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Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday cohen admitted that he was having trouble
Starts now. Welcome to this twohour the beat. Michael cohen is Donald Trumps selfdescribed fixer. As defendant he was rolling deep today. Trump not only arriving with Top Republican figures but also one of his own codefendants from a different one where hes charged. Jeffrey clark was in the courtroom. I saw him myself and briefly greeted him. It was in that courtroom that we continued that Group Coverage of the defenses, the witness, the lawyers. That was a few hours ago when i was in front of the new york criminal courthouse. I am, of course, a member of our whole wideranging Team Reporting on this historic trial for you. While the d. A. Has been on offense for weeks, with damning receipts, strong witnesses weve told you about. Todays continued heat on Michael Cohen is certainly slowing the prosecutors momentum in this trial. Trumps lawyers conducting a winding relentless crossexamination that has the d. A. s case wobbling. The worse news for the d. A. Is that the jury has now seen Mi
Debates. Mr. Trump accepting President Bidens proposal to square off as early as next month and again in september. Oneonone without robert f. Kennedy jr. Or other Third Party Candidates according to the current rules in a studio without a Live Audience by passing the president ial Debate Commission that has run every general Election Debate since 1988. In new york today the Trump Legal Team gets another chance tomorrow to crossexamine Michael Cohen as the trial could wrap up sooner than expected. Also the white house taking hits from all sides as it prepares to send 1 billion in weapons to israel after withholding heavy bombs that could have been used in rafah. Plus Russian Forces pushing deeper into Eastern Ukraine prompting president zelenskyy to cancel foreign trips and stay close to home. And moments from now, President Biden honoring Fallen Police officers at an annual Memorial Event on capitol hill. Well bring it to you live. Good day. Big news on the political front. Donald tru
Inspection colleague, three three leaf filter today, more physically filtered. Com adrenaline just like every tur n urine the cnn newsroom, im wolf blitzer in washington, and we begin with a Major Development are 2024 president ial race here in the United States. President joe biden and donald trump have just accepted cnns invitation to host, to hold a debate on june 20. Thats just in a few weeks thats months earlier than traditional faceoffs take place between, between two president ial candidates the announcement comes after a heated backandforth earlier this morning between the two, the president Challenge Trump to two debates and then trolled him over his hush money trial. Listen to this shop laws, two debates to me in 2020, it sends said he hadnt shown up for debate. Now hes acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal, ill even do a twice so lets pick the dates down. I hear youre free on wednesdays former president responded quickly calling on biden to quote, get re