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An explosive clash between the judge in trumps Hush Money Trial and one of the only Defense Witnesses the judge, even at one moment yelling clear the courtroom, tensions had been building as robert costello, a lawyer who once advised Michael Cohen, started making remarks like gs and ridiculous when an objection was raised, one point, expressing his disdain and exasperated by making a Blowing Raspberries sound after a series of sustained objection because and it got so out of hand that the judge reprimanded costello. Judge more seans saying, quote, mr. Costello, id like to discuss proper decorum and my courtroom as a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say, jeez. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one who can strike testimony and the court, if you dont like my ruling you dont give me sayyed or roll your eyes well, casella said he understood at that point, people in the room say costello was staring at merchan causing the judge to erupt. Are you staring me down it out of the courtroom and the room quickly cleared so that merchan could dress down costello trump, after leaving later, spoke about it after the court you so what happened to a highly respected lawyers bob costello ive never, seen anything like that i understand it was a stunning moment in an historic trial that is quickly winding down the prosecution has rested. The defense is expected to wrap up tomorrow, but not before scoring. What might have been a major win today Michael Cohen admitting while on the stand that he stole at least 30,000 from the Trump Org Park Money that was supposed to go to a tech Company Called red finch. So let me just share the exchange with you because trumps attorney todd blanche asks cohen, you were shorted 100,000 on your bonus that year. Cohen responds thats correct. And then blanche says, so the 50,000 that you got to pay read finch, you only paid the red finch owner 20,000 . Right cohen . Yes, sir. Blanche so you stole from the Trump Organization cohen . Yes, sir and as the trial nears its end, trump making the most of that moment. And today making the most of every moment, he still has left in that courtroom, he was surrounded by a group of people who have been charged or convicted of crimes, including chuck z2, a former leader the house angels motorcycle gang, who did time for drug charges. Trump Legal Advisor boris step who has been indicted in arizona for trying to overturn the election and Ben Omnipresent in that courtroom. And former nypd commissioner commissioner bernard qarrah, who spent time in prison for taxrelated charges. Paula reid is outfront, live outside the new york courthouse to begin our coverage. For tonight. And paula, i know you reached out to costello for response to his testimony today because it was so heated inside that room. What did you get well, he declined to comment to cnn, erin. Now of course, the judge asked him specifically not to talk about the case so even after that, rakus testimony, he is at least following up and following through on that directive from the judge. But as weve reported, look, there has been some disagree he met within trumps legal team about whether it was a good idea to put costello on the stand and after what we saw today its not clear if he did much to help the defendants case the prosecution rests on day 19 of the trump Hush Money Trial, ending four days of dramatic testimony from star witness, Michael Cohen, trump attorney todd blanche, last week painted cohen as a liar out for revenge. Under further crossexamination monday, he got trumps former fixer to admit to stealing from the Trump Organization. Blanche focused on a Payment Cohen Organized To Tech Company red finch to help create an algorithm that would boost trump in a cnbc poll handwritten notes show cohen was reimbursed 50,000 for that work, but cohen testified he only paid the company 20,000 in a brown paper bag. You only paid the red finch owner 20,000, right . Blanche asked yes, sir. Cohen replied. So you stole from the Trump Organization. Blanche asked. Yes, sir. Cohen confirmed prosecutors then got a chance to clean up their case with cohen on redirect i know it may feel like youre on trial here after crossexamination, but are you actually on trial, Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked no, maam. Cohen replied. Cohen was the only witness called by the prosecution who directly implicated trump for allegedly falsifying Business Records over 17 hours of testimony, cohen provided some helpful evidence for prosecutors, including testifying last week that he spoke with trump twice to get his sign off before making the payment to Stormy Daniels on may 13th, he testified everything required mr. Trumps signoff on top of that, i wanted the money back on may 16. Trump attorneys later called into question a key phone call, cohen had said he had with trump bodyguard keith schiller, who then pass the phone to trump, were cohen had testified that he told trump how he planned to pay daniels on may 16, Blanche Press Cohen saying that was a lie. You did not talk to president trump. You talked to keith schiller. You can admit