Its not a lock, i know a lock. So how can we undo the damage . We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Started today, accustoming. Com. Ive had to go montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn cnn Breaking News welcome to cnns breaking News Coverage of the historic donald trump Hush Money Trial. Im wolf blitzer in washington and Boris Sanchez is outside the courthouse in manhattan im this de of the trial, the first witness his nearing the end of his testimony, David Pecker Is Facing Redirect by the prosecution after several hours of cross by trumps Defense Attorney. Much of that cross detailed the former Tabloid Executives history of Purchasing Stories so that he could bury them boris and right now, wolff, the court is taking a break for lunch. The judge instructing the jury, as he always does, to not discuss the case outside of the courtroom de as the first witness testimony, as y
welcome back. hope hicks attorney last hour taking issue with new suggestions she may have lied to congress. but the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, says the trump confidant and former white house communications director needs to clear up what she knew and when she knew it related to the hush money scheme related to silence stormy daniels. she said i wasn t aware of anything. i wasn t aware of a hush payment agreement. hicks also told the committee she was never, quote, present for discussions between cohen and trump when the two discussed daniels. but according to newly unsealed documents from the michael cohen case, hicks defense could hinge on the meaning of the word present. fbi investigators amassed telephone records, text messages and emails showing a flurry of communications between the president, hicks, cohen and the tabloid executives who helped bury the daniels story, all of
warrant materials in connection to the michael cohen case and the effort to buy the silence of women who say they had affairs with the president. the documents mention the president by name. he is no longer individual one. they lay out a timeline that includes a flurry of calls between candidate trump, lawyer michael cohen, hope hicks and tabloid executives. those calls in the hours following the publication of that infamous access hollywood tape. with us to share their reporting and legal insights, kara scannel and elie honig. we ve been examining what is roughly 20 pages of unredacted material. what it shows us so far, as we re still going through it, is right after the access hollywood tape came out, immediately there were a flurry of communications between michael cohen acting in the middle of this in talk with hope hicks, with donald trump himself and then with the executives of the national enquirer david pecker and dylan howard. after a flurry of these calls
well-known to both mr. bezos and mrs. sanchez. shepard: the store i have is a bomb shell published last month in the national inquirer. the tabloid exposed bezos affair with lauren sanchez. inside, private texts and pictures as proof. friday, bezos said tabloid executives said to hold off on publishing the photos if bezos did two things. one, stop trying to find out how they got the texts and two, make a public statement that the inquirer s coverage was not politically motivated. jeff bezos owns the washington post. bezos calls that a complexifyer in this case. and david pecker is one of trump s friends. pecker saying that had nothing to do with it. dan springer reporting live from the pacific northwest newsroom. yeah, shep. the denial that the white house