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
With donald trump. That means Stormy Daniels testimony, the testimony that wrapped up today, will be the only testimony this jury hears that is directly from a woman accusing donald trump of trying to keep her quiet about affair before the 2016 election. Now, there are lots of reasons why Karen Mcdougal might not want to testify and there are lots of reasons why the prosecution might not want to call on her to testify. We are going to get some expert help unpacking all of that and what that means for this case in just a second. But, Karen Mcdougal not testifying also makes the testimony we did get today from Stormy Daniels all the more important and it makes the crossexamination of Stormy Daniels today, it makes that all the more important. The defense crossexamination today is probably most accurately described by a phrase i am loath to say, that it really does describe what happened today when Stormy Daniels was questioned by trumps lawyer, Susan Necheles. The focus was pointing Stor
You are getting a live look at 100 Centre Street. We are covering and on the air minutes after learning Breaking News, setting the stage for the ultimate confrontation in Donald Trumps historic criminal trial a person familiar with the case so the prosecution intends to call Michael Cohen to the stand on monday cohen, of course, is the former trump attorney and personal fixer, whose actions or at the very the heart of this case. Moments ago, the former president of the United States walked past cameras and into that courtroom for the 15th day of his trial. Back on the stand and moments is a very important witness, one who seemed to help both sides yesterday. A Trump White House insider who functioned as a courier for the checks at the center of this his case . Im Kaitlan Collins and new york and you are watching cnns special live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial and im jim acosta and Washington Circle monday on your calendars, thats now when we expect Michael Cohen to go unde
Documents case. Once upon a time that case was set to take off, may 20th. Less than two weeks from today. We have been waiting for judge cannon to set a trial date, since march. We got the news the judge has postponed that trial indefinitely. This means the onset donald trump ends up in a florida courtroom before the general election, those odds are slim to none, which is good news for the former president. But, less apparent good for the former president was the fact today donald trump was back in manhattan criminal court. Today was the 13 of the Hush Money Case against him, and it was by no means a normal day. Today, we got testimony from the central figure at the heart of this case, Adult Film Star, stephanie clifford, a. K. A. Stormy daniels. As far as the spectacle of this trial goes, today was a blockbuster. A lot of the testimony really sounded like it was ripped from the tabloids, which makes sense because the story at the center of this case is quite literally about tabloid sl
Anderson cooper back in 2018. Lets take a quick listen to what she said so you. Signed and released a statement. It said im not denying this affair because i was paid and hush money. Im denying it because it never happened thats a lie. Yes. If it was untruthful why did you sign it because they made it sound like i had no choice. But the exact sentence used was they can make your life hell in many different ways. Now, donald trump will have a different view, has expressed a different view of what happened between him and Stormy Daniels. Lets just remind ourselves of some of the comments that donald trump has made about Stormy Daniels i have no idea who these women are. Have no idea. I have no idea. The stories are total fiction there 100 made up they never happened. They never would happen, never met this person, these people, i dont know who they are i dont know who they are now whether they had sex are not in 2006 is not directly relevant to the crimes charged here, but it could be ve