Michael cohen. With the judge did was amazing actually. Everybody can say whatever they want. They can say whatever they want but im not allowed to say anything about anybody. Its a disgrace. Neil lets say noah kahan after the storm. Michael cohen gets ready to testify and take the stand come monday. Will Donald Trumps former fixer put the former president in the fix or the prosecution in a fixed . We are fixing to find out. The speed at which this trial is going has a lot of folks wondering what next. I am neil cavuto and this is your world. The legal world this past week. Lets go to nate foy outside the courthouse were a lot went down today. Setting up the fireworks no doubt for next monday. To you my friend. For sure. Theres a lot of excitement, a lot of eyes will be on the courthouse Monday Morning with Michael Cohen testified but today and back of Court Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked judge marchand to impose a gag order on cohen as he continues discussing this case on social media even on tiktok and livestream as recently as wednesday night according to trumps lawyers. But the judge asked prosecutors to ask cohen to stop talking about the case. One of two witnesses left for the prosecution as they get ready to rest their case. Prosecutors have to prove trump participated in a scheme to reimburse cohen for paying off Adult Film ActressStormy DanielsStormy Daniels. Trump maintain innocence after court today. Somebody paid a lawyer and then paid the lawyer so it was a Legal Expense, that somebody happened to be me. I did not do the bookkeeping or know about it. A very good bookkeeper marked a Legal Expense down as Legal Expense. Also the end of court today judge marchand requested an effort to compel Allen Weisselberg to testify. The former cfo of Trump Organization is currently in jail for perjury. Trumps former White House Assistant madeleine wester helped finished testifying today she said trump signed checks with approved invoices at the white house and saw him do that while talking on the phone or in the middle of meetings. Trumps lawyers are attempting to prove he was so busy as president that he didnt have the time to carefully review every payment he made while prosecuting have characterized trump as very detail oriented. Trump denies payments to cohen were reimbursement for paying off daniels and he denies that an affair with daniels ever happened. So court will resume Monday Morning with Michael Cohen on the stand and the prosecution indicated they could rest their case at some point next week. Thank you very much for that. Neil may be resting the case as soon as next week. What have time to make of that. Former deputy assistant, as well as criminal defence attorney. You talk about faster than we thought. Of course there could be complications to that and by the prosecution done. What do you think . Not faster than i thought because look. What has the prosecution brought to bear . Lets play a quick little game and go over the Jury Instructions real fast. After Michael Cohens testimony and he should be the last witness because the prosecution has saved the worst for last. The jury will have to decide at that point whether didnt donald trump falsify any Business Records . If they find the answer is no game set match. You dont go onto the next part of the analysis. If they find donald trump to falsify Business Record then they have to determine whether he did so to can feel tech conceal or commit another crime. I ask you what crime . Prosecutors since april 22nd have presented no evidence of this underlying mystery predicate crime. This case might not even see a jury next week because it should get a motion to dismiss by the defence team should be made and that on the third one should be granted. Neil its doubtful that would happen as things stand at least with this judge. Other to the point things could change pretty quickly. What do you see happen . They could. I think judges instance in this case would be to send cases to a jury. I suspect thats what this particular judge would do just given his rulings today but i will say this for a case that supposedly about falsified Business Records i keep waiting to hear the evidence of falsified Business Records. Over the last two weeks weve gotten everything from the National Enquirer in the tabloids see in new york to this encounter in a tahoe hotel room but what we havent heard very much about is the alleged crime that occurred here. The falsified Business Records and to the point about the Predicate Act i will falsified Business Records for the purposes of influencing the election. Thats what i think the prosecution is come to rely on michael ko into. So from my perspective the prosecutors have put all the chips in on what happens on monday when Michael Cohen takes a stand. You will connect all those dots. He was the fixer. Thats what Michael Cohen was known for. But i think it was hope hicks who said last week at this time he really was trying to on fix problems that he caused. But that notwithstanding im wondering about these checks that were issued. If they are issued solely from the Trump Organization or trump Business Empire and not campaign checks. Doesnt that remove the whole criminality issue. Doesnt matter if a business is Writing Checks for whatever purposes . Thats its business. Its not campaign issue. Thats a key point because you never lose the right to defend your reputation. You never lose the right to pay somebody not to defame new. You never lose the right to enter into an nda. Doesnt matter if youre running for president of United States or president for the pta. And the fact these funds on the checks were presented into evidence, the funds came from his personal account or Business Account and not from the Campaign Account is one of the many reasons why this case never should have been brought in the first place. And i highly doubt Michael Cohen is going to give us a smoking gun. I view him more as the clown at the end of this rodeo. Let me ask you about the jury. Its not sequestered. Its highly recommended and the judge urges them not to follow Television News or do anything that. But you still have donald trump before a Mystery Court session, after almost can i believe everyone hes commented on whats to stop them besides, you know, the word of honour that they are not following that or exposed to that. Thats what you rely on and it something i can tell you from personal experience that lawyers prosecutors, everyone they worry about. Yes the jury is instructed they are not to look at press Coverage Cannot to consult outside sources but theres not really any policing or enforcement mechanism and i think the prosecutors the lawyers and defence Team Everyone is very aware this kind of chatter either from the president from people on tv wherever, somehow that seeps into the ether. You never know what happens. The jury will go to deliberate. They will Start Talking and maybe its possible that well learn the content of deliberations and if somehow the outside information got into deliberations but the bottom