Good to be with you, im alex witt in for katy tur. Lets go to the courthouse, joining us from outside the courtroom, Nbc News National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, 3 00 p. M. Eastern, catch us up on todays testimony and what is happening right now. Reporter Hope Hicks Integral to the prosecution here, alex, connecting the dots, and i want to talk to you first about a moment that just took place regarding the article in january 2018 that came out, revealing the payoff to Stormy Daniels from Michael Cohen, and how hope hicks framed that payoff, and let me read the verbiage inside the courtroom. Can you describe the conversation and hope hicks saying this, it was the day after michael told the New York Times he made a payment without trumps knowledge and trump said he spoke to michael and he paid this woman to protect from a false allegation and michael had done it to protect him and had not told him anything about it. I had known cohen for three and a half years. I did not know mich