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hello again. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m ana cabrera reporting in new york. jose diaz-balart should be with us in just a moment. technical difficulties. but right now, want to bring you up to speed, the court is in morning recess in former president donald trump s hush money trial, which is now in its 15th day. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is in the courtroom for today s proceedings and nbc news has learned through multiple sources that former president donald trump s attorney michael cohen will begin his testimony on monday. and is expected to be on the stand for several days. let s discuss more about all of this with nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, who is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. also joining us, catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney, who is an msnbc legal analyst. vaughn, break right now, but set the scene for what has happened so far this morning. reporter: yeah, good morning, an ....
it is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. today s testimony in donald trump s hush money trial turned to some of the most critical evidence yet, the invoices, vouchers and checks at the heart of the criminal case against the former president. while it may not have had the same shock value as, for example, stormy daniels testimony, it is setting up the jury for what s expected on monday, testimony from the most highly anticipated witness in this case. donald trump s former fixer, michael cohen, the man who says he paid off the adult film star at trump s direction. the prosecution revealing today that they expect to call one other witness besides cohen. it s entirely possible that they rest by the end of next week. i want to bring in nbc s yasmin vossoughian who s reporting from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, also with us, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, chuck rosenberg. in studio, jessica roth, a former fede ....
thanks for joining us. it s 12:00 p.m. eastern. i m in for andrea mitchell. donald trump is back in court right now for day 15 of his hush money election interference trial. over the past hour, there s been a lot of testimony about phone records of key players like david pecker and michael cohen. before that, former trump white house aide madeleine westerhout finished her time on the stand, testifying about everything from how close she worked with trump early in his presidency, including how trump reacted, she says he was very upset, when stormy daniels story became public. westerhout testified about a key white house meeting in 2017 between donald trump and his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen. cohen himself, a witness for the prosecution, is expected to take the stand on monday. his testimony could last several days. this after stormy daniels sparred with donald trump s attorney yesterday during the cross-examination after being accused of profiting off her enc ....
good friday morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news in a courtroom in manhattan where witness testimony has just resumed in donald trump s hush money trial, and back on the stand is the forensic specialist from the manhattan d.a. s office who inspected data from michael cohen s phone including text messages and secret recordings. nbc s vaughn hillyard is standing by for us outside the courthouse. also with us former u.s. attorney, former state court judge carol lam, and state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg. vaughn, start us off here. the judge started everything by pushing back on some of trump s comments yesterday about his potential testimony in this case. what can you tell us? reporter: right. trump has repeatedly bemoaned the fact that this gag order has been placed on him preventing him from speaking about witnesses as this pertains to this criminal proceeding, but also the ju ....
number.com i m more than liebermann at the pentagon. and this cnn welcome to our special i ve read your former president trump s historic hush money criminal trial. i m briana keeler in washington, phil mattingly is outside of court in new york where phil here on day seven of testimony, jurors were hearing from one of the most trusted members of trump s inner circle, hope hicks, of course, who was both a top aide on his 26th it s team campaign. and in the white house when he was president and court of course now fill is just taking a lunch break, just getting started yeah that s right. briana. but there have been a number of really critical moments over the course of the last several hours, we know who picks, had several phone calls with michael cohen, the trump lawyer who silhouetted the stormy daniels payment in the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign. and we know from a prior witness, hicks was on a called discussing the karen mcdougal payment? after trump took offi ....