arizona s democratic candidate for governor burglarized. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning to you. john berman is off this morning. and police in phoenix are investigating this break in at katy hobbs campaign this week. this is coming amid reports of intimidation, where hobbs is currently the top election official. her campaign claims this is the person who broke in. cnn has blurred the face because police have not yet identified any suspects. hobbs campaign manager saying they ve faced death threats, blaming kari lake. and here is how lake responded. i m saddened that the hobbs and her camp would try to pin this on us. it s just defamatory and it s wrong. and it s so obvious what s happening. her own party is attacking her. she s trying to deflect her own abysmal campaign and the fact that, you know, nobody even knows where her campaign office is. the person who broke in probably didn t realize it was a campaign office.
Specifically those stills of a cspan video that proves donald trump and Keith Schiller were together, which has just been introduced into the redirection from cohen. So far, todd blanche has landed multiple punches against cohen. Including cohens admission that he stole Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization and the question about how many more witnesses were left and who might the defense call. Those are big questions. Vaughn hillyard is outside of the courthouse, along with Andrew Weissmann and Catherine Christian who are still with us as well. So, vaughn, its the top of the hour. I will let you top us off. Reporter were looking at the 3 00 p. M. Eastern hour, and Michael Cohen is still on the stand, and there were questions of whether Michael Cohen when we started the day would be off the stand by lunch hour. Thats not the case as there has been of course the back and forth over potential witnesses, the back and forth over the cspan clip from october 24th. A video
Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10 of your county, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the repeated, i mean repeated, violations of his gag order. Will talk about that a little later. Things got interesting once keep davidson return to the stand. The former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off, Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on the 2018 statement he wrote on behave of daniels. Seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trumps sitting in front of him, that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. It was a nondenial denial you could say. The statement read, quote, i recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i had a sexual and or romantic affair with donald trump many years ago. I am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false. Its a strange part of the statement. Davidson used par
Described Michael Cohen to prosecutors on the stand as the alleged affair became public. Asked the lawyers what the point of the line of questioning was because it opened the door to what we have been watching from the defense during crossexamination, which by the way, just ended. Theyre trying to use Michael Cohens onetime loyalty against him. Asking Keith Davidson about calling, he was devastated donald trump wasnt taking him to washington, d. C. , saying, quote, after everything i have done for the blank, you can guess what the word is, guy, i cant believe im not going to washington. Ive saved that guys blank so many times you dont even know. Davidson testified cohen complained to him, quote and that davidson thought he was going to kill himself. The defense wants cohen to seem like a spurned lover, out for revenge. The question is does that discredit what is at the heart of the case, falsified documents. Lets find out from our team covering all of this. Joining us now, Nbc News Nat
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