The people call Stormy Daniels. Those five words kicking off an almost unreal scene and some detailed and salacious testimony thats been unfolding today in a manhattan courtroom. The trial now on lunch break with the former adult film actress on the stand. Stormy daniels facetoface with donald trump describing their alleged sexual encounter, a story so explosive she said she felt it put her life in danger appearing nervous and speaking so quickly the judge at multiple points asked her to slow down. Daniels gave a detailed Borderline Graphic Account of what happened saying that after it was over, quote, i left as fast as i could. Just like so much of this trial, its the stuff of tabloids, its embarrassing, potentially even humiliating for the former president and according to our team in court, it kept the jury happening on every word but does any of it prove he broke the law . Im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in New York City. Back with me is duncan levin, former senior staff at the manhattan d. A. s office, Andrea Mitchell is coanchoring with me from washington. Thanks, chris. Joining us here is jonathan allen. Hes been in the courtroom earlier this week and Vaughn Hillyard who is outside the courtroom. Kimberly is a lawyer and Political Analyst and renato mar attie is a former federal prosecutor. So, jonathan, donald trump did everything he could to avoid this moment. Again, objected to her testifying today. That was overruled by judge merchan. Shes now sitting in the witness stand, you were in the courtroom. Its been described to us as 15 feet away from the defendant. Youve been covering him for years. What must this be like for donald trump, past president , future well, current candidate, potentially future president . Its an amazingly tight space. Youve got donald trump sitting so close to the witness box. This person is telling these prurient details about their alleged sexual relationship from many years ago. You have the jury, you know, almost right on top of all the action. Its almost as if you were watching a cartoon or something and the jurys head is going back and forth during the moments. I was in the courthouse in the courtroom earlier in this trial and just the tension in the air during some of the testimony weve seen already certainly from what were hearing from our colleagues today, this is a moment that donald trump to your point absolutely wanted to avoid. Nobody wants to hear the details of their sex life, you know, aired in a courtroom and i think the prosecutions got to walk a tightrope here between, you know, these sort of details that lend credibility to the story Stormy Daniels is Telling Without Making Donald Trump seem more sympathetic to the jury because this is a difficult moment for anybody, and no doubt that includes him. And not just having your sex life exposed but your extramarital sex life exposed when you are a candidate for president. One of the important pieces is not just the details of what theyre tieing to prove here but if you broaden the scope out, what shes saying basically is donald trump was hanging this lure of appearing on The Apprentice out in front of her as he was trying to date her beyond their one sexual encounter, he continued to call her so when you think about it in terms of Power Dynamics, heres this very powerful man saying, i might give you a career. I might get you out of the trailer park, you know, in her words, if youre willing to date me. The age differential. The Power Differential as you point out. Huge. She was in her 20s. He was in his 60s. Chris. Vaughn, that moment where he said she was the age of her father was one of the many dramatic moments, but, you know, theres when you say nobody wants to have their sex lives exposed, but, again, particularly when you are running for president of the United States as he was back then and as he is now, but the difference now is she is a witness, and under the gag order, he cannot respond to her, so as much as she says she didnt want to be here, as much as she couldnt have imagined back then when she met donald trump that this is where she would end up, donald trump almost certainly never imagined he would ever come facetoface again with Stormy Daniels, let alone as Andrea Points out 15 feet away, so he cant say anything, but are we hearing anything from trump world . The son of the former president , who is inside of the courtroom today, eric trump, the one family member, chris, who is here today, he put out a social media post with all caps with exclamation points extortion. Those were the words of eric trump here on behalf of the former president of the United States and his father, donald trump. Notably Melania Trump is not here. Shes not been here for a single day of what is now the fourth week of this criminal trial and, frankly, donald trump does have the opportunity to refute the allegations that are being levied against him by Stormy Daniels two way, number one, through his attorneys inside of this courtroom, they will have the chance to crossexamine Stormy Daniels, potentially as soon as this afternoon, but also he could choose to take the stand himself. He has said repeatedly he would be keen to do