Welcome to our breaking News Coverage of the historic donald trump hush money, Criminal Trial. I will flutter in washington, Anderson Cooper is just outside the courthouse in new york for us today, a truly blockbuster witness, right at the heart of this case, Stormy Daniels has been testifying the Adult Film Start has delivered a times very salacious testimony detailing her first meeting with trump back in 2006 and their ensuing Sexual Encounter which trump denies ten years later, daniels was paid to keep quiet about that alleged affair. And thats the payment that launched this case. Anderson over to you . Thats right it on its face that Hush Money Deal was perfectly legal prosecutor said the crime was in the bookkeeping which allegedly involve Falsifying Records to conceal them. Nature of the transaction. Im here with you and chief Legal Affairs correspondent paul arenas, Unit Chief Domestic Correspondent for mattingly. Of course, the question is, did trump know about the the way this payment was actually logged in his personal Business Records so far, prosecutors have not been able to establish that he had a knowledge of exactly how this was being reimbursed. Okoh. And even if you knew big picture, did he know about these 34 individual documents that are allegedly falsified . I think what we got out of Stormy Daniels, this one morning is the what did trump want to hide ahead of the 2016 election . Post Access Hollywood Reelection De What was it that he and Everyone Else was concerned about getting out . That is what Stormy Daniels has given the jury so far. No evidence of falsifying Business Records. Its not something shell have knowledge of and were just starting to get into the hush money that she received in the days ahead to the election the foods going to meet you think feel i mean, does the jury believes Stormy Daniels in her testimony and if they believe her then they dont believe donald trump when he says that he did not have sex with her and if they dont believe him on that, perhaps that color is the way they believe his testimony in general, i think one thing thats been interesting throughout the course of the monte, Stormy Daniels been testifying for a little bit over two hours right now and in vivid detail david i think then the judge had laid out in terms of the parameters you saw the objections probably more objections and more objection sustained. From the defense team that weve seen in the entire trial combined up to this point those details and the reason why she was being asked about them by the prosecution work to lay out the point that youre making here that she wouldnt know all of this if it didnt actually happen. The former president denied as this happened in the first place and therefore, you should be able to view her as credible. And i think whats interesting as we head in to the afternoon is where she ended up she ended up saying that the laser just to the money she attributed them first to cohen and then said it was trump took cohen to Keith Davidson and while that leyen or chain of events may take you back a week or two into the trial whether or not she has proved to thats pauls point. Its been the missing element throughout this, who can point directly to the former president and what he knew she got to close things out saying my understanding or my belief is that trump was the reason that this was being delayed. We have not seen proof of that. Weve heard from davidson and how shes able to kind of develop that or paint that picture in the afternoon. Its gonna be really important if i was lets do had to pick if i wanted to be on the Prosecution Team or the defense team during this lunch break, i would pick the Prosecution Team because i can only imagine weve seen a basin or reporters in the course how upset down from seems to be an urging his attorneys to be interjecting more to object, more ive little doubt he is giving them an ear folt right now about what he wants to see moving forward . Yeah. Hes been really scrutinizing his Defense Lawyers and site yesterday with Todd Blanches cross of an accounting official from the Trump Organization term twisted his its entire body and was watching everything. Todd set today. Hes gotten a little physical. This is a niclas one of his lawyers sort of hitting her on the arm, prompting her to object. Hes had the spirited conversations with all three of them. He clearly has a lot of ideas about exactly how this defense should be carried out. At this point is unclear who will cross Stormy Daniels, but you know, whoever does it, theyre getting in your fall from their client right now, i think the takeaway the picture that our team in the room you guys been talking about niclas, leuser basically prompted to object and she was reading something at the time. It was basically like Stormy Daniels is so different than anybody else. Weve seen up to this point, right . Yeah. David packer, who i think they were still very friendly to some degree. You had people that were in the Trump Organization and even your whole picks, whos a former advisor and clearly there still some kindness there or appreciation for one another. This is a different witness than weve seen up to this point. If you want to have any sense of how troubles gonna feel when Michael Cohen eventually its stan, youre getting a limit of a here, but we just havent seen him confronted by somebody like this, particularly with these personal stories at that level of detail how he responds after the trial, maybe just as interesting is how he responds during more from here in new york, Kaitlan Collins is going to be joining us here. Wolf, lets go back to you. All right. Anderson. Thank you. Ive got excellent panel here in washington as well. Elie honig less talk. Start with you. What stood out to you so far about Stormy Daniels testimony. So even though this morning was the part about sex, it got into some sort of details. I think that was actually the easier part for Stormy Daniels and for the prosecution, it seems to me that shes a very credible witness, owing largely to the level of specificity in detail, including some details that did not make her look good, for example, is a small detail, but she said, i went through Donald Trumps toilet no, im not proud of it. Why would you admit that if you were not telling the truth its hard for me to believe this jury hears that testimony and thanks. This is fabricated, but now were getting into the more relevant parts of her testimony and perhaps the dicier elements of her testimony, for example, right before the lunch break she said she really wasnt interested in getting money for her story. Well, she got 130,000 for ultimately and we are coming up to the point where shes going to talk about how she publicly heres the quote, my motivation wasnt money. It was to get the story out. Thats a little hard to square with what ends up happening. So its going to get bumpy or in the afternoon for Stormy Daniels for the prosecution. But i think the morning went more or less how they would have wanted it to play out. What do you think eleia, because youre watching this very closely as well. How do you think the Trump Defense team is going to go after her . I think a few ways, number one, they cant say the words porn star and naaf. Then i would think they would sort of use that seedy underbelly of this story to try to taint the jurys mind as to what they think of this witness number one number two, Memory Lapses. Shes talking and testifying about