investigating the stormy daniels payout and, how the realities a post-roe america are forcing private companies to take side in the battle over the bodil autonomy of half the populatio of this country and the stor of one company, that shows the wrong side then, the velshi banned book -able come to order with the celebrating of a young adult author, meg cabin. she is most famous for writing the princess diaries but she is widely known an appreciated for her funny, readable, women first stories. including today s feature, ready or not which addresses consenting sex among teenagers without ever resorting to shame or beer velshi, starts now and, good morning. it is saturday march 11th, i m ali velshi we begin this morning with the ongoing global ramifications a the trump presidency and the retribution he is vowing against those he views a personal enemies for challenging him, opposing him, or trying to hold him to account. during his second year a president, donald trum fulfilled
direct contact with stormy daniels s lawyer at the time, so that donald trump, through michael cohen, could just buy stormy daniels s silence directly. that didn t mean that the bossxd of the national enquirer escaped prosecutors s s attention. when they were prosecuting finance law, in an attempt to effect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels, three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silence of starlight stormy daniels was official put it mildly. the $130,000 violated campaign finance laws by exceeding the limit of campaign contributions and by not being recorded as a campaign contribution. the boss of the national enquirer, who was supposed to be the mastermind of the catching till scheme for donald trump, was a man named david pecker. here is how the new york daily great at the revelation in court, in the michael cohen case, that david pecker was a witness in the grand jury investigation. ther
Us for right now. Cannot go anywhere. It is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. You have been in that courtroom. Imagine the session is over, you had for that elevator on the 15th floor and you find yourself on the elevator with andrew weissman, the suburban and Adam Klasfeld and me, all of whom were in the courtroom today. That is what you are going to get. You will get that ride down the elevator but it will last an hour. I was going to say im polling the stop the Elevator Button so that we can get the most out of all of you. This is the Courthouse Table right here. Right on, thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. The first thing judge juan merchan did in the courtroom before bringing the jury into the room or bringing the witness into the room was to rule in favor of donald trump on an evidentiary point. Donald trump pretends that never happens. He stands in the very hallway of that courthouse right outside the courtroom speaking to microphones every da
Andrew weissmann, lisa rubin, and me, all of whom were in the courtroom today. That is what you were going to get. You will get the ride down the elevator but it will last an hour. I am holding the step the Elevator Button so we get the most out of all of you. This is a courthouse table, right here. Thank you. The first thing judge merchan did in the courtroom today before bringing the jury into the room are bringing a witness into the room was to rule in favor of donald trump on an evidentiary point. Donald trump pretends it never happens. He stands in the very hallway of the courthouse right outside the courtroom speaking to microphones every day, ranting about how unfair judge merchan is. He appears to hate judge merchan and is very convincing in delivering that feeling. But, he cannot hate the judge because the judge is unfair. He has to hate him for some other reason. Even donald trump knows the judge is fair. Today, half of the trump lawyer objections were sustained. There were n
Us. Former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock joins the conversation, and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor, duel role, duncan levin is still with us. I want to call you a slashy in the immortal words of zoo lander, model and actor. Michael cohen on the stand for about four hours now. Vaughn hillyard, bring us up to speed. Reporter currently the line of questioning is around the actual execution of the Nondisclosure Agreement that Michael Cohen says that donald trump was party to with Stormy Daniels and her agent and attorney Keith Davidson, in the explicit question which gets at the heart of the falsification of Business Records arguments in charges against donald trump is currently playing before the jury as we speak. The question directed by the prosecution to Michael Cohen just one minute ago was very explicit. Was this Nondisclosure Agreement for the purposes of paying Michael Cohen as a legal retainer to which Michael Cohen said no and said t