so so that opportunity would be presented to him but what is being detailed by Stormy Daniels over the course of the three hours of her testimony this morning is more than just a onenight stand, but it was the idea that for more than a year she could potentially be on The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice and thats why she maintained a relationship with him. Having multiple phone calls a week and even going to an event in 2017 going to a hotel lobby one night to meet up with donald trump and quarterback ben roethlisberger. It was not just the one quick moment in time but something donald trump did not want to get out there potentially publicly when he was running for the white house and ultimately concluded at least the first half of todays testimony being asked by the prosecutors very specifically who did you understand was the beneficiary of that nda, the nondisclosure agreement and Stormy Daniels in her own words responded, donald trump and who was representing him at the time . Michael cohen. We heard today from Stormy Daniels and the jury did for many of them, they may not have been wholly affair of the Stormy Daniels story but now they heard in very explicit terms about the Sexual Intercourse that she alleged with donald trump, the idea that she was had spanked donald trump on the butt with a magazine but also the extent to which she thought she was going to dinner with donald trump but instead was led to his hotel room and engaged in conversation for two hours with him before she left the rest room and found him in his boxers and tshirt. For the jury today, the story from Stormy Daniels side was very painted out in clear details and now its a matter of whether donald trump and his attorneys will effectively crossexamine or whether donald trump will take the stand to refute the story of hers himself. I want to bring in carol leonnig, the Washington PostNational Reporter and coauthor of multiple books about donald trump so, carol, as im listening or, rather, reading what Stormy Daniels has to say, a lot of it is, i think you could interpret it as very unflattering to donald trump, just one example of an exchange, Stormy Daniels said she asked donald trump during their dinner, this is the very first time they ever met, are you always this rude . Are you always this arrogant and pompous, like you dont even know how to have a conversation . This is a man that you know as well or better than anyone cares about his image. This is a man who cares so much about having control of that image. What must it be like, carol, for him to have to sit in that room, not react, not speak and essentially just listen to what she has to say . Chris, i think you asked that question so well right down to the heart of it. There is no question in my mind that donald trump is grinding off a layer of enamel from his teeth as he sits in this courtroom because it must be so galling for him to hear these things said that he cant shut down, silence, or repaint. The three probably most painful things for him to hear said aloud that hes not able to shut down are that she did not want to have sex with him and he thought it was great. We are great together. Thats maybe first and foremost. The second would be that she wanted to get as far away from him as she could, but he kept luring her back with the offer of some Television Time on The Apprentice and, indeed, he offered to sort of help cheat so she could address her concerns of not being perhaps tv ready and he could help her by giving her the challenges or the inside scoop on the questions ahead of time which is interesting too, about the way donald trump really runs things behind the scenes, everything is a little bit gamed and prepped for the best possible pr. The third thing that must be really painful for him to hear as he sits here is that she very much knew the details of why she was being paid this hush money, she understood what this was about, and it doesnt bring into Question Whether or not Michael Cohen is a credible witness. Its her testimony of what she was told, what she was provided by her attorney and what she was given as a way to stay quiet as he, donald trump, sought election to the presidency. Carol leonnig, thank you so much. And right now were hearing for the first time from our Reporting Team who were inside the courthouse watching all this. Ill bring in msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin who has been in the court Overflow Room all morning where members of the press can listen to whats going on due to the limited space inside the courtroom. So, first of all, lisa, the impact of this and the anticipated testimony and also want to ask you something ive just been handed because at his regular inperson Media Briefing today, the New York City mayor, mayor adams was asked if he and the Law Enforcement of new york are prepared for the possibility of Rikers Island having to deal with the former president of the United States, and he said, this is mayor adams now saying the department is prepared for whatever comes their way. He cited the latest with Harvey Weinstein and that they have had discussions about the possibility of that. So a lot of speculation