America reports. We are in the fourth week and there is still no evidence whatsoever connecting trump with any criminal wrongdoing. A crime that is not charged. Its a crime that prosecutors wont tell the defendant what it is. I dont know what they were going to do. This trial is rigged. It is dishonest, its a disgrace to new york, its a disgrace too the country. Sandra that was earlier and now a live look outside this newark Supreme Court where a jury has been hearing directly from the prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen. X attorney for former President Donald Trump. Hello and welcome everyone. I am sandra smith in new york as we kick off a new week. John center, glad to have you backward im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. Ct. In lunch break now. So far Michael Cohen has testified that his duties at the Trump Organization included killing negative stories about his boss. He started detailing the steps to shut down the Stormy Daniels story before the lunch break. Sandra the testimony could make or break this case as the prosecution works to convince the jury he is a credible witness despite his checkered past. We have expert analysis across the next two hours to cover everything that is happening and that has happened so far. John first to our Senior Correspondent eric shawn live outside the state Supreme Court. Eric they started to delve into the Stormy Daniels affair. We are likely going to hear a lot more about that this afternoon as court resumes. That they did, john. What a dramatic way to keep the jurors on the edge it just before they broke for lunch. Michael cohen did testify here in court. The former President Trump was worried about Stormy Daniels alleged affair story getting out and it would harm his campaign. That is the heart of the crop prosecution case against the former president and it is the first time we have heard that from a witness in this trial. In his test one of this morning, he said that the former president told him that he needed to do whatever he could to keep the Stormy Daniels story under wraps. Past the election, he said this is the first time that a witness has tied trump to the concerns that stormys story could damage his campaign. Thats what prosecutors have tried to say that there is a conspiracy to pay her off and hide the reimbursements to cohen. All his legal expenses. Cohen said the president said just take care of it. This is a disaster. A total disaster. Women are going to hate me. This is going to be a disaster for the campaign. Push it out as long as you can, just get past the election. If i win, it has no relevance and if i lose, i dont even care. He also testified that when they first heard about Karen Mcdougals claim of an affair with drum, he said trump told him shes really beautiful and make sure it doesnt get released. For the second time the jury heard the audio of trump and cohen talking about paying mcdougall. Cohen admitted he secretly recorded this on his iphone without trumps knowledge while sitting at his desk. When it comes time for the financing. What findings Question Rick we will have to pay them. The defense, when they get hold of Michael Cohen, they will try to drill into them. Not only has credibility but also challenge him over his claim. Former President Trump has said in this case that the Stormy Daniels story would hurt his election chances. That is what prosecutors have been saying all along but leave it to the defense to see if they can undermine and cast doubt to that because Michael Cohen so far is the only witness here who has claimed that. Back to you. John we will see when they get there. Eric, thank you. Sandra lets bring in Leo Terrel Beard Civil Rights attorney and fox news contributor. It is great to see you. Lets remember, put it up on the screen. Vanity fair 2017. Who Michael Cohen was and said he was then when he said he would take a bullet for the president. Im the guy who stops the leaks, im the guy who protects the president and the family. Im the guy who would take a bullet for the president. My how things have changed. Now he is the prosecutions biggest weapon apparently. And he is a convicted felon. He lies and he lies over and over again. He has a hatred toward trump up to his testimony he has been on tiktok. This witness has no credibility. In the real testimony of Michael Cohen will start on cross examinations. Spew and hes telling a much dit story now than he was telling back in 2018. This is what he said to the New York Times. In terms of the payment to Stormy Daniels but he said, neither the Trump Organization or Trump Campaign was a part of the transaction with with clifford. And neither reimbursement of the payment directly or indirectly buried the payment to miss clifford was lawful and not a Campaign Contribution or a Campaign Expenditure in any way. I remember having a Phone Conversation with cohen when he told me that he took out a Home Equity Loan to pay for all of this. Put all along the same lines of what he told the New York Times and yet he was out there on the stand and now here he is out on the stand telling a completely different story. What is the jury to make of all of that . Exactly. Let me tell you whats going to happen. The real testimony starts with the letter, john. He is going to the prosecution has to deal with all of his lies and the fact that he is a convicted felon. He is reversing himself. How we deal with that is going to be very interesting and lets not forget the elephant in the room. The cfo, allen weisselberg. He just made reference to alan weissberg. They wont even call it. When i submit to you as you have a witness. The only witness the prosecution will present as far as linking trump to a crime and this witness has no credibility. I will tell you right on the air this testimony will last three or four or five days. Expect the defense to have them up there on the Witness Stand for three days. Up until right now there is not a single shred of evidence that President Trump participated in a crime either falsifying records or to hide a Campaign State or federal finance charge. Sandra ive been out for a few days. If you were to write the headline for this trial so far. Up to just this past hour where they have taken this break. What would it be . You a big zero for the prosecution. Judge, do the right thing. Declare a mistrial and a verdict in favor of the defense. Sandra it has been something to watch. You look at the last to come out of the courtroom before they took this break. Cohen asking trump how things are going Upstairs Meeting with milani appeared trump telling how long do you think hes going to be on the market for Question Rick not long. Talking about all of this in the Access Hollywood tape. It truly shows that his concern was with his wife and how it would expect his family. And thats the key point. Hope hicks brought that out. Everyone listening to this Program Prosecution is not interested they are interested and damaging his election chances. Someone handed a copy of the New York Times. You saw the rally in new jersey. This is backfiring and you have democrat judge, prosecutor, everyone trying to get trump on this legal attempt. Its not working, sandra. John