Okay. Tonight in The Trump Trial, Michael Cohen wrapped donald trump gold by the defense and sometimes testy crossexaminati on. Trumps lawyers ccg on cohens pass lies at his recent attacks on the former president in hopes of discrediting the prosecutions star witness. This after a cone directly tied trump to the alleged false records scheme at the heart of this the middle case, saying it was all aimed at hiding the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Payment to protect his former boss. And his 2016 president ial campaign for the next hour, well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel will break down all of todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in this room, The Trump Trial today the crossexamination of Michael Cohen is off to a very fiery start with the case against donald trump, potentially hinging on whether jurors believed the former fixer. Lets get
Situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are following Breaking News out of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial in New York City were right, this i mean, it Michael Cohen is facing an incredibly aggressive crossexamination so far, trump attorney todd blanche has gotten cohen to confirm that he wants to see trump convicted in this case, that he makes money off of his antitrump social media posts and even sells merchandise showing trump in jail. Earlier today, prosecutors had cohen explained why he felt there was the Pressure Campaign to keep him from turning against trump. And how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having cohen admit to multiple lines. He has previously told including his plea of not guilty his plea of guilty to the tax charges the sent him to prison cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied
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
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