And katy tur pick up our special coverage, next. Our special coverage, next good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague, katy tur. The prosecution is quickly wrapping up its case in the first Criminal Trial Of A Former american president. The state is gets its chance now to repair any damage done by the testimony of its star witness. Moments ago, the defense wrapped up with Michael Cohen after three days of crossexamination. It was a grueling three days. The Big Wild Card is donald trump himself. Will he live up to his promise to take the stand or put his defense team rest without presenting a single witness . Dramatically demonstrating their argument that the state has failed to meet the burden of proof. Judge merchan has set a new schedule this week guaranteeing the case will not go to the jury until after the long memorial day Holiday Weekend. He announced this morning that Closing Arguments will not take place until next tuesday he says because he does not want
That is tonights last word from the courtroom. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, Michael Cohen back on the stand, the former president s defense team grills him on a 2016 phone call and paints him as a liar. How todays heated testimony could impact the jury plus a new trump entourage outside the courtroom. How republican antics in new york are risking gop control in washington then new reporting on why some wall street donors may be warming to trump is the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. That evening. Once again, i am Stephanie Ruhle. We are now 173 days away from the election and today, outside a manhattan courthouse, people were lined up in the rain hoping to witness the latest developments in Donald Trumps new york criminal trial. Inside the courtroom there is another day of tough Cross Examination for Michael Cohen. Defense attorney todd blanche leaned hard into credibility issues, pressing cohen on his history of lying and his criminal record
We heard from rick scott last week, as well, in that role. But now inside the courtroom, courtroom 59. You have former President Donald Trump in his new york Criminal Trial. The prosecutions star witness is on the stand. Hes a Convicted Felon, Michael Cohen. Hes on the Witness Stand as we speak. We are getting moment by moment details as his credibility is at issue. We will bring each of those details. Hello, everyone. This is outnumbered. Im Kayleigh Mcenany here is my cohosts, Emily Compagno and harris faulkner. Also joining us, Fox Friends First cohost carley shimkus, and former was wisconsin congressman sean duffy. Michael cohen is back on the stand in Courtroom Number 59. They took a short break but he is resuming his testimony, and that is for former President Trump. He said he had a fantastic experience, by the way, for many years, almost a decade. Before he launched into his details about his efforts to kill negative stories about trump before the 2016 election. Eric shawns liv
Have a good show. Thank you, nicole. Welcome, everyone, to a twohour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. Im ari melber, we have our Special Coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutors star witness taking the stand. You may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. The former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. And recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against Defendant Trump. Big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. The star witness takes the stand against donald j. Trump. Form fixer Michael Cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. Cohen on the stand. An extraordinary showdown today in court. The man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying. The expresident coming
231231 this is cnn. the world s news the next verdict will come on election day. i m michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here s a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump s 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i d rather have president wright, who s going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who s going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support