Too, when you dont get the answer you want, you reask the same question. Youre more amazing, and stalling, racking your brain, wait a minute, i had this down as a yes and now hes giving me an i dont know. You ask the same question again, if nothing else, you bought yourself eight seconds to figure out where youre going to go next. You can see that in the transcript, when he asks the same question again, he was surprised with the answer Michael Cohen gave him. You cant write your questions in stone because youre dealing with someone who on every question is trying to throw it back in your face. You have to be able to do improv. I want to say thank you so much for joining us this morning. Its the top of the hour, and give a quick reset for viewers who may be joining us now. Michael cohen back on the stand. Day three of crossexamination. He has been testifying before jurors for about an hour and a half this morning and todd blanche asking questions that ultimately go to his credibility an
Good to be with you, im katy tur. The Hush Money Trial of former President Trump. Defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohens direct hm. Cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a Quote Surrogate of mr. Trumps campaign, and the secret recordings he made of the former president. Blanche is starting to dig into the stories cohen attempted to bury about trump. This goes back to early days of this trial, alongside National Enquirers david pecker. Joining us now, Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the court, back with us. Chuck rosenberg, catherine christian, and Danny Cevallos. Yasmin, what is happening right now . Reporter theyre talking about the calls beginning in june of 2016. This is when cohen alleges he informed the former president of the united states, his boss at the time there was a meeting between mcdougal. This was the beginning of the payoff by ami. It was october in which the payoff was made to Stormy Daniels, initial contact bet
Defiance. And his National Security minister waking up to new is this morning and israel time posted online, hamas hearts biden with an emoji these fast, furious, emotional reactions because of this very clear statement, a commonly delivered statement from the president of the United States i made it clear that if they go into rafah, they havent gone in rafah yet. If they go into rafah im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah i deal with the cities that deal with that problem. Its just wrong. Were not gonna were not going to supply the weapons and Artillery Shells and after that, i will show you the front pages of newspapers from around the world. Had leinz including biden betrayal, joe bidens Rafah Red Line appends us israel relationship biden makes explicit threat to withhold Weapons Shipments if israel entered rafah, israel fury at bidens threat to cut off weapons over rafah invasion. Turning point or breaking point. Bidens pause on weapons te
Good morning. Its 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Testimony under way for day 12 of former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. The jury hearing from former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey Mcconney who played a role in reimbursing Michael Cohen for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels. Just before testimony resumed, the judge fined trump another 1,000 for violating the partial gag order imposed on him. Thats in addition to the 9,000 he was fined last week for previous violations. The judge also warned trump directly, future violations could see him sent to jail, saying, quote, it appears that 1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. With us now to talk more about this msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Michael zeldan, special counsel to robert mueller, hes a professor at American University and David Aaronberg state attorney for california. Yasmin, its been an intense day in the
No matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. So trump in his comments as he continues to talk to the media there, is calling her racist, calling this the biggest witch hunt of all time. Lets bring in our guests and analysts to talk more about what we can expect in this trial. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is outside the courthouse. Also joining us, assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian and civil attorney Danny Cevallos. Vaughn, tell us what we can expect to happen in court today in terms of the trial kicking off. Well wait to see if any witnesses are brought forward. You see donald trump standing alongside alina habba, his legal spokeswoman. You see jason miller, his Campaign Senior advisor. Just out of frame we saw his lead attorney on this case, chris kise who just met Attorney General Letitia James inside the courthouse. They briefly exchanged pleasantries and shook hands. Leticia james was joined by other prosecutors in the office. We dont ex