as 34 felonies today was the final chance for both sides to persuade them. we re talking about it tonight, joining the panel, retired new york city criminal judge george grosso, and jury consultant to alan. alan tuerkheimer. just grosso. it is great to have you with all your experience here what did you make up closing arguments night, i mean five hours two-and-a-half, three hours. is that it was a long day for the most part. i found it i was totally zoned in that one pretty pretty quick. i felt towards the last hour, so that mr. steinglass couldn t move to the long and i didn t know if we needed like six book excerpts more choice choice xors. i think less for the been a little more with some of that, but i think i think look, on the defense
just for the summations now, you can t bring the president there for the whole trial because people say, well, doesn t he have better things to do than sit here for a week, but for summations for a few hours, it would not have been inappropriate to do that s interesting. so you think a president biden being in there would have been helpful? i m sure that discussion was had between the biden family and abbe lowell and they decided against it. and i can understand there are reasons to decide against it, but if you do bring the president there, it does show respect for the system that he s there sitting as a father interested in the fate of his son, but he s not there. and you would have to acknowledge it. he s not there as the president of the united states he s there as the father of hunter biden? yeah. i mean, it is remarkable. abbe lowell going 90 minutes today with the jury was closing their eyes and some points. is that a bad sign look, it s it s not great, but you