Defense for donald trump and spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to. The details of her alleged trust with the former president of the United States. Now, the crescendo of this hourslong stint on the Witness Stand. All led up to this trumps attorney, susan necklace, heavy handedly, the asserting that the Adult Film Actress had made it all up necklace youve bragged about how good you are about writing porn movies and writing really good stories and writing really good dialogue, right daniels . Yes. Necklace. And now you have a story youve been telling about having sex with donald trump, right . Daniels. And if that story were untrue, i would have written it a lot better. There was laughter in the courtroom Daniels Hover of course, is not the only headline witness to take her turn under the oath. The jury also heard from Madeline Western Out thats a former for gatekeeper really to the president and the head of oval office operations. Shes out right outside the oval office when donald trump was president and she recounted how she functioned as this unofficial Delivery Service at time running these checks between trump tower and the white house . She also gave the jury a window into something that we havent heard up to this point, really the Trump Marriage and donald trump, as she described it, his sweet, sometimes doting relationship with his wife, the former first lady melania trump. The judge juan, were sean also taking off multiple reasons why the prosecution annoyed, even angered him with what they did the defense didnt object to ask for me. Daniels was on the testimony. It was on the Witness Stand. Judge merchan asieh, trump defense, why they didnt object to the mention of a condom, saying that he couldnt understand. Theyre asked for a mistrial with all that. They let go during the presentation of evidence. And tonight, also a challenge directly from Stormy Daniels and heals herself to the president of the United States. The adult film star, And A Key Witness For The Prosecution posting this On Aks Real Man responded testimony by being sworn in, taking the stand in court, await never mind. Here with me to break everything down that we learned today inside that courtroom. Lee zeldin joey jackson, anna navarro, and Brian Stelter so lets start with joey because joe, youve got the goods that give us a little bit of what happened in the courtroom. Well, what didnt happen in the courtroom, abby. All right. So lets start with the crossexamined patient. I want to talk about necklace Defense Council and Stormy Daniels. So lets get into it. Necklace Defense Attorney for trump. So just so i can be clear on what you were saying, youve acted and had sex in over 200 porn movies, right . Stormy daniels, honored 50 ish . Yes Defense Counsel necklace. And there are naked men and naked women having sex, including yourself in those movies, right daniels . Yes. Necklace Defense Attorney, and bought according to you, seeing a man sitting on a bed in a tshirt and boxer shorts was so upsetting that you got lightheaded blood left your hands and feet and you almost fainted, right daniels . Yes. When you were not expecting a man twice your age to be in their underwear . I have seen my husband naked, almost every day. If i came out of the bathroom and it was not my husband and it was mr. Trump on the bed. I would probably have the same reaction. Defense council and necklace and that made you feel like you were going to faint, Stormy Daniels . Absolutely. If i came out of the bathroom and i saw an older man and his underwear that i wasnt expecting seeing there. Yeah. So the question becomes, abby, why have this contentious crossexamination . My argument is, is that the crossexaminati on was not for the jury. It was to satisfied mr. Trump, the client, the fact is they got everything in through Stormy Daniels yesterday that you can argue to the jury. Its a bias witness. Shes hearing motivated he didnt buy that bias. You cant believe anything. She said. I think the play was for donald trump to say, i want you to humiliate her. Number one, i want you to reestablish my credibility. I want you to deny that a fair, totally unnecessary to go in on her like that. Who got the better of this exchange . Let the jury and let the 13th juror at home, you decide who got the Better Navarro i have to know that your response to that because obviously you know, what Stormy Daniels does for a living, doesnt translate to the fact that she should just be comfortable with seeing a half dressed man anywhere. She goes. Well, look, first of all, i would really like to nominate joey jackson for dramatic reading. I think serves at tony nomination. Im going to work on that but as to your question, caitlin look, i think the reason that she felt lightheaded, i think the reason she had that reaction first, lets remember that this is a a woman in her 20s. Yes, she does what she does. But when you see a man in his underwear you thought you were going there for dinner and all of a sudden hes sitting in a bandwidth in his underwear. Thats telling you what the expectation from him of what should come next. This obviously, sex. And so i think its a pretty big deal for her to process as as shes reacting to what shes saying to me. Its a very credible reaction, not just any Mass Spec Height of his celebrity or a lot of women whove dealt with sexual harassment, whove dealt with men doing power place on them. This may have resonated, it resonated with me. Yeah. I mean, you dont even need necessarily the spec during this being some kind of coercive dynamic, donald trump is an extremely famous, powerful man and that i think is the elephant in the room. Its almost like this exchange and so many of the exchanges with defense, you can really read them both ways. I mean, i think the defense could easily have listened to that exchange and been very happy with how Stormy Daniels explained herself in that there does seem like were seeing 2024 hours post mi to kind of a cultural awakening. All the progress this country and other countries have made in the last six, seven years collide up against decades old attitudes about men and women write it, remember this was in 2006, this was so early on before the me too movement. Here we have, as you said, a woman in her 20s, amanda is about 60 years old. And what does she say . She says, quote, my own insecurity is made me feel like i had to sleep with him, not pressure necessarily from from donald trump in a physical way. Nothing violent, just her own insecurities this was one of the most revealing moments i thought from Stormy Daniels today. How many cases like that, how many examples like that have we heard of women who had that kind of experience with Harvey Weinstein . Who had that kind of experience with charlie rose that they allege right where they go in supposedly for a meeting. Supposedly to meet somebody and end up seeing a guy in his bathroom . Yeah. But old guy the reason that team