Than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome to cnn and Special Coverage. If former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial, im wolf blitzer in washington, along with abby phillip. Whos just outside the courthouse in new york today, Michael Cohen, trumps former were fixer and lawyer is back on the Witness Stand. Prosecutors appear to have some work to do during their redirect of cohen after he made a purely stunning admission during crossexamination . Today, defense attorney todd blanche was able to get cohen to admit to stealing Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. Abby, you were inside court today . Playing, how it all went down thats right. Wolf, earlier in the trial during the direct examination, cohen had actually said this, that he had pocketed monday money from the Trump Organization. That was meant for a technology company. But today, while he was being pressed by the defense attorney Todd Blanche Cohen agreed that it was essentially plants said,
No part in this. We all know that trumps promise to testify was just dishonest bravado, and now the defense has begun its case, its becoming increasingly clear that trump will not be called. Plus, a whole lot of things happened while i was on vacation, including the news that an upside down distress flag flew over Supreme Court justice sam alitos home. Tonight, ill explain why alito and others are in such distress that they think they need a trump dictatorship to solve their problems. But we begin tonight with these five words from the prosecution in Donald Trumps hush money election interference trial. Your honor, the people rest. After 15 days and 21 witnesses, the prosecution handed over the reins to the defense who began making their case this afternoon, beginning with testimony from Robert Costello, a criminal lawyer with ties to rudy giuliani. Costello was in talks to represent trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in 2018, as cohen faced federal indictment for taking out the very
Michael cohen is back on the stand momentaryly. Defense appears to be nearing the end of its Cross Examination. The judge believes testimony and evidence will wrap up this week. Summations to come next week. Were not done yet. Good morning, everybody. Bill hemmer, hope you had a glorious weekend. Dana im dana perino and the americas newsroom. When you said were nearing the end. We are. Bill we thought we might get deliberations this week. Based on what the judge just said that is not going to happen. Dana were awaiting president s trumps decision if he decides to take the stand. Here is what he said this morning on his way into court. Thank you very much. Im here instead of campaigning. As you know, i was supposed to be in a very different state this morning. The judge actually decided to call it early and yet it looks like well have a very big gap between days and it will be determined right now in court. But we are here about an hour early today. Supposed to be making a speech for po
With Griff Jenkins Mollie Hemingway and john and welcome to the big woongd show. The big story tonight. Bidens big problem with black voters, the president is in atlanta tonight ahead of his Commencement Speech at Morehouse College trying score political points and trump seems to be gaining ground about a quarter of voters say they back the president and theyre worried. If this held this is months away this would be by far the best among black voters in a generation two generations, probably since 1960 and Richard Nixon against John Pment Kennedy this could be historic and a troubling sign for the biden campaign. Goodness gracious indeed but first former President Donald Trump is addressing the crowd at the Nra Convention in dallas. Lets listen. Four years ago we were a great nation and we will soon be a great nation again. It was the hardworking patriots like you who built this country and it ised hardworking patriots like you who are going to save our country. We will fight for ameri
Countrys president suffered a hard landing earlier today. Irans Foreign Minister and other officials were on board. The helicopter was flying in an remote region. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing. Lets go to Josh Letterman in london. Josh, phyllis and with the rest of the details phil us in with the rest of the details. What do we know right now . Reporter it is after midnight in iran and has been more than 10 hours as a helicopter carrying the iranian president and also his Foreign Minister went down. The iranian president was on his way back from a visit to a new dam built near the border when this helicopter went down in what has been described by iranian media as and hard landing. Other reports have called it a crash. We know it took place in harsh weather conditions. At this point in time the status of the iranian president and Foreign Minister are unknown. We know for hours rescue officials have been trying to reach them, trying to figure out exactly where they are.