Questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight, the Trump Hush Money Trial. Im abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes. That is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today Michael Cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecutions case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. If you remember from trumps periphery to trumps, go refer to trumps. Do everything fixer. And that included the alleged Hush Money Deal designed to silence Stormy Daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. Well, mr. Trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measure
Point out we still need prosecutors to connect donald trump to the actual actions that are taking place here. Donald trump did not say set up this llc. Its important to remember that Michael Cohens testimony has to be supported at some point to where did donald trump instruct you to do this specifically. Its time for us to hand it over. Thank you all for being with us. We appreciate all of you. Thats going to do it for us this hour. Andrea mitchell and katy tur will pick things up after a quick break. Ill see you back at 1 00 eastern time. Keep it here. Lots going on. Good day, everyone. The star witness takes the stand. Now the critical figure in the hush money case. Michael cohen, once Donald Trumps loyal attack dog, is now facetoface with his former boss for the first time in months. Cohen is the lynch pin of the prosecutions case. They argue cohen acted at trumps direction in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election. The defenses counter, once a liar, always a liar. Pain
National security, surprise. Trumedly sharing secrets about u. S. Nuclear submarines to a Maralago Club member after he left office. Trump revealing, quote, how many Nuclear Warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their russian counterparts without being detected. Tr telling these secrets to an australia Billionaire Business than anthonypratt. Pratt told scores of others including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and handful ja smiths team has already interviewed pratt as part of their vestation, making pratt, quote, among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses to testify against trump. This bombshell was not included in the trump indict, which suggests jack smith has a lot more evidence than whats been made public so far. Smith is likely to use trumps own history against him. In 2017, trump gave up highly Classified Information to the Russian Foreign minister in the oval office. Trump later twee
Hi, everyone. Happy friday. Were monitoring the ongoing criminal trial of donald trump. Were on day iegt eight of of this election Interference Hush Money Trial. Today brought the introduction of websites number two and three for the prosecution. Right this moment, the prosecution is questioning gary farro. He was Michael Cohens banker at First Republic bank. He set up the Home Equity Line Of Credit through which Michael Cohen paid stormy and was reimbursed by donald trump. Its the financial transaction thats at the heart of all of this. The second witness was a woman by the name of rona graph. You may not know the name, but she was in the room for jirs about everything. Shes Donald Trumps longtime assistant. She worked at the Trump Organization for 34 years. She also noted that she was on the stand because she had been subpoenaed and that the Trump Organization is paying for her attorneys. In a very brief line of questioning from the prosecution, alvin braggs team had her authenticate
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