Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . Good morning to you. Michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the Witness Stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. The word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. The jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. This morning, Donald Trumps hush money coveru
Joining our coverage, barry mccaffrey. now an msnbc military analyst. also, journalist and contributor, katty kay and jim hines. congressman, i m coming to you. what is your latest understanding of what we ve been discussing and reporting. the seeming indication that the russian tactics will only become more brutal and aggressive? well, we re seeing that already, nicolle, and you know, the military people will tell you as we heard in a briefing yesterday that you know, what the ukrainians have done has been unexpected, wonderful, amazing, but you can defy military gravity for only so long. putin has such category cal
Draw a good point. coalition air power is now using this u.n. mandate in an elastic way and going after gadhafi s center of military gravity, which is his armored forces and artille artillery. ap wires is reporting in misrata, the thanks have withdrawn from the edge of the city. thank god they are paying ñioff. they are abing human life. and this very aggressive air campaign could make a difference to ousting gadhafi and protecting the people. the president says a transfer to nato leadership can take place in a matter of days. but there s clearly some tension and confusion about who s going to command and control this operation, isn t there? well, of course. you know, i don t think we did our homework going in to that. secretary gates said it was done on the fly. the turks are block consensus. it s a 28-nation member.