First week of testimony comes to an end. Protests over the war in gaza are spreading across Americas College campuses. With the growing unrest could mean for president bidens re election campaign. From books online to e commerce giants, how amazon became the retailer with everything, everywhere, all at once. The 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. Good evening, im jonathan capehart. We are now 193 days away from the election and today, attorneys for president ial candidate, donald trump, tried to poke holes in a tabloid publishers sworn testimony after four days stand, david pecker wrapped up testimony in the trumps New York Criminal Trial , that he helped the Trump Campaign by covering up true but damaging stories about him. We then heard from tumor witnesses, a banker and trumps longtime Executive Assistant. Here is Laura Jarrett with moore. Check by the prosecution closed out the first week of testimony by offering the jury a peek inside the Inner Workings of the Trump Organization, from one of the people who knows the former president best. The state briefly called rona graff, trumps longtime Executive Assistant to the stand this afternoon. She confirmed contacts were saved on the companys Computer System for Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels, and prosecutors say both women were Shopping Stories of affairs with mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election , encounters that he denies. At the heart of the case, 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen made to daniels so she would not go public, and how prosecutors say that payment was disguised. She testified that even though she no longer works for the Trump Organization, the company is paying her legal bills. The jury also heard from a former banker and First RepublicBank Employee who helped to facilitate the payment , but the day began with the defense team seeking to undercut testimony of david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer, and a key witness for prosecutors , testifying at length about how he helped to silence people who could have hurt mr. Trumps election chances. Trumps lawyers sought to raise questions about david memory and motive. David pecker was defined at one point, saying ive been truthful to the best of my recollection. The Tabloid Mogul also undermined the idea that trump wanted to bury those stories about women to protect his family, a common refrain from the defense. Instead, he said he believed it was all to protect his campaign. I do have to begin by wishing Melania Trump happy birthday. Reporter Melania Trump was notably absent at trial. Court will not based on session monday so the trial resumes tuesday at 9 30. With that, lets bring in our leadoff panel, john allen, politics reporter for nbc. Eugene scott, Senior Politics reporter fracks yes, and the former federal prosecutor and Senior Writer for political magazine. Thank you for joining us. Trumps former longtime Executive Assistant testified for half an hour. She was known as The Gatekeeper and set a Company Directory and numbers for Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal. She also said the Trump Organization was paying her legal bills. Why, what did the Prosecution Gain from her testimony . They introduced a small fact, which is that the Stormy Daniels cant Contact Information is in the system. I suspect that was presented because we will see the prosecutors attempt to establish that trump and Stormy Daniels did, in fact, have an intimate sexual encounter which trump has denied, and trumps lawyers denied in the opening statement. I think this is the first piece of evidence and i guess that there would be more. My guess is prosecutors want to be able to say to jurors at the end of this, you dont have to just take her word, we have additional evidence, trump is been saying shes lying, and this and that. That, to me, is the significance, because if the prosecutors can establish that trump, to the extent that they can establish that trump is lying about anything, its helpful to their case. Its a big point. Hes denied hes had this encounter but appears that it did in fact happen. Michael collins banker was briefly on stand today and it seems the prosecution is starting to dig into the records. We are talking dollars and sense, who signed what, specific dates on specific documents. How crucial is it that the prosecution nails this part so they dont have to worry about whether the jury buys the testimony of say, Michael Collins . Its absolutely crucial. These are very highstakes. The witnesses that we are hearing from now are people who have, i think, a greater record of credibility than michael cullen, who will be the star witness and the one that is easiest for the defense to undermine because he has pleaded guilty in the past to lying. When you see this come up, whether its The Gatekeeper or the banker, there testifying to what to be small, pedestrian things, like our Banking Transaction works or whose phone number is in the system. That is all the prosecution like a predicate for their story, laying out the details for the jury of each little piece and trying to build credibility before they ultimately get to michael cullen. They will rely on him as a witness, but they are also going to help and try to make an attempt to have all of these other pieces stack up at side of what cullen says and point to what cullen says so that what he says is greater credibility. Lets talk about the order of all of this. The prosecution starts with a blockbuster witness, david pecker and are moving into the nittygritty. What strategy goes into this sequence . Is the mac i think its largely chronological, so far, as i can see it. They are just trying to tell a story in a simple, chronological fashion, the best way to tell story is often chronological, but i think thats is happening and i expect at some point, perhaps next week, they will start to move into, how are these records, these payments booked internally in the Trump Organization that maybe next week, or the following week and the child needs to get there. Thats the meat and potatoes of the actual charges against trump. Eugene, trump keeps complaining about the trial keeping him off the campaign trail, and wednesday, when it was his one day off from court this week, he went golfing. Obviously, he does not want to be in court, but is it fair to say he does not seem to care that much about campaigning, either . It difficult to make the argument he is prioritizing getting his message to voters who are not already on board with him. He would use this time, if he was, to try to win over independent voters, swing voters, undecided voters which, frankly, is will a larger percentage of the electorate than some people would communicate. Instead hes prioritizing is a pastime which should not be a huge surprise to anyone whos been paying attention to his presidency. He often went golfing during moments when people thought he could do a better job of connect thing with americans who were not sure they had as much confidence in