it. No, sir. I dont know that its accurate. Cohen responded, i believe i also spoke to mr. Trump and told him everything regarding the Stormy Daniels matter we are not asking for your belief. The jury does not want to hear what you think happened. Blanche shot back that exchange, one of the most successful moments for the Trump Defense today on redirect, prosecutors tried to sure. Up cohens account, entering into evidence a screenshot of this video captured minutes before the 2016 phone call showing schiller and trump together, prosecutors concluded their redirect of Michael Cohen by asking, would you have paid Stormy Daniels the 130,000 had mr. Trump not signed off . No, maam. Cohen replied costello . Well be back on the stand tomorrow morning and then both sides have said they will be done with their case, which suggests the former president does not intend to take the stand, then the jury will be dismissed for a whole week before coming back to here closings and then begin this historic deliberations. Erin all paula, thank you very much. And our experts were all here with me now. All right. So i want to talk about a couple of crucial moments in the court. But first, just the drama terry, the defense, they only have one very quick witness and then costello and were what was it like how did he act in all my years of practice, over 30 plus, ive never seen a moment like this the witness said, jeez, and ridiculous and response to some of the objections that were being sustained. And the first thing that judge said and this was in front of the jury was excuse me. Excuse me. And everybody fell quiet because ive never heard the judge say anything like that thats when he excused the jury. Thats when he said to costello i want to talk to about decorum in my courtroom. You dont say jeez, you dont give me the sayyed. And we were sitting there and thats when the judge said, are you staring me down and he cleared the courtroom. There was so much confusion, aaron, we didnt know what to do. And the Security Guards were saying get up, get out, and some of a sad fair. The courtroom meant everybody, all the journalists as well correct . I mean, is this an unprecedented sort of thing lawyer to see . Its in prison thing for a lawyer to see and its an unprecedented thing for a lawyer to behave. I mean, this mans lawyer, wheres former prosecutor . Yeah. Yeah. So for him to do that in such a high stakes trial in which hes basically it for the Defense Witnesses. We dont know of any others coming its absolutely remarkable and its also remarkable because he needs credibility and if anything, i think he actually paints a pretty positive picture from Michael Cohen because Michael Cohens testimony is, i didnt trust this person i didnt like this person and i certainly wasnt going to tell this person, mr. Costello the secrets that i had about trump, and that seems pretty consistent with who we now see at least in this moment. Because silhouettes, so arlo, i mean, you know, todd, blanche, and obviously hes obviously trumps intimately involved, but todd blanche is the one making the decision. Whos on the gonna be on the stand . Yeah. The options of who we could put to mount a defense was costello the right choice i mean, so far id have to say putting on defense case at all seems like a mistake because this is the end and a lot of Times Defense lawyers dont do that, right . And they dont do it because they then get to go to summation and they say its not our job to put on a case they have to prove it Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and they havent. And the judge backs them up. The judge says, ladies and gentlemen, thats right. But if you do put on a defense case, you get the same instruction from the judge but theres just something the jurys now heard. The defense case. There are sizing the defense up and then they go, wait. This one was this big and this one was this big, right . Right. And so you have to have something and this one didnt seem to have enough and maybe even hurt them. So how how did costello goh over with the jury you know, thats the open question, erin . It is, but i would not believe he went over well, right. Its a trials are about Human Interactions thereabout narratives about telling your story. And you have to pick the vehicles to tell that story. And having a person like this who apparently had an ax to grind, whose glaring whos engaged in completely inappropriate decorum, Rolling And Making Noises of disgust absolutely stick to the merits of the case. If your issue is listen, cohen said to me the trump absolutely didnt make any type of was aware of any type of payments, certainly didnt make a know anything about it. I had nothing on trumps stick to that. Do it in a way thats courteous. Do it in a way thats professional, do it in a way thats relatable to the extent you dont do that can really cost your client. I mean, he was trying hi to say basically that he had kind of cohen and asked, do you have anything on trump du have anything on trump . And cohen said left, right, and center. I have nothing. And that was a Point Costello was trying to make when you watch the totality of it today though, you watched when youre