Is your job and thank you all so much for joining us. This is seen under central as johnson said its metal coverage of the trump trial starts right now, this was Cnn News Central us federal a live view of the criminal courthouse here in manhattan, where we are told doctors legal team will be on a mission today, zeroing in on Michael Cohens admitted and allege lies before president and all it is on his way to the courthouse right now is the defenses preparing to up where it left off, grilling trumps longtime fixer. You can see them there waving to the cameras as he gets into his motorcade. Over the last 24 hours, trumps legal team its been preparing for this moment for colins returned to the Witness Stand. Im told and plotting their strategy to undermine the prosecutions star witness. The question is whether they can the jury, but also their client im Kaitlan Collins here in new york. Object. Saverin, washington dc. Youre watching special seen in live coverage of former president Donald
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. About it. Something directly has him spooked. But its caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his soninlaw under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. Okay. Joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than Rudy Giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. Lets look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the Trump Tower Meeting. When you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. No one has pointed to one. They pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the United States. That would be one possible charge. Aiding and abetting a conspir
court cast extreme doubt on that claim. october 27, 2016, the access hollywood tape became open with the president saying he could grab women by the genitals. when you re a star, they let you do it. the next day, phone calls. the newly released document show donald trump s spoke woman, hope hicks called trump s personal attorney, michael cohen and the president joined in for a call that lasted four minutes. hope hicks is now the vice president of communications for fox corporation. the documents are entitled illegal campaign contribution scheme. according to the fbi, lawyer cohen exchanged texts and e-mails and a series of calls with stormy daniels attorney as well as the national inquirer publisher david pecker, candidate trump and hope hicks. and fbi agent noted a belief that some of these communications were about preventing stormy daniels from
next target of a criminal investigation. according to two officials familiar with the matter. let s take a look at what we know about the case. according to court documents, michael cohen paid stormy daniels, stephanie clifford, $130,000 through a wire transfer on october 26, 2016. take a look at this on the screen with me. cohen told the court that the payment was for the principal purpose of influencing the election. this was on october 27, 2016. now, on november 1st, just days before the election, daniels lawyer sent a signed nondisclosure agreement, an nda back to cohen. the wall start journal reported on this payment but without anyone involved talking the story flew under the radar, donald trump was elected a few days later as president. as the president-elect who was preparing for the inauguration, cohen smaltd bill to the trump organization itemizing the hush money, the $35 wire transfer fee, and $50,000 listed aztec services, which we re still
congresswoman waters. that s something there is something that s at play there. that needs to be pointed out. the fact this is a year s anniversary of charlottesville ought to remind us of exactly what this presidency is about. and of course it s not just for african americans, although it is for african americans. it s for other minorities throughout the world. mexican-americans, so many people that he s attacked. can i just say, first of all, when he was talking about the most charismatic, most credible athlete, i was going to say you mean steph curry? when did the president start attacking steph curry? put that aside. yes, he attacks he baits his base and he attacks prominent african americans who have attacked him, he does does that, sure. he labels alma african countries in private s-hole countries, right? eyesore? he s not a maligned political figure, he s a racist. on the day the access video came out, that same day, october 27,