The lead cnn, if you ever miss an episode will lead. You can listen to the show news tonight in the trump trial star witness, Michael Cohen, wrapping up his first day of Blockbuster Testimony detailing the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and how donald trump was allegedly tellinjurors his former boss was only concerned about the impact on his 2016 president ial campaign and that trump and im quoting now wasnt thinking at all about his wife melania, for the next hour ill take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new transcripts breaking down all of todays most important developments and looking ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world i will blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room that trial today lets get right to the breaking news in todays highstakes testimony against donald trump, Michael Cohen, Zeroing In On what trump knew about the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and the alleged criminal but we will cover up.
Up witness david pecker who is at times combative, and jurors largely avoiding looking at trump, but according to those inside the room, giving pecker their rapt attention. For a day filled with details and inside baseball legalese, no small feat. We have a panel of experts standing by to explain it all. Plus, nothing matters more than how the jury is interpreting the Witness Testimony weve seen so far. How are attorneys on both sides analyzing what jurors are taking away from the questioning. Well ask a Jury Consultant. And for the political stakes of this trial, the campaign. The former president announcing new Campaign Events when hes not in the courtroom while President Biden just made a promise that could have a major impact on novembers race. So a lot to get to. We begin with that Redirect Questioning of key witness david pecker, which began just a short time ago. Prosecutors jumping straight into rebutting some key threats from the defense. One key, for example, steinglass, is t
All right tonight, there is new reaction from to Top Democrats to House Republicans impeachment inquiries. The inquiry that was launched, with no formal vote, no outstanding evidence of wrongdoing. And, no hope of being taken seriously by the American People. Here is former House Speaker nancy clark pelosi, on msnbc earlier. Impeachment is deadly serious. This is a remedy that our founders put in the constitution, to for a rogue official. They could foresee would have a rogue president of the United States they, couldnt foresee that we would have a rogue president , and a rogue senate, a rogue congress. But nonetheless, for them to use this in a frivolous way and that they are, its really a disservice to our country, into our constitution. All right, lets recall what that robe president was, was actually doing back in 2019. Donald trump, using American Taxpayer funded military aid, as leverage, tried to get the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on his opponent,
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Granddaughter, and you totally seem to have forgotten the overwhelming amount of violent rhetoric against President Trump himself. What did you say during these moments . Take a look. And with this kind of inspiration, i will go and take trump out tonight. Yes i have thought an awful lot of blowing up the white house. One with the last time an actor assassinated the president . [cheers and applause] i want to clarify, im not an actor. I lie for a living. However, its been a while. And maybe its time. How dare he say the things he does . Of course i want to punch him in the face. Right. [cheers and applause] the press always asked me dont i wish i were debating him . No, i wish we were in
high school and i could take him behind the gym . Thats what i wish. Sean so where is the fear, the worry, the concern about all of this rhetoric against the president . T . Now do you think what you just saw is a little bit worse than being heckl
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Like could become a violent situation, if you did, by the way, good for you. On this program we called out by a spirit we will do so as long as im allowed the honor to be here every night. We show the clips of the media. At their very worst moments. We tell our viewers to turn the channel if they dont like our coverage, but we dont support boycotts. If we demand firings. We dont support firings of any kind, nor will we ever. Its called telling the truth. And just because people chant fake news doesnt mean they would support any kind of violence in any way and of course theres plenty of bad rhetoric on a lot of sides of the aisle. Your network in particular, others in the Mainstream Media. You are not exactly telling the full story about things to the American People and i see abusive bias every single day purity largely ignored the nasty rhetoric against melania trump. Many glossed over the scary rhetoric about ivanka trump, the p