Now we are expected to hear from former President Trump whose testimony wraps for the day in the historic criminal trial. I am john roberts in washington good friday afternoon. Hello im aisha hosch and he for sandra smith and this is America Reports here we go. An eventful week in Court Spending hours listening to Adult Film ActressStormy Daniels testify in extreme graphic detail about their alleged affair. Really hear from the man at the center of the case Michael Cohen. Webex versus afternoon to cover over than weve heard so far. Aishah but first lets go live to Eric Shawn Standing live outside the state Supreme Court work or just wrapped up for the week. Hi, eric. That it did for the weekend back on monday. You know there is always a call the pit bull for donald trump. He defended t donald trump heatedly all the time but starting next week the defendant may feel his bites because Michael Cohen is set to take the stand here probably start on monday. I have been told prosecutors have called cohen to the stand starting sometime late monday morning. And detailing the alleged scheme to pay off Stormy Daniels and reimburse cohen for paying her so stormys story would not damage the president ial campaign in 2016. Saying that he paid stormy hundred 30,000 and trump paid him back with those checks falsely disguised as legal fees for cohen with multiple counts of filing false Business Records against time. They met in February Of 2017 just one month into trumps presidency. The witness who set up that meeting was Madeleine Westerhout who finished testifying this morning. Reports claim that ms. Wester out attended that meeting that she would testify here and that trump and cohen were heard talking about the deal and stormy but ive been told wester house was not even there but instead she was sitting at her desk right outside the oval office door which is why they can never bring up the meeting with her. She was a prosecution witness and legal experts here say she likely backfired on the prosecution. She was not only sympathetic to the former president but praised him in front of the jury saying he was a great president i thought it was really important to show the American People that man i got to know. I dont think he is treated fairly. He is amazing she said. I just found him really enjoyable to work for. Michael cohens testimony could take up the balance of all next week. Court will only be in session three days. Monday and tuesday, they have wednesday off, then thursday and friday there is no Court Session because judge juan merchan has given a day off so the defendant, the former president , can go attend the High School Graduation of his son, baron, and that graduation will be in florida on friday. Get ready for trump versus cohen The Main Event at manhattan criminal courts on monday. Aisha back to you. Aishah outside the courthouse thank you. John like an anticipated ufc event lets bring in uc berkeley lot of to law professor. I may have to pause you for a second, john, we are expecting the president to come out any moment now. But lets look to The Main Event as they were putting it, when he takes the stand here is what Jonathan Turley said about his expected testimony earlier today, listen to this. Its coming down to Michael Cohen. Who would base a case on Michael Cohen . Its a good thing they dont put their hands physically on the bible anymore because it would burst into flames. I mean, this is someone who just recently was denounced by a judge as a serial perjurer. All right, Michael Cohen knows an awful lot of other Trump Administration and a lot about these ndas but is he the witness you want to put your case on . No. And that explains what the prosecution has been doing this week. They dont have a case on the law, they have totally concocted these charges which dont really bear on the facts of the case. They know Michael Cohen is a perjurer and has planted two felonies. He is the worst possible witness a prosecutor would want thats why they spent this week just attacking Donald Trumps character. The reason they drag Stormy Daniels into it, the reason they elicited this outrageous prejudicial tear to my testimony is because they want to leave in the jurys mind this vivid reality show that is going to be hard for them to forget so they will want to convict donald trump for being a bad man regardless whether he committed any crime or not. Thats why they lead this first. If they were really competent, the prosecution was confident in Michael Cohen and they thought they had a watertight case he would have been the first witness, not the last witness. John let me push back because im glad you talked about the jury because they are the ones that matter, right . 