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lower manhattan. michael cohen back on stand for what will be his final day of cross examinationened re in donald trump s criminal trial. now the prosecution is gearing up to redirect questioning of its star witness just one more time. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. that first hour went by like that. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. we were talking about the sports analogies we could draw. we ll get to that. dana: i use batter s box and see if i used it correctly. i was kind of there. we have more. bill: we did a little hockey, too. dana: more to come. bill: that s coming your way. the fireworks not over yet. former president unleashing on the whole process before he entered the courtroom a short time ago. one hour and 15 minutes ago. watch. i don t think there is one person that says that this trial is legitimate. and everybody is talking about the judge. the judge shouldn t be doing this trial. he is totally conflicted. ....
and katy tur pick up our special coverage, next. our special coverage, next good day, i m andrea mitchell in new york along with my colleague, katy tur. the prosecution is quickly wrapping up its case in the first criminal trial of a former american president. the state is gets its chance now to repair any damage done by the testimony of its star witness. moments ago, the defense wrapped up with michael cohen after three days of cross-examination. it was a grueling three days. the big wild card is donald trump himself. will he live up to his promise to take the stand or put his defense team rest without presenting a single witness? dramatically demonstrating their argument that the state has failed to meet the burden of proof. judge merchan has set a new schedule this week guaranteeing the case will not go to the jury until after the long memorial day holiday weekend. he announced this morning that closing arguments will not take place until next tuesday he says b ....
epic because it hinges on the testimony of one dirty lawyer who lies so often he went to prison for it. a brand-new hour of a day in court which is inching us closer to a conclusion in the case of former president donald trump versus new york. the prosecution s star witness michael cohen on the stand, day three of withering cross examination by trump s defense team. he was trump s attorney and fixer, michael cohen. now the lawyers for trump are pounding cohen s credibility. and when his testimony ends, i will have one question, can the prosecution fix the fixer? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. we were anticipating this week to be the final stretch in trump s new york criminal trial. his attorneys say they expect to wrap up their questioning today. could be at any time. then the prosecution can choose to ask cohen a second round of questions. he is their final witness. after that, if they choose to do that, the defense then presents its case. for ....
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. we re not done yet. good morning, everybody. bill hemmer, hope you had a glorious weekend. dana: i m dana perino and the america s newsroom. when you said we re 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: we re awaiting president s trump s decision if he decides to take the stand. here is what he said this morning on his way into court. thank you very much. i m 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 we ll 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. ....
the question with a former commander-in-chief take the stand? you think about what we are doing but what i am doing, i m g indicted for you witness former fixer michael cohen to return for more in-depth. he lies and embellishes, stories adjust to make himself look good. shannon: are public and front runners allies show up in his defense. will asked trump attorney will scharf to expect as the case enters week six. house republicans moved to hold attorney general merrick garland and contempt over the special counsel tapes of pickwick something i can do is continue to do the right thing. i will protect this building and its people. rich: will assess our legal panel by the white house is insisting and on keep the audio recording secret. then, the bodies of four hostages recovered as aid arrives and because of the president s national security adviser traveled to israel. we ll get exclusive reaction from both sides of the aisle with house republican conference chair el ....