David, who used to run the Southern District of new york, which makes him a great guest, i learned from him, to pull a lawrence is hard to do. I dont have his experience. Going. I dont have his sunny disposition. Sometimes he will say hey rachel or nicole, tonight we have a Sketch Artist from inside the courtroom. We have Justice Stephen breyer, more from that interview. We have emily, former manhattan d. A. Official, and my thoughts from being inside the courtroom. I want to tell you that is what is coming up. Your show is the go to during any time, but especially now. I am upset it takes me as long as it does to get to my office because i dont want to miss anything. I will see you soon. Thank you. I say all that in salute to all of our colleagues. We are reporting tonight on one of the most significant dave yet and trumps criminal trial i will tell you exactly the evidence for what it was so significant. The defendant lost this long awaited gag order clash, began the second lease of testimony. Today, i was inside that courtroom and reporting from out front afterward. I watched the witnesses and the jury with my own eyes, and that can matter more in a case where we have no Video Cameras. I will be reporting what i saw inside the courtroom just as our other Court Reporters have been doing as we rotate. Right now we are going to get the witness in this report and we will start with the big statement from the judge telling defendant from you lost. You violated the gag order, take this stuff down and the worst could be at home. The judge just issued a ruling on gag order violations, finding trump in contempt. They are threatening to throw the republican nominee for president in jail for talking. He was only ordered to not speak about witnesses, jurors, Court Personnel or families. He says in part that this was a willful violation by donald trump. I can see the site of the defendants face as he watched. He looked composed or nonplussed at times. He threatened him with jail time if he violates it again. That all happened today. Legally the defendant, donald trump is not in control of any part of these proceedings. The judge is the individual in our Government Process at this point in the trial who determines both what constitutes violating the gag order and what the punishment can be if he does it again. What you have here was nine violations from online posts like by the d. A. And reviewed by the judge, 9000, but the real threat is what was said today. Trump continues to attack witnesses or violate the order, he could face jail time, the judge saying he just will not tolerate willful violations of the orders and if necessary will impose on incarcerated tory punishment. You can tell from the root word, incarcerate or incarceration, i have the same document. That is the one part. The whole thing is longer and we saw the lawyers scurry out of the room and review it, but it is that word, incarcerated tory that got everyones attention. The defendant knows what that means. He heard that. In a sign of compliance, the trump team swiftly took down past online posts that the judge deemed violated the order. That occurred also during the morning break. The prosecutors called a witness from cspan to confirm that basically the videos of trump that they showed the jury were valid. So the jurors could see from all of us that it was a big issue back in 2016 the trump is facing these allegations from women about relationships. I was thinking about this in the room watching these jurors who all look like new yorkers with their notes out. To the best of my ability, i cannot tell you that they look like super political nerds and i also know from watching the voir dire that they answered a lot of things by saying i kind of remember i dont remember that. People are busy living and this is eight years back. If you are watching this, you might remember, but not everyone does in today was the first time that trumps voice was actually heard within this trial is a watched these videos. I have no idea who these women are. These are lies being pushed by the media and the Clinton Campaign to try and keep their grip on our country. They are all false, they are totally invented fiction. Everywoman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. The events never happened. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over. Michael cohen is a talented lawyer. That is some of what was played. That is late october 16. So again, if you are just a regular citizen not obsessed with this, you might not know that in late october 2016 this was a big enough issue that it was coming up day after day that the candidate was talking about at the access Hollywood Tape, connected to not only what he said, but to these other things, which we now know from this very interesting if nothing else set of evidence in the trial was just the tip of the iceberg tried to keep back the other stories and allegations. The prosecutors brought out that witness to attest to the videos and the jurors saw that. The key witness was former attorney first Keith Davidson. He was on the other side of cohen in these transactions. That is a sketch of him you see, but Keith Davidson is not a household name. We have always tried to talk to everyone we can. If you happen to watch the news back in the day when all of this first came out, Keith Davidson was someone we spoke to here on the beat. The affairs happened in 2006. Michael and i first contacted each other about the matter into thousand 11. At a