was so incensed about the day one of Stormy Daniels is testimony is kind of they didnt want that comparison because Stormy Daniels in her interview, in her testimony and in her interview with Anderson Cooper said, this wasnt that kind of moment. This was consensual sex. I wasnt forced into this. I wasnt coerced into this. Right. Its a congressman. I wonder what your reaction was as you were listening to how the crossexamination went today and the point the judge made at the end, which was why did you linger . On this part so much because youre only drilling it into the jurys ears as he phrased it, did you think that was a smart tactic its a Tactical Decision be made. I wasnt in the courtroom today and they would be the best ones to talk strategy on any day. Prosecution and defense i would say the each day that im watching, i was a prosecutor as well, never served on the defense. Sayyed in a case. Anything like this . Of course and what you see is a really difficult to prove charge. These are misdemeanors that carry a twoyear statute of limitation. The theory is is that in order to be able to charge it now, the District Attorney is going to have to demonstrate that this was done in pursuit of another crime. The District Attorney has not yet said what that other crime is. And you get to the heart of it. Were now three weeks into the trial, and i think the time has come. I would have argued that this is something that should have been cleared before the trial started. But the time has come for bragg. Braggs office to indicate to the Defense Counsel how it is that a misdemeanor that has a twoyear statute limitation, they expire many years ago, can get brought now now is the time if it hasnt come ready to indicate what is the underlying cross. So i can answer that question. First of all, that ship has sailed, its been litigated. The reality is, is we know towards covid and as a result, whats the underlying chronic . Let let me speak first and then ill address that. The first issue is with respect to the statute of limit stations, there was a tolling of the statute during covid for all cases, not just Donald Trumps cases. And as a result of that, its told. And so you can make the argument that its statute of limitations out. You lose because the reality is were here and we wouldnt be here. But for the statue of limitation to the issue with respect to the underlying crime, i think we all know the reality is is that all the evidence is going going to show the issue of the election of boosting the election prospects. The challenge these are talking points. What you said, most respectful leader has been rebuffed, reviewed. It was done what the crime its being charged, but the reality is is the crime being pride relate to the election thats not thats not a mystery, right . Reason to respect that says you im not the District Attorney say anything. Im here to analyze the case. I said nothing. What im doing is looking at the case lets look at the case because thats what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about the fact that theyre arguing that thats boosted election prospects. It boosted it as a result of an end around, right . And using this for Campaign Purposes to bury in high to story. And by the way you know, you could say what you want. But for person who didnt have sex with Stormy Daniels for a person who said this denied deny. You spent an awful lot of time trying to cover up something that never happened. In the event that occur. Let her tell her story and then you come out, you say nonsense as she kidding me instead, you hide it, you hush money, and then you use your personal Checking Account in order to make a payment for, you could speak about statute of limitation, you can speak about what crime i think the crime the prosecutor is demonstrating is pretty heavier to make the jump in, you have to prove a crime. And how do you prove a crime and how are you innocent until Proven Guilty . Any defendant who is in a court of law how do you go through the process of preparing for a trial where the District Attorney has to prove a crime and they wont even tell you what the crime is. Now understand youre saying what you think the theory is, the Department Of Justice investigated this, just didnt prosecutor. I just see the federal Elections Commission can i dont know. Second. I just wanted to settled this first settle this down for a second if they dont they dont have to say its this x, y, and z statute. They have to prove that a crime was committed. And one of the crimes could absolutely be that trump tried to use Michael Cohen to make a payment to hide the fact that that payment was made that would have otherwise needed to have been reported as a campaign contribution. But you dont have is that were all here guessing. You could say educated guess. You could say, this is where i think the District Attorney is going and understand that, and i respect that opinion that you have to come up with a theory. All im saying is i believe that the District Attorneys should be stating what is the underlying crime that allows you to bring 34 misdemeanors elevating them to a felony, to bring them. Now, all im saying is that were three weeks in the trial and i think the time has come. It should come are ready to make it clear what it is, because the prosecution is going to have to prove that there was a pursuit of a crime and the defense is going to have to put up a defense. So two things. The first thing is weve heard the argument repeatedly that it was passed on by the federal government. They couldve prosecuted this. Let me tell you. First of all, im a Defense Attorney, i believe in the presumption of innocence, mr. Trump is presumed innocent until Proven Guilty. I have tried cases. Right. And i had tried to case in the southern district. Right. Not so long ago, where right. The bronx da the Eastern District passed on the case. So the fact that somebody passed on a case means nothing. One last names, nothing. Thats the reality, number one and number two, the other reality is as it comes to proving nor stabbing what the underlying crime was, they said at the outset, this case is about a conspiracy and a coverup. And so what were they covering up and what were they conspiring to do . The case is not over and i think at the end of the de therell be more proof, submit it, and itll be up to the jury to make the determination. We have plenty of time for this robust debate. I would say that the das office just the to prosecute vance is office looked into this the manhattan District Attorneys office declined to prosecutors. Let me first of all, the case is not over yet. We still have more to come on that more to come on the show as well everyone stick around for us coming up next, well speak with a friend of Stormy Daniels who has come up in court twice this week now, well ask her about the grilling that her friend faced on the Witness Stand. 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