John live look inside the New York State Supreme Court where former President Donald Trump just walked back into the courtroom. The prosecutions star witness former trump Attorney Michael Cohen set to resume testimony any second now. Along john roberts in washington, sandra, welcome back to the craziest week of court history. Sandra i was looking at that live shot and thinking bill hemmer hopefully made his way and there and got his seat. He will be joining us shortly as court is set to resume any moment now. Im sandra smith and this is america reports. You begin the test when he early this morning and said his duties at the Trump Organization included killing what he called negative stories. He detailed shutting down the Karen Mcdougal story alongside david packer. Prosecutors are tasked with making him a credible witness despite his past criminal charges and lying to congress. Spiel live an allstar team throughout us as Testimony Resumes. Sandra lets get the nate foy outside. Here we
America reports. We are in the fourth week and there is still no evidence whatsoever connecting trump with any criminal wrongdoing. A crime that is not charged. Its a crime that prosecutors wont tell the defendant what it is. I dont know what they were going to do. This trial is rigged. It is dishonest, its a disgrace to new york, its a disgrace too the country. Sandra that was earlier and now a live look outside this newark Supreme Court where a jury has been hearing directly from the prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen. X attorney for former President Donald Trump. Hello and welcome everyone. I am sandra smith in new york as we kick off a new week. John center, glad to have you backward im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. Ct. In lunch break now. So far Michael Cohen has testified that his duties at the Trump Organization included killing negative stories about his boss. He started detailing the steps to shut down the Stormy Daniels story before the lunch br
Monday and theyre saying that they may be able to rest their case by next weeks events, Brin Jin Grass is outside the courthouse following all of it for us and brynn today todays proceedings late. A lot of the important groundwork for the big witness monday, Michael Cohen, what can we expect on monday yes. Equaliser. This is the guy that said he would take a bullet for his boss and he might be who helps the prosecution sink donald trump. So well have to see, of course, hes the person who can bring jurors into that room, into the hello. Office in february 2017, when prosecutors say they hatched this plan to make these Reimbursement Payments ahead of the 2016 election. They alleged that he conspired with other trump org members to figure out how these reimbursements will work. Hes expected to be on the stand for a couple of days now, when the defense gets their turn to ask the questions, of course, theyre going to attack his credibility. Like we have seen them do with other witnesses in
And theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Preferred, better science, better results. I, Hanako Montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn just about 9 00 p. M. Here in new york. Fascinating day 14 of the trump hush money criminal trial. Now in the book Stormy Daniels ramped up two days on the stand. Manager thank to turn a portion of defense crossexamination aimed at undermining her credibility into some embarrassing moments for the former president at one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. Also Saw Testimony from a Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attack finishing he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks he wrote to Michael Cohen. The day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistri
Crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag order for that, mr. Trump is under to allow him to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week judge, juan merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on what it claimed was prejudicial testimony by Stormy Daniels about sex with mr. Trump. The judge said the defense brought it on themselves by denying a sexual encounter or had taken place meaning he said that the jury needed to be able to determine whether to believe her or the defense he also sculpted the defense for not objecting to items they were now citing as grounds for a mistrial. Prosecutors meantime, said they will not be calling the other woman who is alleging an affair with the former presiden