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hello and welcome to our special, new york versus donald trump. we have breakdowns on this entire riveting week of testimony including friday's emotional moment for longtime trump aid, hope hicks on the stand. this is one of those weeks that showed how prosecutors are proving on this case, putting forward stormy daniels. called to confirm a very damning story that we have heard will come from michael cohen. they have done it this way to confirm it from the jury. then, corroborating all that is what we told you about, the receipt of checks, the contract send then, ending this week with a rearview inside donald trump's uppermost senior aide

and brain trust, longtime trump eight hope hicks taking the stand friday and taking jurors and the rest of us into the secret meeting discussions as the access hollywood tape broke as trump and the aides assessed its damage. hope hicks, you see there with donald trump. that is a coveted post in any campaign, especially in his, someone who is up on this page and on the plane and that is the role she had. this is important testimony, including the deals to silence these women. it matters because this is reliable testimony from a longtime trump loyalist. that is hard for the jury to ignore. it is also, from a person as a witness who has clearly decided to cooperate with these kind of probes, to testify under oath. that is the better course for ms. hicks. i want to mention that she did not today. we have some context leading up to friday's testimony. she did not in testifying against january 6 and the high-

stakes probe, you may remember, she cooperated. she discussed what she knew under oath. she talked to investigators. even discussed her own private text on that day, january 6, when she told others she was so upset. quote, everything we worked for wiped away. what you see on the screen is the way we experienced different probes. january 6, they had the cameras on and we saw her talking. under new york law, it is transparent. we have the sketches but we don't have video cameras in court. both times, to be clear, hicks was a key witness. she is cooperating and that itself has led to this reported falling out with trump and now the defense. she said she was nervous today, from the stand. she answered questions confirming she is under subpoena, paying for her own lawyer. in a moment that does matter for jury, hope hicks broke down

crying on the stand at one point. she was seen there crying as was reported and discussed. it was, apparently, best we can tell and from the reporters in the room and the wider context that we have, a genuine displays emotion for her as she felt the weight of this motion, though raw pressure about testifying on her longtime boss who literally sat through her entire testimony, watching. maybe the details were tough for her to share in this manner. remember, hicks went from eight close aid in the trump business to that campaign as press secretary, a key post for a candidate obsessed with press. while trump has had his famous following up with many different aids, a lot of people do not last through the first year of the administration. for example, she kept his trust and became the white house can negations director. she witnessed every trump scandal. her testimony this week hurt trump when she said that he had his hand in everything. he was very involved.

we were all just following his lead. she discussed the priorities of the campaign and communication. why does that matter? the point is not whether he's some apprentice style boss or not. it is a much narrower point for the jury. it undercuts one of the trump defenses i have told you about. he is entitled to his defenses but one is i am out of the loop, i am busy, other people are getting this stuff done. this is hope hicks. this is not just nobody. she is saying pretty much the opposite. he was hands-on. he set the lead and they followed. she also confirmed about what we heard from another witness this week, that rhona graff was crucial. that was corroboration. if the trump attorneys get up and say who is this, who is that, the jury has hope hicks. they have the evidence. they see how senior a position she held and she is the one corroborating this evidence. in another blow to trump's efforts to find some sort of distance from the inquirer, hicks also confirmed with her own eyewitness account that she has seen and heard trump talking to the inquirer chief, david pecker , who was a witness earlier. some congratulating him on a phone call after the tabloid went after then trump rival ben

carson. here is what is interesting about that. at the time, in the room, she knows more than most people but she might have still thought that trump was just working the press like usual. you call the inquirer one day. you call fox the next. now, however, the jury is hearing this wider testimony and understanding that this is a potential confirmation of how the tablet was carrying out donald trump's campaign -- this is not like calling someone and discussing them doing their independent reporting where you might share ideas or a quote and then see what they report. this was, according to the da, more like him calling someone who was operating publicly, commercially, as an arm of the campaign but doing it the book. that is part of the crime the da is trying to prove along with the hicks testimony being so significant. i will tell you, there is more. hope hicks also took the jury inside trump world in a very

unusual way. in a very private panic moments when the campaign was rocked by the video you see on your screen, the bombshell access hollywood tape. remember, nobody knew this thing existed at the upper echelon of the campaign except for maybe donald trump might or might not remember what he said. this is not just any witness as i emphasize. prosecutors determined hicks was actually the first person to bring the news of this impending video bombshell inside the campaign to the campaign manager to trump. again, you and i might remember hope hicks. part of the jury might not. not everybody memorizes every aid on every white house campaign staff. boy are you going to think she is important if you determine when the washington post had this bombshell, the person they went to they knew was a top aide who would get right to trump and the other leaders, was not the campaign manager, was not some other friend or family member. they went to hope hicks the