12 jewelers. I know you are a lawyer, pretend you are like a juror in this moment right now. In the last several days from what you have heard, forget about all the other Stormy Daniels stuff and all the other things attacking the former president s character what they are actually talking about, the checks and the history and all the minutia details, as a drover can you really believe that the former president knew exactly what he was signing when he was signing tons, hundreds and hundreds of checks, do you really walk away feeling like this man is responsible . Aisha ive always wanted to be a juror but the judge always sent me off before i could. In the space of a juror what i want to say is i want evidence p intentionally committed fraud when he listed these checks under one account versus another account. That is one thing the prosecution has yet to prove. And they next thing i want to see is what law was violated . He has promised to show he is allowed to enforce federal election law and the reason trump engaged in this fraud was to defect the 2016 election. I havent seen that yet either i want to see who signed the checks come what was trump really thinking, what was his State Of Mind i think that is really hard to prove your. And was he doing it really not to protect his family, not to protect his reputation, but to actually try to influence the 2016 election . In a state he lost overwhelmingly. John we should point out the jury has been dismissed for the week. The former president and his legal team and the prosecution are still in the courtroom apparently discussing the motion in regard to a gag order i dont know if it is the gag order or another gag order something about Michael Cohen as well. He is supposed to be coming out momentarily. Before i ask you another question, john, lets just watch here because i am told he is on his way out. Nothing at. Maybe it takes a little while for them to gather up their notes and everything. We should point out while john you say you always wanted to be on a jury but you were knocked out because you are an attorney. There are two attorneys who are sitting on this jury and a question some people have is will these attorneys try to prejudice the jury or will the jurys try to keep the jury on line in terms of how to weigh the evidence and what can be considered whether or not testimony that was struck from the record should be erased or expunged from their minds, which is a difficult thing to do. Many people and said this week that want to hear or see something you can either on here it nor unseat it. There is Boris Epstein coming out of court, not necessarily a member of the president s legal team but certainly counseling the president and that looks like the president s head there in the window of the door as we are awaiting him to come out. John, quickly, we will have to interrupt you momentarily. Speaking to this idea of there being two attorneys on the jury and whether they might help steer the jury toward the absolute parameters of the judges instructions or maybe in a different direction . Hopefully they will remember what they learned in first year of law school which is the government needs to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. That does not mean 51 likely that means 99 likely the government is right. Put aside the law, put aside the fact, that is the most important thing those two lawyers can bring to the jury. To the government not just persuade you but are you utterly convinced that donald trump committed fraud . That he committed fraud in order to influence elections and this was not about protecting his reputation but a violation of federal election law . And john go here he comes lets listen and this is the former President Wrapping up the week. There is no gag order to Michael Cohen. With the judge did was amazing actually it was amazing. Everybody can say whatever they want. They can say whatever they want but i am not allowed to say anything about anybody. Its a disgrace. And you have seen it, the media sees it. It is really very sad. If you look at the legal experts and the legal scholars everyone of them say this trial is a scam. It is something that shouldve never happen. By the way, it could have happened seven years ago. They bring it right here in the election. Nobody sees it, nobody talks about it, it should have been seven years ago. It should not have been brought, but it was going to be brought it shouldve been brought brought seven years ago. And you know we are talking about 2016. We are talking about something that goes back in charge of 2006. We are talking about 2016 a charge that is 18 or 19 years old. Its all fake the whole case is fake. The judge is corrupt. The only thing it gives us to make him look a little good it gives us nothing and what he did just now is a joke. Its a disgrace. Its a disgrace. So i just wanted to mention right here biden made a Claim Inflation under trump was 9 , it was not it was a tiny fraction it was 1. 4 . And actually going down. We had essentially almost no inflation, but we had 9 inflation, thats a fake number because not every thing was included with biden. And if you add it all up i think its a 50 Inflation Tax i call it the biden Inflation Tax. So he lies and he lies about everything including his golf game. Because he cant hit a ball hundred yards. Lies about everything, but he came out and i saw this the last couple of days he was talking about the trump inflation, no, his inflation was 9 . That is a tax on the American People due to gross incompetence and it all started because of his Energy Policies. His stupid Green New DealEnergy Policies. And you wait and see. This nation is finished. You wait and see what happens because all of that stuff will be closed up. He let a lot of my Energy Policies go through because what they were doing started to go up so high so he let a lot of them continue including the drilling because the prices were going so high for gasoline and energy. Now he comes out and he actually says i guess with a straight face but i am not sure he knows what he is saying anyway. It was 9 under trump. In the New York Post the Wall Street Journal couple of others no, it was 1. 