what are you referring to? i said, paul paul, i should have known. what were you referring to? i was referring to paul paul got so many threats. didn t take it serious. think twice about it. just telling him, paul paul, i should have known. i don t specifically remember saying that. but i can clearly hear myself say that. what kind of threats did you understand paul was receiving? paul got he got the most vile threats. i mean, the stuff that was on social media, i mean, it was you couldn t believe it. you couldn t believe it. it was so over the top. truthfully, we didn t think anybody about it. i mean, it was just so crazy that, you know people talking about what he was going to get and how they were going to do this and get him. i mean, it s stuff you really i mean, we disregarded it. it was so over the top. thought it was so over the top. keep going, please. okay. what is her name? maggie. maggie is her name? yes, ma am. okay. when is the last
We are entering the final stages of new york for us to trump, defense has rested their case, but trump will not testify and the juries will not be back until tuesday giving them within a week to mull all of this over. There are still Major Concerns surrounding the Prosecution Case is an event is the question while at the state bring charges against a former president if the evidence was not rocksolid, remember it was a solid legal theory and they said never before has New York State lobbying use in federal election cases but nevertheless here we have. While at they highlight a star witness with a major credibility issues, those questions are outstanding. This is outnumbered i am Kayleigh Mceany here with Harris Faulkner and emily compagno. Joining us today martha maccallum, and call and cut of americas, bill hemmer. The killing blow for the prosecutions case may have been Michael Collins greatest admission he fessed up to steerg 60,000 from the trump organization. A harsher crime than
Finished Cross Examination from alvin braggs office. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer. He is off the state is done with his questions. Who is robert costello, right . He is telling the jury the shame bombshell claims he told to Congress Last week and told us, too, on our program. I think he was with martha as well. Who is he . Former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, from new york. He had a falling out partly due to alleged outstanding legal bills which there were many, formal federal prosecutor and defense lawyer. Costello is on the stand yesterday saying Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own and he repeated that numerous times, okay . We reported on that many times. He has said that on television the last week many times. So here we go. Go ahead. Dana what we can show you a little bit of that from costello. Watch here. I probably came back to this subject ten o
Proceedings. We will see if he stops to speak to reporters as he makes his way back into the courtroom. Usually is not the case, its usually on his way out at this time of day but we will be watching for that hello and welcome everyone i am sandra smith the new york as we head into our number to. John a lot ahead in the next 60 minutes on john roberts in washington this America Reports perry when court resumes they will meet with the prosecution and defense on what should be included in the Jury Instructions before liberation is. Its a critical step of the trial as the instructions will be the last thing the jury hears before deliberating for a verdict. A threadbare inventive prosecution, but the judge can kind of put his finger on the skill or not in these instructions. It will be very interesting the instructions but of course it all goes back to Jury Selection too, who are these people and what of their biases . John we have an allstar lineup of guests to take us through the latest
And katy tur pick up our special coverage, next. Our special coverage, next good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague, katy tur. The prosecution is quickly wrapping up its case in the first Criminal Trial Of A Former american president. The state is gets its chance now to repair any damage done by the testimony of its star witness. Moments ago, the defense wrapped up with Michael Cohen after three days of crossexamination. It was a grueling three days. The Big Wild Card is donald trump himself. Will he live up to his promise to take the stand or put his defense team rest without presenting a single witness . Dramatically demonstrating their argument that the state has failed to meet the burden of proof. Judge merchan has set a new schedule this week guaranteeing the case will not go to the jury until after the long memorial day Holiday Weekend. He announced this morning that Closing Arguments will not take place until next tuesday he says because he does not want