Hours of it. Once you happening now, Breaking News Tonight Trial the Us Supreme Court in new york sensational testimony against donald trump just wrapped up for the day, focusing for the first time on the Hush Money Deal With Adult Film StarStormy Daniels, thats central to the case. And here in washington, trumps historic bid for criminal immunity has played it out before the nations highest court. And the justice is offered some clues about how they may rule for the next hour, well take you inside both of Trumps High Court cases are reporters and experts or standing by to 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. I will blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room The Trump Trial today we begin with all the Breaking News on the Trump Hush Money Criminal Trial the defense crossexamination of key witness david pecker, is expected to resume tomorrow after the former National Enquirer publisher address some very salacious topics in his testimony today. Cnn as Brujin Graphs is outside the courthouse in new york for us, grin the testimony is getting closer and closer to the heart of the case against trump yeah. Well, thats right. Defendants her knees really started their cross a peg are going after those catch and kill stories, getting him to admit that buying and burying stories about a lot of celebrities was actually just common practice that they did it quite off do as part of their business model. And that in fact, they had been doing it for Donald Trump Trump even 17 years before the 2016 election. This is after the prosecution spent more than six hours over the last couple of days questioning pecker about the Inner Workings of those catch and kill stories. And how many of them benefitted trump crossexamination of david pecker, got underway in the criminal case against donald trump 17 years of providing President Trump with a headsup about potentially negative publicity . Yes. The former publisher of the National Enquirer testified trumps lawyers trying to show that catch and kill schemes buying negative stories to make them disappear was not uncommon. We didnt want the story to embarrass mr. Trump or embarrass or hurt the campaign one such scheme at the crux of the das case against trump, Stormy Daniels months before the 2016 election, the Adult Film Star and director tried to sell her story of a sexual relationship trump to the enquirer for 120,000, but pecker testified he wouldnt buy it. Pecker said he later learned trumps then attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen paid daniels out of his own funds at one point, Pecker Testified Trump called him saying daniels violated the agreement and owed him 24 million for doing this interview and you had sex with him . Yes. You were 27 . He was 60. Were you physically attracted to him . No pecker didnt pay daniels because he wasnt reimbursed for an earlier catch and kill for trump as the night ended, we were incident Karen Mcdougal tried to sell her story of a year long affair with trump, which he denied i think you should by the story and take it off the market. Pecker testified he told trump, pecker hatched a plan with cohen as previous recording show funding yes trump would pay him back in exchange for signing the story over. Pecker said cohen assured him, dont worry, im your friend boss will take care of it. Mcdougal story was purchased but never published in the end, trump didnt reimburse the enquirer, dont trump ever say to you that he loved you . All the time. He always told me he loved me pecker testified after this interview in 2018, trump called upset. I thought you had and we had an agreement with Karen Mcdougal that she cant give any interviews. Pecker recalled the ben president saying, but pecker testified the companys agreement with mcdougal was altered and allowed her to speak if a negative story was coming out with respect to donald trump, he was concerned about what the family may hear or say about it, not saying whether it was true or not. Pecker testified after Trumps Campaign was announced, pecker said trumps concern shifted it was basically what the impact would be to the campaign and the election pecker said well, if we started the day wondering if the judge was going to make a decision about that recent gag order hearing, he did it, but prosecutors brought forward four more examples. They say trump violated that gag order over the last time several days. So now a new hearing is set for next wednesday. Trump has campaign events, but he has ordered to be here in court as of now tomorrow crossexamination picks back up with david pecker on the stand. Well, are beringia and grass outside the courthouse in new york. Thanks very much. I want to bring in our legal and political experts said for some analysis, right . Now, it was interesting. Elliot did the prosecution accomplish what they needed to accomplish to get the case going to try to prove that trumps actions were criminally election interference. Its important to know what the prosecutions goal is with any one witness. This was not known is going to be convicted on the basis of the testimony theyve seen thus far. But what they had to do as number one, established the existence of some kind of skim between david pecker, Michael Cohen, and donald trump to facilitate these payments and cover them up. And for the purposes of just wasnt useful testimony with no obvious at least from where we sit, no obvious wounds. The prosecution absolutely did what they needed did you do . Its important to note, though crossexamination is starting now, we have not seen this witness get beat up yet, and he will because thats the whole thats all point of the game. Thats the nature of the business right now. Im john king. What do you and our viewers to listen to what trump said as he emerged from the trial today and spoke to reporters. Listen to this its breathtaking and amazing testimony. This is a drought that you dont never happened. This is the case. They should have never been filed it was really incredible an de, Open Your Eyes and we cant let this continue to happen to our country but another matter, you know the economy is just been