washington port reporter contacting hicks with this impending bombshell scoop and a deadline for any additional response they wanted to get. she rushed into the campaign leadership. there was a palpable panic and she testifies that the initial response was that you need to hear the tape to be sure but, quote, deny, deny, deny. she recounted how candidate trump privately knew this was going to be a massive story, she said. this was a crisis. now, take that in and say what are we talking about? we are doing campaign memories? we are doing one of these documentaries where we go back and look at the old campaign? no. the point is not that hope hicks has fascinating and sometimes never before heard details about that pivotal campaign moment, although she does have them. the point is, that she was eyewitness to donald trump's apparent motivation, which the prosecutors say, is now part of the criminal intent in what they have indicted as this cover up and campaign ability. hicks testified that trump saw

all of this as chiefly a problem for the campaign. i will redo this key passage. sometimes the key passages are just someone saying yes or no. prosecutors said trump was concerned these reports could hurt his standing with voters? hope hicks says, quote, yes. that is some of the strong testimony the jury heard to end this weekend a lot of folks probably remember where you were when you first heard about this tape and its raw admission of grabbing women by the. you might remember the fallout. hicks recounting that very intense period, describing to the jury how it dominated coverage, leading up to the next big moment which is the presidential debate. this was back with clinton and trump when a lot of people that trump was already down. this was a body blow like no other. this is legally relevant

to whether donald trump was, as his lawyers have suggested, either not involved, did not know what is going on or to the extent he was involved, it was a personal thing or was it a campaign thing. we put together in the context of our reporting, beyond what ms. hicks said today, some of that explosive period in the campaign homestretch. >> donald trump's presidential campaign in turmoil tonight, facing withering political fallout. >> house speaker paul ryan release this statement, canceling trumps event. i am sickened by what i heard today. >> former republican presidential nominee senator john mccain pulled his endorsement. >> he drops from 41 to 38. on the weekend after everybody has seen the tape, he falls through the floor. >> that is why they are driving the republican party and donald trump off the cliff and into the political abyss. >> mitch mcconnell called trump's comments repugnant and unacceptable. >> you do not recover from this. this election ended. all i can say is i am sorry. >> now, it did not end but that was the mood. republicans did turn on trump in the 2016 homestretch.

that kind of reaction might be a little bit politically unrecognizable today. in the last few years we have seen entire crimes and convicted sedition and insurrection dismissed by republican party leaders. a reminder of how much i changed once trump did get out from under that october scandal to go on to win the electoral college. this all matters in the trial because it speaks to the campaign motivations that i keep mentioning to you. hicks was standing on that point, telling the jury that republicans ran congress or had the nomination of pat cycles and particularly sharply worded statements against trump over this issue, over what he said on the tape and whether that is how he dealt with women. she mentioned, for example, romney, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell. executors view hicks' accounting as key to what they are still trying to prove to the jury, why donald trump would, in october, take such extreme -- they allege criminal -- acts in the campaign's

waning weeks. he was losing party leaders. his whole campaign was panicked. his own top loyal aides saw the problem. he was losing the narrative. he was losing the press, a lot of the mainstream press. while trump still thought -- by the way, let's be clear. politically, this was true. he thought at the time that he did have a narrow path left to the electoral college and to winning. he also perceived that one more story or allegation that linked up with this tape scandal would certainly do him in, a guy who has all this bluster in public, a guy who never admits to losing and private. according to his own aides, under oath, he is a bit of a different guy. that is why he is affected. when you deal with someone like this, they play different roles. in private, he thought, i am losing for sure and i am toast if one of these stories comes out. that, prosecutors say, is how he and his campaign leadership viewed the story daniels and terry mcdougal story. hicks confirming the da's

argument with evidence, with her eyewitness testimony that michael cohen and the inquirer -- enquirer had to bury both of those stories and do it as a campaign block for trump to keep that open. hicks asking michael cohen to get the tabloid publisher's number on november 5. i told you about the receipts. it does not matter what the jury thinks of the two people in this communication or what they are doing. what matters is whether they think people have told the truth and what they have said about what happened matches the other documentation. this is bad news for trump because these texts are in the evidence for the jury and this is a good confirmation that you can get in writing between key people who were both trump loyalists at the time, going back to the tabloid chief david pecker. hicks testifying she asked because trump wanted to speak with him and so she connected the two of them. but, she did more than that. she also connected the dots.