minimum, they knew about me and about stormy and into thousand 11 and 13 and 14, they knew about it into thousand 15, they knew about it when from declared he was a candidate. I was looking at that, you see him recounting how long this had all been going on. The d. A. Put davidson on today, that is long before we have heard from Michael Cohen. It may be because davidson does not have the kind of credibility issues that house. The bad news for trump was a davidson is still confirming the same key details that we know cohen confirms because we heard what cohen has to say. The negotiations with the inquirer which had what became an obviously clear agenda of burying these stories and the jury saw this compelling evidence i mentioned between davidson and top National Inquirer editor. This is a repeat into a process that even at the high levels of campaigns you dont always see because it is secretive. A lawyer tipping up the inquirer about the former playmate as a blockbuster trump story. The Tabloid Editor responds i will get you more money than anyone. You know why. Now if it was years ago and you got your hands on that sort of text message, you might not know why. They apparently did. Now the rest of us do, the National Inquirer had this unusual deal of catching and killing stories. They did it for more people than just trump, but those other people are not on trial in this new york courtroom. Now when asked what that meant, the lawyer response he knew the National Inquirers publisher and trump were friends and had a business relationship. We are going from that old text to this testimony today against trump. He went on to say they wanted to close deal quickly, that abc was interested in the mcdougal story. I know there is a lot going on, but abc is the kind of network we would expect to share, to publish, broadcast the story if they got it because abc is a traditional news network. Not so much the inquirer and they are doing with the d. A. Says is the work of the trump campaign. The inquirer said they would lay it on four google and then davidson said good and throw an ambassadorship for me. He said the comet was unjust, but it refers to something the d. A. Wants to prove, that this whole part was about trumps candidacy that somehow, if Karen Mcdougal had this deal with ami, it would help trumps candidacy. Even a joke by text can become criminal evidence because it goes to what they are saying. A props up what cohen is saying. It confirms a lot of the testimony we have heard. Trump is presumed innocent. Theyre trying to meet the burden by stacking up these different people saying this was about the campaign. It was not about some Privacy Interest of trump who is so known to jealously guard his privacy. That is not really his thing. They also try to corroborate this conspiracy with the prosecutors saying is it safe to say if you close the deal it would benefit trump. Davidson confirmed today yes. The inquirer reached an agreement about 150,000. We learned today, i was there watching as they went back and in the jury seemed interested, they started out with an ask of 1 million for mcdougal mama which is a lot. You can see these jurors who are just people with normal jobs leaning and go you get 1 million for that you make ultimately they landed the sum of 150,000, which we knew. Davidson testified that cohen was pleased with the deal. Prosecutors also discussed the Stormy Daniels steel and claimed that it was the same motive. Take a woman who talks about this past history with trump and the videos they showed in the morning that showed trump could not afford one more scandal like this and get the deal done. So davidson confirmed that the access Hollywood Tape was driving all of this because donald trump was already looking at a very tight race, losing race and could not afford another scandal. David texted the inquirer guy. Trump is screwed. Howard eggen has a boss who is trying to help trump inset of the time waved the white flag, it is over. Davidson said the inquirer then backed out. That was why he then ended up negotiating directly with cohen. Also criticized did you believe cohen was going to be the ultimate source of the funds and this is where the sort of pot took a turn and they are showing is all to the jury text by text today. He responded never. Never prior to the funding. The prosecutors say where did you understand the money would come from and he replies from trump or some corporate affiliation, basically trump or some shell bank. Then he discussed his frustration, saying dylan, the inquirer tells me to push for the cash and tells me to call cohen. When i call cohen, he says i am not paying anything. Davidson testifies it is one more snafu. I thought cohen was trying to kick the can down the road until after the election. At this point you may say why did the prosecutor spend so much time on those details . You might even say what is the Newscaster Spending so much time on the details you mac they are not little details. They go to the heart of the criminal motive that the d. A. Is trying to prove because if this was all just a coverup of private stuff, you dont really get that second crime, you dont get the felony. There is business fraud, overwhelming evidence for business fraud, but that is a misdemeanor. If you prove against the backdrop of everything i told you they went through in one day in court, trump in October Lamenting and clapping back against these women who are making these allegations in the access Hollywood Tape in the money deal and the feeling he was hanging by a thread and then you add to that the idea that as long as they could keep it quiet until the auction, that is all they cared about. You start to say was this private money or free press and the press can do a lot of things. Tmz buys stories as well. Was it Something Else . Was it a secret off the Books CampaignCrime Program you mac where Michael Cohen and the inquirer moved a lot of money around in they did not reported to the fec and was not there to the other candidates and they got caught. That is what they are trying to prove today. We have two experts here to break down how far they got on proving that. We are back in 90 seconds. 