This has been fine. Thanks to the real Scott Jennings and the eyes got jennings from an appearance parents today. Thanks to all of you for jojoining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now Michael Cohen. Back on the stand, Donald Trumps onetime fixer. Now Courtroom Foe is already testified for more than five hours, and the real fireworks of cross its examination could begin today, working overnight, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken in ukraine, meeting with president Volodomyr Zelenskyy at a crucial moment and the war as ukraine loses ground. But knew us weapons arriving now how on the front lines also less those are explosives bringing down pieces of the collapsed Francis Scott key bridge plus new body camera footage offering a glimpse into the panic and confusion on the night of that deadly disaster. Im sarah sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. This is Cnn News Central and good morning from outside the courthouse in downtown manhattan, we have reached the white hot center of the criminal case against donald trump for the very first time, someone has testified in this case that they witnessed donald trump committing the acts he is facing 34 charges for that person is Michael Cohen who testified for the first time that donald trump knew of the Hush Money Payments Scheme to cover up Stormy Daniels story about a sexual tryst. Some 15, 20 years ago. Remember . Donald trump is charged with falsifying documents to cover up Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels all to influence the 2016 election in yesterday at the very end of the day, we got testimony about those documents. Michael cohen, Donald Trumps former fixer testified he was adding meeting with trump and Trump Organization cfo Allen Weisselberg, and he testified to this. The question, did mr. Weisselbergs state in front of mr. Trump that you are going to receive 420,000 over the course of 12 months. Michael cohen said, yes, question, what, if anything, did mr. Trumps say at the time answer he approved it and he all also said this is going to be one heck of a ride in dc. One more question. Did musk, mr. Weisselbergs say in front of you, mr. Trump, that those Monthly Payments would be a retainer for Legal Services . Michael cohen says, yes, he testified that donald trump approved of the scheme. That testimony, the end of yesterday today. Today though, perhaps even more importantly, we are set for the cross that could begin in the next couple of hours with me. Cnns brynn gin grass, who has been in and out of this core for the last four weeks. This is such an important moment. Yeah, because this Michael Cohen did exactly what the prosecution needed him to do. He tied everything together so far, any implicated the former president in this payment scheme, any did it in a very cool and collected way, right . The opposite of what jurors have been hearing about him, which other witnesses have said hes a jerk and he was very kohn walking through everything that he did on behalf of the president , according to him. Now he said that he would always look for the president s approval. He would seek it. He wanted him to be happy with him and he basically walked through the chaos that was happening after the access Hollywood Tape it came out and when Stormy Daniels story was sort of being pushed around to kind of get payment for. So let me give you another example. You had a great one there, but another one where he says this, he said to me that he had spoken to some friends, some individuals, very smart people, and that its hundred and 30,000 youre a billionaire, just pay it. There was no reason to keep this thing out there. So do it and he expects expressed to me just do it, go meet up with Allen Weisselberg and figure this whole thing out. Obviously that was right before what you discussed, how those three men went into a room . Discuss how these payments were going to be figured out over a long time. Discuss position for Michael Cohen within the white house, just to get those payments actually legit. And then thats where we end today. Were going to hear about what happened inside that oval office room, which we have the waiting for from the prosecution. And then of course its the defenses turn. How much more is the prosecution say they have . A few hours, two hours. He was on the stand for a five hours and they have a few hours to go. And then of course is going could be the defenses turn, which is like kate said, its going to be fireworks. Theyre going to go after his credibility. They are going to talk about the fact that hes a convicted felon and that he has a vengeance that he has books and podcasts that all are about donald trump that is certainly going to come up to todd blanche, expected to conduct a crossexamination for the Trump Defense team. And again, promising to be very very aggressive. Brynn gingras. Thank you so much for that. And Donald Trumps still in trump tower uptown right now. Hell be here within an hour or so. Hes mixing in some campaigning while he is up here in new york, including a Fundraising Event when many were many of his potential Vp Running Mate Selections will be there, perhaps jockeying for the job cnn, Steve Contorno has got some details on that. Steve, what do you learn it . Yeah. John and first Vivek Ramaswamy, one of those potential vp contenders will be joining trump at the courthouse today. He is expected to meet trump at trump tower and then join the motorcade becoming the latest. And this rotation of republicans who are making the trip to manhattan in a show of support for the former president. Hes not the first potential Vice President ial candidates to do that yesterday, we saw senator jd vance there from ohio when he spoke to reporters afterwards, he pushed back against the assertion that trump might be sleeping in the courtroom. Listen to what he said i think that luckily the president s supporters should know that hes actually in great spirits despite the circumstances of this, he should be out on the Campaign Trail but of course hes here with this trial now, as you said, john, the vp auditions will continue tonight in manhattan, where trump will hold a fundraiser and a bunch of these potential contenders are going to be speaking there that includes a list of people that are florida senator marco rubio Vivek Ramaswamy north dakota governor doug burgum, the florida representative, byron donalds, south dakota governor kristi noem, and then tenant, tennessee senator bill haggerty. Haggerty and florida senator rick scott will be there as well. John all right Steve Contorno for us covering the trump Fundraising Event. Later, sarah, im gonna go back to you. Remember we now have testimony that donald trump knew about the Hush Money Payments approved the Hush Money Payments and new and approved about the scheme to document them as Legal Services. That is what the crossexamined emanation will try to append when it starts a little bit later today, sarah is going to be an explosive kind of day there in court. No doubt youll be watching all of the details as we go further here, john will get back to you in just a bit. But first breaking overnight, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken in ukraine bringing news that a new round of us weapons is arriving at a very crucial moment in the war against russia. Also in baltimore, explosions do the job the collapsed bridge has been removed move from on top of that cargo ship and now were getting a never before seen look at the moments after the disaster from police body cameras. Also, golfers its capture this video with possible Tornado Bearing down on a golf course. 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Some of those pieces of weaponry are actually already on the front lines and the secretary said that he believes that thats Weapons Assistance will have a crucial impact on the battlefield for the ukrainians, he also reiterated that the United States wants to see ukraine have victory here, but he admitted that this is a challenging time for the ukrainians, as we know, the russians have been having some advances in the northeastern part of ukraine that has been highly concerning for the ukrainians. And of course the collective support of countries that are supporting ukraine and the Secretary Of State acknowledged that there is going to be potentially a long road ahead. He met with the president of ukraine, presence lenski, who was gracious for this new support, but he was also very clear in saying that ukraine needs more particularly when it comes to airdefense. Listen to what he said the biggest deficits for us. I think that the biggest problem. Yes. And we need really we need to day to petros for kharkiv, for Kharkiv Region because they the people who are under attack. Civilians and worse everybody there under russian missiles now, he also went on to talk about how important it is to have the Secretary Of State visiting and we should note that blinken is actually going to be delivering a speech today that focuses on a prosperous democracy in ukraine. Hes also going to be meeting not just with Ukrainian Government officials, but with Civil Society it, and members of the private sector in ukraine. So this is a really fulsome trip for him when coming at that critical challenging moment that ukraine currently faces more than two years into this conflict absolutely, kylie, thank you so much. Were going to be tracking. Weve been seeing some live pictures. 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