looking at the jury did they i mean, i know they send their they pay such careful attention. They dont generally show emotion did they show their hand on this . When i watched it, i think they were more alert and into because castello is a character just like cohen is a character, and just like stormy was a character, they were definitely on the end of their seat now, i think that the point was cohen told me castello said that trump had nothing to do with this, that he wasnt involved in the payment. I believe the jury understands that that was what cohen said then because he was still defending trump. That doesnt mean thats what he feels now and he has basically said he has a change of two. All right. So a couple of other things. One thing this is being treated as the big admission as i laid out that Michael Cohen admitted to stealing money from the Trump Organization that he was supposed to repay this tech company 50,000. You only repaid 20 and he admits to sealing the 30,000. Todd blanche blanche gets him to do that very clearly today, but its interesting, ryan oh, yvonne, im pulling it up because may 13. So we could go he admits to doing this in a different way. It was under direct, so its sort of did you why did you do it . Because thats what was owed and i didnt feel mr. Trump deserve the benefit of the difference. Right. So its sort of a motive, but it was it was presented differently today. Was it a bombshell as some are saying . It or not . I dont think theres Big Of A Bunch part because the prosecutors did draw it out initially, so its not like oh, the prosecutors were hiding this from you and now youre hearing something new to the jurors, right . Rather, the prosecutors were ready, head Michael Cohen at mit that he stole this money, that exact amount from the exact company and the exact relationships. So thats one part of it. Yeah. Second is also so kinda consistent with who we know Michael Cohen to be at this point, what hope hicks said, hes not the kind of guy that would spend 130,000 of his own dollars and not tell the boss he would only do that if can you its going to be reimbursed. So thats the same kind of character thats stealing 10,000 in this exchange at the same time, i do think the defense can make something other and they surely will. And their closing summation, they will say, look at this person, he is not a loyal person whos only getting authority from trump. Hes stealing from trump. Hes doing things behind his back. Hes rogue, and trump doesnt even know about it at the time. Thats their theory of the case. And theres now week. And when theyre going to be in tomorrow, right now if they wanted, right. They could have done their Closing Arguments and deliberated a couple of days as we can maybe been done, but thats not how its going to go because they have Wednesdays Off and so its gonna be a full week where they hear all this and they peace out for a week and then they come back and get closing who. Benefits from that . I mean, i generally think the party that benefits is the one that has the stronger story to tell, because all of this trees and chaos of the last few days they become a forest as the jury gets a little moment in time and ultimately, i think the prosecution will spend its time trying to put together the best pieces of evidence and testimony to match their story. And they have i think a story thats pretty plausible that whether the jury accepts are true. I dont know, but that trump was worried about the election Michael Cohen was the kind of guy who would fix these things. And im not sure the defense has they have reasonable doubt arguments, but im not sure theyve really offered how much pressure is on then tomorrow four, youve got to finish gsa. Youve got redirect, youve got youve got things to happen, but then you have this week off. So how important is it . Yeah, its very important, aaron, just to sort of crystallized the arguments to get them organized for closing and to deliver what is your narrative . And i think the prosecution will spend a lot of time on the defense wants to talk about this one phone all they want to talk about that. Let me focus. You want all the things which would suggest that the president knew exactly what this was all about. And here they all, but boom and so i think the prosecutors will lay out in pretty organized fashion all of the reason and the basis that donald trump was aware of the reimbursement orchestrator, the reimbursement was in on everything involved one thing that you dont only have the credit cohen for that disregard him. But look at all the other things which would suggest last point, aaron and that is the jury will be instructed that they can make reasonable inferences. Write that is using your common sense and good judgment may be cohen is the one that directly ties trump. Lets talk about ladies and gentlemen, all the things that indirectly tie him, right . So i think theyll focus on that big week ahead in terms of Organization Preparation and planning. And well see how they laid out come tuesday, see if theres a Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. All right. Thank you. All. 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