Trial. The prosecution star witness, Michael Cohen, back on the stand. Todays burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin what could be an intense Cross Examination, which could start any time today. Could his trademark temper flare under pressure . Yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse for us. Yasmin, take us inside right now. Whats happening . Reporter yeah, a lot happening so far, right . Were 30 minutes into this thing. We already got a lot. Were getting to the crux of this whole thing. Yesterday we heard a lot of incredible testimony from Michael Cohen. We got to the intent as to why essentially donald trump would have wanted to pay off Stormy Daniels. We talked about the january 16th and or 17th meeting, Michael Cohen is unclear about the date in which donald trump, Allen Weisselberg, Michael Cohen were in the room in trump tower saying were going to say Legal Services rendered, paying you monthly, 35,000 a month per the math done by Allen Weisselb
Questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight, the Trump Hush Money Trial. Im abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes. That is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today Michael Cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecutions case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. If you remember from trumps periphery to trumps, go refer to trumps. Do everything fixer. And that included the alleged Hush Money Deal designed to silence Stormy Daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. Well, mr. Trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measure
Welcome to The World Today an hour of International News from the bbc. The former lawyer and fixer for donald trump who once said hed take a bullet for the fomer president , today took the stand as a Star Witness For The Prosecution in mr trumps hush money trial. Michael cohen is testifying about his role in what prosecutors say was a cover up of payments to hide an affair with the adult film star stormy daniels. Mr trump denies falsifying Business Records to reimburse his then lawyer for the payment on the eve of the 2016 president ial election, when the story could have been politically damaging. Mr cohen a former close ally turned foe of mr trump pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax offences, fraud and Campaign Finance violations. The latter charge stemmed from the same payment at the heart of the current case. Earlier i spoke to our correspondent nada tawfik who has been in new york and staying across the trial for us. I asked her about the latest on what Michael Cohen has been saying at
Stand. Been there all day. Nearing the end of just his first day of testimony. Michael cohen revealing what it was like to work for donald trump and made sure the boss looked good in the public eye. Work that trump would praise him for when he did that. Cohen testified that it would make him feel, quote, like i was on top of the world. Cohen was a guard dog protecting his boss at all costs. Trumps former pit bull today corroborated all of the interactions this jury has heard about over the past few weeks. That includes the allimportant meeting at trump tower in 2015. Thats the one with david pecker of the National Enquirer and donald trump where the catchandkill scheme was originally hatched. Michael cohen testified to conversations about keeping the story of Donald Trumps affair with playboy model Karen Mcdougal quiet. He testified to how he arranged with pecker the 150,000 Payment Mcdougal to bury the story. The jury then heard the only Conversation Cohen had with trump that he taped
Central steam and special coverage of Donald Trumps Criminal Trial continues now and you are looking a lot pictures down inside 100 Centre Street behind me today, we expect to drama filled de, with important stakes for megarian, go a long way in determining of donald from gets convicted in ten days, 16 of trial right now, the former prisoners motorcade is on route to the courthouse. Once trump arrives in, court gets underway here, we expect the people to call the man whose evolve from protector to trump pariah, To Trump Prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Im interested. Cooper, new york. And then im jake tapper in y shoots and uci and you are wanting special cnn live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial Today the man who bent the truth and broke the law for his his former boss, the former president goes on the stand. Michael dean cohen the former trump fixer and lawyer whose imposed trumps will on whatever he could bullying dealing and lawyering his way into getting trump