Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j
Thanks for joining us. Its 12 00 p. M. Eastern. Im in for andrea mitchell. Donald trump is back in court right now for day 15 of his hush money election interference trial. Over the past hour, theres been a lot of testimony about Phone Records of Key Players Like david pecker and Michael Cohen. Before that, former Trump White House aide Madeleine Westerhout finished her time on the stand, testifying about everything from how close she worked with trump early in his presidency, including how trump reacted, she says he was very upset, when Stormy Daniels story became public. Westerhout testified about a key white house meeting in 2017 between donald trump and his former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen himself, a witness for the prosecution, is expected to take the stand on monday. His testimony could last several days. This after Stormy Daniels sparred with Donald Trumps attorney yesterday during the crossexamination after being accused of profiting off her encounter with donald tr
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