Questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight, the Trump Hush Money Trial. Im abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes. That is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today Michael Cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecutions case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. If you remember from trumps periphery to trumps, go refer to trumps. Do everything fixer. And that included the alleged Hush Money Deal designed to silence Stormy Daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. Well, mr. Trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measure
Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on Fredricka Whitfield are we begin this hour with College Campuses . On edge bracing for propalestinian protests. As many schools across the country hold Commencement Ceremonies this weekend. A demonstration already causing a disruption im sure Nothing University of michigan protesters interrupted a Graduation Ceremony at the school of music, theater and dance last night. Meantime, the university of Southern California announced it is holding a small family graduate celebration, one week after canceling the main Graduation Ceremony over safety concerns protests that engulfed schools for weeks have resulted in the arrests of more than 2,100 people on about 40 separate campuses in 20 five states. Cnns whitney wild is at the University Of Michigan on that campus, and whitney, weve already seen a disruption at a ceremony there last night. What but are the expectations there today well, its interesting. Frederica, the graduation here
Evolution. There are funding on this is not really keeping pace. Nick watt cnn los angeles abeer to tune in to an all new episode of the cnn original series, how it really happened anthrax, terror by mail. Thats tomorrow night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern right here on cnn welcome back to cnn this morning. It is 7 00 a. M. Eastern time here in our atlanta studios. And it is Kentucky Derby day we were talking about our horses are picked so i know you like a long shot. I do. Im gonna i always hope for the underdog. So grandma, the first and most second, i would pay well, ill go with west saratoga. What saratoga is going to be my horse. I spoke with the trainer. Oh, i spoke with the trainer. Hes going to be on first of all, coming out guy is a hobby or yeah, i just about the horse. Well, you are reading the names i liked resilience because good day. Yeah, im going forever young. So japanese horse, theyd never won the derby. Its got to happen at some point. So maybe maybe this is the year or its
Then i think youve hello again and welcome. Its time to today were asking with. Campus protests. Getting more violent our College President s, right or wrong to call on the cops. Then judging the judge will discuss, have donald trump should get jail time if he keeps violating his gag order and telling too much the story of a rising star and possible trump running mate. And a dog named cricket. The panel is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and lets talk about it up first, the universitys strike back after weeks of protests, College Administrators decided enough is enough. Calling in police to clear out a propalestinian demonstrators. Just as republican lawmakers doubled down, making the protests and even bigger issue at ucla, police in Riot Gear Firing Flashbangs and Rubber Bullets at columbia nypd officers storming buildings occupied by demonstrator they got at the university of Wisconsin Police Wrestling Protesters to the ground across the us more than 2000 people arrested on
Sides. Frankly, painting him as someone who had some time times in her words, go rogue, but also casting doubt on the Defense Theory that cohen paid off Stormy Daniels on his own initiative in general, the picture she painted was a handson donald trump deeply involved in the details of his business and his campaign, motivated largely by political considerations. And that he was fully aware of what the payment to Stormy Daniels had ball what him in 2016, weve just gotten the full Trial Transcript from today, including the context of hope hicks is final answer to the Prosecution Question about what then President Trump said in 2018 when news of the Daniels Payout finally broke and im quoting now from that transcript he wanted to know how it was playing and just my thoughts and impinge opinion about this story versus having the story a different kind of story before the campaign, had michael not made that payment joining us once again tonight, new york defense attorney arthur aidala, cnns