Affiliate cnn if you ever miss an episode, you can listen to the show once you get your pod breaking news tonight and the trump trial, the Bruising Cross Up for the day after the defense repeatedly hammered the prosecutions star witness for his past lives, and aggressively tried to catch him in new lies. Under oath. The trump teams scoring major points and its bid to undercut cohens credibility. That includes getting cohen to admit he did not fully remember a phone call for trade as a direct link between trump and the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal. For the next hour, well be taking you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new testimony trend 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 all around the world. Wolf blitzer is on assignment. Im Alex Marquardt a Special Report in the situation room, Trump Trial Today lets get right to the breaking news on a pivotal trial da
Free the cargo ship that collapsed ball her yeah, im here in washington alive. Look at new york city on this Tuesday Morning where that push my trials had to get back underway just a few hours from now. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt its wonderful to have you with us. This is the de, we think that Donald Trumps legal team has been preparing for the day they could get to crossexamine Michael Cohen and try to convince a jury that he simply cannot be believed trumps former lawyer and fixer returns to the stand this morning after testifying on monday about payments that were made to kill potential really damaging stories about trump. All he says at the direction of his former boss. In the final critical days before the 2016 election, his testimony designed to show just how close he was to trump involved in talks about the hush money at every turn the juror has got to hear this conversation between cohen and trump about payments made to Playboy Playmate playmate karen mcdougal. It wa
i do think both sides will have has been exhausted by wars in to come together though. it is a long stretch to 2020 and iraq and afghanistan. they need each other. the administration seems to be they can t get anything done ramping up rhetoric toward iran without each other. the problem for the democrats, and it includes potentially sending as many as 10,000 troops they will meet with the president within day and then the next day he changes his tune to the middle east. or changes his mind. do you think that s a solid plan? so they have to go into it with what are the dangers of a grain of salt. escalating with iran? and when republicans were running the house, it was the it is actually deescalation, same way. the president would tell you that he was on board with one i ll explain why. thing and then change his mind. we have good reporting that they how did you govern under that have the best of the world in i think two things. using surrogate operations, first, the party viewe
they ll keep going until they find something. even if they ve hit a dead end. is he the type of prosecutor if he finds nothing, he will be satisfied with nothing? i don t see bob mueller as somebody who is here to work for two years or longer and cherry pick low-level violations against people who should not have charges placed against them. this is somebody who has spent decades in federal service who i think understands those degrees of criminality, and certainly understands when a crime has not been committed or should not be charged. all right. what do you think, ned, what is the fbi interested? what do they want to ask, for instance, epstein who is the newest name added, boris epstein? boris epstein before he was dismissed as i understand it, it was one of those things where he quit but under pressure. offered the privilege of resigning? absolutely. he was the director of surrogate operations for the white house press office and that is typically not a position where y
compartmentalize it, so one of the lessons from the reagan administration is have one person, one office in charge of your rapid response or communications, your legalities to keep everybody from being dragged into it. and second, this administration just needs more fire power. part of the thin staffing that dame out of the transition, part of the weak planning for transition, is that they didn t have the normal surrogate operations, other elected officials to go out and talk for them, the calms, the rapid response, so all of that is being built and one of the architects is steve bannon. so steve, we ve been on the outs, but now he s back. he is your street fighter. he is somebody who knows thousand fight a war, it s both his skillset and what he likes to do, and he along with the chief of staff reince priebus are putting together this plan. it s down to charts now and when the president comes back, he ll sign off on what the plan s going to look like. one of the great details in you