Trump about to come facetoface with an attorney who flipped and him as Michael Cohen takes the sand. Happy mother eggs day. Im bill hemmer. Dana we worked together for four years, you never do this to me. I dont anticipate you testifying against me. It is weird if you think about it. Im dana perino. This is americas newsroom, glad to be with you for another week. Today cohen is the star witness in braggs case against trump. He served a three Year Prison Sentence for charges relation to hunt Money Payment and lying to congress. Disbarred lawyer and known as Donald Trumps fixer. Bill cohen will be sitting feet away from his former boss as he testifies on the payments he made teep president s behest. A huge crowd in new jersey. Telling the crowd this whole thing is a sham. Ive come here from new york where im being enforced to endure a biden show trial. Carried out by Radical DemocratDistrict Attorney and a highly conflicted judge. He is corrupt and highly conflicted. So conflicted there has never been a judge more conflicted. Dana senator tim scott is here. Andy mccarthy and Jonathan Turley join us live. Lets get to eric shawn outside the courthouse to kick us off this morning. So far no witness has directly tied the former president to the charges against him. But starting today the prosecutors here are counting on Michael Cohen to do just that. When cohen left his Upper East SideApartment Building this morning he was uncharacteristically speechless as he headed to court. For years he was known as trumps lower pit bull. Confronting enemies, challenge rivals and wield a legal pen like a knife all to protect his boss, whose office was just down the hall at trump tower. He is expected on the stand to lay out what prosecutors say was the illegal scheme to help protect trumps president ial race by paying off Stormy Daniels and lying about it. He is expected to say he met with the president in 2017 in the oval office and agreed to pay cohen back for the 130,000 he gave Stony Daniels and called the reimbursement as Legal Expenses. Trumps lawyers will point out he lied under oath to congress, served federal price on time for tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign violations. And the jury has already heard him described as a difficult, hopeless jerk. The former president constrained by the gag order in this case had plenty to say about cohen during his civil trial last fall. He is a liar. That has proven. He is a convicted felon, went to jail for lying, and this is their only witness. Michael cohen has arrived at the courthouse and waiting in one of the rooms to take the Witness Stand. The former president hasnt yet arrived. The faceoff and fireworks begin about half an hour from now. Bill and dana, back to you. Dana thank you, good to have you. Bill South Carolina republican senator tim scott, trump surrogate. Feeling comfy in South Carolina today. How do you think america is watching this trial knowing no cameras are inside and trying to piece it together on their own . You know, bill, there is a clear objective here, simple, to keep President Trump off the Campaign Trail so that he wont have rallies in new jersey with 100,000 people there. If your star witness lied under oath, if your star witness spent years in jail, thats not a case. The bottom line is this. In america, you are innocent until proven guilty. They arent trying to prove his guilt. They want to make sure he doesnt win on november 5th. The twotiered Justice System counts to frustrate americans and another reason why we see trump rising in the polls. Americans at our heart believe in fairness. We believe that lady justice must wear a blindfold. It doesnt matter the name of the person in court. It matters our Justice System has no thumb on the scale, our Justice System will serve americas highest ideal that you are innocent until proven guilty. This is a sham. This is not a courtroom. This is a stage to find the president guilty not in the court, but in the eyes of the public so that he does not win on november 5th. This is shameful. Dana senator scott, President Trump yesterday was speaking about the electoral map. Just to remind viewers at home. You dont just win on a popular vote you have to win in the electoral college. President trump talked about that this weekend at his rally. Listen here. Were expanding the electoral map because we are going to officially play in the state of new jersey. We are going to win the state of new jersey. Were also looking really great in the state of minnesota, which hasnt been won since 1952 and were leading in the polls. The state of virginia and actually many other states. I dont know, could be all of them. Dana yesterday there was a New York Times poll that couldnt make the biden team happy. The trump team is saying okay, were in good shape here and a lot of these battleground states. Including nevada if you look at that, 50 to 38. Incredible. One of the things that nate cowan of the New York Times brought about black and hispanic voters, younger ones, threaten to unravel President Bidens coalition. Youve been thinking the republicans can do this for quite a while. Is this is republicans opportunity to finally turn a corner with these voters and hold them . Weve had no better opportunity to win back black voters. We havent done this since 1964 when republicans, more republicans voted for the civil rights bills than democrats. Since 1964 we havent seen this opportunity, dana. 20 of the black vote goes for President Trump. There is no Democrat Party. You dont need 30 . 