be indicted. there s huge ramifications. andy mccarthy is here on the trump case and what happens next. first to bryan llenas in new york city. high, bryan. hi, martha. yeah, this is a pretty interesting information coming out. brooks singman confirming that trump has hired a new lead counsel, todd blanche. he was recently a partner at a law firm a top white collar attorney. he was a former u.s. assistant attorney in the manhattan u.s. attorney s office. he will leads the charge in defending the former president here today when the former president surrenders himself to manhattan criminal courthouse behind me. more about todd blanche. he represented paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. not only did he represent manafort, he successfully represented him, getting state charges that were filed by then cyrus vance, the district attorney of manhattan dropped. he hat state charges including mortgage fraud and a dozen other charges dropped against paul manafort arguin
right? you would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. none of this goes perfectly from a prosecutor s perspective. danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the defense attorney s perspective. this is why you have redirect. this is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. as much as you plan, you have to be flexible. is the prosecution happy with the cross? if i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1/2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. keep doing it. i think at some point, jose, you re losing your jury. i take ana s point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. my goal is to never lose my jury. and if you re saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think you re losing your jury. there is an agony in a cross-exami
the gloves are off and there are 2 presidents, 1 current in 1 form or who say they will step into the ring to debate for the american people and their votes. it will happen this summer. the sparring seems to be well underway already though as president biden started the day with this shot at his opponent the former president. make my day powell will do it even toys. let s pick the date donald i hear you re free on wednesdays. martha: that is of course the day there is no court. likely the way thanks are going it will be wrapped up before it begins. president biden also posted, trump said he will arrange his own transportation and i will bring my plane to. i plan on keeping it for another 4 years. former president trump came at him with this. i am ready and willing to debate crooked joe at the 2 proposed times in june and september. i would strongly recommend more than 2 debates and excitement purposes a very large venue although biden is supposedly afraid of crowds and th
we give veterans access to support from anywhere in the world. that s tonight s last word to point at the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, michael cohen finally takes the stand point of what the former president s longtime fixer said about the payments to stormy daniels before the 2016 election and how he tied trump to the hustling scheme. plus, donald trump brings his political to court for another trump is under a gag order, are they saying what he can t? then the police shooting of air force airman roger fortson. what we are hearing from his family through their attorney, benjamin crump, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. monday night. good evening, i m charles coleman jr. in for stephanie ruhle tonight and we have got a lot to talk about point we are now just 176 days away from the election .5 years ago we saw michael cohen publicly turn on his long-term boss, donald trump, and today, after years of buildup, cohen finally too
have a good show. thank you, nicole. welcome, everyone, to a two-hour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. i m ari melber, we have our special coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutor s star witness taking the stand. you may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. the former trump lawyer michael cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. and recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against defendant trump. big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. the star witness takes the stand against donald j. trump. form fixer michael cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. cohen on the stand. an extraordinary showdown today in court. the man at the center of the hush money payments scandal is testi