Jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and the prosecution has rested its case and now its Donald Trumps term his defense team has called a witness, Robert Costello and attorney. What one point advised Michael Cohen that stella has claimed in that cohens lied about him under oath during this trial. This comes after a shocking revelation on the stand earlier today, threatened to rock the prosecutions entire case under intense questioning. And by the defense, trumps former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, the star witness for the prosecution, admitted that he stole from the Trump Organization organization and were not its not talking lunch, money or funds taken from some transaction that has nothing to do with the charges against trump were talking we had 60,000, technically larceny that was part of the 420,000 payment made to cohen. That was allegedly falsified to reimbursement for Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels that payment are those p
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
george zimmerman s story is, i was down on my back. trayvon martin was straddling me, straddling at the waist with trayvon martin s knees up around his armpits, he says. if that s the case, i wonder how it is possible that trayvon martin saw the gun. that s zimmerman s story. trayvon martin saw the gun, he was reaching for the gun and i had to grab it and shoot first. i would add that the gun and holster are both black. it was a very dark night. so you have to wonder how that story is possible. by the way, i haven t heard the prosecution argue this yet, and today in court mark o mara demonstrated generally a gun being holstered inside the waist band, and here is how he demonstrated. he demonstrated that the gun would be holstered in the front and i didn t hear a prosecution objection to that. you now if i had been prosecuting the case i might have objected, that s inconsistent with the evidence because george zimmerman had the gun holstered behind him on that video. so maybe this will
this is piers morgan tonight. my extraordinary interview with robert blake. he was controversial. a bit on the edge. especially when i asked him about his murder of his wife, bonny lee bakley. i mean, i was worth $25 million. i could have hired somebody to kill her when she was in tibet or some place. she drove all over the country. she was out selling, doing her i could have hired somebody to follow her for ten months and make her disappear so nobody would ever find he for christ s sake. i would go out to dinner to kill her? what the [ bleep ] s the matter with you! i didn t say you killed her. you didn t say i didn t. you said it s all very interesting. well, it was all indeed very interesting. joining me now, more on our big stories. tom mesereau. robert blake s attorney till he quit citing irreconcilable differences. you watched the interview. i did. you know robert blake. you represented him. you get him out on bail. what was your reaction to the interv
we ll mix it up over president obama s naacp absence. and on this [ booing ] plus, from newsman to newsroom, why dan rather says the hbo drama gets it absolutely right. and funny man john littquisimo. it saddens me they would treat them this way. this is piers morgan tonight. my extraordinary interview with robert blake. he was controversial. a bit on the edge. especially when i asked him about his murder of his wife, bonny lee bakley. i mean, i was worth $25 million. i could have hired somebody to kill her when she was in tibet or some place. she drove all over the country. she was out selling, doing her i could have hired somebody to follow her for ten months and make her disappear so nobody would ever find he for christ s sake. i would go out to dinner to kill her? what the [ bleep ] s the matter with you! i didn t say you killed her. you didn t say i didn t. you said it s all very interesting. well, it was all indeed very interesting. joining me now, mor