Catastrophic for his 2016 campaign where that come out before voters went to the budds. But did Michael Cohen convinced the jury that trump himself directed him to pay off daniels to protect from election. Im going to ask a Criminal Defense Attorney who was in the courtroom for todays testimony. And live images right now from baltimore, where a major demolition is just minutes away, engineers plan to use explosives to remove parts of the Francis Scott key bridge that collapsed back in march. And by the way, the 21 member crew on the ship that caused the collapse theyre still on the boat and theyre going to stay on board for todays Demolition Plus A frankly puzzling move by russias whenever putin, he fired the head of the Russian Military and replaced him with an economist, the money man. As russia is running out of weapons for war. But lets begin outside the new york courthouse with the new york hush money cover up conspiracy. Case. Cnns Paula Reid There and paulette its a wrap on day
Situation room. Its coming up next greg, you news and the Trump Hush Money Criminal Trial a longtime trusted aid to donald trump takes the stand. Dan wrapping her Blockbuster Testimony just a short while ago, hope hicks, taking Jurors Inside Trump world as the Stormy Daniels story broke and describing how trump feared allegations of Sexual Misconduct would hurt his 2016 president ial campaign. Hicks, tearing up at one point as she faced crossexamination, were their former boss only a few feet away will take you inside the courtroom for all the key moments of the former president s historic criminal trial welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in the situation room, the trump trial today lets get right to the Breaking News on hope hicks testimony in the trump hush money, Hush Money Trial, the new revelations, the raw motion and i would all may impact the jurors deciding the former president s fate cnns chief Legal Affa
job. it does raise a lot of questions. it does. i heard the earlier reporting that the company is coming back and saying it didn t have do to do with a background investigation. i find that odd. in a lot of these positions, you have to have some sort of background investigation, a base uk ic one to get on the job. as you are on the job, they continue further with a more classified type of investigation. paul officials are looking at a blog post that was alleged allegedly posted three days before the shootings. it reads, brothers and sisters, don t be fooled by your desires. this life is short and bitter. the opportunity to submit to allah may pass you by. does this sound like someone who is trying to wage some sort of a holy war to you? i have looked at this blog. it s consistent with somebody with fundamentalist views. a certain sympathy for jihad,
analyst. art, as nick is reporting, the gunman travelled to jordan visited his uncle. they say it was a seven-month trip. do you think that this was when he was radicalized? all of his friends are saying that this really happened over the past year or so. i think we can make that assumption. i think what the fbi is try doing at this point is establish a time line as to where exactly he went over the past couple of years. obviously, a seven-month trip to jordan and then where did go from there? did he spend all seven months with his uncle or like you had mentioned previously did he jump to another location and receive any type of training? i think the assumption is there that that s probably where his radicalization began. and, paul u.s. authorities telling roiters to telling reuters he was in yemen and possibly some of the seven months were in yemen. yemen is a training ground for islamic extremism.
under the radar, what was he doing differently that others have not done in the past? is this some new type of method that we re seeing employed by these individuals where they want to fly under the radar as opposed to putting all that information out on social media? paul is this something that anybody there s so many people who are shocked by this who knew him. but there s also people who say, he was a clean shaven kid a year ago and he grew the beard and he became more religious. is this something that anybody could have raceised a flag about? we have seen cases where people go through radicalization quickly and they hide it from family from many of their friends. very rare is the example when somebody is a complete loner that they haven t got some kind of contact in the community. there may have been extremist potentially in the united states that knew him and helped contribute towards his radicalization.