Starts now good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the trump new york Hush Money Trial. I was privileged which to watch some of day 11 inside the courtroom. Today was both fascinating was fascinating to see up close. Hope hicks, once a top advisor to former president , testifying for the prosecution recounting first the access Hollywood Tape coming out, then the Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially damaging account of what the former president s said in retrospect when the daniel story finally broken 2018, then moments later, hope hicks started crying. Hicks in that final answer saying, quote, it was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the flexion, which could bolster the prosecution case that the former president was motivated by campaign and not necessarily Family Concerns and suppressing both that and the Karen
Sides. Frankly, painting him as someone who had some time times in her words, go rogue, but also casting doubt on the Defense Theory that cohen paid off Stormy Daniels on his own initiative in general, the picture she painted was a handson donald trump deeply involved in the details of his business and his campaign, motivated largely by political considerations. And that he was fully aware of what the payment to Stormy Daniels had ball what him in 2016, weve just gotten the full Trial Transcript from today, including the context of hope hicks is final answer to the Prosecution Question about what then President Trump said in 2018 when news of the Daniels Payout finally broke and im quoting now from that transcript he wanted to know how it was playing and just my thoughts and impinge opinion about this story versus having the story a different kind of story before the campaign, had michael not made that payment joining us once again tonight, new york defense attorney arthur aidala, cnns
Nuclear capacity, or the wrong is building general wesley clark. Thank you. Jeremy diamond as well. Thanks. Thats it for us. The news continues. Have a great weekend. The source of Kaitlan Collins starts now striping the source tonight. Donald trump pressing his luck with the jury that will decide his fate, His Historic First Criminal Trial Set to begin 72 two hours from now, as the judge overseeing it just denied another attempt to delay it. Also an Election Integrity stun House Speaker mike johnson, making the Pilgrimage Tamara Logo today in an effort to salvage his speakership. Also hyping a bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which guess what . This is already illegal and our source tonight is one of those popular authors of all time, bestselling legend James Patterson out with a new page turner that could help turn the page and the war on books in america. Im Kaitlan Collins, and this is the source the first. Former president in us history to ever face a crim
Spoke, please keep yourself and your team as safe as you can. Thanks, jim im jim sciutto. The news continues the source with kaitlan collins, starts now these, cnn Breaking News ive got some Breaking News for you tonight. Ive been speaking with sources and can now report a key attorney has left Donald Trumps legal team that lawyer happens to be a major witness in the classified documents case against him. Tonight, ive learned that Evan Corcoran, his quietly departed trumps legal team. This matters because corcoran is potentially going to be a critical a witness against trump if that case ever goes to trial he was the one who went through the storage room at maralago about two summers ago, looking for classified documents after they received a subpoena from the Justice Department. Trump allegedly misled him about the whereabouts of those documents, and also encouraged him, his attorney to lie to the Justice Department remember, corporate actually had to go and testify before a grand jur
thank you john and sandra, good afternoon, and for martha maccallum, this is the story . we are live out of the trump trial in downtown manhattan where the jury is still awaiting right now behind closed doors, the former president charged with falsifying business records to cover up a payment to born stars stormy daniels before the 2016 election he s facing up to five years in prison on each count and he says you did nothing illegal. mr. trump: mother teresa could not meet those charges, this whole thing is rigged. where the judges so conflicted he cannot breathe, he has to do his job. it s a disgrace and i mean that. mother teresa cannot be those charges but we will see. the five cohosted judges with me here at the courthouse, what has struck you, in the final argument, the jury instructions now we wait. judge jeanine: so much that strikes me, on the one hand up and saying continuously that michael cohen it is the linchpin of this case, the judge gave an instruction