The lead cnn, if you ever miss an episode will lead. You can listen to the show news tonight in the trump trial star witness, Michael Cohen, wrapping up his first day of Blockbuster Testimony detailing the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and how donald trump was allegedly tellinjurors his former boss was only concerned about the impact on his 2016 president ial campaign and that trump and im quoting now wasnt thinking at all about his wife melania, for the next hour ill take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new transcripts breaking down all of todays most important developments and looking ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world i will blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room that trial today lets get right to the breaking news in todays highstakes testimony against donald trump, Michael Cohen, Zeroing In On what trump knew about the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal and the alleged criminal but we will cover up.
The judge was questioning the scope of the terms of the deal involving these two tax misdemeanors biden was set to plead guilty to. the judge questioning prosecutors exactly how limited and how broad this deal was, and when one of the prosecutors acknowledged that their investigation is still ongoing and that they believe this deal related only to tax charges, gun charges and drug charges. now, she asked biden s lawyer if that was his understanding. he said it wasn t, and this is where it became an impasse. prosecutors said there is no deal. hunter biden s lawyers saying they thought it was null and void. then they asked the judge for more time to try to work something out. both sides came back and they were on the same page. so the judge was then moving forward with what would be the guilty plea on these tax evasion charges, but she said she couldn t do it without a further understanding of a diversion on felony gun charge, gun possession charge. so the judge there now narrowing down
Again, we will have more on that to come, both over the course of this hour and later this week in our in our planned special report. but the other piece of this we need to talk about is this other big new revelation from this times reporting. and it is about michael flynn. michael flynn was the first official fired at the brand-new trump white house. didn t even make it a month. michael flynn then became the first guilty plea and the first cooperating witness in the russia investigation. michael flynn then, surprise, just a few weeks ago, became the first mueller defendant to have his sentencing hearing completely blow up in court when, among other things, the judge that was supposed to be sentencing him, diverted into questioning prosecutors as to whether they had ever considered charging mike flynn with treason. mike flynn to this day is now cooperating with prosecutors. sentencing got put off. he is awaiting a new sentencing
That was supposed to be sentencing him diverted into questioning prosecutors as to whether they had ever considered charging mike flynn with treason. mike flynn to this day is cooperating with prosecutors sentencing got president off. he s awaiting a date in washington d.c. but we learned today from the new york times reporting is actually a quite unexpected answer to what has been a persistent mystery about mike flynn since his story initially blew upless than a week into administration. we finally got an answer what happened and it s the opposite of what we expected and that story is next. expected and that story is next. only a tiger cost, we re finally going on the trip i ve been promising. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. so even when she outgrows her costume, we ll never outgrow the memory of our adventure together.