by everyone at cnn. and of course viewers two. and we are sending our care to her family tonight thanks for joining us. anderson starts now tonight on three 60 disorder in the quarters, the judge in the former president s hush money trial criticizes a defense witness for breaking the rules of decorum, also breaking news on the helicopter crash that killed a ron s present and eight others will have the latest on the investigation. what it means for iran in the world. and later one-on-one with comedian bill maher talking trump. biden. would he thinks is wrong with the american politics and culture good evening. there was drama today in the trump hush money trial. the likes of which we have not seen in the more than five weeks or proceedings no sooner or the prosecution rested and the defense called another witness, then judge merchan cleared the courtroom. are act after the judge cited that witness, attorney robert costello for improper the courtroom behavior that include
i m still kind of reeling. cohen stole money fromorgani the trump organization. the prosecutor misled this jury . it s a higher degree of a felony than what donald trump is chargedry it is with. michael cohen is a liar. and now we knoa trump w he s a f who took the trail of broken t promises, silly black communities behindra. be he d be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn t love him. it in lovn equal measure,it biden tells blacks that americansoesn t don t love. you have a problem figuring out whethe tr you re for me or trumm and you ain t black. i do what? why are women so angry? i stopped there. i was. don t let nobody tell you that. you only know money and money don t buy happiness because listen to me ishow doe ls it only took 19 days, but we finally have a crime in the trump trial. michaebul cohen not only a liar today we found out he s a thiecf . alvin bragg, star witness. in another gruesome day anotr , larcmination he confessed to larceny, admitti
the deals on top before there job the defense has rested. testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nation s capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over jury instructions. in this historic criminal hush money trial of the former president. earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for closing arguments next tuesday it comes after the defense s second and final witness, attorney robert costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to michael cohen face some tough cross-examinati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a back-channel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trump s former lawyer, rudy giuliani, was joining trump s team and costello wrote to co
good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york alongside chris jansing for what could be the end of testimony in donald trump s criminal trial. michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of cross-examination. katy tur will join us in a moment. trump s attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s one-time loyal ally turned adversary. the defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. is he lying now? the only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifying about is donald trump himself. we are still waiting for a final decision on whether he will take the stand. with us in the studio, danny cevalos, catherine christian, and criminal defense attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sala. catherine, very low expectation that donald trump will take the stand. one of the things we are interested in, a 19-minute sidebar before michael cohen came in. we are waiting for the transcript, which should hit during these hours. there
then lose the confidence of the jury. special live coverage of donald trump s hush money cover up trial continues. right now. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here in three hours s you re watching cnn special live coverage of donald trump s first criminal trial. i m wolf blitzer, our nation s capital, laura coates is outside the manhattan courthouse worth today michael cohen laid out once again today the who, the what, and the why behind that payment to silence porn star stormy daniels. he detailed two jurors how the hush money scheme continued after trump became president of the united states talking about a february 2017 meeting he had with trump. and then trump organization, chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, and a set up how trump was going to pay cohen back for the hush money initially paid stormy daniels, laura yeah. and wolf cohen also described the fallout after the fbi raided his properties back in 2018, describing what cohen testified would be h