surrender to the manhattan s d.a. office on arraignment from a supreme court indictment which remains under seal guidance will then be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since it is under seal we don t know the exact charges. what we do know is bragg has been trump for alleged payments made leading up to the 2016 election including $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about an alleged payment made to model karen macdougall. the former president has denied any wrongdoing and has denied the affairs. and he has also responded to the indictment with outrage writing a lengthy response including this is a political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called d.a. bragg a disgrace writing, quote: he is doing joe biden s dirty work and that the american people realize exactly what the radical left democrats are doing here. trump s attorney said last night that there s no crime. he didn t hav
Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
Her departure are fine hiring from the white house. Thank you so much for joining us. Cnns special coverage of this trial continues now with jake tapper on the lead cnns Breaking News welcome to the lean Object Tapper in manhattan, just outside the new york criminal courthouse thats where i spend much of the day inside forum number 59 watching witnesses, including Stormy Daniels testifying the donald j. Trump hush money cover up. Proud. They have moved on to other there witnesses since Stormy Daniels including madeline western out, whos desk was right outside Trumps Oval Office todays testimony is due to end at any moment. Oh, it just has ended for the day. Im told. Well, this hour im going to walk you through what i saw, what i sketched, what comes next, the highly skilled Courtroom Sketch Artists its christine cornell, whose work youre going to look at right now and jane rosenburg, they set the scene today as trumps lawyers crossexamined porn star and director Stormy Daniels. There c
Be scarier with his clothes on. Do you want to see him jailed . I dont think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration. I feel like the other things that he has done, if he is found guilty, absolutely. Stormy daniels, the woman at the center of trumps hush money scandal, takes the stand. Revealing in vivid detail the alleged sexual encounter that she says left her shaking. And the 130,000 payment that bought her silence. Plus, more of my exclusive interview with wnba star Brittney Griner including how she survives a Russian Gulag. The letter she wrote to putin, how trump turned on her, and her joyful homecoming. But we begin on the day that probably most trump trial watchers have been anticipating. And one donald trump has likely been dreading. Today was the day that stephanie clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, took the witness stand in trumps hush money election interference trial. Trump was dreading this day so much that even before daniels entered the courtroom, he tweeted a
Fake news, just fake news, i refuse to accept it. And onto the next question, here we go. Are, looking forward to the debates. Have a good weekend. Today was day leavening the first criminal trial of a former american president , the prosecution called to the Witness Stand One of Donald Trumps closest confidants, hope hicks, Communications Director and longtime aide. Hicks was constantly by trump s side navigating each crisis that came his way. And that was why prosecutors used hicks testimony to take the jury all the way back to one of the most important and memorable moments the 2016 campaign. As a warning, this next part is vulgar. I bought some to text in case i start kissing her. You know, im automatically attracted to beautiful kissing them, its like a magnet. And they let you do it, you can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ] the access Hollywood Tape. A recording of donald trump in 2005, openly advocating sexual assault, bragging about his ability to assault women. When you