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City Donald Tropics back to the leave the courtroom at any moment now he is expected to speak we will take you there live when he does here is what we know right now new york banker gary farrow the third witness to take the stand more on his testimony in just a moments meanwhile the second witness to be called was on the stand briefly she is a former Trump Organization employee and was Donald Trumps longtime assistant multiple decades she worked for him under direct Questioning Graph said she had a vague recollection of seeing Stormy Daniels in the Reception Area of the office on crossexamination she said she assumed daniels being there for the apprentice earlier during the crossexamination of the tabloid executive david packer trumps legal team tried to poke holes in the prosecution claims that the former president is directly tied to buying negative stories to protect his election chances and that is where we are at this hour for a clock on the east coast walk everyone i am sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is your world, legal eagles Andy Mccarthy and tom dupree here to weigh in shortly but first lets get to nate foy who was outside that courthouse on what has been going on inside what do we know nate. Hello sandra the direct examination of gary pharaoh is underway hes a former Senior Managing Director at first public bank and speaking about his professional history with President Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen he worked with kellan from 2015 until to the best of his recollection 2018 or 2019 he says he was assigned cohen as a client because he was knowledgeable and skilled enough to deal with clients who may be a bit difficult he said that cohen had several accounts at first public bank if there is some reporting that this is the bank that cohen used to wire the 130,000 payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels so right now theyre talking about his history as a banker and working with cohen and this comes after you mentioned the crossexamination finished for President Trumps longtime Executive Assistant rhonda graft after days of david packer test when the graft was done in less than an hour she said she vaguely remembers seeing Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels at trump tower before the election assuming that stormy was there to discuss possibly joining the apprentice she described trump as a fair and respectful boss saying that he respected her intelligence and she would not have state of the Trump Organization for 34 years if you didnt need Trump Organization also paying for her attorneys and then david packer was on the Witness Stand earlier answering questions from both the das office and the Trump Lawyers he was asked about a Conciliation Agreement between American Media and the federal Election Commission as well as a Nonprosecution Agreement he said that he did not thank you was doing Anything Wrong in 2016 in terms of committing campaignfinance law but he did say he now believes in his handling of the Karen Mcdougall story that he does believe that he violated federal election law so we had three different witnesses take the stand so far today right now we are going over the history of this Banker Gary Pharaoh From First Public Bank theyre asking about his dealings with Michael Cohen we will keep you updated minute buy minute and we send it back to you. We know you will thank you and we expect to see the former president shortly we are watching for that so what are the big takeaways from todays test money with us now the former assistant u. S. Attorney and Fox News Contributor and mccarthy and former Deputy Assistant andy dupree thank you so much for joining us we do await the departure of the former president possibly any moment now but we have yet to see on this particular day it be adjourned so anti to you first you have been watching every minute of this what has struck you so far today . The last part of the report we just heard i think is the most important part which is that the judge is obviously allowing the state to argue or to introduce evidence of the State Of Mind of david packer and i imagine it will be the same with Michael Cohen that they were violating the campaignfinance laws or they believe they violated the campaignfinance laws that evidence should be inadmissible against trump david packers State Of Mind with respect to the federal campaignfinance laws is not evidence that trump violated them much less evidence of what trump State Of Mind was obviously we have talked a lot about the campaignfinance laws alvin bragg does not have authority to enforce those that authority exclusively belongs to the Justice Department and the federal Election Commission so i dont even think it should be in the case but certainly you shouldnt be having that kind of testimony. To you on this week spoke about this time yesterday what has changed is that packer is no longer on the stand we have then gone to the former president s longtime assistant, Michael Cohens former banker, what have you taken away so far from today ive taken a few things away i think the first is ive been fascinated see the trump legal defence strategy play out we were all wondering how they would attack this case and i think today we really got to see it they kind of took a hammer to a lot of what packer was saying about Giving Trump Special Treatment and i think they did an effective job of showing the jury that, in fact, this mistreatment that was given to a lot of famous politicians and celebrities it wasnt something especially done for former President Trump the other thing that is interesting to me today is i think now we will see a period of this case were the testimony maybe a bit dry we will hear a lot about banking records and banking transactions and i think the onus is really on the prosecutors to keep the jurys interest this will be a long trial you dont want juries falling asleep you dont want to lose the jury a few days into the trial so i think the next few days of this trial will be of real test for the prosecution can they present their case and their evidence crisply in a way that maintains the jurys attention. So bear with me as i go through an email that is popping up from inside the courtroom from just moments ago you can tell me what you take away from it, during a line of questioning right now they were asked about the First Republic email server the bank of Michael Cohen former banker during the line of questioning trump can be seen leaning over speaking with his attorney within looking at government exhibit 361 it is a first public Bank Email Dated ten, 11, 2016 that was sent from his us assistant the subject of the email was missed a call from Michael Cohen michael asked for pharaoh to call him back a look at another exhibit 362 that First Republic bank email from two days later it was sent to pharaoh from his assistant regarding another missed call from cohen i am getting somewhere i promise pharaoh recalled that the two calls were about, cohen wanted to open a new limited Liability Company an llc account, cohen had a limited Liability Company to be an account for real estate do you take anything away from that update from just a moment ago in the courtroom. Yes, i think whats going on here is there trying to suggest that cohen in conjunction with trump and packer were involved in centrifuge, which is what you would expect in a conspiracy case and a one the things that was done was that cohen opened an llc because he understood that what he was doing was shady so the last thing he would want to do for example would be to pay Stormy Daniels directly so he came up with a device to sluice the payment through and this