John live look inside the New York State Supreme Court where former President Donald Trump just walked back into the courtroom. The prosecutions star witness former trump Attorney Michael Cohen set to resume testimony any second now. Along john roberts in washington, sandra, welcome back to the craziest week of court history. Sandra i was looking at that live shot and thinking bill hemmer hopefully made his way and there and got his seat. He will be joining us shortly as court is set to resume any moment now. Im sandra smith and this is america reports. You begin the test when he early this morning and said his duties at the Trump Organization included killing what he called negative stories. He detailed shutting down the Karen Mcdougal story alongside david packer. Prosecutors are tasked with making him a credible witness despite his past criminal charges and lying to congress. Spiel live an allstar team throughout us as Testimony Resumes. Sandra lets get the nate foy outside. Here we
Maccallum this is the story. Right now former President Donald Trump facetoface with his ex trace attorney in Court Michael cohen getting into specifics about conversations he said the former president had about a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. At the crux of the case is whether prosecutors prosecutors can prove trump intentionally falsified documentation of the payment. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress the former president saying again today he did nothing wrong. Watch. Im innocent. This is a political witchhunt. This trial is rigged. Its a disgrace to new york and its a disgrace to the country. I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse. All day long. Trace former federal prosecutor Andy Mccarthy study my butt first to nate foy live for us outside the courthouse and or manhattan. Good afternoon nate frontmack good afternoon trays. Michael cohen right now if you seconds ago starting to go over the actual wiring
Free you . What do you make of the fact that after attempting to at least verbally say he was going to compete to get you out of russia, donald trump then turns on you . That is tonights the reidout. Inside was jen psaki starts now. Today was day 12 of trumps criminal trial and it started with yet another hearing on his repeated and flagrant attempts and violations of his gag order, which was put in place because he cant seem to help himself from attacking the judge, the jury, or potential witnesses. Today, judge juan merchan ruled trump violated that order for the 10th time. This time for cummins he made during an interview late last month when he attacked the integrity of the jury that will determine his fate. The judge again found trump in Contempt Of Court and he find the express and 1000. 00, bringing the total up to 10 grand. Judge juan merchan said he was prepared to go further. You want if donald trump does not stop violating his order, he will be left with no choice but to con
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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