much for watching. our special coverage continues right now on plead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper, the criminal hush money cover-up trial. a former president donald trump is well underway right now in manhattan on the stand, right now is a man named douglas doubts he works for the manhattan district attorney s office, but as opposed to previous days that we re focused on bank records today. we are knee deep in shady deals and sleazy details mentioned today, we re other celebrity scandals involving all cogen and charlie sheen more on that in a second. but the reason we heard all of this today was because of this man keith davidson, who took the stand. he is the attorney who represented both stormy daniel s the adult film star and director, and karen mcdougal, the 1998 playboy playmate of the year. when negotiating hush money payments arrange to keep them twice quiet about alleged sexual encounters they had with donald trump, one
obsessed with this? one individual and taylor swift at the center of a wild conspiracy theory is spreading like wildfire among it s trump supporters special report ahead. let s go out, find and good evening. i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, the breaking news, stormy daniels and trump tower, trump s longtime assistant on the stand late today. she said she saw stormy daniels and trump tower, and she testified that she maintained contacts for both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal for donald trump. trump s longtime gatekeeper, rhona graff, was in many ways, trump s right-hand for 34 years. and this moment on the apprentice accurately captures her central role in organizing trump s personal and professional life he asked me to call you and tell you to meet him tomorrow morning at the new york stock exchange? i can tell you as a reporter, if you needed to reach trump, he called graff anytime i was at trump tower to see trump when i was a business reporter or on the apprent
saw stormy daniels and trump tower. prosecutors also grilling cohen s banker helped the former president s fixer wire the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. so did prosecutors make their case three witnesses today, plus trump and his allies targeting a top prosecutor in the new york case, accusing him of being a plant for the white house so who is he why is trump s so? obsessed with this one individual? and taylor swift at the center of a wild conspiracy theory is spreading like wildfire amongst trump s supporters. special report ahead. let s go out, friend and good evening. i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, the breaking news, stormy daniels and trump tower, trump s longtime assistant on the stand late today. she said she saw stormy daniels and trump tower and she testified that she maintained contacts for both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal for donald trump. trump s longtime gatekeeper, rhona graff, was in many ways to trump s right-hand for 34 years. and this
cross-examining the prosecution s first witness, former tabloid executive if david pecker, this is pecker s third day on the stand and today for the very first time, he described the deal that he helped broker with adult film star and director stormy daniels, a deal that is at the center of this case, the fusion has used packer to set the scene for the jury, introducing them to keep players in the case. how they all fit together in the story right now, the defense tactic in its early questioning is part of a strategy two, strategy to argue the david pecker is work helping trump during the 2016 election was nothing new who? nothing unusual. also notably today, judge juan merchan so far still has declined to issue a ruling from tuesday s hearing on whether trump has violated his gag order, despite the prosecution arguing that this morning that trump continues to violate this order against disparaging members of the jury and the witton this is of course this is four times over t
right here on cnn it s wednesday, april 17, right now on cnn this morning, seven juror seated five go and donald trump s hush money trial former president s stuck in court while president biden hits the trail to court votes articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary very delivered to the senate. will there even be a trial? and for the first time in two years, top military officials from the us and china are talking it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington, there s a live look up on capitol hill night some quiet here in the nation s capital. good morning, everyone. i m dr. a. constant for facing on. it s great to be with you. all first a tale of two candidates, donald trump s stuck in a courtroom while president biden goes after a while out on the campaign trail, the president kicking off a multi-city tour of battleground, pennsylvania where he s calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations leaning into his scranton routes to make as economic case ag