Under oath. Cohen is the last prosecution witness and the question that remains this morning, what, if anything defense will trumps legal team mount . Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside that courthouse. I also want to bring in our legal panel, former u. S. Attorney and former senior fbi official Chuck Rosenberg, new York Law School professor and director of the schools criminal defense clinic. Ana coe min ski and criminal Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor duncan levins. There was a little bit of uncertainty this morning in court, a long Bench Meeting before the Cross Examination got underway. Bring us up to speed on all of it. Reporter the last day week five of this trial, a 19minute Bench Meeting at the start of court before the jury was brought in. We dont know what they talked about. Once we get the partial transcript out this morning, were going to figure that out and let you know. A couple of things that have come out so far even just in the last 30 minutes or so, the
At times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that shes crazy line of attack against her. At one point Attorney Susan Necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. To which daniels replied wow thats now how i would put it. The sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. To try to prove that Stormy Daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trumps Defense Lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which Stormy Daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. Trump. Team trump also suggested that Stormy Daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. A line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the expresident s team. As nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trumps story, trying to hurt his election bid. Wouldnt that bolster the prosecutions arguments trump had for w
To disagree. A conversation to be continued. Its our turn to hand it off to our colleagues. Thank you all so much for being with us. Our reporters continue to update us from the courtroom and outside the courthouse. Its been a great couple of hours with you at home as well. Chris jansing and Andrea Mitchell pick up with much more news next. Stormy daniels back on the Witness Stand for her second day under only in the criminal trial against former president donald trump. The defense team portraying daniels as a liar looking for quick cash. Prosecutors taking their Second Chance to question their witness after the defendant and presumptive president ial nominee on his way into court promised very interesting things electric todays proceedings. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell, along with my colleague, Chris Jansing here in new york. For the next three hours, we will bring you live updates on exactly what is going on inside that manhattan courtroom. What has been going on all day long. Thats
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