Theres no way to unring the bell in our view. Blanche also accused the prosecution of purposely trying to embarrass trump. And trying to enflame the jury following a conversation between the prosecution and Stormy Daniels. Her testimony has now been different after the lunch break. Shorter answers. Less narrative. Lets get right to it. Back with us, nbc news correspondent, Vaughn Hillyard and joining us for the hour, former fbi General Counsel and nyu law professor, andrew weissman, adam pollack and amy parnes. Okay, vaughn, catch us up on whats going inside right this very second. Reporter theyve been going back and forth over that period of time between august of, October Of 2016 when daniels entered into that 130,000 agreement to keep her story silent with cohen. She believed he was a party up until March Of 2018 when she appeared on 60 minutes and publicly detailed the encounter in 2006. It was not until the Wall Street Journal story by the Wall Street Journal in January Of 2018 in
Coming up at any moment now during the beginning of this 11 00 hour on the east coast. He is set to leave the white house and make his way to capitol hill. And then again he will be speaking and it is a ceremony honoring this weeks holocaust days of remembrance. The president there and, of course, the white house says he will pay tribute to the 6 million jews killed in the holocaust after which the world vowed never again. Well, he will also be put in a position to condemn the deadliest day for jewish people since the holocaust and that would be October 7th Of 2023. That was the day that hamas savages invaded israel and slaughtered 1200 innocent people. The speech with the comments he is making will happen against the back drop of an explosion of jewish hate in america. Protesting taking over College Campuses and plaguing cities nationwide and for weeks we have been hearing the chants of death to israel, death to america. All eyes are on the president s message. And were looking to see
Good morning, it is 10 00 eastern. Im ana cabrera alongside jose diazbalart for special breaking news coverage. Donald trumps Hush Money Trial is back under way in a manhattan courtroom and a significant witness is in the courthouse this morning, as proceedings get under way. Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who we learned is expected to testify today. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is at the courthouse. Here with me in new york for the hour, danny cevallos, criminal Defense Attorney, catherine christian, former assistant Manhattan District Attorney and jeremy solan, former attorney in the manhattan d. A. s office. Vaughn, kick us off, we have a witness on the stand right now, who well get to in a moment, but, again, this morning we expect Stormy Daniels at some point today to take the stand and the judge before the jury was even called in already set some parameters around her expected testimony. Fill us in. Reporter right. Some could say this was a long time coming. This began all the way back
Tabloid reporter that show the Frantic Scramble to stop it from going off the rails. The chaos that ensued when the Hush Money Payments came to light. On the stand right now is a man named doug daus. Hes a tech expert who works at the das office. He comes after hours of extraordinary testimony from Keith Davidson. The jury saw the agreement between David Dennison and Peggy Peterson alongside a side letter written by Keith Davidson that, as he puts it, decodes the agreement between the two and specificically mentions donald trump. The deals was done before Donald Trumps Election Night upset, a shocker to both keith david sop and National Inquire editor lance howard. Quote, Keith Davidson text the editor in chief of the National Inquirer around 3 00 a. M. Eastern on the night of the 2016 election. Quote, what have we done, Keith Davidson text. Oh, my god, he text him that night. Asked what he meant in his text, Keith Davidson said this was humor. He said there was an understanding betwee
2016 campaign. Those words were in a text message sent from Keith Davidson, hes the attorney for both of the women at the heart of the story. Playboy playmate Karen Mcdougal and porn star Stormy Daniels. It was a text sent to the National Enquirer, dylan howard. And davidson is on the stand right now on day nine of the donald trump Election Interference hush money trial. With Explosive Testimony being given right now about his dealings with ami and Donald Trumps inner most circle. Earlier today, he told the court and the jury that dylan howard texted him back a response, quote, talk first thing. I will get you por than anyone for it. You know why. Davidson said that he understood even back then that the owner of the National Enquirer, that david pecker and donald trump were good friends. Two weeks after the texts were exchanged, Karen Mcdougal met with howard, where she alleged that she had an affair with donald trump that went on for several weeks to months. And ami declined to pick u