direct contact with stormy daniels s lawyer at the time, so that donald trump, through michael cohen, could just buy stormy daniels s silence directly. that didn t mean that the bossxd of the national enquirer escaped prosecutors s s attention. when they were prosecuting finance law, in an attempt to effect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels, three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silence of starlight stormy daniels was official put it mildly. the $130,000 violated campaign finance laws by exceeding the limit of campaign contributions and by not being recorded as a campaign contribution. the boss of the national enquirer, who was supposed to be the mastermind of the catching till scheme for donald trump, was a man named david pecker. here is how the new york daily great at the revelation in court, in the michael cohen case, that david pecker was a witness in the grand jury investigation. ther
Causing plumes of smoke to envelop the area. No one was hurt. The scene is under investigation. In south florida, a double decker tour bus went up in flames, shutting down i959 for hours. Dozens of forests ran out of the bus to escape. No injuries were reported. It is unclear what sparked that fire. A delta flight departing from jfk to los angeles was reported to return to new york after an Emergency Slide fell off shortly after takeoff. The aircraft has been taken out of service and will undergo maintenance inspections. In moments, i will speak with two guests who were in court this week for donald trump trial. The fascinating detail we learned from trumps assistance when she took the stand, ahead. As we start the hours with Breaking News this hour, another day of dangerous weather across much of this country. Tornadoes, flooding, hail, and strong winds are a concern from the great lakes to texas. Last night, there was a Tornado Outbreak centered in nebraska. No deaths have been repor
Tells you what some of them stand in this day and age. All right. Jason carroll. Thank you very much and thanks so much to all of you. Anderson starts now good evening. Welcome to cnn special primetime coverage. The trump hush money trial. The first ever criminal trial. Bill, former president , and theres a lot to bring you from a truncated but busy day six. Thats all the judge wanted Defense Attorney. Hes losing credibility. Also testimony from david pecker, the former tab hi boy publisher, who became the Trump Campaigns eyes and ears. And tonight new reporting and discussions are underway about what to do if the former president is actually jailed for contempt. Quite a de, a lot to get to judge merchans warning came as trump attorney todd blanche tried to answer Prosecution Evidence during Contempt Hearing with the jury, not present the judge saying, quote, youre losing all credibility with the court but making no decision on the matter. Then testimony continued from david pecker, wh
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all so very much. it s all there s a lot going on here and a lot we re eating. as you can read on your screen with us, it continues as we speak good morning and welcome to cnn, special coverage of the trump hush money trial. i m jake tapper in washington alongside kaitlan collins in new york this morning, the jury in donald trump s criminal hush money trial is back to work. the seven men and five women will ultimately decide whether a former president is convicted of felony crimes for the first time in the history of the united states of america. and mr. trump is in court awaiting their decision. we just learned that the jury has submitted it, yet another note. this is the third one about yesterday s request for the judge s instruction to be re-read. and another requesting for headphones to use with the evidence laptop yeah. clearly, a tech savvy jury because they asked specifically for a certain kind of headphones here. but take of course before those jurors left yesterd