4 it was actually lower than that and we included everything. They did not include everything. They took some of the worst categories and didnt even include them in the 9 . So what is 9 is actually much higher than that but its the tax over a fouryear period of more than 50 . And i call it the Inflation Tax. The biden Inflation Tax. Heres another one just came o out. A friend of mine says bidens big donors viewed over a israel criticism. Bidens donors are the ones against israel. So somehow maybe those people, jewish people, that vote for democrats or vote for biden if they are looking at what they are doing the donors to biden are against israel. Very much and vehemently against israel, they hate israel. And if that is why biden hates israel because he always has. I want you to start thinking about that. And now you have the Wall Street Journal kim strassel is a great rep reporter. If you want to read the story it talks about what is going on here. What is going on here is a disgrace. Jonathan turley just came out. This case is becoming legally obscene. I mean, the articles are unbelievable. And i would hand you the articles but the problem is i am not allowed to because of anything is mentioned against certain people, and you know who they are, certain people anything is even mentioned, he wants to put me in jail. And that could happen one day i will be very proud to go to jail for our constitution because what he is doing is so unconstitutional, there has never been anything like it. Story after story, one after another. And this over the last two days. Story after story. Vanity, big story, Jonathan Turley, andrew mccarthy, rick gerrit, they are not friends, no one is friends. The Writing Source has never seen anything like that. They have never seen anything like what is happening today in this court is a very dark day for new york city and new york state and it is a very dark day for our nation buried in the meantime, i cant meet on the campaign. They couldve brought it i told you seven years ago they couldve brought it and were going to bring it very remember everybody turn it down. So the district turned it down, washington turned it down, the federal Election Commission turned it down and do you who else turned it down . Everybody turn it down. And then brag came in and he turned it down. He got very angry actually because they came out and what is happening are the pavers looking into that deal . But he got himself into a jam. So what happened is brag turned it down. And then when the election comes along he says well, remember this. Its a federal case. They turned it down and he is bringing it into the state or the city i guess. Work Violent Crime is all over the place, the city is going to hell and many prosecutors i couldnt even count them looked at me like that, certainly they have had more than 20 prosecutors sitting there over the fact somebody paid a lawyer and in paying the lawyer, so it was a Legal Expense, that somebody happened to be me, i didnt do the bookkeeping i didnt know about it but a very good bookkeeper marked a Legal Expense down as a Legal Expense. They didnt call it construction, they didnt call it building something or electrical cost, they called it very simply a Legal Expense to a lawyer who is a lawyer, not a fixer, who a lawyer. Legal expense to a lawyer as a Legal Expense and they said it was marked incorrectly. What else would you call that . Its a legal fee or Legal Expense so we called it a Legal Expense. This is what the case is about. Its not about all the other stuff that you can see. We are using that to attempt it has had no impact. To attempt to do something politically but the good news is the people understand the poll numbers are the highest they have ever been and it is ridiculous that i am not going to be out campaigning for another week or two because these thugs, these corrupt thugs and that includes the judge, he should throw this case out. This case should go no further. Every illegal expert the ones like calabrese another one, many of them, they came out and they said this case should not go forward, its not a case, it is no crime. There is no crime and they failed to show a crime. This is election interference. It all comes down to washington. They have their reps here, you know they have their reps here im sure you know that. But this all comes out of washington. Crooked joe bidens political opponent happens to be me. And the American People get it. It is a scam. So tomorrow we are doing a bigger rally and it will be in Wildwood New Jersey we are going for the state of new jersey and we think we can win because what is happening in our country is horrible. Between inflation and horrible economy and the only reason by the way the stock market goes up is i am leading in all the polls. If i were not leading the stock market would be way down but i am leading and based on the fact i am leading the stock market is adeterminer. If i didnt win you have a crash like 1929. Mark my words ive been right about everything. If i didnt win you have a crash like the crash of 1929. Because the people that are running our government right now are corrupt and incompetent, thank you very much. John all right the president walking away for the week we will see him again tomorrow in new jersey. There is expected to be a massive rally. The biggest rally in a 2020 campaign in new jersey. His campaign hoping to show that is a stark contrast of what has been going on in court this w week. What the president was talking about, aisha, back in the beginning was after the jury was dismissed it was a discussion because the defense had made