about how if judge merchan ends up carrying out that threat of jailing a former president and a current candidate, it would not be to Rikers Island. The Secret Service, they would find some other way to accommodate it but the fact that the mayor has even had conversations about how they would handle such a situation, if you could speak to that as well as to the impact of the testimony of this incredible, important witness to the prosecution. Well, youre right. Andrea, lets start with the first thing. Its absolutely extraordinary that the mayor of americas largest city at a Press Availability Today is being asked to comment on the possibility that a former president of the United States and the presumptive gop nominee might do some time in his citys Corrections Department by virtue of being held in Criminal Contempt for what would be an 11th time. There have already been ten findings or violations of the existing gag order, those are all findings of Criminal Contempt and as you know yesterday judge merchan very soberly warned donald trump that the last thing he wants to do is put donald trump in jail, but that its become clear to him that A Thousand Dollar fine per violation which is the maximum that the statute allows is not significant enough as a deterrent so if he has to for the sanctity of these proceedings and the fair and just administration of this trial put trump into jail even for a limited period of time judge merchan made clear he wont hesitate to do so so not surprising those conversations have been taking place among the Citys Department of corrections with the Secret Service and even involving mayor adams office because essentially as the chief Law Enforcement officer of New York City overseeing the Department Of Corrections and nypd he would want to understand what that might look like. Its also not a surprise to me that wouldnt be at Rikers Island. That wouldnt be an appropriate place, i think, to put a former president and his Security Detail through the United StatesSecret Service. Its generally understood among people covering the trial that if that time were to come to pass, there is a Holding Facility adjacent to the courthouse and that would probably be the place that former President Trump would be do whatever incarceral penalty is appropriate. When and if that time comes, again. He could have come close to dancing on that edge this morning. He made a post about who the next witness was without naming her and said that the notice that his team had been given had been unfair and yet that post came down almost as quickly as it went up. When im sure people around donald trump notified him, hey, the next violation, youve already been warned where youre going. So despite the fact that for political purposes donald trump is definitely tempting judge merchan, i think its also understood given how hard his lawyers are working to prevent further violations and how hard theyve worked in court to convince judge merchan their client hasnt violated the gag order, he doesnt actually want to be here, and he doesnt want to be there and the Department Of Corrections either, so i think were not quite there yet and hopefully the threat of jail will prevent that from happening for all involved. In terms of this morning, i want to share with you my view from the Overflow Room, which has some advantages and has some disadvantages. The disadvantages, as you know, i cant see the jurors from the over flow room. On the other hand i get to experience the trial not only with members of The Press Corps but with members of the public who wait in a very long line to see if they might get an extra seat there. And there are theres a looser feeling to the Overflow Room having sat in both places. There were moments today where the Overflow Room even erupted into laughter because it was pretty clear that Stormy Daniels thought donald trump was a little bit of a joke. He was arrogant. He was rude. He was abrupt and she felt that he was disrespectful to her and so throughout her initial description of that first encounter, there was some laughter and yet things became very serious, Stormy Daniels was blocked from testifying to a number of the details about their sexual encounter. Judge merchan found it was not relevant and could be quite prejudicial to donald trump. At one point she was looking up to the Ceiling Thinking to herself what did i do wrong . How did i so badly misjudge the situation that i ended up here . And, andrea, as you well know, i covered both e. Jean carroll trials and couldnt help think even though Stormy Daniels was steadfast is saying i never felt threatened physically, i never felt threatened verbally it was also clear she didnt quite imagine the situation as a consensual one and that testimony about, how did i get here . How did i misjudge the situation so desperately almost was echoed verbatim in e. Jean carrolls Testimony Last May that i attended. The parallels between the two were really striking to me in that this is a man who was always felt entitled to have his way with women and has approached those sorts of situations with women in a similar way. E. Jean carroll obviously would say she felt cornered physically and unable