Free the cargo ship that collapsed ball her yeah, im here in washington alive. Look at new york city on this Tuesday Morning where that push my trials had to get back underway just a few hours from now. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt its wonderful to have you with us. This is the de, we think that Donald Trumps legal team has been preparing for the day they could get to crossexamine Michael Cohen and try to convince a jury that he simply cannot be believed trumps former lawyer and fixer returns to the stand this morning after testifying on monday about payments that were made to kill potential really damaging stories about trump. All he says at the direction of his former boss. In the final critical days before the 2016 election, his testimony designed to show just how close he was to trump involved in talks about the hush money at every turn the juror has got to hear this conversation between cohen and trump about payments made to Playboy Playmate playmate karen mcdougal. It wa
Central steam and special coverage of Donald Trumps Criminal Trial continues now and you are looking a lot pictures down inside 100 Centre Street behind me today, we expect to drama filled de, with important stakes for megarian, go a long way in determining of donald from gets convicted in ten days, 16 of trial right now, the former prisoners motorcade is on route to the courthouse. Once trump arrives in, court gets underway here, we expect the people to call the man whose evolve from protector to trump pariah, To Trump Prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Im interested. Cooper, new york. And then im jake tapper in y shoots and uci and you are wanting special cnn live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial Today the man who bent the truth and broke the law for his his former boss, the former president goes on the stand. Michael dean cohen the former trump fixer and lawyer whose imposed trumps will on whatever he could bullying dealing and lawyering his way into getting trump
crime is that s what the problem is we ended immediately the judge ended and save his reputation for the part about not naming the crime isn t true and we ll talk about that tonight is for the late mother teresa, she was judged by the nobel committee, which awarded her the 1979 peace prize for her service to the orphans leprosy patients, and terminally ill of calcutta. with us tonight, your criminal defense attorney, arthur aidala hello, cnn legal analyst norm eisen, who was in court today along with cnn s kara scannell, also with this johnny jones, the third former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania, is currently president of dickinson college. so care we just learned the sections of pecker and cohen s testimony that the courts decided to read back? yes. so we learned from the lip parties that they both agreed to and two of the requests that came from the drain, these questions they wanted david pecker at michael cohen s testimony as it related to the
trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 ages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way, 34 felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they want us from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. some of it dealing with the arrangement for pecker to act as the campaigns, eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories they ll hear that tomorrow morning. the judge dismissing them, then staying with attorneys for both sides to try to hammer out exactly what will be said. as for the defendant here some of what he said coming and going mother teresa could not be discharges. these charges
we re covering today s climatic closing arguments in donald trump s trial. the trial is still ongoing right now. the prosecutor continuing the closing arguments. we ll continue in our live coverage to bring you that as well as what i m going to do with you right now, which is try to summarize what is the most important day and likely the last day or two before this jury deliberates. the day began with trump s lawyers doing their closing arguments for the defendant. they finished. the scene outside court was more rauk cause than usual. there was trump family members, robert deniro. i was downtown with our team, reporters and lawyers at the court today. we were out there. i made some videos. we kept an eye on it. all working together. the closing arguments give jurors the pivotal final last material. it s the culmination of a trial that s featured 22 exhibits, 20 days, emails, hundreds of exhibits. now it s all going down today. critical day, former president trump s criminal