Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho
if stormy daniels were to testify, you ve also mentioned hope hicks before. do all of these folks have good reason to make trump nervous? david becker was a trump loyalist. part of not just this scheme but other hush money payment schemes. to the karen mcdougal case, the doorman trying to sell a story about trump fathering a child out of wedlock which was false. you can set the stage for this not being a one-off that trump of course knew because it was a pattern. i still think that it s my ctv here. she continues to be a loyalist to donald trump. she was in the room when it happened on air force one steaming has close while trump was still wearing them. she has no reason to lie. she hears things and to me it is surprising that she will testify but according to reports, she testified already before the grand jury and testify truthfully. it looks like she will be a key corroborating witness for
and others agreed in 2015 to a catch and kill scheme. that is a scheme to buy and suppress negative information to help mr. trump s chance of winning the election as part of this scheme, donald trump and others made three payments to people who claimed to have negative information about mr. trump. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg explaining the catch and kill scheme, directed by the ex-president that he and his allies pursued in order to better his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election bragg s indictment mentions multiple payments in the scheme to adult film starr stormy daniels, karen mcdougal and a former trump doorman that had a story about trump fathering a child out of wedlock
breaking news. reports of a new payoff to protect president trump. according to the new yorker, a former trump doorman was paid $30,000 by the publisher of the national enquirer for his story about trump fathering a child with an employee at trump tower in the late 1980s. the doorman, dino seduden, said i can confirm while working at trump tower i was instructed not to criticize president trump s former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with president trump which produced a child. his story, of course, has not been proven. and it never ran. and according to the new yorker, it was david becker, the publisher of the national enquirer and long-time friend and trump ally who killed the story. the report also claims the president s personal attorney, michael cohen, was also in close contact with executives at the publisher during this time. brin, the trump organization and ami are firmly pushing back on