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he was once the former president s lawyer and fixer but he spent the day on the stand outlining how he made a payment to the adult film actress, stormy daniels, to stop her talking about a relationship she claimed she had with mr trump. the defence is expected to stress mr cohen s criminal record and openly stated dislike of his ex boss. nada tawfik was at the trial in new york and gave us this update. michael cohen and his testimony is crucial to this case, prosecutors hope that the conversation that michael cohen are shared between him and donald trump directly tie his former boss to the hush money payments and to the allegations that trump falsified business records. michael cohen testified that everything was done with mr trump s sign off, he said the donald trump even ran for president, he warned michael cohen to be prepared for negative stories that a lot of women would come forward. when they eventually did, michael cohen says the stormy daniels story was one ....
then lose the confidence of the jury. special live coverage of donald trump s hush money cover up trial continues. right now. thanks for watching. i ll see you back here in three hours s you re watching cnn special live coverage of donald trump s first criminal trial. i m wolf blitzer, our nation s capital, laura coates is outside the manhattan courthouse worth today michael cohen laid out once again today the who, the what, and the why behind that payment to silence porn star stormy daniels. he detailed two jurors how the hush money scheme continued after trump became president of the united states talking about a february 2017 meeting he had with trump. and then trump organization, chief financial officer, allen weisselberg, and a set up how trump was going to pay cohen back for the hush money initially paid stormy daniels, laura yeah. and wolf cohen also described the fallout after the fbi raided his properties back in 2018, describing what cohen testified woul ....
i m dana perino manus jesse watters, harold ford jr., jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. did i say jesse watters? i am so sorry! it s judge jeanine pirro, of course, i m so sorry, guys, it s been a long day. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. all right, team trump taking a jackhammer to mr. fix it as they begin their heated cross-examination of michael cohen, which the prosecution says it will be their final witness. trump lawyer todd blanche coming out guns blazing, grilling cohen about disparaging public comments between what has made about the case, including tiktok potion which he calls trump a dictator d-bag and even attacks on himself. blanche saying, you went on tiktok and call me a crying little [bleep], didn t you question to which cohen replied, sounds like some thing i would say. blanche went on to paint a picture of michael cohen as a trump stalker. cohen saying, at that time i was knee-deep into the cult of donald trump. but it all ....
catastrophic for his 2016 campaign where that come out before voters went to the budd s. but did michael cohen convinced the jury that trump himself directed him to pay off daniel s to protect from election. i m going to ask a criminal defense attorney who was in the courtroom for today s testimony. and live images right now from baltimore, where a major demolition is just minutes away, engineers plan to use explosives to remove parts of the francis scott key bridge that collapsed back in march. and by the way, the 21 member crew on the ship that caused the collapse they re still on the boat and they re going to stay on board for today s demolition plus a frankly puzzling move by russia s whenever putin, he fired the head of the russian military and replaced him with an economist, the money man. as russia is running out of weapons for war. but let s begin outside the new york courthouse with the new york hush money cover up conspiracy. case. cnn s paula reid there and p ....
you have to your point, to both of your points. you have the physical evidence meaning the documentation, the text messages, the signed checks. you have all of the corroborating witnesses, david pecker, and now you have michael cohen. is this proof beyond a reasonable doubt? we ll figure that out eventually, but it s all pointing in the right direction. what more do they need from michael cohen? they re going to need that direct evidence that he acted in furtherance of donald trump i think they re going to be able to do that well with sounds like the prosecution is really doing a great job laying out the calculated narrative through michael cohen but then also corroborating it in a meticulous manner with the text messages. there was an objection but it was overruled. this conversation that cohen was testified to is supported by the documentary evidence. when they get to stormy daniels they re going to be able to show the checks, the ledgers, all of that stuff. i thi ....