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Trump Hush Money Trial

hush money payment he paid to stormy daniels, that those were not reimbursements. those were actually just retainers for michael cohen, correct? >> what's at issue in this case is business records is entries and president trump's personal ledger that reflected payments to michael cohen as legal retainer payments. it's worth noting those entries were made by a mid-level trump organization official in trump tower while president trump was in the white house running the country, it's also worth noting that michael cohen was president trump's lawyer. and that therefore we believe these records were both accurate and not made by president trump, and those are two fatal problems with the prosecution's case. so again we believe if the jury is able to dispassionately just view the facts and evidence in this case this is a winning case for us president trump did nothing wrong how much of the defense strategy is based on undermining the credibility of michael cohen, who as we've

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Trump Hush Money Trial

category called prior bad acts, things i'm going to raise about behavior you have been engaged in are alleged to behavior and/or criminal trials or civil trials rather different and then about whether you'll be questioned to try to undermine your credibility. >> it's not for the jury to say, listen because this person did x, y, and z bad, they must have done this crime. >> it's to give greater context, especially for a pattern of behavior in this case, largely around the idea of maybe a karen mcdougal and giving her money initially or a bad a catch and kill all or about falsifying business records in the past, it gives some idea for the actual jury of what he may have been doing in this context. >> so one of the things that the prosecution wanted to bring up ellie and karen is the access hollywood video which we all remember from october 2016, not a pleasant bit of business there for mr. trump or for billy bush for that matter explained what the jury what a judge has ruled on that matter. >> so the prosecution wants to introduce evidence of that

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

michael cohen's credibility, david pecker is going to introduce not only the documents but how the documents were generated, how the communications went down, how this entire catch and kill scheme was orchestrated and who was behind it. and by the way, he is and was donald trump's friend. we may hear about conversations that he had with donald trump. the key for the people here is they have to show donald trump's intent. they have the checks. the checks have the signatures on them. they have the documents. they have to defeat the defense's argument, i'm the head of the corporation, i sign the checks. i see no evil, hear no evil. >> that's a good example of what pecker can bring to the conversation as opposed to cohen. >> he was one of the three men in the meeting when the whole scheme, according to prosecutors, were set up. >> catherine christian and danny cevallos, thank you so much. really great seeing you.

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

statements twice against jean carroll, yes. that goes to donald trump's lack of credibility and dishonesty. >> it was to hear todd blanche say donald trump is like us, he's a husband, a father. again, even though these 12 jurors and six alternates have said clearly, i can be fair and impartial, both of sides will tell you they didn't expect to get a juror that doesn't have an opinion of donald trump. >> you're expected to have some level of ideas or attitudes or feelings, if you will, toward an individual person. that's not prohibited. the question is can you be fair and impartial. i did want to talk about the lawyering that we're seeing. what it does, it makes it very apparent and it's a clear indication that everyone understands the stakes here.

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

belief these decisions by judges. >> exactly. it shows a pattern of deceit, fraud, dishonesty, which is what you're allowed to cross-examine the witness and the defendant about if he should take the stand. >> and sexual misbehavior. >> he will not be allowed to be crossed on that. the judge thankfully was very fair. they cannot cross him about being found liable for sexual assault or being found liable for false buying business records. that would be considered too prejudicial. this shows what a good and fair judge juan merchan is -- >> that's such an important clarification. you don't want to overload and just say he's a bad person. therefore, he did this. you want to ask him about questions that go to his dishonesty, his lack of credibility. sexual assault, no. violating a court order when you're not supposed to talk about the judge's court attorney, yes. over valuing assets, yes. defaming twice, making false

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

i wonder if you're one of those folks and how important is it to establish the credibility that you have, that your team has? how important is not just the story you're telling but the way you're telling it? >> chris, it's critically important. and it is true. i think to say in the trials i've had and i'm quite certain everyone that's on here today would tell you some of these opening statements are some of the most momentous parts of every trial. why? because the jurors for the very first time are hearing the evidence the government's going to produce and hearing what the defense is going to produce in contrary to what the government has put forward. just as importantly, the jurors are not just looking at the defendant and trying to make a determine as to whether they're guilty or not guilty, but they're listening to the lawyers. when they go back into the jury room, they're going to spend a great deal of time talking about the lawyers. what kind of tie they wore. what they were saying. how they acted. so here, mr. trump's lawyer got up from front of this jury for

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

stage. he's the one, of course he was in charge of at the head of ami, in charge of the national enquirer. it sets the stage and just sort of provides for the jury. it started as soon as donald trump announced he was running for president. >> charles, does it matter that they were long time friends, associates, people who worked together for a long time? does that give him more credibility? >> i think it does. the prosecutors are going to tie that into their narrative around why you should believe him and why he's credible. i think when you're setting the stage, giving a jury a very clear picture around what's happening, you have to give to the jury a reason why you should be believing these witnesses and their testimony. so for the reasons you've just mentioned, i think that pecker is going to be a very important witness for that. not to mention it's very important that the audience understands this is a case that quite frankly is really centered on the documents in terms of the documents and the paper trail and so that's not exciting for a jury. you don't want to lose a jury.

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

i have final say on the celebrity side. are they not supposed to but they just might consider that when they're assessing his credibility or what he has to say? >> they will, but they'll also assess that he was a friend of donald trump. and did what donald trump wanted. the defense wants them to think the other way. this is just something who is a sleaze. the national enquirer pays for it. that's what he does. so it's going to be interesting. it's going to be the battle between the defense and the prosecution over credibility. how credible is the prosecution witness. >> and i don't think, andrea, that we have ever seen an interview with david pecker like most of the other people who have come out and given interviews. not david pecker. >> they tied him up very early as a prosecution witness. probably one of the first people they went through when deciding whether or not to pursue the case. a case that explained the previous d.a. had decided not to

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Your World With Neil Cavuto

>> sandra: interesting. john calvin former president and his team are spending a lot of time as he steps out of the court room, you know, just ripping in to the credibility of this case. well this is former attorney general bill barr, i can say is not exactly a big trump fun at the moment, here he is ripping the hush money trial. listen. >> even convicted in the -- in new york about thing is a travesty. you will ultimately be overturned that will come after the election. but him in opinion there is no crime there at all. >> sandra: surrender the prosecution go with this? >> here's the problem for the prosecution, it's at -- as andy said, they're probably the back because they don't have the law on their side. this is one of those cases were actually trump has the latah county attorney general -- because the job of the da in manhattan is not do police federal elections. it's not the job of the va to

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The Rachel Maddow Show

there was a picture on the front page of the national inquirer which does has credibility. they get sued for a lot of money if things are wrong. and there was a picture. all i dade is point out the fact that on the cover there is a picture of him and crazy lee harvey oswald having breakfast. this was a magazine that frankly in many respects should be very respected. i mean, if that was the new york times they would have gotten pulitzer prizes for their reporting. why didn't the national inquirer get the pulitzer prize? >> why didn't the national

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