tonight, warnings of a bloodbath as israel could be just days away from a military operation on rafah fareed zakaria joins us. let s go out front good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. a dramatic moment in court as trump s former gatekeeper and confidant, hope hicks, broke down on the stand hicks was sitting just feet away from her former boss. this is the moment caught by the sketch artist immediately got emotional when trump s team began the cross-examination and asked her about her time at trump organization. now, that was that particular moment. the reality is from the moment hope hicks walked into that courtroom, the atmosphere change. this is an important witness. are reporters who were there say it was almost electric in terms of the change in the room? hicks is as inner circle for trump as it gets. and she did prove to be a key witness of the witnesses so far, revealing never before known details that frankly were crucial to both sides for the prosecution. w
sides. frankly, painting him as someone who had some time times in her words, go rogue, but also casting doubt on the defense theory that cohen paid off stormy daniels on his own initiative in general, the picture she painted was a hands-on donald trump deeply involved in the details of his business and his campaign, motivated largely by political considerations. and that he was fully aware of what the payment to stormy daniels had ball what him in 2016, we ve just gotten the full trial transcript from today, including the context of hope hicks is final answer to the prosecution question about what then president trump said in 2018 when news of the daniels payout finally broke and i m quoting now from that transcript he wanted to know how it was playing and just my thoughts and impinge opinion about this story versus having the story a different kind of story before the campaign, had michael not made that payment joining us once again tonight, new york defense attorney arth