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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

here. judge merchan just read to them, quote, you are responsible for the final decision and just informed formally jury number one that he is going to be the foreperson, leading those conversations among the jurors and the alternates. this is a moment here where we await opening statements, and after that, likely the first witness, david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer" to take the stand. what's so compelling about david pecker who was a one-time friend of donald trump and who the prosecution intends to present to the jury as an individual who concocted this plan with michael cohen and donald trump at trump tower in august of 2015, the fact he hasn't spoken publicly throughout all the years about what unfolded. he worked with federal prosecutors a and state prosecutors providing testimony and evidence, but it is still not clear exactly what he has to offer to the district attorney's office. we should note that david pecker and american media incorporated

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

>> reporter: again, there are a lot of big question marks, exactly what the prosecution was going to try to argue about donald trump's knowledge ahead of the 2016 election about the payment to stormy daniels, and we can tell you now based off of prosecutor matthew ka lang low opening statements inside of the courtroom literally in the last 60 seconds, he directly says that michael cohen had discussed with trump the stormy daniels story, in october of 2016 and that those conversations led to donald trump being frustrated and acknowledging that he did not want the story to come out, that it would be devastating to his campaign. for timing purposes, this was just days after the access hollywood tape came out in 2016 when of course there were republican allies, the rnc that were concerned about donald trump going on to be the nominee over the course of that month.

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Morning Joe

have the stomach for another challenge to the speakership. all that being said, as republicans go back to work this monday, what's the atmosphere there, and what's the future of speaker johnson? >> look, i think they might not have the stomach for it, but they might get it nonetheless. we, thankfully if you're mike johnson, have a week of a cooling off period right now. although they were in on saturday, they've now got a week of recess. the fact that congresswoman marjorie taylor greene did not privilege her motion, effectively make this a more urgent crisis upon their return in a week, that's probably good news for the speaker's office. but there is a reality here where, in my conversations with republican members, they are very frustrated at the fact that this is once again a looming threat to their majority. they don't know who could possibly take the position of this speaker. i candidly don't know why anyone would want the job, especially not at this point. the reality for mike johnson, i

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

want to be clear, what we have not heard from prosecutors really until now is these specifics that michael cohen had conversations with donald trump in the days after the access hollywood tape when he was made aware of stormy daniels' allegations and her desire to come forward. he then engaged with donald trump, according to the prosecutors about how to silence her story. and that for several weeks after agreeing to all by pay her auch off with a certain amount of money, they tried to go several weeks the prosecutors lay out from actually paying her, and that is when stormy daniels according to prosecutors became frustrated with the delay. just two weeks before the election, michael cohen made two phone calls to donald trump on october the 26th, and the prosecution says that cohen called the defendant and then ended up crossing the street to a bank and opened a new account,

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CNN This Morning

involve him. >> and one of the things that i think we're going to see is them really try to pick apart the prosecution's witnesses specifically michael cohen, and make the argument that these individuals who are trying to prove or make the case that trump did do things wrong, just aren't reliable, credible people. >> why do you think they make the decision to start with david? here? he obviously was the person who basically said, okay, i'll i'll keep an eye out. try to keep bad stories out of the tabloids for you when you're running for present and i think the argument is that is running his own business and making many decisions by himself, that even if he had conversations with the former president, which they probably are going to try to make the case that he did not. >> that these were choices that he ultimately made, that not that did not involve the president. their whole argument minutes that the president is innocent that he did not do this and having another businessman command showing how he operated his cooperation could help them make that case.

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CNN This Morning

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Sportsday

seen _ that at the same time, i have not seen three — that at the same time, i have not seen three penalties that were not even looked at in that way, in a big, _ even looked at in that way, in a big, big — even looked at in that way, in a big, big game, by the way. that is also controversial. do big, big game, by the way. that is also controversial.— big, big game, by the way. that is also controversial. do players ever talk about the _ also controversial. do players ever talk about the referees _ also controversial. do players ever talk about the referees and - also controversial. do players ever talk about the referees and the - talk about the referees and the referee's allegiances before the game or at half—time, you say he is a such and such fun. game or at half-time, you say he is a such and such fun.— game or at half-time, you say he is a such and such fun. swan might ask who the referee _ a such and such fun. swan might ask who the referee is _ a such and such fun. swan might ask who the referee is and _ a such and such fun. swan might ask who the referee is and that is - a such and such fun. swan might ask who the referee is and that is where | who the referee is and that is where the conversation ends. there might be conversations after this because of what _ be conversations after this because of what has happened, because it has been such— of what has happened, because it has been such a _ of what has happened, because it has been such a big moment in the premier— been such a big moment in the premier league, it might be those conversations now happen in the future _ conversations now happen in the future. ~ ., conversations now happen in the future. a, ., , our senior football news reporter simon stone is keeping across this all for us — and simon, there seem to be conflicting reports about whether forest voiced their concerns about stuart attwell being the var before the game at everton?

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CNN This Morning

be some satisfaction at least that someone's taking responsibility it's interesting at max netanyahu, it's seems in the wake of these attacks from iran is almost been strengthened in this way as that, as those attacks from iran had been launched on israel, it has kind of reinforced his repeated messaging that we've talked a lot about here. that while we can have conversations about out a political accountability until we're done with the war, until we're kind of out of this immediate situation, that kind of throw him a lifeline in this kind of strange way. i mean, certainly it changed the politics on the ground here in washington in terms of the movement of aid to israel getting out the door and the house speaker mike johnson, finally act we asked him to the pressure around that. is this all unfolded? what is your sense of how events have kind of turned things at for netanyahu, even of course, as we have the administration, the biden white house basically saying they want to make moves

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

rally. he tried it hard to muddy the waters. he brought women who accused bill clinton of sexual assault into the room at the second presidential debate in st. louis, shocking everyone. but you could see this very intense effort by the campaign to sort of try to mitigate what they saw as a deep liability in the final weeks of the election. >> this was literally the final weeks of the election, some of these conversations were carried out the end of october. eli, trump is clearly involved in his own defense while he has attorneys are trying to paint him as a hands off, frugal businessman, a family man. how does that contradict the narrative of those who maybe know the former president better? >> i just think anybody who's spent time covering the white house when donald trump was president or his organization, you know, they can all tell you, and people who have been on the inside of those -- of the trump corporation or the trump white

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Trump Hush Money Trial

he did not go to trial in federal court in the southern district of new york of the following. first of all, of campaign finance violations very relevant to this case. >> 2nd of all, of making false statements to congress relating to donald trump's efforts to build a trump tower in moscow. >> michael cohen said that those conversations were fewer in number than they actually were and stopped earlier than they actually stopped. what michael cohen pled guilty to, called 18 usa 1,001, false statements, and it makes it a crime to quote, make any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement to government body, including congress. he also, this is important. michael cohen, sometimes says, well, i only ever committed crimes for within, for donald trump. not true. he pled guilty to tax fraud relating to hiding 4 million of his own personal income. he pled guilty to bank fraud but in relation to multimillion dollar loans relating to his bank medallion business. and then this is where it gets really crazy when he testified earlier this year at the civil fraud trial, he testified when i pled guilty

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