Anderson cooper, 360 weeknight today may 10, right now on cnn this morning, Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial and then its motion for a mistrial. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing israel will stand alone if President Biden decides to halt Weapons Shipments. And robert f. Kennedy jr. Shocking his own running mate with his comments on Abortion Rights all right. 6 00 a. M. Here in washington live. Look at the white house on this friday morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. We made it im casey has this wonderful to have you with us. Donald trumps criminal Hush Money Trial on track to resume in just a few hours. Back on the stand this morning. Former Trump White House assistant madeleine westerhout. Shes testifying about how checks for Michael Cohen were sent to the white house for trump to sign on thursday. Judge merchan rejected a request by trump to have his gag order amended. He also denied a motion for a mistrial. The former president s lawyers one of the case to be tossed, claiming Stormy Daniels keeps changing her story while The Adult Film Star was on the stand, trumps lawyers went on the attack against her quote, you have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear real, write the attorneys asked daniels replied, wow, thats not how i would put it. The sex in the films. Its very much real, just like what happened to me in that room the defense determined to undermine daniels credibility and this exchange quote, you have acted and had sex in over 200 porn movies right . There are naked men and naked women having sex, including yourself in those movies, right . But according to use seeing a man sitting on a bad and a tshirt and boxer shorts was so upsetting you got lightheaded daniels replied, yes. When you are not expecting a man twice your age to be in their underwear, it is a moment that daniels described in greater detail in a 2018 interview with cbs i excused myself and i went to the restroom i was in there for a little bit and came out and he was sitting on the edge of the bad when i walked out perched and when you saw that, what went through your mind i realized exactly what id gotten myself into. I was like here we go here we go. Lets bring in skin his senior political analyst, mark preston, cnn legal analyst Elliot Williams, meghan hayes, former special assistant to President Biden and mike deb, key, former White House Communications director under president trump. Mike, you are already sighing it is quite raid awake get to the more than we are mornings coffee when you got stormy, daniels on the stand what do you think the attorneys for trump accomplished yesterday and what they did with Stormy Daniels well, look, i again, i think there are really two juries that the Trump Defense team and the Trump Campaign are concerned about yesterday was all about the Campaign Team i think the defense was listening to their client probably tuesday night was not happy with the way the testimony went, even though most legal analysts that i heard said they did a very good job with that testimony and yesterday was about discrediting her credibility and for the president to use that and rallies and other communication said he does outside the courtroom. Yeah so Stormy Daniels and im gonna im gonna give this to the side of the table of market and qaly, it can pick y, which one of you would like to respond to this. But Stormy Daniels a couple of things here. So the New York Times noted i was fascinated to read this, this morning that when she was in court on tuesday, she wore what seemed to be a very subdued dressed. Right. So they write quote with her messy hair and subdued lack of calculation. However, the jumpsuit she was wearing on day one was the same jumpsuit she wore in her cameo in a 2021 film, bad president. A satire in which Donald Trumps sells his soul to the devil to win the 2016 election given that the actual mr. Trump was sitting across the courtroom from her . That is quite a subtext. Okay. So thats tuesday, follow up last night, she writes on twitter, quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court oh, wait never mind. Of course suggesting, you know, trump doesnt seem to want to say that he wont testify even though clearly it would be a bad plan from a legal perspective, according to most of our legal experts, right . Bad plan. It was bad. I dont like stuff like that. Act on im sorry. I know. This isnt a question down. Youre welcome, but no no matter what you think of donald trump as a former president , as a defendant. And, you know, whether his behavior was a moral objectionable. You didnt vote for him, whatever else he is a defendant in the criminal system in the United States, he has a right not to testify, and this whole game of y is any testifying he should stand up and testify even from another witness. Theres just no place for that now, we can talk okay. All de about the alleged conduct. And frankly, all kinds of other conduct. Hes allegedly engaged in outside of this. But i thats just me, sorry, to be the lawyer with the garden. Thats why youre here ive never liked your lovely party never liked it when often juries when after you argue they will raise, widen the defendant testify. If if my life were on the line, i would have testified do and thats a very human impulse from people to think that you want to defend yourself. But theres just no place for it and it muddies what our criminal Justice System is all about. Yeah. I mean, mark, it does seem as though president trump, the candidate for president was as micro sang on display here, pushing his team to do this again, Stormy Daniels, and thats the same thing that would be driving. Its driving how hes talking about the testimony. Right. How it plays politically. Yeah. I think mikes absolutely right. I mean, were seeing whats happening in the court room right now and were paying a lot attention to these sort of details. In the court of law. I dont think the details are going to matter and perhaps could backfire. What have you court of Public Opinion though. I mean, were talking about trying to i assume now that there are women in these five or six days that were looking at now, whether its wisconsin or michigan or pennsylvania or nevada, arizona one, georgia who perhaps would have thought about voting for president trump, but then they, see this and not to be very sorted. But this is pretty sorted. Its all very sorted. I would assume if i cheated on my wife, that would be