Pronounce a verdict about donald trump or to get on a political is a trout guy that i got interrupted. Sorry, a Courtroom Break after Michael Cohen testified this morning the donald trump told him, take care of it. The it were Claims Being Made By Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels calling add it, cohen adding quote, this was all about the campaign get cnn special live coverage continues with markup today with us welcome to cnn Special Coverage of former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Laura coates is outside court in new york. Today, trumps former for fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen has taken the stand so far. The prosecutions star witness has testified about his work for Trump Zeroing In on two instances where he worked with the National Enquirers david pecker to catch and kill negative stories about trump and that includes a false allegation from trumps former doorman about trump supposedly having fathered a love child. Cohen testif
The lead cnn, if you ever miss an episode will lead. You can listen to the show news tonight in the trump trial star witness, Michael Cohen, wrapping up his first day of Blockbuster Testimony detailing the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and how donald trump was allegedly tellinjurors his former boss was only concerned about the impact on his 2016 president ial campaign and that trump and im quoting now wasnt thinking at all about his wife melania, for the next hour ill take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new transcripts breaking down all of todays most important developments and looking ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world i will blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room that trial today lets get right to the breaking news in todays highstakes testimony against donald trump, Michael Cohen, Zeroing In On what trump knew about the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and the alleged criminal but we will cover up.
i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. with all this confusion, what is happening here? have you heard rumblings of this before with all these reports? it is interesting the president has been quiet on this. he has kind of let this play out in the public where we have seen a change in the stories here where as you played that cohen said that he never asked for a pardon. lanny davis corrected this and said that michael cohen did direct his former lawyers to ask the president s legal team and discuss the possibility of a pardon. these conversations occurred while they had a joint defense agreement and a lot of those conversations were after michael cohen s apartment was raided. and then we have never heard cohen say that he directly
Heads down to alabama. what do we know about the truth here, matt, or do we? well, we don t. if what the president says in his tweet is true, that he and michael cohen discussed a pardon according to his version of it, cohen asked him about it and he said no, that would be signatsi news. we haven t seen disclosure of that and now that the president puts it on the table, i think congress has the responsibility to follow up and say what was the subject of that conversation, what did cohen say and what did the president say. because the president s publicly talking about these pardons all the time has had a poe looting effect on the entire investigation because just bringing it up puts it into all these witnesses minds at the time when they trying to make this decision do i cooperate with the government or do i not. and if they know there is a chance of the pardon, either because neff seen the president s public remarks or their attorneys have had back channel conversations and we know
it was about sanctions. they wanted sanctions lifted but they weren t willing to do an area that we wanted. they were willing to give us areas but not the ones we wanted. it was the president that said it was about sanctions several times. and now it s because of the michael cohen hearing but i m sorry, i m just not following the logic here. is the president suggesting that kim jong un wanted to go along with everything he wanted and then watch the michael choohen hearing? what part could have any bearing on north korean negotiations? did perhaps the dictator decide he could not negotiate in good faith after he heard cohen say that trump once paid someone to bid on a giant portrait of himself? i doubt that. i doubt that would offend kim jong un s delicate sensibilities. there he is walking past a 7 foot tall portrait of himself at