Much for watching. Our Special Coverage continues right now on plead with jake tapper cnn Breaking News and welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper, the criminal hush money coverup trial. A former President Donald Trump is well underway right now in manhattan on the stand, right now is a man named douglas doubts he works for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office, but as opposed to previous days that were focused on bank records today. We are knee deep in shady deals and sleazy details mentioned today, were other Celebrity Scandals involving all cogen and Charlie Sheen more on that in a second. But the reason we heard all of this today was because of this man Keith Davidson, who took the stand. He is the attorney who represented both Stormy Daniels the Adult Film Star and director, and Karen Mcdougal, the 1998 playboy playmate of the year. When negotiating Hush Money Payments arrange to keep them twice quiet about alleged sexual encounters they had with donald trump, ones that mr. Trump denies. Jurors saw the actual confidential Settlement Agreement between daniels and trump with mr. Trumps signature sure the documents used pseudonyms, the ones that were more available. Stormy daniels was Peggy Peterson. Donald trump was david dennison. And in this document, david dennis and was paying peggy peters and to keep her mouth shut former president dennis and i mean, former President Trump paid close attention to crossexamination of Keith Davidson, the attorney, as the Defense Attorneys tried to poke holes in mr. Davidsons credibility resulting in at least one particularly testy exchange. Lets get you up to speed on whats happening in the trial right now with the help of our panel trump, right now in the courtroom. Trump is on a phone call when the recording starts, its a recording that Michael Cohen made. And when he hangs up, cohen can be heard saying great call by the way, big time, this is a prosecutor is playing the recording from a 2016 Telephone Call and you hear trumps voice. This is the first time in the trial the de of herd, the jurors have heard mr. Trumps voice as we pop back and forth between whats going on in the trial now and what happened a few minutes ago, let me go back to something shambhu Keith Davidson said on Election Night 2016, this is the attorney who negotiated this the. Hush money agreement allegedly Keith Davidson said he texted the National Enquirer editor, dylan howard. This is on november 8 the night that donald trump won the presidency, 2016. And he says, what have we done . Mr. Davidson explained there was an understanding that our efforts may have been some way strike that. Are active activities may have in some way assisted the present so dental campaign of donald trump, why is that relevant to this prosecution . Thats really gold for the bus fusion because they need to establish the intent to do the other crime, which in this case would be the election interference. So theyre davidson talking about the fact that right in real time as the elections happening, he understands what they may have accomplished so right now, in court, prosecutors are showing a transcript of the last 46 seconds of the phone call that Michael Cohen recorded and where the relevant discussion of opening up a company happenings. I believe jamie again, go less is opening up a Shell Corporation by Michael Cohen in order to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels for 130,000 and hide it from anyone else and not have Donald Trumps fingerprints directly attached, right . He actually opens up to he doesnt fund the first one, then he does another one called essential. And central consulting you see a sense of urgency then in the timeline were now at the end of october, about two weeks before the election if the thing that struck me from this afternoons testimony, two things. One, Audio Recordings and how the jury reacts to that, right . The Audio Recordings. So this guy doubts is a guy who is an expert with the prosecution, with the Manhattan District Attorneys Office and he is an introduced to phones. They used to belong to Michael Cohen and iphone six and an iphone seven. One of them has gold case, always classy and theyre playing some of the Cell Phone Messages and the like. Remember, everybody might remember when nickel cohens office was rated and his phones were seized. This is bad when he was still Donald Trumps good graces. And thats some of the evidence being presented here. You dont have a goal to iphone case. No, were found its pretty black rubber. So im not glassy the reason recordings i think are striking one the content of them is it interesting . Will there be moments that stay with the jury . But the other is its sneaky to record someone and that may play maybe Michael Cohen would argue a hat to record these calls to protect myself as proof but most people i think dont like the idea of calls being recorded. So that may play against him. So douglas das testifying right now and emil bove, Donald Trumps attorney, is up for crossexamination of douse. Not sure what exactly he will go after mr. Dowells four, he processes digital evidence in the unit of the Manhattan District Attorneys Office called the hightechnology analysis unit. He seems to be basically just providing stuff that has to do with phone calls and records on the calendar of Michael Cohen and the like. Jim trusty, Former Trump Attorney Davidson in his testimony earlier recall the Phone Conversation with thentrump attorney Michael Cohen. This took place in december 2016. Trump had already one and in this conversation, davidson says cohen said something to the effect of jesus christ. Can you effing believe im not going to washington after everything. Ive done for that f and guy, i cant believe im not going to washington. Ive saved that guys asked so many times, you dont even know that f and guy