Its not a lock, i know a lock. So how can we undo the damage . We could all unsubscribe and switch to xfinity. Their connection is unreal. And we could all unexperience this whole session. Okay, thats uncalled for. Started today, accustoming. Com. Ive had to go montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn cnn Breaking News welcome to cnns breaking News Coverage of the historic donald trump Hush Money Trial. Im wolf blitzer in washington and Boris Sanchez is outside the courthouse in manhattan im this de of the trial, the first witness his nearing the end of his testimony, David Pecker Is Facing Redirect by the prosecution after several hours of cross by trumps Defense Attorney. Much of that cross detailed the former Tabloid Executives history of Purchasing Stories so that he could bury them boris and right now, wolff, the court is taking a break for lunch. The judge instructing the jury, as he always does, to not discuss the case outside of the courtroom de as the first witness testimony, as you said, well, if nearing the end, the defense trying to highlight a discrepancies and david peckers testimony, they included what was said during a 2017 white house meeting between donald trump and the former publisher of the National Enquirer. You saw that image there of pecker at the white house. We have seen in chief Legal Affairs correspondent paul read with us paulas so far, the center of peckers testimony has been his personal relationship with donald trump. Yeah. The question of whether he used that personal relationship to suppress stories to help check get elected. The reason prosecutors chose david pecker as the first witness doesnt really speak to the accusations at the heart of the criminal charges here, but it sets the stage for the idea that there was a concern sorted effort that Michael Cohen and then candidate trump were involved in. Do you suppress negative stories . Is david pecker Works Question about that by prosecutors, then Trump Lawyers got got to crack at him a little bit yesterday, and then mostly today and they had a few goals. What are the primary one though, was to establish that this wasnt Something Special that they did just to help trump get the white house in 20 16, that this was business as usual, that they suppress stories for Arnold Schwarzenegger and more walbergs. That was a big focus of their, of their crossexamination. The prosecutor is europe now, theyre trying to do a look little bit of repair. Theyre pointing out that. Okay. You did this for other people, but did you pay 150,000 for an Arnold Schwarzenegger story the same way you paid Karen Mcdougal to suppress her story about an alleged affair, well, no, we didnt so theyre trying to repair some with the damage to the case that may or may not have been done when the defense was asking david pecker questions, lets walk through some of those inconsistencies that we mentioned a moment ago. Theres a moment where they basically asked david pecker if his memory was okay, right . Yeah. Because there has been details here and there that he has not gotten exactly right. But were also talking about meetings, things that happened over a decade ago so that that is certainly something that you want to do with the defense to plant the seeds of maybe doubt about some of the things that he said. But then there were more significant issues that they had to resolve in terms of things that he said during an fbi interview and how that was different than what he said on the stand and explaining that out lets talk about the Defense Teams questioning of pecker regarding his agreement with the fec because we got really into the weeds of you. Were watching earlier you saw we get really into the weeds about the details of disagreement. What was the defense trying to do . Do their by bringing that up. So this has come up a few times that ami, the company that owned the National Enquirer and david pecker had what is called a nonProsecution Agreement with the justice department, where they effectively admitted that they they committed Campaign Finance violations by paying, for example, Karen Mcdougal, 150,000 to suppress her story. And theres a little bit of a semantic game. Well you werent exactly charged, but you did admitted. So the district attorney, assuming the Defense Attorneys, were trying to establish that pecker was doing this only because they argue that he was under business pressure. There were Business Transactions that had to go through and that he had to get the fbi investigation out of the way before he could do that they were trying to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of the jurors about why ami and david pecker would have said something was a Campaign Finance violations but when they had a chance to go back and im prosecutor theres revisited that and had him confirm that. Yes. You did admit that this was a Campaign Finance violations and oh, by the way, you even consulted lawyers who you didnt give the full story too. About whether this was a Campaign Finance violations because you knew something may not be in the up and up. They asked him even if at one point he fronted 150,000 for Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to compare that seen a celebrity where do you trying to catch and kill the story through the National Enquirer to former President Donald Trump and the heat of the 2016 campaign. Zooming out paula. The next witness will be okay. So this is a Big Reporting Project because right now, we dont know and that drives us crazy as reporters, this courthouse is crawling with the reporters and cameras. And so far we havent we havent seen a glimpse of anyone. We dont know. Theyre not sharing who the next witnesses. But if youre looking at the timeline and the way the prosecutors are presenting their case. There are some possibilities. One, you could call Karen Mcdougal if you wanted to it seems unlikely for a lot of reasons that they will even need to do that. Shes doesnt really shes not relevant to the heart of the charges which are about money paid to Stormy Daniels. You could also call kellyanne conway. She was