The military now will be having to go back over there reporting requirements. Russia is a criteria country, not a nonfrat country. Probably allowed to date her but that presents significant Counter Intelligence risks im sure the house and Senate IntelligenceCommittee Oversight will take a hard look at this. Bill story on our radar now. Thank you for coming on. Sorry its short. His mom was talking earlier today and hope to have her on tomorrow. Dan hoffman. Thank you. Dana a live look at the new york courthouse where Stormy Daniels is expected to testify in the criminal trial of former President Trump. Thats your plot twist for today. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Nice to be here with you. Bill good morning to you, dana marie, William George has hello. Im bill hemmer. A blockbuster day in court or it might be, right . The word was at 8 00 a. M. Stormy daniels would be on the stand. It hasnt happened yet but on the witness list. Her attorney went public earlier today saying that would be the case. The first Witness On Stand was not Stormy Daniels. Dana eric shawn at the courthouse. Get your update now. Hi, eric. Hi, dana and bill. The witness on the stand is sally franklin, Managing Editor of random house talking about some of the former president s book. Prosecution trying to get some of that into evidence. But it is an intense day at court. Electric anticipation as we all wait for Stormy Daniels to take the stand. Ms. Daniels expected to be the second witness right after ms. Franklin testifies and she is expected to describe her alleged affair with the former president in 2006 and why she was paid off by Michael Cohen. Prosecutors say the deal to hide her claims was to protect mr. Trumps president ial campaign. The defense says no, it was to protect melania, the trump family and trump brand. Prosecutors say that trump arranged with cohen. They are marked as Legal Expenses. When he arrived the former president reiterated his defense that he was paying Michael Cohen as his lawyer. We didnt put it down as construction costs, the purchase of sheetrock, the electrical costs. The Legal Expense that we made we put down as Legal Expense. There is nothing else you can say. You dont have to put down anything, i guess, but we put down Legal Expense was a Legal Expense. Yesterday the jury saw those trump checks made out to Michael Cohen. Prosecutors say that they paid cohen back for the 130,000 he took out from his Home Equity Line to pay stormy. Those checks are the basis of the 34 counts of filing false business records. The defense today likely to try to portray ms. Daniels as an ex tore shonnist. They objected to the prosecutors wanting to bring in details about her allegedly having sex with trump. The judge said some of those details will be allowed in so the jury will hear supposedly about the alleged sex act between ms. Daniels and the former president back in 2006 that she claims. The former president , of course, has always denied that he had any affair with ms. Daniels. We understand that she is waiting in a room right now ready to be called to the stand as soon as ms. Franklin is finished. Dana thank you. Former White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany is here. I asked jonna earlier. You might remember this. Some of the news that you had to deal with as press secretary. Do you think Stormy Daniels is a reluctant witness today . I think she is a witness that has a beef with the defense, has a beef with former President Trump. Clearly there has been animosity back and forth between the two. I actually think she probably relishes this moment and enjoys this moment. I cant read the tea leaves, but i wouldnt classify her as that. Bill trump talked about the Legal Expenses how you list it. If you put down sheetrock as we heard from eric shawns report you put down sheetrock or the contractor that. Him talking about the case and whether or not they can prove it. They have no case. Every legal scholar i see, maybe there is seasoned out there, some whack job, virtually everyone that ive seen has said there is no case. A case that shouldnt have been brought. The previous d. A. Wouldnt bring it. Bragg didnt want to bring it. Then he brought it because of money and bill you are an attorney. As you clarify not practicing. And we just had we had a row with jonna and andy. All three of those people arent buying the story. Are they or we missing something . You read the key part from the controller yesterday. Was Michael Cohen a lawyer . Yes. Okay. This is a Legal Expense . Yes. There was a step beyond. If you read forward to the questioning right after that. So even if you say okay, this somehow was not a Legal Expense. Even if the prosecution can make that argument, the next part of what was asked by trumps counsel President Trump did not ask you to do any of the things you just described, correct . To which the controller says he did not. So even if for some reason you can make an argument this was an ilLegal Expense which is an inten able argument you have the added step did trump know about this, direct it or was he just signing checks . Dana listen to call for number three about an unfair trial. President trump understandably i guess, im not sure if he is making the connection directly is bringing biden into this. Watch. This all comes out of the white house and joe biden. This comes from the white house and its all biden. It is an attack on his political opponent that hasnt happened in this country. It does happen in third world countries but it hasnt happened in this country. And it is a shame. And the trial is a very unfair trial. It is a very unfair trial. Dana i understand the tactic and i understand the point. How do you think it will go over . I think its going offer well. We have colangelo stepping down from a great job at d. O. J. To take a job at the state level . I would venture to say not many people have made that decision. I would love to find another example of that. A good argument he is making. Andy mccarthy said