Free the cargo ship that collapsed ball her yeah, im here in washington alive. Look at new york city on this Tuesday Morning where that push my trials had to get back underway just a few hours from now. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt its wonderful to have you with us. This is the de, we think that Donald Trumps legal team has been preparing for the day they could get to crossexamine Michael Cohen and try to convince a jury that he simply cannot be believed trumps former lawyer and fixer returns to the stand this morning after testifying on monday about payments that were made to kill potential really damaging stories about trump. All he says at the direction of his former boss. In the final critical days before the 2016 election, his testimony designed to show just how close he was to trump involved in talks about the hush money at every turn the juror has got to hear this conversation between cohen and trump about payments made to Playboy Playmate playmate karen mcdougal. It wa
Going for donald trump at this point in time. We will have to wait and see we dont know if thats because people dont care about the trial or if they care about other things about the border, they care about the economy, they care about a great many things that unfortunately get swallowed up by this process. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, gentlemen. The next hour of seeing a new central starts right now. These cnn Breaking News im john berman outside the criminal court in Downtown Manhattan and the Breaking News we are about to enter the most contentious moment in the criminal trial. Against donald trump. The key witness Michael Cohen, left his apartment just a short time ago. We got footage of him leaving. He is on his way down here he will be back on the Witness Stand facing questions from prosecutors, but we do expect at some point today the crossexamination will begin Donald Trumps lawyers will get their chance to go after Michael Cohen and he expect that to be something firew
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
atlanta and hey, don t miss an all new episode of violent earth hurricanes tomorrow night at nine eastern emphasis right here on cnn. another hour of cnn this morning starts right now good morning welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 29. i m victor blackwell and i m isabel resolve this in for amara walker. thank you for joining us this morning. then just a little bit busy week around here. well, here, catching up on are red? all right, well, president biden is back on the campaign trail today. he is in new york for several campaign appearances this morning and will make stops in new jersey this afternoon. his team is scrambling to do damage control after a op-ed from the new york times editorial board, the board join the chorus of voices calling on biden to step aside after his performance in thursday s cnn presidential debate and the op-ed, the board said dropping out would be the greatest public service he could now perform but in a friday rally, the presid
want somebody who s going to be a capable commander in chief. this is not oh, they don t like his style because it s a beauty pageant and they don t like what tikki picked he did not convey that he has what it takes to be the president. that s a massive problem for the country, right? well, it s good way to end this hour as we head in to what is distinctly a new phase of this presidential campaign, thanks to our panel, thanks to all of you for joining us this morning. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now the debate explosion. president biden waking up to calls to drop out of the race, one columnist rights mr. president, one what you can serve your country in 2024 is by announcing your retirement and calling on delegates to replace u. we have brand new reporting on how the president is stephen this and the first criminal charges have now been filed over the horrific failed police response to the valade school massacre with the former police ch