fox news alert. minutes ago the defense for donald trump rested and the former president will not be taking the stand in the new york versus trump trial. the final witness for the defense was shot down. i mean every time he opened his mouth according to people in the courtroom, there was either a challenge or a reaction from the prosecution. and then the judge shut him down. what is really going on inside that courtroom? what s really happening here? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. court is now in a break until 2:00 p.m. eastern. so we have some time to digest what just happened. the drama unfolding from the very moment in this trial especially when michael cohen was on the stand, four days of him. the prosecution s star witness who lies as he breathes. and when he left, it was all added upon by the fact that he admitted to stealing $60,000 from the trump organization. that happened yesterday. cohen confessed to stealing the money from the trump organ
switch to comcast business and get started for $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. call today! today on velshi, we will get a bit academic. first stop, while school. donald trump s criminal hush money trail is back tomorrow morning and things could begin to wrap up as early as tuesday. in a few moments, i will be joined by two people who have been watching the trail very closely. pay attention . this is the cheat sheet you will need for a very big week and yes, there will be a quiz. after that, back to college. will head to the key swing state of georgia which president joe biden famously flipped from red to blue in 2020. he s going to take the stage at historic morehouse college where they will have a commencement at any minute now. the historically black college has been divided over the speech. dozens of faculty members voted against awarding the president the traditional honorary degree but that is not all. what is a day in school without a
that s yankee stadium. this is live, new york city. and already already new york university is bracing for jewish hate protests as their graduation ceremony is underway at yankee stadium. they knew that some protests might happen. they are ready for this. they are. but does it change anything for those students who really this is their special day? we ll be watching. there has been an explosion of anti-israel hate on our nation s college campuses ever since october 7th when the hamas savages invaded gaza and killed israelis on their side. there was torture, rape, you know the story. and years of hard work now for these students potentially marred by agitators who come from different parts of the country. there is outside money mixed in because of all the tent encampments we ve seen. we never real ohno what we ll get. free speech is welcome but all the rest, the threats on jewish lives, that sort of thing not protected by free speech. we don t know what we ll get here. nyu i
welcome back to the weekend, everyone. donald trump s 2016 election interference trial resumes tomorrow morning with a very key witness. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that michael cohen will take the stand. his testimony over the hush money payment made to stormy daniels is expected to last several days. the prosecution plans to call one more witness before resting its case. who exactly that other witness is remains a mystery. joining us to discuss it all is a former member of the probe, andrew weisman, who hosts the podcast prosecuting donald trump. and lockland cart right is here, he doesn t have a webby but he has the ticket. so andrew, you have for the duration of this offered up a master class for anyone who has been following the numerous trials here. i sit at your knee for a lot of this stuff because you bring a lot of the elements of insight and understanding to make it clear for us what we are looking at. i want to play for you michael cohen. he is th
it s good to be with you, i m ana cabrera in for katy tur, and we are covering two major stories unfolding right now. hamas says it has agreed to a cease fire and hostage deal proposal from egypt and qatar. though an israeli official tells nbc news that the framework is not what they had agreed upon with mediators. we ll lay out what we know so far and what the white house is saying. but we begin this hour at the courthouse in manhattan, from a crime witness on the stand last week to balance sheets and ledger reports this afternoon, and donald trump s hush money trial has taken a clear pivot today. right now, deborah tarasoff is on the stand, the first current trump organization employee to testify. this morning, former trump organization controller jeffrey mcconney testified before the court and his cross-examination on the stand just wrapped a short time ago. what he revealed about the strange paper trail that followed the alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels, and