Support more victories for veterans go to dab. Org im Elizabeth Wagmeister in los angeles. In this is cnn its monday, may 13, right now on cnn this morning in just a few hours, the man who wants describe it itself as trumps thug, expected to take the stand ahead, how Michael Cohen could make or break the former president s hush money case. A shakeup but the highest levels of russias military. Vladimir putin choosing a civilian as whos new Defense Minister and both republicans and democrats in congress pushing back on cousin biden for threatening to withhold some Weapons Shipments to israel all right, by the young here in washington, live, look at capitol hill on this Monday Morning. Good morning, everyone. Happy a wonderful mother theres day weekend and kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us in just a few hours. The star witness in Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial will take the stand. Former Trump Attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. You may recall, cohen once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. Now prosecutors are hoping his testimony will close the circle for the jury by directly connecting trump to 130,000 Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels how trump reimbursed cohen for that payment at the heart of the trial, joining me now, the hill reporter, juliet manchester, julia. Good morning to you, mr. Being here, are the day weve all been waiting for in this trial here with Michael Cohen lets kind of walk through. I mean, he is a central figure in this case. He was a central figure in the trump orbit and he really has been all over the place in terms of how hes talked about trump, how hes told the truth or not. What do you expect today . And what is the prosecution need to do out of the gate here to try to shore up his credibility. Yeah. Well, at that point about him being all over the place being a big supporter of donald trump than flipping on donald trump and going back and forth this general notion of Michael CohenBeing Untrustworthy is something thats going to make it easy for the defense really to pounce on and to show the jury that this is not a reliable, credible oh, person for the prosecution to be using as a witness. So essentially, what the prosecution needs to do is paint Michael Cohen as someone who is credible, who is telling the truth when it comes to this Hush Money Payment, who is not necessarily out for himself, but pointing out exactly what he says happened during this payment that allegedly took place in the runup to the election so here was Michael Cohen talking on thursday about testifying, and again, he was admonished on fridays but day after this came out, the judge basically told the prosecution, hey make Michael Cohen stop talking here. Its causing some problems, but heres, heres what he had to say before that happened. Kinda looking forward to it because again cant be finished with something unless you started. Right . Its kinda like an entrepreneurial mindset. You can be in, in, unless you willing to get in it. And so there we go. Sooner or this thing starts the sooner this thing finishes. And that way i can at this too shall pass this too shall pass. Yeah yeah. Sort of interesting acknowledgment there actually, that actually this has been a significant theres a lot of pressure on them absolutely. Absolutely. I think its ironic that the judge is telling Michael Cohen to stop publicly talking about the case when he said the same thing, two former President Trump. And i think just goes to show you how much, i guess weakness there could be and the Prosecution CallingMichael Cohen, how much there is for them at stake. You know, its interesting talking to legal, it also political experts, they will point out that out of all of trumps legal cases, this is the weakest one and a lot of it has to do with Michael Cohen. Yeah. And this picture thats on the screen here too. I mean, this is one of the reasons why he was told to stop talking. I mean, its obviously hes not speaking about it, but it seems to show a figure of donald trump handcuffed right behind bars. This was something that he wore in one of his recent tiktok videos. Julia, you talked to political sources here in washington all the time to um, would you describe as sort of the State Of Play in terms of how republicans especially are looking at whats been on folding in this trial and how they feel it will or wont impact whether its their own elections or the president ial election. Look, republicans 0. 2, number one, the fact that polls show that most motors are not necessarily paying attention to this the same way. Those of us in washington are most voters go to the polls are going to be thinking about the economy want to meet crime abortion, Healthcare Situation at the southern border of those Kitchen Table issues. But at the same time, this is still something that is very front and center for the Trump Campaign and still a top story in the United States. So for voters, voters going forward, i think republicans are obviously looking, looking at the outer come up this, whether he is convicted or not. But once again, pointing to the fact that most legal experts say this is the weakest case and the only case thats guaranteed to finish before the november for election. Well, and trump, of course, was back out on the Campaign Trail this weekend is the first time wed seen him in a a little stretch of time considering were less than six months out from the november election, and he was focused on talking about the case. Heres what he had to say about the de watch it