line enormous all of these cases is you never truly can be sure but the jury heard and considered. As you said you need is one juror with his or her doubts but having said that i know and the only one intrigued by this. They have an obligation not to do that not to go listen to news events and all of that. But donald trump while hes not testified and likely i know how you guys feel will testify in this trial but he is testifying outside that trial room. And im wondering if thats partly by design and whether that is a strategy that might work for him. It is genius because lets not forget hes no ordinary defendant. Hes the republican nominee the presumptive nominee. He supposed in the Campaign Trail and has managed to brilliantly take the Dark Dingy Corridor of the manhattan criminal courtroom and use it to get his message out especially remarkable since hes been gagged since day one unconstitutionally so. Im going to be the want to say we tell jurors all the time they are not supposed to look at the news will do their own research and while you want to believe thats happening in the stand age its not. Pick up your phone for any reason youre getting some sort of message. And this case has been front and centre rightfully so. You know theyve gotten some extraneous information. You just got to hope they can be fair and impartial or in this case some of that extraneous information is stuff that they should know though they are not supposed research on their own. Lets hope they can keep a fair and impartial outlook. I have no doubt Stormy Daniels got the most attention whats more so than financial types and representatives from verizon or at t might be talk about emails and the like and im wondering how that resonates because you can time here with a lot of this jury has heard. That sounds absolutely right. In this jury they have a bit of whiplash because the way the prosecutors have presented their case if they have been jumping back and forth between testimony that was titillating but maybe not very relevant to any issues versus evidence thats definitely boring but arguably could be relevant to what the prosecutors actually charged here. So i think one challenge for these jurors and i agree with everyone lets hope to god they can remain neutral and impartial but i think one big challenge their interfaces try to sift through this evidence. The prosecutors have given them try to weed out the stuff that salacious but irrelevant and focus on these boring details the Financial Transactions and issue to actually render honest verdict and deliver justice in this case rather than be distracted by other salacious nonsense its also been presented. Neil tom final word. Great having you on again as well. Thank you both very much. Thank you. Want to throw your attention to wall street. Worried about whats going on with the trial or with College Protests are going on half a world away in israel has a funny way of showing it in case your accounting for another eighth straight advance. Weve not seen that since december of last year and this is by far the best week for all the markets of the year. All of them averaging 2 or so and i should hasten to add much of that driven by optimism with weaker than expected economies and Consumer Confidence numbers tumbling, that the wherewithal for us to want to continue spending is waning a little bit and if you are looking the Federal Reserve to sort of adjust that accordingly and lower rates to deal with that accordingly, thats exactly how investors interpreted and sold often brought on on the data so watching that very closely. We will pick apart things this week and on the weekend show. With the markets are telling us even as we are freaking out in so many other areas. In the meantime freaking out right now over the president s moved to start limiting Arms Shipments and certain kinds of arms to the israelis. Up to now its been really a lot of republicans saying he went to step 24 but now number of prominent democrats are saying those republicans are right. You did go too far. Way too far. We talk with 1 of them after this. 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But officials are struggling to explain how the us can have an ironclad commitment to israel and back its intention to eliminate Hamas Terrorists while also drawing a redline at israels plan in rafah. Where does the us support israels intention to go after hamas and how are they supposed to do that if you have 4 battalions they need to go after in rafah . We have never ever ever told that they can try to finish off the hamas battalions that are in rafah. Weve never told them they cant operate in here. What was told them as the way they do it matters. Neil kirby says the us has communicated targeted careful ways to do that including going after hamas leaders, making sure hamas Cannot Smuggle weapons into gaza through the border with Egypt Greeting Alternative Spaces for palestinians to go for refuge and standing up a government in gaza that doesnt put hamas in control. But Congressional Democrats point to the white houses own descriptions of what israel has done in rafah so far to challenge bidens decision saying it has not crossed a redline so there shouldnt be any pause in the weapons. We are expecting a state Department Report later today assessing israels use of us weapons in gaza. Reportedley will be sharply critical of israel but it will not conclude that it violated any of the terms of us weapons use. However, john kirby wouldnt say today whether that report factored at all into the president s decision here to pause the shipment of thousands of bombs. Neil i know in your great reporting the administration said we are not the first president to do Something Like this and eisenhower to the same Ronald Reagan barack obama. I think the difference in all those cases where they didnt make it a public event in realtime jacket was quietly done this is being exposed to the world and humiliation to israel. Yeah, and you have heard expressions of from the Biden Administration for many weeks may be even months now saying they dont think israel is doing enough to get humanitarian aid in. Yukon simi heer heer them telling israel to dial back what it says its big plans are and you hear the pledge from israel we are going to go forward with or without the support of United States, and descriptions of these big kind of Ground Operations a plan to do. Apparently the closeddoor conversations came to loggerheads in the president and part because of no headway decided to make this public. There was a report describing some of those behindthescenes engagements over several weeks and apparently the situation with the aid workers being killed was another factor in the president s decision reportedly but this is an unprecedented break in the us Israel Relationship since october 7th to put it mildly thank you very much for that. Want to go to Florida Democratic congressman who also has concerns about the message the president is sending. 26 democrats including the congressman signing a letter criticizing that decision to wi