welcome to our breaking news coverage of the historic donald trump hush money, criminal trial. i will flutter in washington, anderson cooper is just outside the courthouse in new york for us today, a truly blockbuster witness, right at the heart of this case, stormy daniels has been testifying the adult film start has delivered a times very salacious testimony detailing her first meeting with trump back in 2006 and their ensuing sexual encounter which trump denies ten years later, daniels was paid to keep quiet about that alleged affair. and that s the payment that launched this case. anderson over to you? that s right it on its face that hush money deal was perfectly legal prosecutor said the crime was in the bookkeeping which allegedly involve falsifying records to conceal them. nature of the transaction. i m here with you and chief legal affairs correspondent paul arenas, unit chief domestic correspondent for mattingly. of course, the question is, did trump know about