Crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag order for that, mr. Trump is under to allow him to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week judge, juan merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on what it claimed was prejudicial testimony by Stormy Daniels about sex with mr. Trump. The judge said the defense brought it on themselves by denying a sexual encounter or had taken place meaning he said that the jury needed to be able to determine whether to believe her or the defense he also sculpted the defense for not objecting to items they were now citing as grounds for a mistrial. Prosecutors meantime, said they will not be calling the other woman who is alleging an affair with the former presiden
Line here and then over here is really for the press. And like i said, we might start seeing people within the next few hours because people are anticipating Michael Cohen to take the stand and i have to point out, we have actually met people from all across this bucks an hour for the line sitter. Hes a busy man. All right. Thank you so much im going to let your husband know your birthday present erik. Thanks so much to all of you for being with us. We appreciate it. Its time for anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special prompts on coverage of the trump at new york hush money trial. Dave, 14. So im prosecutors focused or a current bookkeeper and a former white house staffer on how closely their boss watched every dollar, including far smaller sums in his jackson Michael Cohen also de, two of crossexamine emanation for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest, whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag ord
Reached with them. Daniels was doing what many people view as a conventional form of celebrity extortion. She wanted to cash in on her story. But whats interesting is that donald trump was trying to kill false stories as well as stories that were allegedly true. There was a story involving a door man who said he had an illegitimate child. She wanted to kill that, too. Thats not strange for celebrities or politicians. Indeed, many members of congress have engaged in ndas throughout the years. So this is a standard part of politics and entertainment. Now, what they are showing the jury now is that she had this economic motive all along. But also her credibility is in tatters. The real question here is going to be how more sort of narrow the scope of the testimony will be. It is obviously going to be narrower. It is a Cross Examination when it comes to trump. They have a lot of material involving her own conduct, her own life. And you may see the prosecutors start to object as to the scop