[ ] [ cheering ] alright yeah i know. Kind no. I would feel the same way if i were you. Lets get started. According to Stormy Daniels husband the couple will leave the United States if trump wins the trial. So wait a second, she has a husband . Thats like finding at the easter bunny has suppleness. Did someone have sublists in here . Im sorry i offended you. And get this, her husband is a porn star to. Do they talk shop at home . I bet he complains when he doesnt have a hard day at work. Wow this is going to be clean comedy. They will actually leave the United States which means strongly will enter another country as opposed to another country entering her. [ laughter ] sorry. Rosie odonnell reportedly scent a text Michael Cohen saying breed x. , tell the truth. You got this. I love you. Thats the same advice she gives herself when strapping on the feed bag. Executives at abc are complaining about photos of Good Morning America cohost Dimarco Morgan showing and posing with a large old
Have a good show. Thank you, nicole. Welcome, everyone, to a twohour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. Im ari melber, we have our Special Coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutors star witness taking the stand. You may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. The former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. And recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against Defendant Trump. Big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. The star witness takes the stand against donald j. Trump. Form fixer Michael Cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. Cohen on the stand. An extraordinary showdown today in court. The man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying. The expresident coming
David, who used to run the Southern District of new york, which makes him a great guest, i learned from him, to pull a lawrence is hard to do. I dont have his experience. Going. I dont have his sunny disposition. Sometimes he will say hey rachel or nicole, tonight we have a Sketch Artist from inside the courtroom. We have Justice Stephen breyer, more from that interview. We have emily, former manhattan d. A. Official, and my thoughts from being inside the courtroom. I want to tell you that is what is coming up. Your show is the go to during any time, but especially now. I am upset it takes me as long as it does to get to my office because i dont want to miss anything. I will see you soon. Thank you. I say all that in salute to all of our colleagues. We are reporting tonight on one of the most significant dave yet and trumps criminal trial i will tell you exactly the evidence for what it was so significant. The defendant lost this long awaited gag order clash, began the second lease of
The beat with ari melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicolle. Thank you so much. Welcome to the beat. I am ari melber. Im happy to be back with you. Out for a couple of days. Did anything happen . It seemed like a lot happened. I want to catch up with you, because we have a lot of developments out of these first two official days of the trial with the jury impanelled, and everyone hearing from both sides. And that star witness david pecker. What are we learning out of this case . The court today was off, but we have so much that were learning from, including the prosecutions Opening Statements. I can show you some of that right here. The first witness as mentioned was the Tabloid Star Witness david pecker. By the on the other hand of this hour, im also going to get into trumps Defense Arguments which are important to understand and draw on what we learn from his own lawyers, what theyve said in court, in public and sometimes even on this program. Right now we look at what the d. A.
Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho