Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. We begin with Donald Trumps criminal trial. The judge late today denying another attempt by trumps lawyers to just run away from this thing. Indeed, the judge admonished trumps lawyers for insinuating that actress Stormy Daniels has changed their story. The judge said i disagree with your narrative there is any new account here. Daniels wrapping up her testimony. She spoke under oath for hours and basically rhetorically stood her ground during the reports we have. It got very tense with the questioning from trumps Defense Lawyers. All of this about trying to make a bet that the jury wouldnt be as offended by some of the line of questioning as they would be concerned about the potential questions raised on her credibility. You wanted money. That phrase repeated multiple times by Donald Trumps lawyer today as she grilled Stormy Daniels during cross examination. It bordered on shaming a sex worker. Stormy daniels getting the most attention. You see dona
Trumps criminal trial. The judge late today denying another attempt by trumps lawyers to just run away from this thing. Indeed, the judge admonishing trumps lawyers for insinuating that actor Stormy Daniels changed her story while rejkting the mistrial request. The judge said, i disagree with your narrative that theres any new account here. Daniels wrapped up her testimony. She spoke under oath for hours and rhetorically stood her ground during the reports we have we dont have the cameras but we have a lot of reporting from people inside the room that it got very tense with the questioning from trumps Defense Lawyers, trying to make a bet the jury wouldnt be as offended by the line of questions as they would be concerned about the potential questions raised around her credibility. You wanted money. That phrase repeated multiple times by Donald Trumps lawyer today, as she grilled Stormy Daniels during crossexamination. It bordered on, i think, shaming a sex worker. Of course Stormy Dani
The senate intelligence committee having an investigation, a bipartisan investigation. unfortunately, though, what we ve seen is a very political process take over. but is it i ve answered your question. no, you didn t. it s a yes or no. is it appropriate? here s what we see in the house of representatives. you see a very partisan process taking place. why is it when you all do stories or we see reports in the news, it s about four states? but the question is, is it appropriate for a president to look, i think we are going to have an investigation to ask a foreign government it s a nonpartisan investigation. sahil? he dodged that five times. he made it about impeachment, he made it about politics. this is a straightforward question about something that the president of the united states said on the south lawn of the white house. it should be an easy question to answer, is it or is it not appropriate for a president to ask a foreign government to interf
Giuliani s financial transactions with these two men. part of it is just what investigation they re doing still. and second of all, i think that there s real potential for cooperation here i was just going to ask that. is that your i mean, this is that, you think, the real goal here by mr. berman? i don t think cooperation is ever necessarily the only goal. you charge case that you think are worthy of charging. and the fact that they had a press conference today, i don t know how much people understand, that s not a common event. i was just going to say, they don t do it often, especially when they know the boss doesn t love this one, right? they re essentially saying, look, we think this is an important case. we think that the integrity of elections it s not the first time that jeff berman and the new york fbi office have done this. they did it with michael cohen, you know, they did it with epstein. they are showing that even today under the thumb of bill barr,