Week three of Donald Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial. I, wolf blitzer in washington, Kaitlan Collins is outside the courthouse in new york, right . Now, the prosecution is questioning Keith Davidson, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels, and Karen Mcdougal to women who say they had affairs with trump anywhere paid to keep quiet. Jurors also heard from the banker who processed the Stormy Daniels payment. He said he was misled about that transaction caitlin yeah. Wolf, its been fascinating inside that courtroom because also remember at the start of today, the judge ruled that trump violated his gag order in this case nine times. He find trump the max its a mum of 1,000 per violation and even floated the possibility of jail time for future ones. Cnns paula reid and Phil Mattingly are here covering all of this with me. I should note that the court has just taken a break for lunch, which means Keith Davidson is off the witness stand. Donald trump is leaving the courtroom, so as the judge
Its not a lock, i know a lock. So how can we undo the damage . We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Started today, accustoming. Com. Ive had to go montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn cnn Breaking News welcome to cnns breaking News Coverage of the historic donald trump Hush Money Trial. Im wolf blitzer in washington and Boris Sanchez is outside the courthouse in manhattan im this de of the trial, the first witness his nearing the end of his testimony, David Pecker Is Facing Redirect by the prosecution after several hours of cross by trumps Defense Attorney. Much of that cross detailed the former Tabloid Executives history of Purchasing Stories so that he could bury them boris and right now, wolff, the court is taking a break for lunch. The judge instructing the jury, as he always does, to not discuss the case outside of the courtroom de as the first witness testimony, as y
Crossexamining the prosecutions first witness, former Tabloid Executive if david pecker, this is peckers 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 tuesdays 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 the last three