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Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . ...

Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Manafort is turned his direction. One can only imagine what is going through manaforts mind, because if you believe the prosecution version of the case, gates knows all his secrets and is about to expose them to the jury. If you believe the defense version, gates is setting manafort up and framing him. Well have to see which version the jury believes. Ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is manaforts defense right now . They were really motoring through gates testimony. Generally this cour...

Competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we're going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we're going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to a...

The alex murdaugh trial, prosecutors calling key witnesses back to the stand in their final push to prove the disgraced lawyer murdered his wife and son. >> and what does the shooter do? >> he shoots paul in the back of the head after he passes him. >> reporter: prosecutors poking holes in the defense's argument there were two shooters. their crime scene expert walking the jury through the defense version of the crime, trying to prove they got the bullet analysis wrong. >> i think the theory is preposterous, in my opinion. >> reporter: the prosecution taking aim at alex murdaugh's emotional pe...

Of russia joey hall. i just want to start with that letter from a trump lawyer, a signed document in the spring or early summer that said no more classified documents there. it seemed there were classified documents in these boxes taken from mar-a-lago. who is on the hook for that? >> you want the prosecution version or the defense version? >> yes. >> here is the bottom line, as lawyers -- good morning, john, brianna -- as lawyers we are officers of the court, that means we have an independent obligation to exercise what we call due diligence. due diligence means before you make statements to ...