The gatekeeper, the publisher, the second week of Donald Trumps trial was all about the witnesses who can put the former president at the very center part of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the american people. Good evening. Im abby phillip and youre watching a Special Edition of newsnight and im laura coates and washington dc. And today, i mean, really redefining what water cooler talk really means. Were on a graph the longtime trump secretary took to the stand and she did it by the way, not by choice. She was there under subpoena and she added small but critical details. The prosecutions case remember, she was the one who entered Contact Details for Stormy Daniels for Karen Mcdougal into the Trump Organization directory. She told the jury the Adult Film Actress whos silenced, tried to buy allegedly was simply labeled, well, what else stormy with her Cell Phone Number filled in graphs said that she saw daniels on floor 26 of trump tower. Thats where the office chatter, of course, com
Tonight on all in. I feel like this is we are waiting for the curtain went up and i just couldnt believe it. The biggest day at at the trump trial. Lee for the first time in the Public Record here, we are getting david cooperating what Michael Cohen for years has now articulated about that meeting. Clean the man at the center of the conspiracy tells all. He said we shouldnt speak over landline, we should use signal. Please deny, david role in the criminal conspiracy to elect donald trump and the wild hearing on trumps gag order abuse. Clearance, the judge is getting tough on trumps lawyer. Saying to Donald Trumps attorneys, you are losing all credibility, you are losing all credibility with the court. Then why the Biden Campaign said they had a chance to win florida. He is out campaigning and i am sitting up all day long. And r series continues, are you better off than you were four years ago . The disinfectant, it knocked it out in a minute and is there a way we can do Something Like
hello. i m dana bash with wolf blitzer in washington. it is the top of the hour and we re tracking this historic and chaotic donald trump testimony in new york. the former president is taking the stand in his own defense, facing a civil fraud trial that could determine his future as a businessman and his political prospects. court is in recess for lunch. so far, trump has been on the stand for nearly three hours. and, dana, he s used much of that time to filibuster and rail against the judge, and that s very significant. trump keeps attacking and disobeying the judge, even though the fate of trump s family business is in that judge s hands. there is no jury in this civil trial. we have cnn s indkate kaitlan collins outside the courthouse. bring us up to speed the testimony that has gone on and what we anticipate. reporter: yeah, wolf, it has been tense, to say the least, inside that courtroom. there was a brief period where the judge was not as frustrated with trump as he
for example, when i testified, i didn t spare anybody including myself. so i think that was missing in the greater picture. although he was a very important witness. he did move the story much further and give us a lot of information. anything for the republicans to say, this is a deep state right here, this person hates trump. mr. holmes is less known in washington. he s been a career official around the world, and i think the republicans will say, you didn t hear the entire conversation, you think you heard the president, but come on, a cell phone conversation? you could see, again, he adds to a narrative. if you add up the other witnesses, he s very compelling from the democrats perspective. which is fair. et cete that s not a credibility point, it s an efficiency point. but in terms of whether or not he s spinning a tale because he doesn t like the president, that s what the president is alleging. that s a tougher argument.
because if he lied to you about where he got the stuff today, he s a dead man. what s interesting, on the credibility point you re making, i said, what do you do with the president? they re lying about the same things. that has yet to be yeah. he didn t have the same comfort going there because that s the political calculation. yeah. i m backing the president. the problem is this president has lied to you a lot about the same things that now we re debating. yeah. these are significant lies. that s it? that s the significant ones about the hush money payments, about the obama wiretapping. i just keep them handy when people say, oh, it s not been proven that this president is a liar. of course it has. again and again and again. you know what s interesting? so michael cohen testified. you know, he s going to go to jail for lying to congress. yep. but he took an oath, and he did it. you know a good way of disproving michael cohen is for the president to do the same