Good morning. Its 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Testimony under way for day 12 of former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. The jury hearing from former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey Mcconney who played a role in reimbursing Michael Cohen for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels. Just before testimony resumed, the judge fined trump another 1,000 for violating the partial gag order imposed on him. Thats in addition to the 9,000 he was fined last week for previous violations. The judge also warned trump directly, future violations could see him sent to jail, saying, quote, it appears that 1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. With us now to talk more about this msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Michael zeldan, special counsel to robert mueller, hes a professor at American University and David Aaronberg state attorney for california. Yasmin, its been an intense day in the
Deeply involved in the scheme to pay off porn star stormy daniels, even after taking office. Cohens assertion that donald trump had advance knowledge of the Wikileaks Dump of hacked email from the dnc and an apology, an apology for lying to the congress in the past about the timing of the trump tower moscow negotiations. Cohen adding today that the president s personal lawyers knew exactly what cohen would say about the timing of trump tower negotiations back when he first testified before he said it. Cohen also implied that donald trump jr. May have kept his father in the loop on the trump tower meeting in manhattan with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. But most haunting for this president and for this white house has to be cohens testimony that hes in Constant Contact with the prosecutors working out of the Southern District of new york. So the committee understands youve been in contact with the Southern District of new york, is that true . I am in Constant Contact with t