Another week of testimony in former president Donald Trumps criminal trial coming to a close today. Right now in the Morning Break which lasts about 15 minutes or so. During the last witness were told that manhattan d. A. Alvin bragg himself actually walked into the courtroom and took a seat in the front row. Adult film actress stormy dane yells wrapped up her testimony yesterday. It may have backfired on the prosecution given the trial is all about the former president s business records. The prosecution says its star witness former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to testify on monday. Good morning and welcome to the the faulkner focus. Im Bill Melugin In For Harris today. The judge denied another motion for a mistrial yesterday. The judge also denying a Trump Team Request to modify his gag order. It would have allowed him to talk about Stormy Daniels testimony now that its over. They think they will get away with this. If this country allows them to get away with this gag
Us. Im ana cabrera along with jose diazbalart reporting from new york with our special coverage. Stormy daniels back on the stand this morning in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Facing Additional Cross Examination right now from trumps attorney about her allegation of a sexual encounter with trump and a subsequent coverup. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse, and here with us for the morning, charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and teb die owe agone da williams, former Senior Investigative council for the house january 6th commission. Take us inside that courtroom. Whats happening right now . Reporter already pretty contentious to say the least. It seems as if Stormy Daniels is much more prepared this morning than she was tuesday at the start of her testimony, especially when it came to Cross Examination with Susan Necheles. It seemed as if it was as contentious as it was the first goaround. Susan necheles asking repeatedly was this just about m
Not happen . Initially i dont think theyre going to say, theyre going to know whether or not trump knew about this deal or not. They have gone all over the place. Trump, the ceo, too high, doesnt know whats going on and then something else. I think theyre undecided. As a defense lawyer, you do that at times. You dont have the burden of proof. The prosecution does. So when you stand up and close it, youre going to say, i dont even have to be here to stand up, the only person you have to hear from is them. If i did nothing and the judge would tell the jury and they didnt prove their case, my client needs to be acquitted and thats what the law requires, but i do think jurors as reasonable people expect a counternarrative that makes sense. Theyre here to bring the rational to judge and the prosecution put forward a documents heavy rational and this counterrational of attacking stormy and going on and on again and get morgue and more tangential is undermining their case. How much does the w
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Free you . What do you make of the fact that after attempting to at least verbally say he was going to compete to get you out of russia, donald trump then turns on you . That is tonights the reidout. Inside was jen psaki starts now. Today was day 12 of trumps criminal trial and it started with yet another hearing on his repeated and flagrant attempts and violations of his gag order, which was put in place because he cant seem to help himself from attacking the judge, the jury, or potential witnesses. Today, judge juan merchan ruled trump violated that order for the 10th time. This time for cummins he made during an interview late last month when he attacked the integrity of the jury that will determine his fate. The judge again found trump in Contempt Of Court and he find the express and 1000. 00, bringing the total up to 10 grand. Judge juan merchan said he was prepared to go further. You want if donald trump does not stop violating his order, he will be left with no choice but to con