Its not am here and then agnez, we are now entering the final phase of the first criminal trial of a former President Donald Trump is inside that courtroom there on the right side of your screen as the prosecution spinal and maybe most important witness, Michael Cohen is about to retake the stan moments ago, the judge we are warmer. Shawn, just informed the court that he does expect Closing Arguments will not happen this week, but he does expect them to happen next tuesday because there is no chance of a verdict this week come to see it as a special live cover. On Kaitlan Collins in new york. An object Saverin Washington in minutes testimony resumes with a third day of crossexamination from Michael Cohen, the former trump you would all fix her turn witness for the prosecution. Todd blanche trumps attorney will again ask the questions. The trump attorney landed several notable blows on cohen underlining seeming inconsistencies and cohens memory at one point, Blanche Accused Cohen of inv
Footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. We have doubleteamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information . And what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. Theres no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the Washington Post, no one has figured out where Michael Avenatti got all this Banking Information about Michael Cohen. And weve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. We have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what Michael Avenatti reported p p we have these Big Companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to Michael Cohen. Now we have the treasury Inspector General reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious
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On the state employees emergency exercise. Adding this was purely a state exercise. Is bringing phil keating q is live from maralago where the president is this weekend. The president was still at his golf club wrapping up down the street about 4 and a half hours of golfing this morning. Afterwards now he is back in maralago, the word came out that this false alarm came from the state of hawaii Emergency Operations center. We now have a statement for a white house official. This is not a tweet directly from the president. Quote the president has been briefed on the state of hawaii Emergency Management exercise. This was purely a state exercise. The us Pacific Commander in hawaii, also released a statement saying no Ballistic Missile threat was there. And that the earlier message was actually sent in error. 38 long minutes actually went by before the first alert went out to all of hawaii residence that an incoming missile was detected. Take cover, take shelter and then finally, 30 minut
That is the decision of an independent company and has nothing to do with the white house. Margaret. Im happy to take the answer from the private counsel but i made efforts and havent been able to and ill pose it publicly and if could you address it, ill appreciate it. Do you know whether mr. Cohen approached the white house as a representative of any of those companies, whether the president was aware of the payments or whether he was aware that mr. Cone w mr. Cohen was marketin him. Im not aware. Ill refer you to outside counsel. And the president said woe drain the swamp and does it make a difference that his personal attorney was selling access to him. Im not going to weigh into this. That is an individual decision by the companies and you are the press secretary standing there at the podium and over what has been revealed over the past 24 hours, does the president think it is appropriate that his personal attorney was selling access to him given that he promised to drain the swamp
There it is. I dont know what that means. Then theres headline. Special master report. Barbara j. Jones. The Court Appointed the honorable barbara s. Jones, retired federal judge, as special master to render decisions regarding privilege issues related to items seized from certain search warrants on april 9, 2018. Henceforth known as the seized materials. This report is submitted to provide the court and the boirts an update of the special masters progress. That you are soon to the courts order, june 26, 2018, the plaintiff and intervenors have submitted designations for items in their poe session with the xegs of 22,633 items currently being reviewed by the Trump Organization. That review must be completed on or before july 5th. Which is thursday. Quote, once the Trump Organization submits its designations, any remaining items not designated privileged, or highly personal will be promptly released to the government. And then theres this. A release of 1,310,365 items that were not desi