cnn. and of course, viewers two. and we are sending our care to her family tonight. thanks so much for watching this room with wolf blitzer starts now breaking news tonight in the trump trial fireworks in the courtroom as the defense begins presenting its case, falling, a witness who was reprimanded by the judge for snide remarks and i rolling this at the star prosecution witness, michael cohen admitted on the stand to sleep healing from the trump organization. other regular news this hour, the us is denouncing the international criminal court as it seeks war crimes, arrest warrants for israeli prime minister benjamin designe out in addition to hamas leaders, president biden saying it s outrageous to suggest any equivalency between israel and a terrorist group. plus there s even more uncertainty in the volatile middle east after the uranium president s death. in a helicopter crash, that s raising concern there s about a potentially very dangerous power struggling welcome to
and let s just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. diane perry has been serving as counsel for michael cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony . we will talk to her in a moment. her client, michael cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of cross-examination. from the beginning, we have known that putting michael cohen on the witness stand was a high risk and high reward proposition for the prosecution. on one hand, he is the central player. after all, he paid stormy daniels out of his own pocket pick he said he did it at donald trump s direction and said donald trump was fully aware of the plan to cover it up. those are the key details. at the same time, cohen is a convicted felon who pled guilty to lying to congress and making false statements to a bank. not to mention he spent over a decade doing trump s dir
thank you, as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. trump s lawyers, they ve been working to paint michael cohen as a sleazy liar who is hellbent on revenge, conveniently leaving out the fact trump used him as his own personal porno venmo. after calling 20 minutes over the past month, the prosecution rested their case. when he heard, trump was like, i ve been resting the whole case. [ applause ] time to rest. time to rest. michael cohen admitted on the stand today he stole money from the trump organization. only in a donald trump trial would the star witness be the one who ends up going to jail. how lucky is donald trump? donald trump is like a corruption mr. magoo. he s just stumbling around, quid pro quoing, metal beams falling all around him, getting out unscathed. we ll have more from donald trump s hush money trial, including the dramatic exchange in court with a trump ally that led
it s now 4:00 in new york. this morning a key chapter until the first ever criminal trial of an american ex-president came to a close. the testimony phase of the people of the great state of new york vermont vs. donald trump is over after the defense rested its case and trump in the end did not testify. although just a few weeks ago, he said this, quote, i m testifying. i tell the truth. whatever that means. happening right now in court, prosecutors and trump s defense attorneys are discussing the instructions that the judge will give to the jury. it s incredibly important. where donald trump faces 34 felony charges for falsifying business records in order to conceal another crime. we ll keep you posted on all of the updates out of those proceedings. we turn to the dramatic events this morning in court. team trump resting its case, one was a paralegal and the other was the attorney robert cost tell la lo. whatever credibility he had left after his outburst in court, the ones
beco i was born here, i grew up here. i see what s happening with this judicial system. and is all kangaroos. to rule from the bench and determine it s a witch hunt. it needs decisiveness. we have phenomenal we have won the case many standard. john: that s a look as they return to the courtroom as the criminal trial enters its final stretch. about one hour and 15 minutes away from that lom don roberts in washington. here we go again, sandra. sandra: we do, i m sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. witness testimony has wrapped, both sides have rested their cases. we await the ever important jury instructions. the judge to hear arguments from the prosecution and defense teams on exactly how the jury should be charged before they had into deliberations. sandra: we have an all-star team of legal and political voices to take us through the next two hours. john: first the former federal prosecutor trey gaudi has been in the courtroom all morning and, trey