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good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. former president donald trump s new york hush money trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest son s high school graduation in florida. the day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer michael cohen spent another day on the stand being cross-examined by trump attorney todd blanche. blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohen s credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. more now from nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. laura? good morning to you. michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the witness stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. the word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. the jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. this morning, donald tru ....
special saturday night at nine eastern ac30 60 starts now good evening. on what what a blockbuster de the criminal hush money trial. the former president blockbuster, because after what has at times been a man during cross-examination, the prosecution s most important witness, michael cohen, today, trump attorney todd blanche was able to repeatedly raised questions about cohen s honesty, not just in the past, but his honesty in his testimony before this jury this week, i was in the courtroom this morning just before the lunch break. blanche presented text messages to cohen between him and former trump bodyguard keith schiller. the messages were from october 24, 2016 and they appear to contradict testimony cohen gave monday on direct examination that goes to the heart of the alleged scheme to falsify business records earlier in the week, cohen testified about texting schiller he said under oath that he needed to talk to trump urgently and schiller was always by his psi ....
think there s a very interesting day fascinating. and i just want to thank well, the lawyers because they ve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. pleased. welcome to a special day. mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of donald trump s criminal trial. a trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. i mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. the amount of dollars stormy daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. on monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trump s bodyguard man by the name of keith schiller to try to talk to trump. whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off stormy daniel s now from tuesday s transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak wit ....
straight from the source tonight, a surprise agreement to everybody between trump and biden agreeing to debate twice before election day. first, right here on cnn, next month donald trump personally confirming to me that he s in meanwhile, another epic showdown. just hours away from happening, not weeks away, because michael cohen, we ll be back on the witness stand. trump s trial tomorrow. we re getting new reporting tonight on the plan of attack by the trump team. we have two inside sources, michael cohen s former attorney, lanny davis. and what have donald trump s attorneys, both here tonight and a big question where is rudy giuliani? because that s what law enforcement in arizona is asking is they ve been trying to find the onetime trump attorney for weeks. why they need to see him? in person, as cnn has learning where he might be. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source mark your, calendars because six weeks from tomorrow, thursday, june 27, its biden trump ....
to a special edition of news night. i m abby phillip alongside laura coates right here and donald trump s lawyers tried to pan fry michael cohen on the witness stand today and perhaps the most important day of testimony so far, eight oh, tonight, donald rumsfeld? yes. that donald rumsfeld gives us all a lens to view what s left in the hush money trial. the known knowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns. so first the known knowns all those bad fats. so the prosecution took painstaking care to get in front of the jury so that they did not hear them for the first time and cross-examination, that cohen was a jerk, that he was a bully, that cohen was designated a thug, that michael cohen cashed in on donald trump s name all of them facts that the government s attorney put on the record to make the cross case a little bit less of a rough and tumble affair. second, you haven t the unknown knowns how the j. will actually choose to react to everything they ve seen and heard ....