20 of the black vote decimates the Democrat Party and well control the house, the senate, and well have four more years of low interest rates, low inflation, low unemployment but high enthusiasm and frankly, well have a president who stands loyal to our allies and lethal against our adversaries. President trumps contrast to President Biden could not be better for the working class. Africanamerican voters had more money in their pockets, hispanic and white voters and asian voters. This actually unifies our country, it leads to healing in our country when we have a president who understands that the best revenge is success. Im looking forward to four more years of President Trump and that means we will run the tables across this nation and we should have a 50 state strategy. We have to win in detroit, we have to be successful in philadelphia. We have opportunities to win in places we havent done before. Im not talking about the states. Im talking about blue cities that have had a monopoly on minority votes. That day is coming to an end. Bill i find most interesting how many states are right at 50 in that New York Times poll. Tim scott, thank you for your time and appreciate that. Well speak soon. The other thing is this, most americans think the system needs to change, right . 55 in that poll suggest major changes. Dana 14 wants it entirely torn down. Bill you have that out there. Now the middle east. Lets get to it. This is Anthony Blinken speaking over the weekend talking about gaza on cbs and what comes of rafah. And when it comes to the use of weapons, concerns about incidents where given the totality of the damage thats been done to children, women, men, it was reasonable to assess that in certain instances israel acted in ways not consistent with international law. Dana now do hamas. This is pretty incredible. You can understand somebody like netanyahu, the Prime Minister of israel, is saying we want the United States as our ally, we cherish that. But if you arent going to be there for us well be there for ourselves. Bill well get to Garrett Tenney in a moment from the New York Times editorial board. Jerry sign seinfeld and stands up at duke university. It is that enforcement the leadership of too many universities has fallen short. Dana the thing is i think its Worth Cheeping in mind there are 30 students that walked out and got the headlines. It is rude and terrible but not like the entire student body. A handful of these numskulls are getting a lot of credit. Bill you had a chance of free, free, palestinian and all it went. We are talking about that. Listen to it right now and watch it. [shouting] dana that was the scene at Duke UniversitysGraduation Ceremony over the weekend. There were a couple dozen students walking out at comedian seinfelds commencement address. Antiisrael protestors disrupt college life. Garrett tenney is live outside of Depaul University in chicago. What happened there, garrett . Students are preparing for the possibility of a raid by police after negotiations with School Officials broke down over the weekend and students ignored a Noon Deadline by the school to clear out of the quad behind us. As you mentioned over the weekend, protests taking place at Graduation Ceremonies across the country including at vcu in richmond, virginia, dozens of graduating students walked out as Governor Youngkin took the stage. They marched around the building in caps and grounds calling for the school to cut off all ties with israel. And at uc berkeleys ceremony Saturday Hundreds of demonstrators repeatedly interrupted the program with loud chants that you could hear over the schools livestream. Those disruptions not winning over folks who came to just celebrate the graduates hard work. I cant hear the speakers at all. We work hard for four years and truly this is a degree, were extremely sad. Our son came here to study engineering, not idiocy. We waited for this day for a very long time to see my son graduate. He is the first in our family to do so. And it is really disturbing because i understand their feelings but its not the appropriate time or place. There were some tense moments at the University Of Washington yesterday when more than 200 people marched on campus as part of a proisrael counter protest. There was a heavy Police Presence and officers installed barriers around the encampment on campus to keep the groups separated. Organizers ignored the schools request to move out by last friday as the size of that protest has grown to 100 tents. Back at depaul officials havent said they plan to send in police. It is the last remaining encamp. In chicago. Graduation still a month away here. Dana thanks for the update on all that. Bill were awaiting the story of the day. Possible remarks from former President Trump. We expect him to speak any moment now. This before Michael Cohen takes the stand. So minutebyminute well tell you as it happens. Dana were ready to go. Another major case getting underway in new york. Jury selection beginning this morning in the Corruption Trial of new jersey senator bob menendez. Well have the latest from both courtrooms. For any traveler you want to be. Like a Craft Cocktail Connoisseur at the Cambria Hotel bar. Or mr. Tackled