all goes to the idea that if you were planning among three people to suppress information that could have been clearly damaging to trump that thats a crime rather than a legal Nondisclosure Agreement that you may have very good reason to use an llc to execute since the whole point of it is to keep things under wraps they are trying to suggest i think that something that is legal is illegal just like theyre trying to suggest that there was a major campaignfinance crime based on the State Of Mind of other people besides trump that should not be evidence in the case. And a quick final thought from you as well. My final thought is that if this is the way the prosecution is going trying to prove questions of intent and motive through complicated documents and emails and llc creation and the like that is a hard road for the prosecutors to how i think that ultimately their case will rest on weather they can actually have the witnesses or will it come into court look the jury in the eye and admit that there was some kind of conspiracy because if theyre going to try to prove this through those complicated exhibits, 362 emails and the like thats very tough to get a jury to follow all that and convict. Thank it could have both of you think regina seeming all right we will keep watching it and todays session is expected to wrap shortly as we look alive at the court house there and the former president he is expected to make remarks when he emerges from the courtroom when he does we are there, meanwhile those anti israel protests are continuing is it time to pull federal funding . House Oversight Committee member and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace is here. We are awaiting possible trump remarks once court wraps up for the week which could be any minute now in the meantime the judge has scheduled another hearing over additional alleged trump Gag Order Violations for next week so where do our next guest see those going . A former federal prosecutor and camille defence attorney here thank you to both of you for joining us you first on this the former president has called for multiple judges to be removed ahead of this gag order decision what you see happening with this . What theyre going to continue to do doldrums what theyve been doing all along gagging him and ignoring these various claims that he has made that the judges that hes been facing both in this trial as well as in others seem obviously biased and prejudiced against him i think he makes an excellent case for that its not just that he finds himself in Democratic Manhattan is that these judges are specifically connected in a way to interest in the outcome of this trial that is simply something that i see as unethical, his daughter is a top democrat fundraiser something that is inherently a matter that the public would look in on and question his ability to be fair, he is obviously had one ruling after another in trumps disfavour and the gag order itself is something that infringes on the First Amendment right of political speech in a campaign and its deeply concerning in the judge just seems to have no perspective as to what the appearance is from the outside i think you should be disqualified a thank you should recuse himself but it wont happen and down trump will continue to raise these issues and hopefully the American People will see that that is, trumps claims are very valid under the circumstances. The former president has been fuming about this Gag Order Flight for quite some time now it was wednesday that he put out a message on truth social saying we have a rigged judge was working for the Democratic Party and refuses to terminate this case which should have never been brought by Soft On Crime alvin bragg he then says this case should immediately be removed and he has done so multiple times, where do you see those going as we do expect this decision next week . In terms of any sort of gag order i dont blame donald trump for being frustrate by them its a clear violation of his first mm and writes and done intentionally just like the fact that judge mershon has not recuse himself also intentional and part of the fix being in if you ask me but i did i want to mention Something Else because in terms of, a mirror of what donald trump says in that this case should go away i thought of something, as frustrating as it has been for almost, all the legal analysts that continually said look there is no crime here we all agree with that the evidence so far is of Nonillegal Activity allegedly to support what other crime at the end of the day but here is something that we need to point out, when the prosecution finally got up and gave their Opening Statement , peeled back the curtain and let us all know that the mystery crime that elevated this to Felony Status so that we could be here was a Misdemeanour State Election Law that says you are not allowed to unlawfully conspire to prevent or promote someone to public office, at that moment sandra i think Donald Trumps camp could have stood up and said i making a motion to dismiss because donald trump could not have violated that law because donald trump was not running for state office he was not running for mayor he was running for a federal position as president of United States he cannot violate a State Election Law Case dismissed thats the only reason we are here and i dont know if that happened i dont know if judge mershon said note were not to do that but it could happen and it should have happened. Andrew on that note everyone of these emails that pops up where we get details of what is happening inside the courtroom its just not happening where we say wow okay this is very juicy. Were at a point right now where the prosecution certainly has not proven their case yet, there has been no major bombs that have been dropped, no evidence of actual criminal activity, as a former federal prosecutor i will tell you that oftentimes you start your case to the process of essentially giving the background and the introduction to what happened then thats what they are doing, i actually think what theyre really doing what alvin Braggs Office is really doing is theyre just trying to air dirty laundry its not criminal conduct its just dirty laundry its the same dirty laundry that donald trump wanted to essentially put into the Hush Money Payments back in 2016 because it was a nuisance so its the type of i guess extortion claims that were coming forward back in 2015 and 2016 that he rightfully wanted to do away with and now alvin bragg has taken the opportunity to politicize it and just air it all out there. Well i can only imagine what we will hear has the former president steps up to a microphone which he is expected to shortly win Court Adjourns we have not gotten where the that has happened just yet but we are watching it thank you to both you, john and or thank you with the first week of testimony coming to a close how does donald trump think it all went we will see what he says when he speaks moments from now and with trump on trial biden on the trail painting he is open to a president ial debate how serious is that . How are some new numbers in the economy playing into that we are on it alive look here in New York City when he steps out he is expected to speak we will have that for you live the first full week of testimony in the new york versus trump trial is coming to an end of the former president expect it to speak as he exits meanwhile the prosecution is questioning its third witness gary farrow what role does his testimony play in this trial so far George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley the former assistant District Attorney and host of the colonel justice Podcast Inside The Law Fill Holloway back with us former Deputy As