Mattresses made affordable im tom forming in washington and this is cnn 9 00 p. M. Here in new york day ten, of the Trump Hush Money Trial and ending with a false claim from the defendant that hes not being allowed to testify. The day began with prosecutors seeking additional Contempt Judgments against him, but things really heated up during the testimony. Stormy daniels and Karen Mcdougals former attorney, Keith Davidson, the prosecution played the Phone Conversation that Michael Cohen secretly recorded and cnn exclusively obtained featuring donald trump taking an active role in the Karen Mcdougal deal. Were going to bidens been talking about that and the present that it may have had on the jury throughout the program, if youre just joining us here, is that but i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david so im going to do that right away. Id actually come up to me and ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up wi
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trump has admitted to. exactly. although he s still i think saying there was no quid pro quo. so it s like i don t see how that s going to be sustainable. so, there is an extortion theory. there is a bribery theory. there is a campaign finance theory. those are all criminal violations. so, the issue of sort of whether people who are involved in this scheme need criminal lawyers, i ve been a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. i certainly would get some legal advice. my last question is if the allegation that there was bribery, if what is known from the transcript released by the white house is that donald trump said i need a favor, though. and if that transcript caused so much alarm that a lawyer in the white house counsel s office locked it down, and a whistle-blower went to the cia lawyer and she went over and talked to the white house lawyer. what explains the fact that when they called doj they said, eh, nothing here? i think that is the $60,000
supposedly the money order, going to, and according to what they were telling me, he was in debt. the one guy doesn t have any affiliations with no organizations whatsoever, which would rule out the extortion theory. the other one, he gave compton commissary to pay off a debt to keep him from getting hurt. it sounded like he was playing a game on his mom. how so? by telling her about the extortion to get the money to pay for his debts. it s common. they play their family like that all the time. and he received a country report for it. basically he s saying he interviewed the two people the address on the money order my mom sent up here. so when he asked him, why is nick sending you money? obviously, they re not going to say the true reason why i m