Andrew weissmann, lisa rubin, and me, all of whom were in the courtroom today. That is what you were going to get. You will get the ride down the elevator but it will last an hour. I am holding the step the Elevator Button so we get the most out of all of you. This is a courthouse table, right here. Thank you. The first thing judge merchan did in the courtroom today before bringing the jury into the room are bringing a witness into the room was to rule in favor of donald trump on an evidentiary point. Donald trump pretends it never happens. He stands in the very hallway of the courthouse right outside the courtroom speaking to microphones every day, ranting about how unfair judge merchan is. He appears to hate judge merchan and is very convincing in delivering that feeling. But, he cannot hate the judge because the judge is unfair. He has to hate him for some other reason. Even donald trump knows the judge is fair. Today, half of the trump lawyer objections were sustained. There were n
americans are facing the threat of severe weather this memorial day, that s after powerful storms ripped through the sense of less even terrible destruction jan and killing at least 19 people and four seats. the tsa says that it set a new record for most travelers screen in a single day on friday, put that intense storm i m so some impact million trying to get back home after the holiday weekend. and a former general hospital actor fatally shot in los angeles police right now searching for the suspect aviana goldberger with were held solomon, this is cnn news central let s begin this morning without severe weather, deadly tornadoes ripping through america s heartland with severe storms today, now threatening millions of people as they gather for the holiday right now, at least 19 people are dead, including four children. that s after a violent weekend tornado outbreak hit four states. miles of homes and businesses destroyed across texas, oklahoma, arkansas, and kentucky. and
why? because he had that period of time and he would say this is the version of the story before the story changed again? he is able to give michael cohen s nonpublic story at the time, when he had the post motivation to poin the finger at donald trump, michael cohen signed a complete privilege waiver so he didn t release anything privileged and said this is the information that when the southern district of new york was investigating this case, they interviewed michael cohen, then they interviewed bob costello and they had michael cohen sign a privilege waiver and then based on the information that bob costello gave them, that is why the u.s. attorney s office decided not to bring this case because they knew they couldn t rely on the word of michael cohen. so even though well i have to jump in on this the determination is admissible, but the information is. and i would jump in, whether or not cohen waived that for the
then in a sense they started covering up the cover-up. and then trump lawyer rudy giuliani basically went on live tv and changed the story and admitted or said trump did repay cohen. they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. oh, i didn t know, he didn t? there is no campaign finance law? zero. zero campaign finance law said the now indicted rudy giuliani. he, like michael cohen, was indicted for crimes allegedly done on behalf of donald trump. he is awaiting his own trial in georgia. cohen has gone through this process already. he pled guilty about the hush money and went to prison and it did involve a federal campaign crime. and one juror said they are familiar with michael cohen and another said they follow
weaknesses of each of the three theories that you laid out. it is important for people to know, though, that they can present, that is the prosecution, could present all three theories to the jury and that happens all of the time. like when i bring a rico case as a prosecutor, there are a whole list of what are called predicate acts and the jury is told, you only have to find two. so you could present 50 and say, you know what, we think can he could prove all 50, but in order to convict, you only need to prove two. and find that there are two. here, what the jury will be told, is there are three different ways in which this becomes a felony. you are only need to find one. and so let s just take the tax one as we just talked about. if you re paying more money than you need to, to reimburse michael cohen, that was because they were going to need to be taxed paid an that is because the taxes were going to say this