witnesses testify, former national enquirer publisher david pecker, wrapping up a week on the stand, former trump personal assistance, or rhona graff, seemingly undermining the former president is denial about faris and stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, and a former executive of the bank where michael cohen arrange the, uh, hundred and $30,000 daniels payout? rhona graff, under defense cross-examination in meetings. she was not testifying by choice, but nonetheless, telling prosecutors that she kept contact information for the two women her boss had denied knowing intimately, including stormy daniels cell phone number and two addresses for karen mcdougal she also said she vaguely recalled one seeing daniels at trump tower on the 26th floor. then when prompted by the defense, she said it might have been in connection with the apprentice earlier. the defense tried hard to undermine former national enquirer publisher david pecker, and upcoming witness, michael cohen the trump s
right today at you core.com i m laura coates alongside abby, phillip, and our panel here in washington for a special edition this in i m laura codes live and we re at the end of a very long week in the trump hush money trial. court is actually dark on monday, but they ll get what gland again on tuesday morning at 9:30. so just what exactly will juror is take away from what they heard in court today. and when they need to be thinking about over their long weekend while there were three witnesses, it took the stand today. it had david pecker who wrapped up more than ten hours or testimony over a period of four days, he was as also trump s former longtime assistant, rhona graff, who was only on the stand for what, a half an hour, then michael cohen s former banker, gary farro, who is likely to continue testifying this coming tuesday the prosecution wants jurist remember, pecker s testimony that his intention was to never publish karen mcdougal story of an alleged affair with t
manhattan courtroom and get a readout of the oral argument in washington, dc, it may be over a lunch break, over a courthouse, deli sandwich. the question before the supreme court does a former president have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for anything related to his actions while in the white house let s put it in plainer language here is a former president above the law. no make no mistake with the supreme court decides may very well-defined this election and don t think donald trump does not know it for a single second. that s why he s been on a tear about immunity for months now. if a president doesn t have full immunity, you really don t have a president, a president of the united states has to have immunity. if you don t have immunity, you can be black, then you have to have a guaranteed immunity for president, president has seven immunity as a president, you have to have immunity immunity seems to be the operative word here. but the fact is, no matte
i ve had hanako montgomery in tokyo and this is cnn you re on the cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington, former president, and now convicted felon donald trump, saying he d be okay with serving prison time is coming just days after he was found guilty on all the charges in his criminal hush money trial but as he awaits his sentencing is set for july 11. the republican candidate for president warns a harsh punishment could lead to a breaking point among his supporters. this is what he said on fox news this morning judge, could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail it could face what i m okay with it. i saw one of my lawyers. he had the day on television saying, oh, no, you don t want to do that to the i don t get a bag for anything you d just the way it is. i don t know that the public would stand it. you know, i don t i m not sure that the public would stand for it with a house arrest for i think i think it d be tough for the public to take
abby phillip starts right now to president s two speeches to alternate realities. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby philip in new york tonight to stories with very different tones from the men who were vying for the same job. first, the sobering president s biden s of appeal to end the violence in gaza hamas is hobbled biden says, and the time to end this war is now. biden announcing a path forward for tomorrow. and the day after, in hopes of a lasting peace. now, to the response from donald trump to his conviction on 34 counts in his home state of new york trump pulled out some of his best words, rigged, scammed, et cetera to describe how the hush money case mostly papering over the fact that this jury of his own peers found him guilty of breaking the law that trump s words today also clash with the trump in all of our memories once upon a time, he claimed that hillary clinton couldn t run, shouldn t run for president because of the specter of a trial that