Starts now. Welcome, everyone. Its a special twohour edition of the beat. Im ari melber. This is the second day of convicted former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying. Inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss and by the afternoon the defense started their crossexamination. Weve been reporting on that. Heres how its been going. Another pivotal day in Donald Trumps criminal trial in new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the stand for a second day of testimony. Its a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment weve been waiting for, the crossexamination. The burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination. Its been an explosive last hour of testimony. Its getting testy. Michael cohen is 45 minutes now into todd blanches cross. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the thats some of what down today. Prosecutors have confirme
At times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that shes crazy line of attack against her. At one point Attorney Susan Necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. To which daniels replied wow thats now how i would put it. The sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. To try to prove that Stormy Daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trumps Defense Lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which Stormy Daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. Trump. Team trump also suggested that Stormy Daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. A line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the expresident s team. As nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trumps story, trying to hurt his election bid. Wouldnt that bolster the prosecutions arguments trump had for w
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
Its call ed sister hood. Its how you see it. Its to encourage women to speak up about what they believe in. Please watch this. It is extraordinary. You can look it up online. It is amazinamazing, and if you looking for something to inspire you, turn to the girls who code. That wraps up this hour. Im stephanie ruhle. You can find me all day on twitter. Coming up more news with hallie jackson. Thank you so much. Im hallie jackson. The court is in session with a new face on the bench. With election day now exactly four weeks away, the president clearly hoping for a brett bounce as he hits the Campaign Trail today with the republicans repeating one phrase, mob tactics to fire up their base against democrats, but that
party is already fired up. Plus, polling just out shows more female voters not so hot on the gop. And our lester holt in the Lone Star State with the two stars in a key race there. This star, ted cruz, and the congressman trying to unseat him, beta orourke. We have a more Cons
okay then. explosions, just on act of the autocrati overreach. on friday, a local fox affiliate reported the gop i nashville is threatening t freeze millions of dollars i state funding for memphis. if that city sends one of thos after lawmakers back to th status, those are some great a mob tactics that made do corleone blush will they be sending a horse s head for good measure? justin pierson put it best this is what you happen when you lose democracy. this is what we are fighting against and must stand u against. here s the starting intensity, but wouldn t start here. let s hopscotch over to texas, specifically austin where on saturday, governo greg abbott stated that he would pardon one daniel perry, the man convicted on friday of