right? you would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. none of this goes perfectly from a prosecutor s perspective. danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the defense attorney s perspective. this is why you have redirect. this is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. as much as you plan, you have to be flexible. is the prosecution happy with the cross? if i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1/2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. keep doing it. i think at some point, jose, you re losing your jury. i take ana s point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. my goal is to never lose my jury. and if you re saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think you re losing your jury. there is an agony in a cross-exami
contentious cross examination, how the former fixer turned star witness is upending donald trump s hush money trial, and when this whole thing may drew draw to a close. and then the other big trial in new york city, senator bob menendez is arriving this morning for another day of jury selection. we ll have the latest on his criminal trial. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and lots of news this morning. let s begin with the breaking news in the race for the white house. president biden announcing a short time ago he will not participate in the three traditional debates organized by the nonpartisan debate commission, instead challenging donald trump to two non-traditional matchups with this video. donald trump lost two debates to me in 2020. since then he hasn t shown up for a debate. now he s acting like he wants to debate me again. make my day, pal. i ll even do it twice. so let s pick the dates, donald. i hear you re free on w
i m jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford junior. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the fixer turned faux, michael cohen finally taking the stand at alvin braggs hush money trial against donald trump. the radical da putting all his chips and the testimony of a disgrace, disbarred serial perjurer and convicted felon who was behind prison walls for 13 months. today the jury got to hear from the man longing for trump s approval and affirmation and would do anything for it including taking out a home equity line of credit to take care of the situation for his boss. and secretly recording donald trump without his knowledge. is still no evidence of a crime yet. trump still gags and unable to respond to his former attorney. he had this to say. everybody saying there is no crime. he turned down the case and he could have been brought almost eight years ago, they bring it right in the middle of my presidential campaign. there s no fraud here. the
it was the little girl who learned the first. the 12-year- old, she was there at the beginning when the family secret was born. why did it get started? i didn t know what else to do. why did she keep it so long? she was all i had. while evil did its work. we couldn t stand it. what with the secret to? everybody has a secret or two, but this? hello, and welcome to dateline. it wasn t uncommon for him to be gone for days at a time. he was a long-haul truck driver. or, did he run off with another woman. when lloyd for disappeared it was almost anybody s guess where he went. at least two people knew and it was a secret they guarded for 27 years. the terrible truth was about to be revealed. here is keith morrison with the family secret. , yes, families. i suppose you could say this one, the family, the secret, get started in the middle of nowhere. which is what they like to call it here. it wasn t so surprising, perhaps, one young lloyd ford was done with school , h
donald trump s after keeping quieting court. he unleashes on the judge and prosecutor in his criminal trial. this is a key witness is about to take the stand, andrew weissmann is here and what to expect when michael cohen testifies. a new warning from vice president kamala harris on the federal judiciary and the future of our fundamental rights. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to the weekend. what can only be described as a bizarre rally in new jersey, donald trump had higher praise for hannibal lector and al capone than a one during to hold them accountable. in one petty attack him a workshop his newest nickname for the manhattan da alvin bragg. he accused judge merchan presiding over the case of being , quote, highly conflicted. the main target of his latest public tantrums? that was president biden. apologies if this blows your practice, but we feel it s necessary to play this clip to see his gaslighting firsthand. joe is weak. only good at cheating on elec