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support more victories for veterans go to dab.org i m elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles. in this is cnn it s monday, may 13, right now on cnn this morning in just a few hours, the man who wants describe it itself as trump s thug, expected to take the stand ahead, how michael cohen could make or break the former president s hush money case. a shakeup but the highest levels of russia s military. vladimir putin choosing a civilian as who s new defense minister and both republicans and democrats in congress pushing back on cousin biden for threatening to withhold some weapons shipments to israel all right, by the young here in washington, live, look at capitol hill on this monday morning. good morning, everyone. happy a wonderful mother there s day weekend and kasie hunt, it s wonderful to have you with us in just a few hours. the star witness in donald trump s hush money trial will take the stand. former trump attorney and fixer, michael cohen. you may recall, cohen on ....
that does it for the weekend. the sunday morning, can we say happy mother s day? happy mother s day. i have the other version. you have the other version? i didn t know there were multiples. happy mother s day to the mommies. to the step mommies to the grand mommies, to the mommy figures. we will see you next saturday. follow the show on social media. and make sure that you days we got to talk about giving dad s the big piece of chicken on father s day and i think the mommies, they need the big bad backs. make sure you bring the nice flowers and big backpacks for mother s day. i ve got my flowers and big backpacks. that s how we are going to do it. ali is going, what is in the bag? i m sitting here going, i hope someone tidied up will i was at work. my poor mom will be surprised when she gets the big bag that says . what is this about? anybody over there on your end, want to know how that suit worked out? two of you are looking at me like, you took ....
at times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that she s crazy line of attack against her. at one point attorney susan necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. to which daniels replied wow that s now how i would put it. the sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. to try to prove that stormy daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trump s defense lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which stormy daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. trump. team trump also suggested that stormy daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. a line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the ex-president s team. as nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trump s story, trying to hurt his election bid. wouldn t that bolster the prosecution s ar ....
inside with jen psaki starts now. okay. this may come as a shock to you but donald trump actually didn t spend the day in court today. but, not to worry, he will be back in court tomorrow. plenty to watch, i m sure. when it comes to the case in manhattan, he is, of course, innocent until proven guilty. that is how it works. he has already been found liable for business fraud and for sexual abuse. he is still facing criminal charges in washington, d.c. and in florida. and, in georgia. he was also just named and unindicted co-conspirator in arizona and in michigan. right now, the basic thrust of his campaign message is that presidents should be immune from prosecution so they can attempt a coup and commit crimes at will. that is basically where we are right now. and yet the leaders in the republican party are closing ranks around their likely nominee, including many who clearly know better. consider this. just a few months ago, florida governor ron desantis basically mo ....
the president of armenia s self declared nagorno karabakh republic has signed a decree which will dissolve all state institutions on january the first. more than half the ethnic armenian population has fled since azerbaijan seized control of the region just over a week ago. the exodus of ethnic armenians surpassed 65,000 on wednesday. many have ended up in the armenian border town of goris, from where our correspondent sarah rainsford updated me earlier. we re on the town square in goris, which is the main armenian border town, which is receiving refugees from nagorno karabakh. and you can see some of them behind me, just some of the giant aid effort that s been launched here to help people. obviously, it s government institutions that are involved, but also local people, lots of local businesses bringing donations to be handed out to people as they arrive here. localfamilies, in fact, right across armenia, posting on social media, offering places to stay for people bec ....