Another week of testimony in former president Donald Trumps criminal trial coming to a close today. Right now in the Morning Break which lasts about 15 minutes or so. During the last witness were told that manhattan d. A. Alvin bragg himself actually walked into the courtroom and took a seat in the front row. Adult film actress stormy dane yells wrapped up her testimony yesterday. It may have backfired on the prosecution given the trial is all about the former president s business records. The prosecution says its star witness former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to testify on monday. Good morning and welcome to the the faulkner focus. Im Bill Melugin In For Harris today. The judge denied another motion for a mistrial yesterday. The judge also denying a Trump Team Request to modify his gag order. It would have allowed him to talk about Stormy Daniels testimony now that its over. They think they will get away with this. If this country allows them to get away with this gag order and the way the case is being handled, like what they are doing. Yesterday was incredible. It was incredible. What they did, this trial is so horrible. It is no longer justice. It is a tremendous abuse of the new york judicial system. Bill it has to be frustrating for him. Trump cant talk about the witnesses in this case but they are certainly talking about him. Look at this. After her testimony yesterday Stormy Daniels posted, quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh, wait, never mind. Michael cohen has posted hours of content online as he waits to testify himself on monday. He has talked about the case on tiktok while livestreaming himself and fundraising from users wearing a shirt that shows donald trump in an Orange Jumpsuit behind bars. Senior correspondent eric shawn is joining us live outside the New York State Supreme Court with more. He has always defended donald trump passionately and strongly. On monday Michael Cohen will be sitting at the defense witness seat actually testifying against his former boss. Prosecutors, i have learned, set to call cohen for testimony on monday. He, of course, trumps longtime lawyer will appear on the stand to lay out the case against his former boss. Cohen is expected to explain his conversations with trump and how they hatched their plans to buy Stormy Daniels silence and bury her story during the president ial election. Cohen said he laid out 130,000 to pay her from his Home Equity Line Of Credit and the former president was in on the whole thing. He claims. Paying him back with checks falsely disguised as legal fees. The basis of the 34 counts against trump of filing false business records. The recent witnesses over the past few days have been called to explain the process of about trump wrote the checks while he was in the white house. Former assistant westerhout testified trump would sign hundreds of documents a day and sign checks doing other things like being on the phone or in meetings. The defense using westerhouts testimony to try to infer that trump really wasnt paying attention to what he was signing like the checks to Michael Cohen so may not have known exactly what they were and they want to subpoena Mark Pomerantz to testify. The judge rejected that. He have is a prominent lawyer who spent a year investigating trump before quitting the manhattan d. A. s office in frustration and wrote a book about it blasting Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg who walked into the courtroom a few minutes ago. He accused bragg of dragging his feet and refusing at first to bring the charges against trump. Among the witnesses we heard the one who spoke the most highly of the former president was westerhout now off the stand. She said that she feels the former president was in her words a great president and that he has been treated unfairly. Well, of course, likely hear a quite different tune on monday when Michael Cohen takes the stand. Bill, back to you. Bill thats for sure. Thank you. We have a great team inside the courthouse giving us minute by minute updates. As soon as theyre done with break well check in with them. Gregg jarrett out with a new Opinion Piece. Look. He writes in part how Stormy Daniels selfdestructed under a devastating Cross Examination. Stunned prosecutors must have been muttering to themselves why did we call her as a witness . They are object ifb was to humiliate and smear trump. It backfired spectacularly. Her story seemed to change dramatically depending on the audience and her motives for personal gain. Thats the problem with lying witnesses, the taint rubs off on the prosecution who called her. Lets get into it more with our legal panel. Leo terrell, fox news contributor, Andrew Stolteman and lee zeldin, attorney and former new york congressman. Leo, start with you. Look, Stormy Daniels wrapped up her testimony, extremely salacious stuff. A lot having nothing to do with the case. She said she could talk to dead people yesterday. Michael cohen has been livestreaming on tiktok trying to raise money wearing shirts showing trump behind bars in jail. This is the prosecutions Star Witnesses . Yeah. And they have not produced any evidence against President Trump. I want the fox viewers to understand one thing. There will be some Jury Instructions. That Jury Instruction will say if you do not believe a witnesss testimony on one element you can disbelieve everything. Stormy daniels had no evidence whatsoever against President Trump. Her credibility is shot. Was she in for the money or was she not in for the money . The question is what was her motivation . The fact is that Stormy Daniels provided nothing but to do harm to President Trump. Her testimony was solely for that purpose. Michael cohen, the attorney for trump, is going to try to throw trump under the bus based on testimony and advice that he gave. I would submit to you, bill, that there has been no evidence whatsoever from Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen next week and this trial is for one purpose only. To hurt trumps chances in november 2024. It is not going to work. Look at the polling. Its a complete failure on the part of the Democrat Party and the judge. Bill andrew, to you. It seemed like Stormy Daniels was trying to bait trump with her social media post yesterday essentially saying get on the stand and get under testimony and tell your side of the story. Do you think trump should testify or is there too much risk in that . At this point i dont think he needs to testify. Im reminded of the old wendys commercial where the old lady says where is the beef . Weve had 120 