hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. it is raining news. we start with trump on the stand. it was short on substance, short on decourt um, and very short on truth. yet overflowing with deflection and grgrievance. donald trump s testimony in the $250 million civil fraud lawsuit in new york, though historic, felt familiar in some ways. except for one key difference. the arena. it was not a fox news sit-down or a meandering political speech, but donald trump sat down in a courtroom. and in courtrooms, facts and the rule of law still matter. they reign supreme. in that domain today, trump was repeatedly admonished by the man who will determine the fate of his business empire and brand and the future of the size of his family s wealth. time and time again the judge has used his authority as a judge to interrupt donald trump s everyone is out to get me, to run out the clock on testimony that was limit 20d a single day. that was today. the question was andet me ask again, became fam
like paul manafort, michael cohen, people who had been very close to him one day. the next day trump barely knows them. so we heard trump say last week or this weekend i m not sure if giuliani is still representing again, you know if your lawyer is representing you. they re only not representing you if you fire them. and so for people who rely on trump s loyalty, people like giuliani. a lot of those people who relied on the president s loyalty are now sitting in federal prison. i think i have a list of them for you, frank figliuzzi. so these are the people that paul butler is talking about. michael cohen in prison. paul manafort in prison. michael flynn, found guilty. rick gates, found guilty. george papadopoulos, found guilty. and rudy giuliani now under investigation. we should add by the office he once ran. frank, offer me some of your theories on why public opinion
thank you, ladies. if you d like to learn more about ladies of hope ministries and how you can help go to lohm.org. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. continue on. you are watching cnn i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the new york times is reporting that prosecutors in new york have subpoenaed the president s accounting firm for eight years of both his personal tax returns and his corporate tax returns. so that, in part, involves the investigation into the hush money payments made to stormy daniels. keep in mind this comes days after cnn reported that prosecutors spoke with the president s former fixer, michael cohen in prison. let s go to our cnn legal analyst, and former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york. what s your reaction to this? this looks like a logical next step in the growing
back to our breaking news. cnn has now confirmed that prosecutors in new york have subpoenaed the president s accounting firm for eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns. this is coming days after cnn reported that prosecutors spoke with the president s former fixer, michael cohen in prison. what are they looking for? the manhattan district attorney s office is looking into the hush money payments that the president made to sigh lens the allegation of affairs during the election. what michael cohen pled guilty to. the da is looking inwhether any state laws have been violated,
stormy daniels, as you and your colleagues in the judiciary committee are planning to hold hearings about the president s role in alleged push money payments. daniels says she s ready to testify. will your committee ask her to testify? the witness list has not been finalized. we do know that michael cohen is sitting in federal prison partly because he engaged in a criminal conspiracy to use hush money payments to silence stormy daniels as well as karen mcdougle when they had negative stories of affairs with donald trump. we also know donald trump wrote the checks for this criminal conspiracy along with ami, national enquirer and under any other american face of this evidence, that person would also be sitting next to michael cohen in prison. the reason trump has want been indicted because of a justice department policy that says you can t indict a sitting president. even though the witness list has want went put forth, would you like to see stormy daniels