his ability to lead the country. John, on the other hand, youve got president biden. Hes been very busy on the campaign trail, and he is starting to talk about trumps trial , at least a bit. At one event, he said he has not had a chance to watch the proceedings because hes been campaigning. In the past, he has avoided talking about trumps legal trouble. What does it say, that that is starting to change . It says that people around to see Donald Trumps charges that he faces in four cases, as his greatest liability and the Biden Campaign and biden himself are talking about that, they are missing an opportunity to do political damage to donald trump, who, by the way, is making the allegation, not supported by facts or any evidence, that biden is actually using the legal system against him, weapon rising it against him for political gain. Biden is taking that, but had not been getting trump on these charges that he faces. We saw it in the earlier case where biden played around and said, you know, donald trump might be alone, might be having financial problems, but i think what is going on is biden trying to go as far as he can to hit trump on his biggest vulnerability without going so far as to support the argument that trump is making, that biden is intentionally weapon rising the Justice System against him. Yeah, eugene, the president sat for an incredibly revealing interview with howard stern this morning. For the first time, he said he would be happy, happy to debate donald trump. His campaign refused to commit to a debate for a while. So, why say it now . I think he was getting quite a bit of criticism from those on the right, that he was not able to talk about the Policy Issues that matter most to many voters, specifically those outside his base, and that gave trump a leg up and trump was using that on the campaign trail, suggesting the president was fearful of him, but i think his we get closer to the election, would biden and his team realizes that he has to adopt new strategies to communicate to voters why he is superior to the former president and one way you can do that is being on stage and going towards these Policy Issues. We might see this happen sooner rather than later, where they are in terms of bringing it to fruition, its not clear, but theres a shift as we do know this is not something that the president seems interested in taking forward. Anybody who thinks that joe biden does not want to debate donald trump does not know joe biden, im just going to put that out there. During that interview, the president spoke openly about how much he struggles with a tragic car crash that killed his first wife and oneyearold daughter in 1972. Listen to this. I used to sit there and think to myself, im just going to take a bottle of scotch. We always had liquor in the house, i mean my house, as well. I was just going to drink it and get drunk and i could never bring myself to do it. I actually thought about, you dont have to be crazy to commit suicide. If you been to the top of the mountain and for a brief moment i thought, maybe i would just go to the bridge and jump. Truly incredible. The president went on to say that he strongly urges anyone struggling with Mental Health to seek help and go to therapy. But, how remarkable is it to hear a president openly talk about contemplating suicide and what does it tell us about biden, a human being . Its remarkable, thats the right word, and it might be an understatement. President of the united states, candidates in the past, have never wanted to suggest that they have struggled with any Mental Health issue or in the case is talking about, he doesnt even think its a Mental Health issue, given where he had been and what had happened in his life to be in that place of contemplation, but this is not the kind of thing most candidates would talk about it i also believe it is something that is a unique biden strength and has been a strength for him for a long time, to be able to talk about loss, to be able to talk about pain and tragedy in a way that connects with his fellow americans and connects with voters who have had loss in their lives orix Variance Pain in their lives, and have that empathy and be able to emote and be so authentic in that moment with howard stern, that the great strengths of joe bidens. Its probably not enough on its own to win the reelection, but it is, when voters look at the candidates and stack them up, the empathy they have for him and his ability to have empathy for them is one of those Character Traits that i think stands out. Its an hour and 15 minutes long, that interview. It is spectacular in just how raw and human the president is, and funny, as someone who has interviewed the president twice during his presidency, i have to say, that was the best interview ive heard with president biden. I want to get back to the new york trial. We are a week into the testimony. How is the prosecution doing and what are you watching for in the coming days . The prosecution is doing fine, so far. Again, they are early stages, laying out the the national enquirer, Stormy Daniels , the banker is on the stand talking about the mechanics of the payments, this and that. Theres the common Metaphor Prosecutors use, is building a Case Brick By brick, they want a wall of evidence at the end. They are dropping bricks and pieces of evidence and isolation may not seem so fascinating but they are building a wall. Whether it leads to conviction remains to be seen, but its hard to render any serious verdict on this, because they have not gotten to the main event which is, not just Michael Cohen, whenever he testifies, but there needs to be some evidence, ideally, that trump himself was aware of the way the payments were booked potentially being unlawful. Its not enough. The Hush Money Payment is not illegal by itself, nor are the machinations Michael Cohen went through to pay her, but what is allegedly illegal is how those payments were booked. We have not gotten to that, yet. That is what i am waiting for. If the evidence on that score, about trumps knowledge of the legal implications will come exclusively for Michael Cohen, that would be a major achilles heel for the case. All, thank you for joining us. Stomach when we come back, Campus Unrest is ramping up around the country and we will get into the politics of it during an election year. Amazon has worked its way into all of our daily lives from the packages at your doorstep to your doctors office. We take a closer look at its road to domination and how it has changed our economy. The 11th hour is just getting underway on a friday night. I. A key source of your asthma inflammation. Enter nucala. It isnt your Rescue Treatment and its not a steroid. Its an autoinjector you can do at home. Just once a month. Nucala targets and reduces eosinophils and helps your symptoms. Think less asthma attacks. Less need for oral steroids. Less asthmarelated hospital visits. Nucala is a oncemonthly addon injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. 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