Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
After tense and dramatic testimony, filled with more than a few moments that would make any one of us blush, the trump election interference hush money trial today got down to brass tacks, a flood of evidence, phone call data, texts, tweets, documents, that cast new light on the mechanics of the scheme to silence Stormy Daniels and conceal the Hush Money Payments. They set the stage for one star witness and possibly the appearance of another witness who is not on anyones list to testify. Read out loud in court today messages sent between Stormy Daniels publicist, Gina Rodriguez, and the National Enquirer editor dylan howard. These Text Messages show that those two were in talks for months about buying Stormy Daniels story. On october 7th, 2016 april 7th, 2016, rodriguez text but stormy was his mistress. Dylan howard texts back, i bet she was. Can you email me what you have on that . Few months later this exchange from june 28th, 2016. Gina rodriguez texts, she doesnt want to go on the
I talked to Business People over the years, whats happened to them when you have political persecution. And now all these cases, this is simply, they dont want this guy on the ballot. Says the man whose company committed the worst Medicare Fraud in u. S. History, senator rick scott is the first in what will surely be a parade of trump sycophants and Veep Wanna Bes to show up at his criminal trial. Also tonight, the truly bizarre president ial campaign of robert f. Kennedy jr. The worm that ate part of his brain is just the least of it. But we begin tonight with Donald Trumps need for vengeance, which has been a fundamental which has been fundamental to the man which has been as fundamental to the man as his orange hue. Hes promised to imprison President Biden, he savaged the women who have accused him of sexual abuse and impropriety, and humiliated his political opponents. Theres a reason hes a bully. Thats because trump is a dogmatic believer in retaliation. How do we know . Because h
Organization hamas, a group whose stated purpose was to kill jews. This was an act of sheer evil. That was part of president joe bidens speech yesterday, promising that the United States will stand with israel following the horrific hamas tear terror attacks. Meanwhile the president also confirmed there are americans among the dozens of hostages being held by the terror organization. Well have the latest on the efforts to freedom. And then on capitol hill farright republicans could create more chaos in the house by rejecting a plan from the Biden Administration to combine aid for israel and ukraine into a single package. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, october 11. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a busy day, and well begin this morning with israel ramping up its strikes against hamas. War planes hammered neighborhood after neighborhood along the gaza strip yesterday. Retaliating to the surprise attack hamas launched ove
Mattresses made affordable im tom forming in washington and this is cnn 9 00 p. M. Here in new york day ten, of the Trump Hush Money Trial and ending with a false claim from the defendant that hes not being allowed to testify. The day began with prosecutors seeking additional Contempt Judgments against him, but things really heated up during the testimony. Stormy daniels and Karen Mcdougals former attorney, Keith Davidson, the prosecution played the Phone Conversation that Michael Cohen secretly recorded and cnn exclusively obtained featuring donald trump taking an active role in the Karen Mcdougal deal. Were going to bidens been talking about that and the present that it may have had on the jury throughout the program, if youre just joining us here, is that but i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david so im going to do that right away. Id actually come up to me and ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up wi