the inbox so its room service time at a Radisson Hotel book direct at choicehotels. Com ohh, effervescent. Did you know you can get 40 off a single pair of glasses at americas best . These savings wont last forever. Unlike your eternal elation. Ok, settle down. Shop online or book an exam at americasbest. Com. Would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not donald trump. Mark levin, great guy, brilliant man. Our judicial system has blown up. Its broken. Andrew mccarthy, trump should be acquitted in manhattan. Only a defendant of the plethora of constitutional infirmities in the prosecution it should be thrown out for the most basic of reasons. Bragg cannot prove his case. They have no evidence and im innocent. This is a political witch hunt. Nobody has seen anything like it. I tell you what, the Appellate Division judges should step in. What this judge is getting away with is disgraceful, including the fact that we have thousands of people, 100,000 people in new jersey. They would like to show their support. It is like an armed camp outside. You cant get one person within three blocks of this courthouse. Gregg jarrett, you take a look at this statement, were in the fourth week and there is still no evidence whatsoever connecting trump with any criminal wrongdoing. A crime thats not charged, a crime that in which prosecutors wont even tell the defendant what it is. We have records and they talk about bookkeeping. We call a Legal Expense a Legal Expense. We dont call it a construction expense. We dont say concrete work or electrical work. We paid a lawyer a Legal Expense. It is marked down in the book Legal Expense. It is perfectly marked down. The other side says lets indict him anyway. This comes from biden and the white house, by the way. They have their top people here because he cant put two sentences together. The worst president in the history of our country. Cant speak, cant walk off a helicopter, a plane or a stage. And the only way they think they can win is if they can do something with trump because we have an income peent. The worst president in the history of the United States of america. Jonathan turley after bragg closes the prosecutions case, the defense will make a motion for dismissal. Merchan, who is so corrupt and so conflicted, like no judge has ever been, and the press doesnt want to write about it. But you know exactly what were saying. Merchan should grant that motion for dismissal. There has been no showing of a crime. They failed to protect the rights of the defendant from the baseless politically motivated prosecution. Thats Jonathan Turley. All very talented legal ex experience. But the big thing today seems to be the times. Im sure they were thrilled. I respect them for at least letting it come out and there it is, trump leading by a lot in every state. Every Swing State Leading by a lot. This trial is rigged. It is dishonest, a disgrace to new york and a disgrace to the country. I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long. This is a biden prosecution. It is election interference at a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before. This is third world country, not the usa. [shouted questions] dana and thats going to do it for his comments this morning. He said quite a lot there starting off with the polls from over the weekend, which were not good for joe biden. Bill kennedy is with us, paul mauro. Paul, begin with you. Msnbc, he represents Michael Cohen. They speak every night and spoke last night and going back decades, in fact, lanny davis said that cohen will say i own these lies and now im telling you the truth. There is an old saying in trials, once you lie once, no matter what you do, what the jury sees is a liar, period, end of story. You can double and triple tap that with Michael Cohen from now until doomsday. As he said, he has to own it and try to convince them this time im telling the truth. Yeah, they have some paperwork. He will say it. But they will probably look for some way to corroborate all of this, otherwise what do you have . A he said, he said. Michael cohen and donald trump trying to tie him to the two charges involved. One of the problems as weve been speaking about. Unusual in any trial. We dont know what the second crime is. So donald trump doesnt really quite know how to defend himself. There is a split even among the commentators at fox. Some people think the second crime is federal election crime. Some say its the state one. It matters. Bragg doesnt have jurisdiction over the federal one. When we spend so much time what the crime is shows it is shaky. Dana this is the judge telling prosecutors to tell their star witness, Michael Cohen, to shut up. He said i would direct the people could many unindicate the judge is asking him to stop making any more statements about the case. That comes from the bench and you are communicating that on behalf of the bench. Michael cohen didnt care. He is on tiktok selling things and he wants merchandise and wants to have a show. He is not listening. He is very desperate and doing anything he can to make money at this point. He is also very unhinged. And yes, he is a convicted liar. He is in such a pickle. I think his testimony has the possibility of making Stormy Daniels look like a sympathetic nun by comparison. He could really fall apart on the stand. He is not doing himself any favors and lookin