He was once the former president s lawyer and fixer but he spent the day on the Stand Outlining how he made a payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, to stop her talking about a relationship she claimed she had with mr trump. The defence is expected to stress mr cohens criminal record and openly stated dislike of his ex boss. Nada tawfik was at the trial in new york and gave us this update. Michael cohen and his testimony is crucial to this case, prosecutors hope that the conversation that Michael Cohen are shared between him and donald trump directly tie his former boss to the Hush Money Payments and to the allegations that trump falsified business records. Michael cohen testified that everything was done with mr trumps sign off, he said the donald trump even ran for president , he warned Michael Cohen to be prepared for negative stories that a lot of women would come forward. When they eventually did, Michael Cohen says the Stormy Daniels story was one he feared could be c
Its six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in new york where Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial has been hearing from the key prosecution witness, Michael Cohen. He was once the former president s lawyer and fixer but he spent the day on the Stand Outlining how he made a payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, to stop her talking about a relationship she claimed she had with mr trump. The defence is expected to stress mr cohens criminal record and openly stated dislike of his ex boss. Our North America editor sarah smith reports. The star witness for the prosecution is also their biggest problem. Hes been to prison for telling lies to congress so why should thejury believe him now . Do you plan on telling the truth . Rude and loud mouthed, hes already been called a bully and a jerk in this trial. And he frequently attacks donald trump online. Even thejudge has asked him to stop it. Trumpism is fascism, and we must eradicate it from our body politic. Donald trump
Two first, lets catch up with the sport headlines. Hello there, we know that the Premier League title will be decided on the final day, but theres a significant match coming up for aston villa on monday night. The former european cup winners can secure qualification for the champion league. A win against liverpool at villa park will be enough to ensure a top four finish, that would see them return to europes top Club Competition for the First Time Since 1983. Its the penultimate game in charge for liverpoolsjurgen klopp, and hes one booking away from a touchline ban. He doesnt want to spoil his farewell at anfield next sunday. Unai is more of the best in the business, wherever he was in sometimes clubs are not ready to wait. You always organise a team extremely, extremely well. Thejob he is doing is exceptional. We all know how important it is for a club to qualify for the Champions League, how difficult it is to do so and that he probably very likely will do that. It is absolutely exc
his new podcast is called, simply enough cautionary tales . i m fascinated by the oil tanker one because what you describe is why don t you describe what happens. it it was 1967. the oil tanker was one of the largest ships in the world. great ship. and its captain took her between just off the southwest tip of great britain. it was about ten miles to get through. but it is narrow for an oil tanker. and as the captain took the ship along this course, little by little small pieces of information came to light that should have made him think, hang on, we need to go a much safer route. some fishing boats appeared. there was a small navigational error. they realized the tanker wasn t quite where they thought. but rather than stop and go around, he kept thinking i can make it, i can make it, and then there was one small final error and there was no margin left and
a pair of straw offs would make an appropriate gift for her majesty that tops our list the animals were clearly not suitable for buckingham palace and were handed over to london zoo. of course we are quite suitably amused well a holiday on the spanish island of majorca sounds pretty good in mid november but to be there all year round with the sun and the sand in the palm trees sounds like something almost too good to be true or no ark of germany decided to live that dream for real his motto is boat sports boats that s my life and accordingly he spent his days driving all manner of boats as a passionate sailor and boat builder he reinvented himself as an all round maintenance man for the yachts of the rich and famous so we stopped by to see him. it s early morning in port on the southwest tip of majorca. quiet in the harbor there s lots of commotion on this yacht there s no power and an acidic smell hangs