Storm with abby, phillip and bill so were only on cnn and the lead with jake tapper starts right now next up on the witness stand, the people plan to call Michael Dean Cohen. The lead starts right now Donald Trumps former lawyer, known as the fixer, The Next Star Witness in line, and the new york hush money cover up case. What is the impact of this trial on trump himself ill ask one of his attorneys from the 2021 impeachment, plus former Trump White House aide anthony scare, a mooc well be here for his perspective and old faithful is back in the news. Steve bannon, Aka Sloppy Steve for donald trump possibly one step closer to jail time hi, im Paul Manafort. Could be closer to working with his old boss. And one of the biggest competition shows in the world rocked by ugly protests, objecting to the mere participation of a contestant from israel. So what exactly is driving these moms prompting Security Concerns for the israeli contestant welcome to the lead on jake tapper, brace for impact. We now know when the star witness will take the stand in Donald TrumpsHush Money Criminal Trial prosecutors plan to call Michael Cohen on monday former trump attorney and fixer at the center of this alleged deal to keep Stormy Daniels quiet in the days before the 2016 election, his testimony is expected to last days and days and the crossexamination is expected to be aggressive, if not downright brutal. As trumps lawyers tried to prove it was actually cohen who made the Hush Money Deal without the knowledge or even permission of his former boss, donald j. Trump. Cohen has made his hatred for trump quite public in recent years, including by going live on tiktok just earlier this week and he happened to be wearing a shirt with an image and artistic rendering of trump behind bars. That of course, lead prosecutors to add, judge juan merchan to place cohen under a gag order this afternoon. Were sean requested that rejected that request, but he did tell prosecutors to themselves order cohen to stop talking about this case and donald trump. Lets get straight to cnns Kara Scannell outside the courthouse care. What can we expect when Michael Dean Cohen finally takes the stand on monday . Well jake we expect Michael Cohen and be under crossexamination and direct examination for several days, and thats because cohen is at the center of this. He is the person that facilitated this 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. He also according to prosecutors, hatched out the Reimbursement Deal with donald trump in the oval office in february of 2017. And during that is when prosecutors say that this fear see to falsify the records was agreed to well, here, Michael Cohen testify about the former president s role both the sine of pays Stormy Daniels money to keep her quiet about her alleged one night with donald trump from coming out before the 2016 election. We also expect to hear about how the access Hollywood Tape cause a flurry of activity within the campaign and helps speed along locking down this deal. And were also then expect to hear more about how they did decide in the oval office to repay Michael Cohen and how that moved from there, how he worked with Trump Organization officials to work through his repayment through this idea that he was going to say he had a Retainer Agreement and that is why he was repaid. He will be on direct examination by prosecutors for quite awhile. Remember how much weve seen in this case so far, weve seen bank records weve seen text messages. That is all the materials that he will be come the narrator for us, he explains to the jury how this happened, how this came about remember the dri is already heard from a lot of witnesses, a lot of them have already talked about Michael Cohen, sometimes not so flattering ways. And so this will all start to come together for the jury since Michael Cohen is the last substantive witness that prosecutors are expected to call, Jake Euro Gordon did early today, but not before prosecutors could introduce some evidence they feel is vital to the case. Tell us about that. Right so we had a number of witnesses on today and their custodial witnesses, they help get in some of these documents. And among that were the Phone Records of Michael Cohen showing that he had a number of phone calls with different people involved at different points of this alleged conspiracy with ami officials with the national enquirer, with Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer. Those all came in also, what came in were tweets by donald trump. One tweet came just a few days after the fbi raided Michael Cohens home office and hotel room, then Donald Trump Trump was saying that some people would think that you would flip, but he didnt think Michael Cohen, his lawyer, would then fastforward to just the day after Michael Cohen ended up pleading guilty to Campaign Finance charges in connection with this Hush Money Deal, the next day, donald trump tweeted then that if you want a good lawyer, dont look for Michael Cohen. So those are all elements that the prosecution has wanted to bring into this case to show to the jury some potential consciousness of guilt by the former president about why he didnt want Michael Cohen to flip. And then when he did, he was really unhappy about it. Jake. All right. Kara scannell. Thanks. Get some sleep this weekend. Its going to be a busy monday. Lets discuss with former federal prosecutor, gene rossi, as well as cnns Alayna Treene and katelyn polands. So g, lets start with the prosecutors sayyed on Michael Cohen has made it clear. He loads donald trump, he despises donald trump please. Respect for mr. Trump knows back nouns. So how did a prosecutors prove to the jury that this isnt just prevents hes not just making stuff up. Well, first, the prosecutors should breathe deeply and take a chill pill. If i were to prosecutor and i saw that photo of him with that tshirt i would go