of course, ahead of the Trump Campaign at that time and the reason Hur Testimony would be significant is to talk about the access Hollywood Tape when it came out very close to the election, the impact it had on the campaign, the pressure they were under a particularly when it came to stories about trumps sex life. The incentive to me let me suppress those. That would be relevant to setting up the Stormy Daniels payments. So shes a possible witness. They could call next whole picks, also a possibility, again, intimately involved with the case campaign and involved in conversations with Michael Cohen and david pecker about these Hush Money Payments. So we havent gotten to the real heart of the case yet, but as they walk through and set it up these are two possibilities. They could also call someone that none of us have ever heard of to talk about paperwork because at the end of the day, weve got sex, so weve got politics, but really boris, this is paperwork case notable that the prosecution hasnt shared their plans for witnesses with the defense, in part because theyre afraid that the former president is going to start posting on social media about them. Were still waiting for a decision on it. The gag order is still a lot more to discuss. Paula. Thanks for bringing that down for us. Well send it back to morris. Were going to have a busy afternoon. Theres no doubt about that. At the same time, some brand new cnn polling and its showing us how americans view the ongoing Hush Money Trial and various other legal cases involving the former President Donald Trump so you now have political director David Chaldean is joining us right now. Hes over at the magic wall. David, what voters think of the treatment of trump in his Hush Money Trial, and how do they see his behavior . Yeah well, if we are getting a little insight into how americans are perceiving whats going on in manhattan. First of all, take a look at this. We asked voters in our brand new poll by ssrs, how does trump being treated in the new york Hush Money Trial . About a third, 34 say hes be more leniently than others would be about rafah play the same here, 34 say hes being treated more harshly than others. It doesnt that in american politics right now. This is interesting, only 13 say that he is being treated like any other criminal defendant not Many Americans believe he is being treated that way. You asked about his behavior you know, this is the subject of the whole issue of the gag order and whether or not Donald Trumps have been violating it. And obviously, judge merchan is yet to rule on that. 42 of americans and our poll will say Donald Trumps behavior during this Hush Money Trial thus far as inappropriate. Thats the plurality. 25 say appropriate, 32 , no opinion on that. Wolff very interesting numbers indeed are david standby. Well get back to you, but let me ask you one quick question before i let you go. How confident are voters that trump will receive a fair trial . Yeah so we did ask, are you confident that hell receive a fair verdict . Can he get a fair verdict in this 7 very confident, 36 , somewhat competent, but clearly you see that the majority, 33 , not too confident, 23 not confident at all 56 , if you fed that up, the majority do not have confidence in whether or not he will get a fair trial. And by the way, this hushmoney trial, 28 of americans say, if indeed these charges are true, its disqualify them from the presidency. 28 say cast doubts, but not disqualifying, but 45 wolf. And this is now something weve seen on the rise, say, even if these charges are true, its not relevant to his fitness for office very interesting numbers indeed. What else jumps out to you from these new poll numbers that were getting well, i would just say, here, we ask if indeed trump is convicted of a crime of any crime, not just in this hushmoney trial would you still support him . So we ask this of Trump Supporters, 76 , three quarters of Trump Supporters in this poll, there sticking with them, even if hes a convicted criminal 2010 of trumps supporters in this poll, say, if hes convicted, both, they might reconsider, but i want to show you the difference. In these Trump Supporters, those that might reconsider versus those that are with them no matter what, those that are with them, no matter what thats the trump base as you know, it to be those that might reconsider that 24 . Theyre younger. Half of them are people of color two thirds of them say joe biden legitimately won the 2020 election. Theyre moderates their independence. These are the softer trumps supporters. These are exactly kinds of voters joe bidens looking to strengthen his support with as part of his coalition. And theyre the ones that say if he convicted, they might reconsider their support very interesting number of significant numbers, indeed, David Xiaolei, thank you very, very much. Just ahead will have much more of our Show Coverage of the historic Hush Money Trial of donald trump. Thats coming up. Stay with us the sinking of the titanic, how would really happen, especially to our premier sunday at nine on cnn, somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right past. He didnt know they were talking to her. 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Qarrah, take us through what you saw so trumps attorneys started their recross or their crossexamination today, continuing the theme that they had yesterday, trying to say that a lot of what david pecker and the National Enquirer was doing think was the seat put at Standard Operating Procedure . We went through a number of the News Articles that the enquirer had published of trumps political opponents, ben carson, marco rubio pecker agreed that they would have run these stories, even if he didnt have that deal with the former president that was struck in august 2015 at trump tower to kachin hill. Any negative stories, as well as to publish negative stories about his political opponents. He also tried to catch david pecker in some inconsistencies in here his testimony, david pecker has been cooperating with prosecutors, the federal prosecutors and t