events that happened in 2006 and its easy to say what exactly. Do you remember where was the hotel room and so on and even Little Things that might be honest Memory Lapses for you or me or a regular person to a jury . It might appear to be questions about the witnesses credibility. And then finally, the big one is just motive and intent why picking up on ellies point to get the story out is not a good fact for for her at all because it suggests that she is going after this defendant and moreover, the fact that she, i believe spoke to a publicist after the access Hollywood Tape would come out. All of these facts while again, not devastating for the witness of the prosecution, just cast some doubt on what the jury might think of this witness. And again, any responsible Defense Attorney would pick it. All of them so far is she coming across very credible so far are based on what were reading, she is coming across as credible and i thank by the prosecution had a delicate needle to thread in how much detail to get out there or you dont want to turn the jury off with how disgusting the facts are, but they needed to provide enough information that became hard for the defense. Had a little bit maybe, but its but its really about dont ones because if they now he and i were just talking about this in the break. If the prosecution were to just come up and say, did you have sex with him that night or that afternoon or whatever . And she said, yes, no further questions. Defense could easily rebut that by saying, well, no, it didnt happen it was important for them to establish these minor details such as i went through and found his old spice some brute in his bag. Those are helpful details, but youre right. It doesnt sit with any of us. I think the only thing that was she was very credible except to me when she said she didnt care about the money because its clear she cared about the money and she was texting apparently with the publicist about the money. She was involved in negotiation with the enquirer. I gather about the money. So if you wanted to get the story out, why for your reputation to burnish your reputation, i dont think so. So theres only one reason which is to embarrass donald trump and to get some financial remuneration, right . I mean, thats thats the point of it. And she kept saying no, no, no. I didnt care about the money seems clear that at that point she was quite successful, both from her sort of film work, but also directing and so on. But for most human beings, 130,000 is a very significant sum of money idea that it doesnt dollars. Also, she talks about the install ill article that she was supposed to get paid for, but she never did. But i do want to answer one question that you asked elliot about the defense and the question because i talked to some of trumps legal team about this and they want to keep this brief, as you noted, donald trump is agitated. This is not what he wants to be sitting through right now at the time when the first details of this report came public, he was embarrassed. It was salacious. It put attention and a stress on his marriage with millennia. It is not some thing he wants to revisit right now and you can tell that he is scribbling notes furiously passing to his lawyers he doesnt want to be engaged in this in either do as lawyers, i am told though that even though they believe is going to be shorter, the defense is going to be shorter in the crossing examination, what we see from the prosecution, they do want to poke some holes in her story and painter as what they say the witness that she is to know that and to that end, i dont actually think theyre going to attack her on being a porn star at disagree, disagree with what you said, but it would be a traditional a way to go. I dont think the jury cares. I dont think she is she is what she is. She makes no panes about it. Thats what she is. Theyre going to call her an opportunist is what theyre gonna do. And the fact that you specifically linked to request in time to the upcoming election. Oddly makes her out to be an opportunist, but also oddly helps the prosecutions case because theyre going to say the reason heres the test thats the money absolutely. Daniel said saying if it wasnt done before the election, i wouldnt be safe for that. He wouldnt pay and that there would be a trail to keep me safe. So prosecutors are going to say this is sort of our theory here. The motivation or a primary motivation for making this payment was the election was coming up. But one of the silencer shes an extortionist, basically, i think yes. The question that i havent maybe the legal eagles here can answer it. Is that donald trump has always insisted. And you know this better than anyone has always insisted on denying that anything took place than any Sexual Encounter took place. Now, how do they or do they counter that her testimony on that on that issue no. I think youve been acknowledged that the encounter took place and thats embarrassing to the former president , but he doesnt publish hopefully that it didnt. But even if it doesnt, what im saying is regardless of whether the encounter took place, the crime is committed with the business and the false vacation of records and perhaps they take one for the team. I dont know what differently they have to address it. I mean, they dont have to, but i think they will. And heres how theyre not going to say youre lying Stormy Daniels had never happened. Theyre going to show her her denial in 2018, she wrote a document sayyed, a document saying this never happened. Im not denying it only because i was paid. It never actually happened. Now, she has since denied the denial, but thats what theyre going to do. Theyre going to show that document to her and just to your point, i mean, one of the reasons that ive long said that donald trump is not going to testify in this case, no matter how many times that he ties it is that this is not something he wants to answer questions about. How concerned are they in the Trump Legal Team, right now . I dont know that its necessarily just concern. This doesnt change the state of the case there hasnt been anything explosive in it that wasnt known already. Their concern is still largely how long this is going to take. I think after we heard stein glass yesterday saying that he wouldnt be done for another two weeks from today, that kind of got everyones spun up because they were thinking this was going to be over by next week. Thats where their concern but this just personally for the former president is very embarrassing and longterm seeing this kind of conversation around donald trump, who is now running for president and in a fair with a porn star, something that can be used against him by democrats in this election is something that theyre thinking about. I you just imagine on a human level how mortifying this is for him. I mean, this has she spread out every detail there, some that we didnt want to too much information, but hes sitting there listening to this. I believe eric trump is there. Im sure melania is probably tuning in a little bit and hes running for president and hes listening to this description of a sex act, right . That he had with her. And the fact that he followed up with her and continue to have phone calls with her. And tried to promise her a job on The Apprentice, right . I mean, this is this is kind of mortifying and how what does he go into some kind of selfdenial about this . 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