Prosecution witness former president s hush money trial, Michael Cohen, a onetime fixer attorney. And according to his memoir, Designated Thug for the former president. Hes now a convicted felon and self admitted per juror. But despite that resume, he took the stand today as the single individual who can show the jury believe him, do what no other witness can testify to multiple direct combat frustrations with the former president about then candidates not allege knowledge and even authorization of every critical step of the alleged hush money crime that forms the basis of 34 Felony Charges against him, plus cohen can testify to the prosecutions allegation that the socalled catch and kill scheme was a political move designed to win an election cohen today quoted trump telling me want to Stormy Daniels allegation under wraps until after the election, quote, if i win and has no relevance, i will be president and if i lose, i dont even care. Prosecutor use tax call logs and emails whereve
China number one was lets try this again. What do you see . Ring oh, my god youre in the cnn newsroom. Im jessica dean in new york, former President Trump goes from the courtroom to the campaign trail. Hes about to start speaking to supporters at a rally on the jersey shore. Its his first rally since adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand in his Hush Money Trial in new york city now trump remains under a gag order. The judge in his trial has threatened the former president with jail time if he violates that order. Again, which would include talking about any of the witnesses, plus trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen, the key witness for the prosecution. Fusion, set to take the stand now, on monday. So why is trump choosing new jersey for his Campaign Rally . Its not exactly trump country, but where he actually speaking, where hes actually speaking is cnns alayna trina joining us now, live with more alayna, new jersey, a blue state, pretty reliably, but he has found that at pocket
Number of inflammatory statements and there is this argument that because hes made so many of these statements in the past, that perhaps the public has become somewhat numb to it. So these recordings might not end up having the same impact it would with any regular person simply because of the person whos saying it, which is pretty amazing. And i remember when who was at comey he said, lord, i hope theyre tapes because trumps always saying theres tapes when there arent tapes, but its gonna take them more than tapes, right . Which will take more than two, which is seconds are so much tape. Yeah. Wow. All right all right. Jason carroll. Thank you very much. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us as always, well see you back here tomorrow night. Same time. Ac30, 60 Anderson Cooper starts right now good evening. We are following two big stories tonight. One, the enormous tension right now over what happens next in gaza after de, this all celebrations over hamas saying they accep
Thats going to do it for me tonight but now, it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. You know, if i seem a little off my game tonight it is because i made a mistake last night. I started to read jen psakis book before going to sleep. Which means i almost didnt get to sleep. For example, can you imagine a white house Chief Of Staff changing a diaper in the white house . On a baby that is not his baby . Lets start there, okay . Wow. That took a twist at the end. I thought i knew where you were going but then it was like someone elses baby. Okay and guess whose baby it was okay and jen psaki has worked for the last three democratic nominees for president. Do you want to guess which one she was terrified of . John kerry, barack obama, joe biden, the answer will be coming later when jen psaki joins us. Which one gave her a bear hug after the Job Interview . Which one actually did not hire her for the job she interviewed for. It is every one of these things
I learned thoughts on capitol hill and this close captioning brought to you by feel away, optimum, enhanced calming for cats have your cats springs outside the litter box, fights with other cats were scratches the furniture, they could be telling you theres stressed to help them feel more calm, try feel away. Optimum good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage. The trump, new york hush money trial de tens. Prosecutors, but for more alleged gag order violations before the judge. And the Defense Paint paint expected witnesses, Michael Cohen, and currently witness Keith Davidson is the true culprits in this case, not trump davidson, as you know represented Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal and secure deals for their silence about alleged affairs with trump and the crucial months before the 2016 an election. But any effort to make them the villains and donald trump, the victims countered by prosecutors who played the phone conversation, Michael Cohen secretly recorded and cnn