Thank you for watching Newsnight State of the race. Laura coates live starts right now live defying reality. Donald trump makes a campaign prediction, but not even his own supporters are buying. Plus, diddy is not getting out before his trial. A judge denying him bail again so what exactly will his life like in that Brooklyn Jail ive got a special guest who is ben there . Hes going to join us. And 48 the election. And Donald Trumps path to 270 seems to be well expanding lees according to him we are going to win New York. And thats the first time in many, many years that are republican can honestly say it. And were going to do, and we have to do it. We do it. And the election nationwide is over you heard him he thinks the state he lost by more than 20 points in 2016 and by The Way, in 2020 is in play he dedicated nearly two Hour Rally on long Island Tonight to make that very case and in the immortal words of dodgeball so bold strategy cotton, lets see if that pays off for them look, who
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Is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. Lets get straight to cnns paula. Paula with the breaking news. What exactly are trumps lawyers attempting . Here . Which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trumps lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. They are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughters work as a Democratic Political consultant. Now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. Im saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf. Ut nowrumps lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judges dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. It appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. All right. Paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the defendant to trump,
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Than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome to cnn and Special Coverage. If former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial, im wolf blitzer in washington, along with abby phillip. Whos just outside the courthouse in new york today, Michael Cohen, trumps former were fixer and lawyer is back on the Witness Stand. Prosecutors appear to have some work to do during their redirect of cohen after he made a purely stunning admission during crossexamination . Today, defense attorney todd blanche was able to get cohen to admit to stealing Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. Abby, you were inside court today . Playing, how it all went down thats right. Wolf, earlier in the trial during the direct examination, cohen had actually said this, that he had pocketed monday money from the Trump Organization. That was meant for a technology company. But today, while he was being pressed by the defense attorney Todd Blanche Cohen agreed that it was essentially plants said,