To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati
Everyone in Martha Maccallum and this is the story. What the story it is today. Right now on the stand as you heard his Madeleine Westerhout. She was the former president s former Executive Assistant at the white house. John was just describing her history with the former president she talked about the access Hollywood Tape and how there was a lot of concern at the rnc back then if they maintain ocean need to find another candidate and we know how that ended. It is now day 14 in this trial and a short time ago Stormy Daniels wrapped up her testimony after pretty bruising crossexamination by a Trump Attorney who try to portray the actress as an opportunist, extortionist using her trump connection to make money, prosecutors came in for the cleanup after that, reminding Jurors Daniels said she wanted an agreement to feel safe. Unclear if any of this is relevant to what the jury needs to decide. No cameras in the courtroom as you know but her attorney posted this picture excuse me at earli
As former President Trumps lawyer for tried to discredit her story and her motivation for telling it, often using her career in the adult Film Industry for reference one exchange reading quote, necklace, the lawyer saying you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real. Daniels responds, wow, thats not how i would put it. The second in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. The sex is real. Thats why its Pornography Necklace than asking, now, you have a story youve been telling about having sex with President Trump daniels answers, if that story was untrue, i would have written it to be a lot better. And thats not the only moment where trumps team highlighted daniels work in the adult Film Industry. Caitlin know, its certainly not. They repeatedly pointed to that and there was another moment where trumps attorney, Susan Nicholas daniels and choose questioning her, and nicholas asked her and im quoting trumps attorney no
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