wyoming. Shed kill me, but that would be one would hope south probably kill me twice heres, another thing though to i believe to cheat on your wife and then have it publicly come out that you didnt use protection. And i think that that is not im telling you though that is something that i think well call it home youre laughing, meghan, but its true. I think that that is something that theres a trust level, theres the moralistic level. Issue, that people wrestle with as im wrestling league that right now and tv i am to the record. To your point about these five or six states that theyre trying to play. Two, those are the nikki haley voters that are these moderate women, suburban cities that are going to vote, who are they going to vote for their, the undecided. And these are the things that are going to come up. And these are the ads that the super packs and other people people are gonna put forward comes september and october to continue to remind these women of these details and also on this tweet that she put out, i think shes trying to bait trump to respond to get more of reaction, to continue to fuel the fire of his gag order, et cetera. She was very pulled together on the stand yesterday. She held her own. Youre probably right about at her tweet. The other point though, i would make is a lot of this information about the president or the way americans feel about the president is already baked in. So im not sure that yesterday really did any extensive damage for him beyond with those suburban voters. 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Meetings they billion with a b. Weve got this. Honor. You got this every weekday morning, cnn five things has what you need to get going with your day. Its the five Essential Stories of the morning in five minutes or less cnns five things with kate bolduan Streaming Weekdays exclusively on macs donald trump criticizing President Biden for his decision to pause shipments of some us weapons to israel, while also attacking jewish democrats who support biden well, i wouldnt do what biden did. He just abandoned israel. Ive never seen anything like if people cant believe it and why jewish people vote for democrats is beyond me. I think maybe theyll change their mind, but theyve been wedded to democrats four for 50 years. If youre jewish and you vote for him, i say shame on you were at our panel. Is back at mark preston. Obviously this is something we actually have heard from trump before in talking about jewish democrats i do think its worth noting that dumb trump said there were good people on both fine people on both sides in charlottesville when you had neonazis marching resulted in a death of a woman. But that said, we have seen very ugly antisemitism raise a ted in the context of protests on campuses that are coming from the left. And that is something that we are now grappling with as a country. Yeah in it happened so quickly, write these protests popped up and then all of a sudden coming in right behind her, perhaps even fuel and good, quite frankly was this inked antisemitic . Wave that were seeing go across the country. But i also think that what were seeing in israel, right now in the United States and with everything else, it seems like in this country is that we are so divided like democrats right now are divided on this issue angrily Republicans By Enlarge for together on this issue. But theyre not necessarily in power so that they dont have to necessarily take the hits for whats going on with our foreign policy. But i do think that its something that if we dont stop it right now, if we allow it to fester, this is going to cause a deeper problem down the road so the Biden Campaign responded this way. They said quote like a cuckoo clock of hate, he is popping up every month with the same patronizing antisemitic stick and reminding Jewish Voters that he has no respect for us. Meghan yeah, i mean, its clear that hes just trying to divide divide more people, and create more chaos. And this is what gets people talking right . So now were covering thats more talking about it, which also does fuels more people to continue all of their different hate out there. And its just, its really unfortunate. Its not going to solve the problem. This is a issue in a war thats been going on for long for many, many years. So its like why why do we think that he is going to solve this problem . Its just crazy. Well, and Elliot Williams trump is also has tried to use whats going on College Campuses to give himself a pass on what happened in charlottesville. Watch what trump said recently charlottesville is like a peanut compared to the riots and antiisrael protests that are happening all over our country, right now. Its a disaster. Theres never been a time like it in the United States of america and its crooked fault. He doesnt have a clue. He doesnt know where he is. He doesnt know hes alive. So charlottesville is like a peanut compared to the riots. He says, again, lets just underscore it. Neonazis marching its just hard to know where, where hes going with this. It was interesting that the statement that wed shown a moment before, use the word patronising because its sort of almost treating Jewish Voters like a ponds of sorts and trained Jewish Voters as a Monolithic Block and so on. So there was just a lot of patronising tone there and i think its generally not in anyones interest to say the word charlottesville without saying the word and White Supremacists are and hatred and so on and so whatever hes doing there and whos hearing it and intrigued by this sort of beyond me. Well, i from using charlottesville, i have no its a grabbag of grievances. It seems sometimes to win the president s speaking, i would not have brought Up Charlottesville on the other hand what were seeing on campuses across the country, what ive really been paying attention to is when theyve been making these arrest, how many of the protesters are students and how many of the protesters are professional protesters who have infiltrated these campuses. So there is Something Else going on here thats beyond just a uprising of concerned 20 he one 22yearolds or 18yearolds. And so theres something to be said about that on the on the outreach to Jewish Voters that has been a bot of voters that has moved, that has voted for the democrats for decades now, there is a division here visavis israel. And i think its our politics for the president to reach out to those individuals. I dont i dont find a patronising i find it if identified