exhibits, ten witnesses and so far they havent proved the elements of the crime. This is a trial by character assassination. So does trump need to testify . No, i dont think so unless there is more devastating testimony to come out from somebody. When you predicate your case on porn owe stars and convicted liars like Michael Cohen it means you dont have enough detail. You dont have enough fab you have witnesses fabricating testimony and it is not good enough for a criminal trial like this. Bill the Missouri Attorney general is actually going on a little bit of a Fishing Expedition to see if there is some ties between d. O. J. And manhattan d. A. Alvin Braggs Office. Pull this up right here. He is sending a letter to d. O. J. Demanding any records between d. O. J. And manhattan d. A. Alvin Braggs Office. He is pointing to the fact that is filed a Freedom Of Information Request for any records of communication between the trump the d. O. J. Office and the manhattan d. A. s office. What he is looking at is the fact that former d. O. J. Official Matthew Colangelo was hired to alvin Braggs Office and now involved in the prosecution. So lee, i will turn to you here. Is there smoke here . Yeah, its great the Missouri Attorney general is looking into this. Obviously there is a connection between the Biden Department of justice and Braggs Office with the colangelo example. The third ranking person at the department of justice leaving that position to become an assistant District Attorney in one of americas counties to try this case. Clearly there is a connection there. Bragg campaigned on taking down trump. He didnt say what the charges would be. Same thing with james and willis in georgia. They got elected based off the pledge to take down trump but didnt know how they were going to do it. In this case there hasnt been a lot of coverage on this. Merchan was also the judge on a Trump Organization case on the Weisel Berg Case and steve bannon case, the same exact judge. There is a lot to look into to understand exactly the participants, the why of how we got here and as was so eloquently covered here just now by leo and andrew, when you get into the weeds here we are at the end of the third week of Hearing Testimony and they still havent proved any of the elements of the charged crimes. Bill its almost four weeks now of donald trump not able to get out on the Campaign Trail which he says is really the basis for this trial. He accuses the democrats trying to interfere in this election by not letting him get out there. We saw donald trump walk in a few moments ago. He made some comments earlier this morning complaining about the gag order. You can sense his frustration against Stormy Daniels calling him out an twitter saying you should step up and testimony and Michael Cohen selling merchandise showing trump in jail. A lot of frustration from the former president. Court is set to resume within the next five to ten minutes or so. As the new york trial rolls on. Trumps three other criminal trials are really all in limbo right now. One of them, his federal election interference case, hinges on the Supreme Courts impending decision on president ial immunity. Justices heard arguments late last month and supposed to deliver their decision by the end of their term in late june. Former Secretary Of StateHillary Clinton had this knock on the high court yesterday. Take a listen. The Supreme Court is doing our country a grave disservice in not deciding the case about immunity. What we heard when this case was tried before the Supreme Court, to my ear at least, were efforts to try to find loopholes to try to create an opportunity for trump to have attempted to overturn an election, to have carried out hundreds and hundreds of pages of very highly classified material for his own amusement, interest, trading. Bill Hillary Clinton knows a thing or two about mishandling classified information. What do you make of her comments . Ive been waiting all day for this. Hillary clinton is still the denial. News flash. She lost the 2016 election. The Supreme Court did a marvelous job and hillary is watching let me make it clear. There is a distinction between official conduct in the office of the presidency that is required to receive immunity and personal conduct. The Supreme Court did an excellent analysis, unlike the court of appeals and they are making a factual finding as to sending this case probably back to the District Court for analysis is to what is covered by immunity and what is not based on official versus personal acts. Hillary clinton is just simply sour grapes. This is a woman if im correct, wiped out a server, bleach washed evidence and got away with it without facing any federal prosecution. So this is a person who is just still angry about losing the election because the voters rejected her. Bill we all remember the Press Conference with james comey who laid out the evidence and said we wont charge her. Stay with us this morning and well come back to you and follow the trial moment by moment. We have people in the courtroom giving us minute by minute updates. Border patrol Arresting Hundreds Of Migrants after storming across the border in el paso. The frightening scene in march. Total chaos there. What a judge decided about their fate now that is sparking all sorts of outrage. Plus jewish hate on campuses not letting up. This is a radical movement thats happening in our country and thank god for Law Enforcement. They cleared out those encampments. I stand with Law Enforcement as republicans do. Joe biden is standing with these prohamas demonstrators. 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Well continue to have minute by minute updates. Keep an eye on the right side of your screen for the updates as our team is still inside the courtroom. The chaos at the southern border is cranking up pressure of democrats ahead of the election. Timing may not be a coincidence. President biden may finely be ready to take some action. He plans a new rule to speed up decisions on migrant asylum claims. They could now be rejected within just days of illegally crossing the border. But some republicans say that only backs up what theyve been saying all along. It just proves that President Biden has the authority to close the border if he wants to. We are looking for an Enforcement Mechanism to force President Biden to follow any agreement but to use the authority he has to close the border. He simply doesnt want to. Well deal with the consequences of the democrat and President Bidens open border for decades to come. 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