Even though it appears that it could soon be ending, and we are live in New York City with every nasty detail. Donald trump could emerge from the courthouse any day now. Defense now presenting its case after the prosecution rests, calling Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, bob costello, to the stand. It comes as cohen admits under oath that he stole money from the trump administration. So what goes next . Lets get right to it with nate foy. Whats the latest, nate . Its been a busy day for sure, neil. And bob costello is talking about his conversations with Michael Cohen. He described cohen has manic during those conversations, pacing back and forth. And he just said cohen told him during that time that trump knew nothing about the Stormy Daniels deal. Judge marchand is allowing trumps lawyer to ask costello around a Pressure Campaign theory. Marchand said Costello Cannot testify about cohens State Of Mind during those 2018 meetings. During cohens crossexamination today, he admitted he kne
Theres no way to unring the bell in our view. Blanche also accused the prosecution of purposely trying to embarrass trump. And trying to enflame the jury following a conversation between the prosecution and Stormy Daniels. Her testimony has now been different after the lunch break. Shorter answers. Less narrative. Lets get right to it. Back with us, nbc news correspondent, Vaughn Hillyard and joining us for the hour, former fbi General Counsel and nyu law professor, andrew weissman, adam pollack and amy parnes. Okay, vaughn, catch us up on whats going inside right this very second. Reporter theyve been going back and forth over that period of time between august of, October Of 2016 when daniels entered into that 130,000 agreement to keep her story silent with cohen. She believed he was a party up until March Of 2018 when she appeared on 60 minutes and publicly detailed the encounter in 2006. It was not until the Wall Street Journal story by the Wall Street Journal in January Of 2018 in
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you ve been sitting back there for a long time. well, the prosecution focused on the ill will of george zimmerman and the intent, which i thought was a very compelling case. but what s also interesting was the judge, you showed, had absolutely no emotion in any of this. i mean, this was some real tight courtroom operation that was taking place right here, almost surgically put together by both teams and the way they presented it. lisa, who was impressive? listen, i think both sides are impressive. there s some really outstanding lawyering going on in this courtroom, instructive for anybody interested in the law or law students. this is something that happens at the end of every prosecution case. the defense moves for a directed verdict, essentially saying, judge, there s not enough here to give it to a jury, just to throw the case out right now.
atone shtentio attention, including the attention of our president. and eruptions rage in afghanistan even after president obama apologizes for the burning of the koran. we are getting reports of a serious increase in the chaos there. in this country, a man accused of killing his wife while on a scuba trip and who pled guilty to it elsewhere finds he will not be spending time in prison in this country, the judge said i don t even want the jury to hear this. yesterday we told you about the lawmaker who called the girl scouts a bunch of communists and radicals. he says he s sorry, however he says it doesn t change the way that he feels. we ll have a lot more on that. up first, as ashleigh said, more pain at the pump. apparently there s no relief in sight. aaa says national average price of gasoline now is 3.64 per gallon. it s the highest ever for this time of year. we re watching the aaa report this year to see when they come up with a daily increase or decrease. the