this. When you look at the decisions Alvin Bragg Is Making bringing Stormy Daniels. Bring up the Access Hollywood tape. Alvin bragg is begging for this to be appealed because you have that weinstein case, you have something called a rule cant bring uncharged crimes or act. This will be dismissed on appeal. Most prosecutors dont want to be reveresed. All he wants is a conviction. The appeal would take more than a year. Bill you have company now. Welcome back. Lydia hu an attorney inside the courtroom today. She writes that the idea here for prosecutors reading excerpts from the art of the deal is to show how trump is so detail oriented, Penny Pinching and frugal and that he always signs his own checks. Meaning that trump would know these are new pictures from inside the courtroom right now seeing them for the first time that trump would know every penny of his multibillion dollar operation. Does that argument fly to you . I looked up when the art of the was published. 1987. The fact that the prosecution thinks they have to rely on a book which by the way, im sure you can still buy it. Donald trump didnt try to scrub that book to interfere with the campaign, right . So the fact that they have to rely on that to help prove their case is utterly ridiculous. I hope what they are serving the jurors for lunch is popcorn. Thats the only thing that the benefit they get out of the testimony coming this afternoon or later this morning. Dana not very nutritious but fan to snack on. Andy mccarthy. Talk about what i was mentioning to kaylee about trump trying to tie he talks about biden, the opponent he has in the president ial election. Kaylee is right about colangelo. The only thing i would add to that, dana, this is one of these like the dog that doesnt bark thing but a very profound bit of evidence. The reason that Congress Proposed in the federal Election Commission and the Justice Department exclusive jurisdiction for enforcing the federal Campaign Finance laws is they wanted uniform application of those laws throughout the United States. The f. E. C. Does it on the civil side. Justice department on the criminal side. If another local prosecutor who has no federal jurisdiction tried to enforce these laws and made up his own corpus of federal Campaign Finance law as he went along as it was convenient to his case, the Justice Department and the f. E. C. In a normal administration would not sit on their hands. They would go crazy. They would be papering that Prosecutors Office and the local courthouse and the federal court there with all kinds of objections to a local prosecutor presuming to try to enforce federal law. Thats not happening here. The only reason i can think of that it is not happening here is the biden Justice Department thinks it is peachy as long as alvin bragg is prosecuting donald trump. Bill hang on one moment for me, mark. I think thats right. So exclusive jurisdiction the federal government has over prosecuting these cases. But even if you get to the substance of this you have bradley a. Smith, a former member of the federal Election Commission who is written in the pages of National Review where we read Andy Mccarthy, he has written even if you consider this in the context of federal election law, this would not classify as a Campaign Expense straight from the mouth of someone who worked for the f. E. C. The sole standard here is trying to affect an election, then you have to start classifying toothpaste. Toothbrushes, wheaties you eat in the morning as federal election expenses. Dana the i. R. S. Would like to take a look at that. Bill one quick update. Not just the art of the deal a number of exhibits the state wants to enter. How to get rich. Another one think like a billionaire. Why does this go . When you heard trump yesterday at the end of court say the judge says we have two or three more weeks here, do you see this thing going two or three more weeks . Possibly can especially when the judge is making these rulings. Im starting to get a theme for today. It is desperation day. You are allowing books from the 80s to come in . What about some bumper stickers on his car when he was in college . Were talking about whether he committed fraud or not. How does that how does that bear on this issue . I do think its relevant but the relevance is so low, so remote, it approaches almost no real value. I think the judge, in balancing whatever benefit there is, should certainly say its outweighed by prejudice. I think the same thing can be said for Stormy Daniels and this salacious interactions allegedly between them. I dont get why he is allowing that testimony in, either. Dana all right. Everybody stick around. Well stay with this. It is a blockbuster day in court. Stormy daniels is expected to take the Witness Stand in the trial of former President Trump. Well keep you updated on that as our coverage continues. Stay with us. Im jonathan lawson, here to tell you about Life Insurance through the Colonial Penn program. If youre age 50 to 85 and looking to buy Life Insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. What are the three ps . The three ps of Life Insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. 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Bill this is a thing and it is obvious. What trump said going into court today the country is on fire is lot of republicans and a lot of independents view and perhaps some democrats, too. Dana something i watched this morning. The free press run by weiss weiss. They had a young reporter but you remember that janitor who was basically held against his will at Columbia University because of the protestors by a 40yearold who is a Trust Fund Kid and has a 2. 3 million brown stone. She interviewed this janitor and they were left defenseless. He had to defend himself and here is just a short bite from the interview that block did with mario torres. Is columbia going to retaliate and find a reason to fire me . Is someone going to come after me . We are taking a big risk, you know, doing this. But