Right before they took a break, the prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case reminded the jury Michael Cohen is not the one on trial here. Despite a crossexamination that got heated, just as he was finishing, and yet an admission by trumps former fixer on the stand did leave the d. A. s office with some clean up to do. Im Chris Jansing alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and katy tur. Sorry, Michael Cohen acknowledged under oath that he stole 60,000 from the trump organization, that he did it out of anger that mr. Trump cut his bonus. The prosecution is trying to use their second shot at questioning Michael Cohen to redirect the focus back to the former president. Were going to bring you live updates as we read them when Michael Cohen returns to the stand in just a few minutes after the lunch break. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is live at the courthouse. Catherine christian is still with us. Also with us, andrew weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert Muellers special counsels
Breaking news from new york. The judge in the donald trump trial, ruled the former president violated a 939 ruled the former president violated a gag order and found him in contempt of court. Signed a total of 9,000 for the breaches, lets go to the courthouse. Tell us more. We have been the courthouse. Tell us more. , have been waiting for the judge to rule on this request from prosecutors to hold donald trump in contempt of court. They presented ten examples of where they said donald trump posted on social media and his Campaign Website attacking potential witnesses and jurors. Donald trumps defence was that he was responding to political attacks or reposting posts by others but the judge had told Donald Trumps lawyers they were losing credibility with the court so we had assumed he had would come down hard on donald trump and he has found him in contempt violating that gag order nine out of ten times. The judge said in his order reposts are still the words of the defendant, that the
First thing this morning, and a man armed with a sword crouches outside a house in london. Shouting. Lock your doors police followed a suspect around the back in what is usually a quiet residential area. We now though that a car was driven into a house at 7am this morning, as people left for work and school. Five were stabbed, including two Police Officers. Terrified people in the area were told to follow Police Instructions and the Transport Network nearby was closed, including roads and the tube station. I saw it all from my bedroom window. And then when he went into the house, or into the driveway a couple of doors down, iran down outside and then police tased him. I saw it, i was standing on the road watching it, from the other side of the road. A transit van pulled up, a Grey Transit Van pulled up. The man got out with a samurai sword, tried to talk to one female resident. She ran away from him. As hes pulled the sword out| in the air, shes tried to warn the other neighbour. As he
President has violated a gag order and found him in contempt of court. Hes fined a total of 9,000 for nine breaches. 0ur North America correspondent nada tawfik has the latest from outside the court in new york. Tell us about the fine and the comments when issuing the find. Yeah. Well, matthew, we had been waiting for the judge to rule on this request from prosecutors to hold donald trump in contempt of court. He rejected donald trump was not lawyers that the post his Campaign Website were responding to political attacks. He found in only one of the ten instances that there was a tenuous correlation as he put it to some remarks by one of the key witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. 0therwise witnesses in this trial, Michael Cohen. Otherwise he sided with prosecutors that donald trump had wilfully violated a gag water nine out of ten times. Under new york law, he is only able to find donald trump 1000 per violation. He did that but also said given donald trump is wealthy he might not