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But this morning attention, turning back to Donald Trumps former white house aide, who described to jurors yesterday a meeting she arranged at the white house between donald trump and his then attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Cohen claims this was the meeting where the alleged plan to falsify Business Records was crafted. Cohen and by the way, expected to testify next week, cnns Kristen Holmes outside the courthouse this morning, as we waited to see donald trump leave trial im tower for the court, kristen, the case moving right along, but the big buildup here, were now hearing Michael Cohen to testify next week, the preparation must be furiously going on there with trumps team i think we saw a lot of what or at least a preview of what thats going to actually look like with Stormy Daniels. This kind of intense crossexamination of very aggressive by Susan Necheles is pushing Stormy Daniels to try to paint her as an opportunist. Try to paint her as someone who is doing all of this for money or even as a liar, saw a lot of what Susan Necheles did was pull up old tweets its old post and try to read them to Stormy Daniels really with the point of trying to make it look as those Stormy Daniels had an ax to grind and thats what we expect from Michael Cohen as well when im talking to members first of trumps legal team, his legal advisors, they say they are doing the most work to prep for Michael Cohen. Theyve been going through his podcast, his book, the book revenge, as well as his twitter posts, which we know id been a very aggressive towards donald trump and i do want to mention one thing about Stormy Daniels because what we saw after coarser day, in addition to talking about getting the case dismissed, we also saw that Donald Trumps lawyers were arguing to try and allow donald trump to respond to Stormy Daniels and the claims that she made during her testimony. Now, the judge denied that, said its still under gag order, but then Stormy Daniels tweeted this and see it certainly seems like shes goading him here when she says real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in the court. Oh, wait. Never mind. So clearly theyre trying to push some buttons. Well see of donald trump responds with no, he does not want to break that gag order, but i do want to quickly mention what were seeing today. Madeleine westerhout, that is not testimony that is done yet while he is a former white house aide, she sat outside the oval office was the one who arranged the meeting where they allegedly discussed falsifying records. She also was so much more so when youre talking to trumps team, they acknowledged that she might know things that she doesnt even no, she knows. Remember how the white house was at that time when she was there right after trump got elected, there was a lot of chaos and someone like madeleine was the person who is really helping weather the storm. She was just an executive aid, but at the same came time, she was in the meeting. She was sitting outside, she was welcoming every Single Person who came in and out of that office. She was really the lifeline to donald trump at certain times. Because as we know, he didnt text, he didnt col. So if youre looking to get in touch with donald trump, you are likely trying to call hope hicks or trying to call madeleine westerhout. So she had all of this knowledge. So when you talk to trump sources, do they think that she is hasnt and the Animus Storage donald trump notice you have an ax to grind no. But does she have a lot of information that could potentially be damaging to the former president. Thats what were going to wait and see. Yeah shes certainly talked about the fact that there was a meeting between cohen and donald trump. But as norm eisen, whos been in the court, has been saying her testimony so far has helped both sides of this case. So we will have to see what she says next. Thank you so much, Kristen Holmes, there will ive reporting for us outside of court and joining us inside the studio is seen as illegal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. So joy, lets talk Stormy Daniels testimony for a bit. Its all no matter the assessment from everyone on the outside or even sitting in the courtroom, its all about how it comes across in the eyes of the jury. The way the Washington Post put it, it was Stormy Daniels testimony on sex lives and money was risky for both sides. How do you measure success or failure with explosive testimony like that . Yeah, its a great question. Good morning to you, kate. I think that listen, i think that the fence went in and i think potentially things that they set up for the following day backfired you have what you need the whole purpose of crossexamination is to set up your case at the end of the day. You could talk about sex de night and inbetween. Do you know about Business Records . Do you know about ledgers, maam . Do you know about invoices . You have no knowledge or nothing to share what that jury with respect to that, is that right . Okay. So why are we here right now . We know why were here because she provides the moat, the motivation and the impetus for the trump team to kill her story if it gets out, thats the argument the voters may 4 for example, abandon trumps, so theyre overwhelmingly concern. But at the end of the day obviously, right. Its salacious, which he has to testify to. But does it go to a material facts of the case . The whole purpose in my view, just my view that she testified and they went after her the defense did. Another time was for the ego, i believe of trump. I want you he probably told his team, you, emily eight her. Right. I want you to just really skew or her on the Witness Stand and you really dont try a case for your client. You try it for the jury. So at the end of the day, i think she said a lot of compelling things and potentially some things that backfired on the defense so then i want to know what category this exchange goes into because they spent time trying to draw It Inconsistencies discrediting her. That was obviously the goal of the defense. Then theres this exchange from necklace and daniels backandforth, you have a lot of experience and making phony stories about sex to appear real, right . Stormy laughs and says, wow oh, thats not how i would put it. The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. All right. But youre making Fictionalized Stories