leo terrel, thank you for kicking us off this afternoon. We appreciate appeared a lot more to come as the days progress. Right now lets bring in fox legal editor carrier bonds. The case that the prosecution is trying to make is that all of this was in benefit of the campaign. In his testimony, he went some distance toward satisfying the story that they are trying to get out. When they talk about the Stormy Daniels news coming out and he broke to trump because Michael Cohen had taken care of the same thing back in 2115 years earlier. He said trump was really angry with me. I thought you had this under control. I thought you took care of that. Michael cohen said he took care of it in 2011 peer trump reiterated just take care of it. This is a disaster, a total disaster, women are going to hate me. This is going to be a disaster for the campaign. Hope hicks last week testified that the former president was really concerned about what the impact was going to be on milani appeared who do you think has greater sway with the jury . At this point i would think its hope hicks because Michael Cohen has a track record of lying to court, to the media, to congress, to the irs. He does not have a lot of credibility at this point. But you know, we heard a lot from Michael Cohen this morning about how much he and donald trump spoke and how involved donald trump was. But this does not play to the heart of the issue. We dont know what donald trump knew about the ins and ounce of the payments to Stormy Daniels. How he knew, how is classified, how it was arranged. We havent gotten there. One thing that has struck me is how much Michael Cohen prided himself on fixing things for donald trump. It seems like he lived off the affirmation. He said that working for donald trump for a decade was fantastic. It was a wonderful experience. The reason i bring that up as if one is a really good fixer with which supposedly he was, a good fixer make sure that their principal does not know details that could potentially harm them down the road. They try to make distance so that principal can claim possible deniability. I think its going to be a bit of a jump for the jury to hear from Michael Cohen how he did all of the stuffer trump, how it meant so much to do a good job only to find out what hes going to say in a couple of hours, actually i told him all of these things that can probably get him in trouble down the road. Thats not what a good lawyer fixer would do but on that note, i was surprised to hear again more about this recording that was introduced into evidence. The fact that a lawyer would record his client secretly and bring it to the publisher of a magazine just to show the publisher dont worry, my client will pay you and i want your loyalty. Talk about violating basic tenets of attorney privilege. Sandra one of your last notes struck me when you went to the heart of cohens credibility which is what we are walking in the courtroom today. If he was happy, trump would be happy that he doesnt have to pay but painted a completely different picture. Cohen going ballistic. It would be interesting to see if the defense raises us on the cross. Do you expect to happen . Definitely. Cohen made it sound like he was so happy that he knew trump would be happy because he didnt have to pay but as you just s said, david painted a completely different picture with him going ballistic saying the boss is going to be very angry but he was saying this is going to be happy because he doesnt have to be the number. Ive seen this in the coverage after the organization. Access hollywood story being bad and damaging and catastrophic. Weve heard that from a number of witnesses. That is stating the obvious. Anybody who lived through october 2016 knew that story was going to be bad for donald trump politically. But just because something was bad for him politically doesnt mean that the steps he took thereafter were wrong illegally and the prosecution is yet to make that case and prove that crime. We will hear what Michael Cohen has to say this afternoon to that point. John what do you think the defense will do when they get a chance to crossexamine Michael CohenQuestion Rick mike eichler who was on with us last week was on with us and i put the question to him. He said i would eviscerate him. The defense has gone easy obviously on witnesses like hope hicks. They went pretty easy on run a graph. You think they will take the long knives to call in here . They will go through all of the statements he has made in the past that completely contradict what he is saying now. Im sure they will bring up statements where he talked about donald trump caring about the impact of the story on milani and all kinds of things. I expect them to bring up Michael Cohens own words against himself. Sandra that will be an exciting afternoon. We look forward to it continuing shortly. Thank you. John we will talk soon. We are watching as a lawyers question the star witness a new york Versus Trump Criminal Trial On The Stand trumps former fixer Michael Cohen. Bill hemmer has a coveted seat inside the courtroom. He will be going in right after the lunch break joining us in the next few minutes he will join us to talk about what he is expecting when he goes into that court room has been described in varying terms. Standby for that. 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. Out this blue jays, cardinals, orioles. Whats missing . 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Ingrezza sandra we will head back to Lower Manhattan where the prosecutions star witness has taken the standard former michael detailing his relationship with his exboss. Bill hemmer at the conclusion of his show ran down to the courthouse. He is doing is live from there. We anticipate court will resume a short time from now. You are outside the courtroom and you will be inside that courtroom shortly bill but your thoughts so far. Big media circus down here and it has been this way for a month and i could go into detail later on that but you have a dozen, dozen and a half tv trucks that have been part out here for the last month. Heres what i think right now. Its the toughest ticket in town and its more difficult than the rangers, more difficult than the New York Knicks beer theres only a couple dozen seats inside that courtroom. What we tried to do over the coming week is get a bit of an alternating which we and our colleagues to get inside and get a taste of whats happening inside that courtroom. When i see you at the 4 00 hour, sandra, i can deliver that to you. What i think is significant today is this. Today is Michael Cohens day. Michael cohen in all likelihood will be on that stand all day today and probably into tuesday as well before you get any sort of crossexamination. My colleague from fox business was telling me that he is speaking very slowly, it is very deliberate, and therefore this is a long day and will be a long process. A couple things to keep in mind about Michael Cohen. Remember, he pled guilty to lying to congress. He served three years in prison. He pled guilty to a criminal counts including unlawful Campaign Contributions. That is his background. Go back to 2017. Early after that election, Michael Cohen