Think theres a very interesting day fascinating. And i just want to thank well, the lawyers because theyve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. Pleased. Welcome to a special day. Mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. A trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. I mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. The amount of dollars Stormy Daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. On monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trumps bodyguard man by the name of Keith Schiller to try to talk to trump. Whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off Stormy Daniels now from tuesdays transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak with mr. Trump at that poin
situation room, stay with cnn are special live coverage of this truly historic criminal trial continues right now. on the lead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, donald trump s hush money trial is in its final phase as the prosecution is in the midst of giving its closing arguments, court will be back from break at any moment. the prosecution has been arguing that president trump, quote, quote, corrupted those around him, and he got them to lie and covered up unquote. trump picked michael cohen as his fixer. the prosecution says, quote, because he was willing to lie and cheat for donald trump this follows nearly three hours of closing arguments from trump s defense attorney todd blanche, who attacked michael cohen using trump like nicknames, calling him the gloat not the goat, the glutes. the greatest liar of all time. he also said that michael cohen is quote literally like an mvp of liars and added quote, i don t know how many leinz