apoplectic. Yeah, i really would that that would start my cross. Im sure they told him before it goes in one ear and out the other and that is something that theyre going to focus on on cross. He does his own thing. He cant take direction, which is part of their defense so what is the prosecution have to do in the next few days monday, tuesday maybe into thursday, i tried to get the thursday. Would cohen on direct. What i would do is get records and have him describe phone calls text messages, documents, get him to just editorialized records because that will build up his credibility. And the other thing that prosecutors should do, theyre probably not listening to me. I would impeach Michael Cohen der my direct. I would bring out you went before a judge. You were under oath mr. Cohen, you lied why did you lie . Tell the jaw of course, theyre going to do that, dont you think . No, they didnt do it with Stormy Daniels. They should have impeached Stormy Daniels into direct. I did hundreds of witnesses that are five times worse than cohen and Stormy Daniels. Yeah. I on my direct as a prosecutor, i basically cross numb so that when cross did occur, it was nothing birth not news, right . Not new . Yeah. And the truth of the matter is that when you prosecute, for example, and im not comparing mr. Trump tower to this case, but this hypothetical, if youre prosecuting, lets say, a Gang Gun Rack all of the witnesses are going to be criminals, right . I mean, so you have to get them to acknowledge that kaitlan what about the defense . What exactly did they need to do to convince the jury when cohens on the stand or is it just kind of obvious . Well, theres a laundry list of things that they can do just to add it to genes 0. 1 thing, we know that exists in this case is Michael Cohen tape recordings, some of his conversations with trump. So well see what he has there, what goods are there, but when the defense gets to question him in the cross, which might not be for a couple of days. Right and might not be the very might very well, might not be monday later in the week, we could see them asking about his financial incentives, how much he was earning from coming out and now publicly having a podcast, becoming a figure that is antitrump, how much he hates trump. And once trump to go to jail, things that Michael Cohen has clearly done and said many times, in many ways, including on that recent tshirt, then they can highlight how untrustworthy of a character he has been in his past somebody who was found guilty of federal offenses, Campaign Finance, tax crimes, lying to congress on behalf of donald trump, but lying to congress in a situation where he was under oath and then also they can highlight how much of the goods does he really have on what donald trump was asking him to do versus what he thought he should be doing as somebody who was in the world of trump protecting him so theres a lot of different opportunities means they have, were going to see a lot of questioning from the ballina. How is the Trump Team Preparing for this testimony . So we actually had a preview of that. I think this week when we saw susan aggressively go after Stormy Daniels tried to paint her as someone who has an ax to grind, whos doing this for money, whos lying. They have a similar strategy with Michael Cohen, however, in my conversations with trumps team. One, they tell me that Michael Cohen is the witness that theyve prepared the most four and the one that theyre most worried about, obviously, given how much information Michael Cohen has about donald trump, how much he knows have remember, even though hes hated him for these past several years he was someone who probably knew trump better than even some of trumps own families. So thats at the forefront of their minds. Theyve also been going through Michael Cohens books, his podcast, his recent social media posts which have obviously been very aggressively antitrump, trying to use those to show that he has some he clearly has a bias against trump. He has his own motive and try to undermine his credibility gene trump came out of court today, ranting a bit. Lets play a little bit of that a very good mark Legal Expense down as a Legal Expense they didnt call It Construction Building something concrete or electrical cost. The gold very simply Legal Expense to lawyers a lawyer, not a fiction. There is a lawyer Legal Expense to a lawyer. They go that legally expense. They said it was martin currently, what else would you call it . This is what the case is a map that simple gene. Hes absolutely right that this is what the case is about. But im italian, i love food and i love souffles, even though its a french dish. But you gotta, you gotta explain and defense has a big hurdle. They have to explain to souffle hundred 30,000 went up to double that amount plus a bonus. How did you get the four 20 . Its hard to say that for 20 was all Legal Expenses because you souffle is really down to 130. So Michael Cohen, when he gets on a stand, if he gets it at point his explanation of that invoice and what his conversations were with weisselberg, whos a conspirator and that document has weisselberg signature that to me is the whole case because thats the foundation of the false invoices and the intent. And you connect it to keep any elections that event secret. Yeah, thats the whole case. Everyone stick around former Trump White HouseCommunications Director anthony scared mode. She is going to join us next. His take on Michael Cohen is expected testimony will ask him about the rule willing the could put steve bannon closer to serving time behind bars plus the shady money behind some of the most powerful parts of politics. Theres a lot of that these days. Im going to talk to the authors of a new tell all book about Shading Money next how wed really having with jesse you, martin. Sundays at night on cnn. 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