out by radical democrats, District Attorney you know is fat often corrupt guy and then we have a highly conflicted judge. Hes corrupted highly conflicted. So conflicted this never been a judge this work inflicted. Was trumping wild would new jersey for those of us who grew up along the east coast that are familiar with the jersey shore. So right. Look, hes attacking, theyre the only people hes allowed how to attack, right . Hes not allowed to attack the witnesses, et cetera. Its kind of trumps ml, but i also think it underscores how you know, focus he is right now on this as opposed to campaigning. Well, its interesting because like i said, how republicans say, or this trial hello, is in the top priority for voters. Well, i think republicans are also trying to tell that to former President Trump that when he goes to campaign, he cant only focus on throwing rocks id meet to his base by talking about this trial, he needs to talk about the economy et cetera. And he has a little bit even outside of the courthouse, but instead, its grabbing headline to a voters are going to see when they hear trump on the Campaign Trail, is this Julia Manchester for us, kick himself this morning. Thank you. Change your shade. It all right. Coming up next here. A lot of putins latest move in the war with ukraine, putting a civilian in charge of Russias Armed forces plus Donald Trumps big teams. Could doug burgum being his running mate, and a pilot with a big problem, the wheels would not go down. Well show you what happened next he was trumps former lawyer and fixer. Now, Michael Cohen is expected to testify against his old boss, will be here. Any new bombshells from this . 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And this cnn welcome back, Vladimir Putin has tapped a civilian as russias new minister of defense, more than two years into the countrys fullscale war on ukraine putins choice is the former head of russias ministry of Economic Development measure just a few wouldnt him up fully boy today on the battlefield, those who are more open for innovations, more open towards a quick implementation of the innovations win that is why its natural that on the current stage, the president has taken a decision for a civilian to be in charge of the Ministry Of Defense i turned me now is cnns max foster max. Good morning. Always wonderful to have you. So whats the backstory here and why is this a big deal . Well, acie pc is just won an election is theres a tradition that the whole cabinet would resign after that, and then they get reassigned. Given their positions back and then weve had this really highprofile role change. So were trying to read into what we can about putins future strategy. But hes putting in economist in. There. Which does suggest that bedding in almost into this process of conflict, which probably make clear theres a chief of the Defence Staff whos the opera top soldier if you like, in the russian military, reports directly to pluton already. So hes across the operational sayyed, the Defense Minister you could probably argue is more of an administrative role. And if were going into a long period of war in russia than perhaps in economist is best placed to map that out and make best use of the money so max what is your sense of what happens to the outgoing Defense Chief here . And to your other point, i mean, is this just indicative of them like having to settle into pay for something that is going to be a major line item for them into the future. I think so. Shoigu is getting into a security role. So hes going into the office part of the administration. If you like. So he hasnt been cast out in any way. This is a this is a shift but it will be interesting to see how this economists changes the battle plans in ukraine because inevitably youll be in charge of the money and the military will have to deal with that. I think currently, if you look at Defense Spending in russia, its comparable to what it was during the cold war so its high and theyve got to find a way of dealing with it. And theyve got to look into the long term to find out how best to handle that at the moment, theyre spending a huge amount of money on the battlefield because theyre making gains and they want to make those gains before those american weapons arrived, right . What thats what i was going to ask you to maxmin as youve spoken with european officials and i know last week we were here talking about what putin and xi, were both doing on The World Stage obviously, theyre the money finally got out the door here in the from congress to try and help ukraine on the front lines. Is that being felt yet . And what is the kind of overall atmosphere in terms of thinking about this right now . What all we can go, obviously, decide to give me Us Operational details. But when you look at whats happening on the front lines, russia is making gains, so isnt working yet it does take a long time for a lot of this a to get over there, of course, as a complicated process where its got into the country, then its got to get to the front lines, but they may have received some stuff already, hasnt made a huge impact yet. And then we need to see whether or not its the appropriate equipment as well, because russia may decide to change tactics in which case you need a different set of kit. But certainly it hasnt all arrived there yet, and they need as soon because youve been is not holding those lines that moment for sure. All right. Max foster for us, live in london. Max, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. All right. 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