Hi, everyone, welcome to monday. The people of the great state of Nuclear Reactor versus donald j. Trump is entering a new chapter. The prosecution rested and team trump has started its defense. On the stand right now, attorney Robert Costello who according to Michael Cohen formed a back channel to donald trump himself in the year 2018. Thats when Michael Cohen was the target of a federal Criminal Investigation. Costello claiming that Michael Cohen told him trump did not know about the Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels. Cohen has testified on direct that he was still in protect trump mode at the time. That he didnt tell costello. The prosecution rested its case, though, just in the last hour after methodically brick by brick restating the elements of their criminal case against the expresident. They sought to clean up some of the damage done by Trump Defense attorney todd blanche with an assist from their star witness, trumps exattorney, Michael Cohen. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger br
People taking in the actual facts and discussing it as a country and we will see what the jury decides. Keep it locked right here on msnbc. Tonight on all in the thing that was effective was the repetition over and over and over that Michael Cohen is a liar. Michael cohen back on the stand and under fire. Once he connected up to the text, i thought we are in for something here. It casts doubt on the veracity of a ton of his testimony. The expresident s former fixer runs into trouble under cross as the latest round of republican sycophants swooping. There are things that we can say that President Trump is unjustly not allowed to say. Tonight how the courtroom became a campaign stop. Why are we here is a good question to ask. Is trumps entourage skips the line while members of the public wait out in the cold. Ive been here more than nine hours. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am Alisa Menendez in for chris hayes. Day 18 of Donald Trumps criminal trial in manha
It is good to see you, my friend. It has been a while, alex. This is the courtroom roundtable tonight. Everyone joining me of course was at the courthouse and it will basically be the gabfest we would have hanging around in the hallways. Can i just say, we didnt talk about this on our show, but trump ordered 14 pizzas for lunch. How many pizzas did you have . Zero. I did not know where the pizza was. You know, he is not the best at sharing, i guess. I mean, who even likes a Chicken Ranch pizza . That was one of the orders. I am excited to see your courtroom gabfest. Have a good show. Michael cohen was on the Witness Stand for 4 1 2 hours today. He was as steady and calm and as unfailingly polite as he has been throughout his testimony, to virtually everyones surprise. The politeness seems genuine. He says yes sir and his answers to Donald Trumps lawyers Cross Examination questions. There was even a moment where the politeness went both ways between Donald Trumps lead criminal Defense L
Would go c. Taylor swift over an nfl game, but maybe its just me. All right. Thanks to our panel. Thanks. All of you for joining us. Have a wonderful weekend. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now. Breaking overnight windows blown out of downtown highrise traffic lights, loved dabbling, and hundreds of thousands of people in the dark, a deadly Storm Lashing partner some texas and louisiana bringing Hurricane Force winds and torrential rain. So chaos on capitol hill after dark, unbridled lugs, slinging insults confusion. Some of the biggest names of congress, right, in the medulla and cnn is on the ground in ukraine seeing firsthand the citys russia is now now pushing into our team, forced to take cover when russian drones fly overhead, im kate baldwin was sarah sayyed nar and john berman. This is Cnn News Central breaking overnight, at least four people have been killed up for storms, hammer texas and louisiana. The threat not over yet, more than 14 Million People are still
Is more like it the same goes for my foot work. Why one handsfree with wide fits, get your sleep dry wipe fit sketcher, slip a game of risk that prosecution may have just lost. Good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight, the Trump Defense strategy was obvious from the job. It was to paint Michael Cohen as a line liar obsessed with revenge but what was an open question as crossexamination started was whether he had the strategy would actually work. Of course, we wont know until the jury actually renders its verdict. But if anything made israel, the governments case against donald trump, it might be what happened today. Todd blanche, the lead lawyer for the former president , is on the attack. He asserting that a phone call that cohen claimed was about the Stormy Daniels payment hey, man wasnt made to trump at all, but rather to Keith Schiller, whose trumps bodyguard. And it was about Something Else entirely. Now, cohen has claimed that the call drove directly the heart of the cas