about sex. You write those stories. Know the sex is real, the Character Names might be different, but the sex is very real. Then. And now you have a story you have been telling about having sex with president trump, right . And if that story was untrue, i would have written it to be a lot better and daniels laughs. What does this do . I think it just backfires why we talking about this . In other words, i think that their client, mr. Trump, is obsessed with the notion that the affair didnt happen i think thats what they said in an opening. Maintains it didnt it didnt happen, so theyre going after her about that now. The other side, the prosecution, its so detailed, so unless she has the most vivid imagination known to humanity, and as a pathological liar, right . Did the affair not happen . Why go in on the affair go in on the critical issue . Here about Business Records and the falsification of them. Thats what its all about. You dont add anything to that equation. And by the way, catch and kill on its own is purpose per perfectly legal, right . And so to the extent that that is proper, you can do that. Theres a Nondisclosure Agreement that legal and Everything Else what do we talking about . So to go into the sex, it was like, come on, keep your eye on the prize. You have to be disciplined in the courtroom and everyone, kate does things differently. I just think that spending all that time with her backfire because of answers to questions that we just saw like that and it left the judge scratching his head in some regard, they filed they asked for ms trial once again, over the testimony, he denies it and he really means is the right word. I think thats how john put it earlier. Version saying for some unexplained reason, which i still dont understand. There was no objection to certain testimony which was later used in the motion for mistrial hello. In tuesday and again today, for example, the mention of a condom i agree that shouldnt have come out. I wish those questions hadnt been asked and i wish those answers hadnt been given, but for the life of me, the judge says, i dont know why ms necklace didnt object. She had just made about ten objections. Most of which were sustained. Why on earth she wouldnt object to the mention of a condom. I dont understand. As a criminal defense attorney, youre sitting youre sitting there, you hear a judge say that and you think what so its problematic. You never, ever ever write particularly in this case with that defendant, the former president , want to be demeaned in front of the judge. Youre there, you want to be as prepared as possible. You want to do your job and if anything, you want the judge to inform your client that youre attorneys advocating for you in the best way possible. And i think what the judge is saying, dont come to me about a mistrial. You have an opportunity and an obligation to object to questions that you dont think the jury should here, if you dont object, dont expect me to do my job for you when so dont come crying about what was admitted when you allow it because you said nothing. And thats a bad look, obviously for a yes or no, i dare you. Do you think that Story Daniels testimony makes it more or less likely that donald trump will testify its by even though it was already in the unlikely, you know what kate, i think it bates him and go dom into it, particularly with the tweet she made last night, right about, hey, real men get on the Witness Stand. So i think it goes them into it. I think it would be a huge mistake and this ill end here you have to be disciplined in cases and i think theyre cross of her in my view, was not disciplined. It didnt speak to the issues before us. And as a result of that, it was amiss and if they goad him into testifying, that is the prosecution. As a result of stormys testimony, boy. Oh, boy, they have done some job boy. Oh, boy jackson. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Im going with zero times zero is zero so theres still a chance, no, zero times theres no math aloud in this show. All right, this morning, the family of the black us airmen shot in his apartment by a deputy is demanding answers. Weve got new reporting on the investigation and then did Israel Violate International Law law using us weapons . Weve got new reporting on the Biden Administrations conclusion in a new report that is about to be made public. And then a cosmic storm is in the forecast. And as we know, this is exactly how the fantastic forgot their superpowers. Even if this does not happen for you who you could get an extraordinary view of an extremely rare phenomena unm spotlights 12th time in years, changing the world intimate, look at how these champions make the world of and replace champions for change all next week on cnn, sponsored by charles schwab. 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Lets get right to cnns Jeremy Diamond in jerusalem this morning. This has been a report that people have been waiting on jeremie yeah no doubt about it, john. And interestingly, it seems that it will stop short according to barak ravid of outright saying that israel has violated International Humanitarian law, but it will nonetheless be a very critical reported seems outlining several incidents that took place in during the war in gaza that raised serious its concerns about potential violations of humanitarian law. And i expect john that this will simply add another layer to the tensions that we have been witnessing between the United States and israel over the course of the last week when you think about the number of issues that have currently come up that have caused tensions not only between the two countries, the two administrations, but directly between President Biden and Prime Minister netanyahu, we really are at a seemingly low point in relations between the United States and israel, despite the fact that the United States continues to give enormous support to israel in its war in gaza. We have seen over the course of this week as President Biden made these very public statements threatening to withhold additional Weapons Shipments to israel if it moves forward with a major Ground Offensive in rafah. And just yesterday, we heard from the israeli Prime Minister of firing back, essentially saying that israel will fight alone if it needs to and talking about this disagreement and with President Biden hoping that the us and israel can get over this latest disagreements as, as he