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Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Step back out there with fasenra. Ask your doctor if its right for you. I sat down with the prosecutors about 20 hours in total. 20 hours with sd and why. To put together through the questioning where they are going and what evidence they believe is important, and i think yes, they are of the opinion that it was politically motivated. Youth davidson, star witness talking to us years ago about a different investigation, the feds looking at the same question, was a a politically debated Campaign Crime . As promised, we turn to our experts, emily basson and bringing this case, duncan levin. Welcome to both of you. I have to be in the courtroom today. We have been rotating, but irrespective of that, it was a very busy day with the Gag Order Ruling and the star witness. I went through what we learned. Do you think the d. A. Moved the ball today . I think he did, i think you are seeing different witnesses confirm each other and overlap in this presentation of evidence, all pointing toward trying to influence the election, and what is allegedly a conspiracy to do that i catch and kill, by taking these stories, paying for them, you know, clear references to the idea that it was cohen who is going to provide the money, but it was on behalf of trump, and that is the most important set of facts, that the prosecution needs to prove in order to make this stick. Being in that room, i will read from the text i mentioned, it also got the jurys attention. Everyone looked at the defendant and how he is reacting. This was the text from when they were discussing the story, the editor says we will put this up, did he cheat on milani a . Davidson, says i cant say yet. Sorry. The allegation would continue on to include that time. That it was that allegation. Some of the sketches grant that, as i mentioned. What does that do in a case like this . Will the jury remember that . No doubt that this will be something that the jury takes with and even though the judge has stopped the prosecutors from introducing some of the evidence in the case that is most salacious and with this is the way of the prosecutors getting up before the jury and you may be forgiven for forgetting that this is a falsifying Business Records case with all the salacious details coming out, but what the prosecutors are trying to do is establish that this is a case where there was a conspiracy to commit Election Fraud and this dealt with the election and this Testimony Today Put Trump at the center of the conspiracy and conversations and showing that Michael Cohen did not really have authority to act on his own. Emily, we will put the sketch backup. It was such a moment and it really underscored the fact that whatever the jury hears about Michael Cohen, there will be some conflicting information on credibility. There is a lot of people who seem to be reporting out along with Text Evidence Reporting out the same stuff cohen says. Right. That seems to be what is crucial in terms of setting up testimony. You have david packer, the jury starts out with him, now you have Stormy Daniels, you are creating a set of buffers for cohens testimony and then you have the parts of the alleged conspiracy and hopefully by the time from the prosecutors point of view, hopefully by the time the jury hears from calling, they are set up to believe him because all these other people have already put the Building Blocks there for him to stand on. What do you make of how quickly the violating posts by trump came down once the judge actually said you know, you violated this and you might go to jail if you dont shape up. This is the judges courtroom. He gets to make the rules, and trump can bait him into the kind of fines we saw today and the threat of jail time. Once that is real, i think you see trump, like many independent living to protect himself from these kinds of consequences, and all of a sudden, the more domineering approach that trump likes to take, the way he wants to see himself, it has a cost and his lawyer said to him we cant have this during this trial. I showed earlier the actual video of trump. I mentioned the jury is experiencing is and the rest of us and some of us may be over informed, or index. I would not expect you to disagree with random citizens of this to remember yeah, october, that was this chapter, you know. August was about clinton and october, that is not really how most people remember it. They remember they did not like a certain candidate, and check for the prosecution in an environment where everyone says is this political or fair is that they are so proving a campaign related case, trying to show a motive in october with those videos while disclaiming the idea that any of this is targeting him because of his