After tense and dramatic testimony, filled with more than a few moments that would make any one of us blush, the trump election interference hush money trial today got down to brass tacks, a flood of evidence, phone call data, texts, tweets, documents, that cast new light on the mechanics of the scheme to silence Stormy Daniels and conceal the Hush Money Payments. They set the stage for one star witness and possibly the appearance of another witness who is not on anyones list to testify. Read out loud in court today messages sent between Stormy Daniels publicist, Gina Rodriguez, and the National Enquirer editor dylan howard. These Text Messages show that those two were in talks for months about buying Stormy Daniels story. On october 7th, 2016 april 7th, 2016, rodriguez text but stormy was his mistress. Dylan howard texts back, i bet she was. Can you email me what you have on that . Few months later this exchange from june 28th, 2016. Gina rodriguez texts, she doesnt want to go on the
linda s phones records. and there was, the number tom dialed about an hour before the murder, a number they didn t recognize. investigator johnny lewis took it from there. so what i did was i got the number put it into actually facebook on my phone, and as soon as i put that number in the profile that pops up is michael beard. michael peered, the ex-employee he d been so cooperative with investigators. suddenly, he didn t seem so innocent. now police had to reconsider their theory of the crime. maybe it wasn t tom good beaten kelly to death. maybe his daughter s description of the killer was wrong. maybe it was michael b. or she saw. this phone call, this is the key, this is it. that s the first real connection that we had to put beard anything to do with the murder. that kind of just alerted us right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. he denied any type of
say the replacement of saddam and the overthrow of the regime is worth it, others say that security, access to health, education, is the true indicator and that still hasn t happened. jenna: colonel schafer, that s an interesting perspective and bringing in larry s as well because there s been a lot of talk about the surge in iraq. as that being one of the greatest achievements by president george w. bush, actually securing the area, making the area better for our troops, as well as the country. again, larry calls that one of the greatest strategic blunders, us going into iraq, one of our greatest strategic blunders. do you agree wa that? i tend to agree with larry. i was an intelligent director and the intelligence was hor id, just wrong, and i think we did a lot of things based on very flawed assumptions based on that intelligence. with that said, though, we have been able to recover greatly from those initial flaws. for better or worse, we have met the military objectives outlined
that were in the luggage, i was also told there were sharp instruments like box cutters in the luggage and now they have to start the hard hr g work of going through phone, phones records, where they live, computer records, credit card records, to understand what their travels were over the last couple of weeks, what their travel history is, and what their contacts were, especially the phone contacts over the last few weeks, to understand sort of a fuller picture of the events leading up to that flight from chicago to amsterdam. so the bottom line, i was told, is that u.s. officials have been saying they were on a dry run or they were testing the system, that those statements were premature at this point based on the evidence so far. you can t snap your fingers and come up with an answer as to what the mens motivation was. jon: exactly what was found in their luggage that s raising all those concerns? reporter: separately, u.s. officials told me late last night they did find a cell