The lead cnn, if you ever miss an episode will lead. You can listen to the show news tonight in the trump trial star witness, Michael Cohen, wrapping up his first day of Blockbuster Testimony detailing the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and how donald trump was allegedly tellinjurors his former boss was only concerned about the impact on his 2016 president ial campaign and that trump and im quoting now wasnt thinking at all about his wife melania, for the next hour ill take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new transcripts breaking down all of todays most important developments and looking ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world i will blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room that trial today lets get right to the breaking news in todays highstakes testimony against donald trump, Michael Cohen, Zeroing In On what trump knew about the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and the alleged criminal but we will cover up.
Us. Former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock joins the conversation, and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor, duel role, duncan levin is still with us. I want to call you a slashy in the immortal words of zoo lander, model and actor. Michael cohen on the stand for about four hours now. Vaughn hillyard, bring us up to speed. Reporter currently the line of questioning is around the actual execution of the Nondisclosure Agreement that Michael Cohen says that donald trump was party to with Stormy Daniels and her agent and attorney Keith Davidson, in the explicit question which gets at the heart of the falsification of Business Records arguments in charges against donald trump is currently playing before the jury as we speak. The question directed by the prosecution to Michael Cohen just one minute ago was very explicit. Was this Nondisclosure Agreement for the purposes of paying Michael Cohen as a legal retainer to which Michael Cohen said no and said t
Received 150,000 in the leadup to the 2016 election as part of a catch and kill scheme with the national llenquirer to stay qui about her affair with donald trump. That means that 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 keepsi her quiet about an affair before the 2016 election. Now, there are lots of reasons why ms. Mcdougal might not want to testify, and there are lots of reasons why the prosecution might not want to call on her to testify. Were going to get some expert help unpacking all of that and what that a means for this casen just ar second. But Karen Mcdougal not testifying also makes the testimony we did get today from Stormy Daniels all it more important. And it makes the crossexamination of Stormy Daniels today, makes that all the more m important. Now, the defenses crossexamination today is probably most accurately described by a phrase i am lo
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
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