reported to be doing very badly the stock markets way so from the trial to the academy sort of in the same breath, his political advisors have been urging him to not attack judges, not attack jurors, not try to talk about the process so much when he has his Public Comments to try to be a candidate since youre not on the campaign trail, talk about the economy, make a case against President Biden. So the last part might not fail. My field of Fact Check Machine how about the stock market being down in one day today it was down because of a gdp report, but overall its up. But that is what the political advice want to do. But im struck with the, it was breathtaking, it was amazing. A friend of his, a man he has acknowledged as a friend and a witness who said he thinks hes still Donald Trumps rounds, even though they sold on talk, talked about capturing and killing stories about alleged Donald Trump Affairs that david pecker said he believed were true to help the president ial campaign. Im not a lawyer, i dont know what thats legal or not, but its not exactly hague kids gather around. Let me tell you a story about my life that you want out there in the public domain. So i dont know how thats amazing of a breathtaking, i think a big point in this is how do 12 ordinary people who are watching . How do they regard this . Now, it is their job to put aside their emotions and feelings about porn stars and payments and so on. But when they hear about this type of payment in this type of behavior what what are these folks talking about in that room . And that was very clearly what trumps team was trying to do when they started with a chance to crossexamine mr. Pecker, was they were trying to bring up other examples of people doing similar things to this. People who not necessarily running for president of the United States, but they did cite at least one person, Arnold Schwarzenegger and talking about his run for governor of california. And so theyre essentially trying to muddy the waters and say that this is just something that you see people do, whether or not that works with the the jury is going to be a big question, but i do think theyll continue drilling down and trying to question david pecker is memory tomorrow. I was told by one source that they do believe its gonna be about maybe three to four hours of crossexamination. And david pecker. So well see if we could see a second witness begin to take the stand even tomorrow afternoon, even better. One of the questions one of the first questions they asked for comments was so ami isnt a charity organization, is youre making a profit off of all of this really making him seem like this is about greed and thats all to get the Jury Thinking that they dont like this person. Yeah. Important point. It was interesting. I thought that kaitlyn that david pecker testified about a call with two Top White House staffers at the time who picks and Sarah Huckabee sanders would that reveal as someone who covered the white house and remembers Sarah Sanders being at the White House Briefing room where obviously all three of us have sat at one point, she had to deny allegations about Karen Mcdougal citing conversations that she had with donald trump to hear that review still today that there was a call with the National Enquirer tabloid king, hope hicks and Sarah Sanders while they were taxpayer funded white house officials and talking where david pecker was asieh that if he should extend Karen Mcdougals contract was absolutely stunning and it really showed you that all of this that has been happening. Its not something that just happened in 2015 and 20 2016. This happen well into when donald trump is in the white house, david pecker, the National Enquirer, was on the phone with white house officials asking them for their advice on how they should handle burying troublesome stories about the president of the United States that just struck me so much. I asked Sarah Sanders is team if shes going to comment on this, they havent that whether or not shes going to weigh in, but its quite remarkable that trump put and david pecker on the phone with two taxpayer funded white house officials. But this is what he does when Michael Cohen fell out of favor, he needed new people to be as enforcers and Michael Cohen at that point, i think it was on the cusp of falling out of favor. If you go back, i dont have the timeline in front of me, but this has been a constant. Donald trump fines loyal lieutenants who will do his business, which is why i think pecker is important. Yesterday, i believe it was when he said donald trump was deeply involved, was frugal, didnt like to throw away money, so it was always involved in the financial decisions. So the trustee is not conveyed to say, well, trump said make it go away. He didnt say do anything illegal or he didnt say write checks. Thats what theyre trying to build that trump knew what was happening. It seems to make caitlin the defense team of trump its now going to try to muddy the waters a bit following the prosecutions opening witnesses, david pecker what are you hearing about how trump and his legal team are going to start dealing with all of this tomorrow. I think the question is really how do they distance donald trump from david pecker . Because what the prosecution has been doing over the last several days is really putting the two of them together talking about how often they spoke on the phone, how that ramped up the closer donald trump got to the white house and donald Trump Inviting david pecker two. We learned yesterday, two days ago that he invited him to win his his president ial announcement. They invite him to the president ial inauguration. He came to the white house. He was in the oval office. He had dinner at the white house and brought Business Associates its because his wife didnt want to come theyll go after him on the timeline and his memory and what he said now, the question of how successfully they can distance himself from donald trump is a big one. Is there was built as a thank you dinner that the white house very interesting indeed. Everybody standby. 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