Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, Star Witness In That Civil Fraud Trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. Michael cohen. This is about accountability, plain and simple. We leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. I thank you all for coming. A few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in the 250 million civi
Kayla tausche at the white house. And this is cnn its friday, may 3, right now on cnn this morning, secret tapes, extortion claims, and one blatant lie. Its all in a days work in one day at Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial President Biden paving the way for thousands of dreamers to receive obamacare benefits. And a massive tornado strikes Central Texas with damage and some injuries reported ahead. Well have the latest details and the forecast as more severe storms could be on the way 6 00 a. M. Here in washington. Heres a live look at New York City and some man look at that beautiful sunrise. Love it. Great way to start the weekend. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great To Be With You sex lies and donald trump on audio tape as the first ever criminal trial of a former president continued for another sorted day, the jury appearing to hanging on every word as that they heard a call between trump and his then lawyer, Michael Cohen that cohen had secretly recorded heres the tape n
Tabloid reporter that show the Frantic Scramble to stop it from going off the rails. The chaos that ensued when the Hush Money Payments came to light. On the stand right now is a man named doug daus. Hes a tech expert who works at the das office. He comes after hours of extraordinary testimony from Keith Davidson. The jury saw the agreement between David Dennison and Peggy Peterson alongside a side letter written by Keith Davidson that, as he puts it, decodes the agreement between the two and specificically mentions donald trump. The deals was done before Donald Trumps Election Night upset, a shocker to both keith david sop and National Inquire editor lance howard. Quote, Keith Davidson text the editor in chief of the National Inquirer around 3 00 a. M. Eastern on the night of the 2016 election. Quote, what have we done, Keith Davidson text. Oh, my god, he text him that night. Asked what he meant in his text, Keith Davidson said this was humor. He said there was an understanding betwee
Really sick or their family had died. He would get this terrible grin that just looked evil. Reporter they were sisters whose mom let them come here to live in this tight knit commune. We had meals and there were a lot of parties. Reporter a Swimming Pool. A fleet of cool cars. It seemed like a kids fantasy. You were the little girl who got a horse for your birthday. I got three horses. Reporter it was called Angels Landing. A special place for a chosen few. A community of free spirits. But also, some would come to suspect, troubling secrets. She fell and hit her head and drowned. Reporter it started with a strange sudden death. Then, another. And another. He had been crushed under a vehicle working on it. It didnt smell right. Reporter a journey into the super natural. He would say that even though we couldnt see her, she was there. Reporter who or what had a grip on this place . Amber was the angel of death. She would come around when somebody was going to die. Reporter A Terrifying
Events at issue in this case i asked her what trump is going through right now, look, it just really sucks to be in court to be a defendant. It is just one of the stressful things you could possibly go through and of course trump being who he is, everything takes on an extraordinary nature. But for anyone to be in that seat, its one of the worst things you can go through and your entire life david, i think really importantly, we should note here for people who may say, why is this guy testifying and revealing all this information . He has an Immunity Agreement prevent exactly with the government. So hes been involved, if interestingly, going back to about approximately 2017 he has been involved in these investigations into whether this was criminal conduct, these Hush Money Payments. This was first something that was primarily investigated at the federal level or the manhattan district attorney, the state investigation took took a little bit of backseat as they often do when youre deal