is not even paying me the 130,000 back thats the 130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels it gets. You one second. I just want to bring people up to speed. Beauvais is asking douglas doubts about his work on iraq, Doing Forensics and intel collection and the differences between that work and the work he does for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office. Well see where that goes. But in any case, this venting by Michael Cohen, two essentially opposing counsel really, i mean, like somebody who has been negotiating with Stormy Daniels, attorney what do you make of it . And do you think the defense could make make some hay of this . Yeah finally, something that them about he was such a perfect witness now this slip up i mean, look, i think you you have an embarrassment of riches in terms of what you do with cohen. Again, the strategy should be all through this trial focus entirely on cohen. Dont fight tech analysts dont worry about even david pecker, different people that have little foundational bits of information. There not to fight. Even the stuff thats going on right now feels foundational. Setting up sometimes its setting up some some contacts so you can do a chart to say look at all these people are all talking around the time of the election. The substance eight, great. I would agree that a lawyer or tape recording his client and then having these bitter outburst is not a great look and maybe we can bring avenatti to comment on it. But it does not look good in terms of cohen and were already just seeing the tip of the iceberg and how much theyre going to be able to crossexamine them on one of the real quick thing, if you have a second, just to be a navajo wind talk, i want to help decode Peggy Peterson and whatever the other name, david david dennis probably plaintiff and defendant. Thats probably that theyre working on here. So i figured id help the viewers. I appreciated those Student Names were hard to crack. Beauvais trumps attorney Asks Douglass Douse to confirm that the integrity of the data matters more in a criminal case because peoples rights are at stake. Kristen holmes, donald trump earlier today, said that, lets go to number number six. By the way, a fullscreen six, if we could our Court Reporters inside the court have mentioned that trump is close design is quite a bit including while Keith Davidson testified about his conversations with Michael Cohen, one trump attorney whisper to trump, he acknowledged, but did not open his eyes trump today on truth, social posted contrary to the fake news media, i dont fall asleep during the crooked das witch hunt especially not today. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes listen intensely and take it all in. Its actually not so different from what Maggie Haberman said, who was one of the most authoritative trump journalists that there is, that he does sometimes close his eyes in her view to focus and calm down and not lose his temper. But just because his eyes are closed, doesnt mean hes asleep. Yeah. He doesnt like anyone saying that hes falling asleep because this entire argument and this election is that hes running against Sleepy Joe Biden and he is this virile 76 yearold are 77 yearold up against an 80yearold. Now, i will say one of the things that has been very hard for donald trump is to actually sit through all of this testimony. Its not just because hes as agitated, he wants to get up and walk around and because hes angry, but also part of his that he knows everyone is watching him all the time. This is a man who cares very much about appearances. He plans every kind of Media Appearances he has. Now he knows so is there a reporters in the courtroom watching him all the time . So its difficult for him to get through all of this knowing that there is a moment where hes trying to just figure out how to comport himself, how to handle himself, knowing that peoples eyes are on him for eight hours or more a day . Yeah, that wouldnt be fun for anybody. I want to talk briefly about this 2018 states meant that Keith Davidson drafted for Stormy Daniels. This is the denial that was brought up earlier today. It referred to a romantic relationship between trump and daniel saying, quote, im saying with complete clarity this was absolutely false. So davidson was asked about this statement that and its adherence to the truth. They know its come denial. Theres no truth to it. And he said, quote and extremely strict reading of this denial would technically be true with an extremely fine reading. I think youd have to hone in on the definition of romantic sexual, and affair. I dont think that anyone had alleged that any interaction between sheehy, mr. Trump was romantic . I dont think that anyone had ever alleged that there was a relationship between Stormy Daniels and donald trump . I believe a relationship is an ongoing interaction. So this is hey, im trying to justify what seems like a pretty false statement that he issued on behalf of Stormy Daniels in 2018 . Yeah. Again, lawyers are just coming out beautifully in this trial he quibbling over, what is sex or what is is any gets into this notion that its not really a hush money payment. Its considered creation for something that happened and im like, whats the old fashion word for sex, for money . I cant remember, but its just kind of an amazing amount of quibbling and sometimes lawyers just lose track of the fact that theres 12 people with normal common sense that are not hanging on these ridiculous technicalities and giving him any credits but its not its not critical to the guilt or innocence ultimately, this is all just tawdry, but its a bad moment for him to quibble over that stuff. Were going to take a quick break. Were closing in on the final minutes of this big day in court for the hush money cover up case. 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