if this sounds like it is bad and damning evidence against donald trump, it is. i would remind you that just because it sounds bad doesn't mean the story is over or he is guilty. he is legally presumed innocent and they have to use the high bar of the unreasonable doubt for 12 people. so, if they convinced 10 or 11 people that everything you just heard really did happen and it amounts to this crime and it was this cover up, that is not good enough. they need all 12. i say that to say that when we followed this case, as we do in our special, we are not looking at the jump ball. we are not saying is a more likely than not? we are saying whether the da is carrying this burden and how the evidence may play with this a jury. they certainly seem to have moved the ball this week. we have melissa murray and andrew wiseman as part of our special leading us off. we are back in 90 seconds. seco.

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i was becoming increasingly concerned that we were damaging his legacy. >> what did the president say in response to what you just described? >> he said something along the lines of, you know, nobody will care about my legacy if i lose.

>> trump eight hope hicks, that is what she looks like testifying under oath. that was in a different proceeding where we had cameras, generally six probe in congress. we are now joined by our lawyers for this special, melissa murray and andrew weissmann. andrew, i know both of you watched this closely today. what did you think of ms. hicks' testimony? >> i think your description of her testimony being a body blow is totally accurate. this, i think, took a sledgehammer to a major defense. prior to her testimony, a big gap in the da's arsenal was, did donald trump know about the payments to stormy daniels as hush money payments? the da had conceded he did not sign the actual agreement that michael cohen signed and that stormy daniels and her lawyers signed but there was a blank with respect to the signature block for the president. also, michael cohen had said

with respect to the payments he had sent to mr. davidson, maybe i will have to pay on my own. donald trump will not pay in advance. there is a lot of concern about how will they link donald trump to the actual hush money payments with respect to stormy daniels. david pecker had already given a link with respect to karen mcdougal at the doorman but the case is really about the stormy daniels payments and her picks, a reluctant witness who tearfully said -- this is from within the trump campaign -- donald trump told her that he was aware that michael cohen had made these hush money payments. he tried to say i only learned after the fact. by the way, it doesn't matter. as long as he learned it and knew it before he was making all of these reimbursement payments, that is good enough. hope hicks -- >> if you reimburse someone for

buying you crap, use are still on the hook. >> yeah. she also suggested she did not believe donald trump's story, that this was something that michael cohen did out of the goodness of his heart. she said, that is not who he is and he likes to take credit for things. she also said, i don't believe that story. her words are substance. it doesn't matter. you will hear from the da. it does not here whether she believes him or not. as long as you now have donald trump knowing about the hush money payments to stormy daniels, that is the predicate for the false business records. a major gap that the defense seemed to want to exploit has been completely closed by a witness who i say is going to be just impossible for the defense to say was lying and

just remember this because it was so palpable in court, that she did not want to be there and did not want to give this testimony. >> melissa, your view on the testimony this past week? >> i think i am a little less muted in my response to hope hicks. she did close that loop for the prosecution but she did also close some loops for the defense as well. she emphasized that donald trump was very, very cognizant of his own view of the things that had happened, certainly in the wake of the access hollywood tape, she was very concerned about her, he respected her a great deal and had instructed hope hicks not to deliver certain newspapers that would cover the story to their residences so she would not see them. that would be a big part of the defense here. they only have to establish reasonable doubt for a single jury. again, they will make the point that this was never about the

election. this was always about his wife. to be fair, as andrew said, she does link donald trump to all of this and his concern about the election. there is a lot of testimony there when the stormy daniels situation does come out in the press in 2018 where he uses that better for this to have come out now rather than before the election. i think that goes right to the prosecution's case. it is also the case that hope hicks herself may have opened the door for some probable impeachment of her character by the defense. she notes that she did not even see the access hollywood tape but her immediate response was to deny, deny, deny. a classic thing to do but it does suggest that she was already making the case for donald trump without actually knowing what had transpired on the tape. >> we are talking about alternative facts so that is where it becomes common. the question is, which had do they have on? i do think she

has some potential standing with the jury there and unless she is the most incredible actor ever, most people can't cry on command. most people are not able to do that. what juries do is use their eyes and ears to assess whether they think the current version that they are hearing is true or not or if somebody is lying on the stand. i want to also draw your attention to how different a world it is. we all know what things have been like the last few years, how people feel about politics. i mention that in our reporting at the top of this program. just go back and look briefly at how donald trump sounded in one of the only public statements he has ever made that could be called a partial apology. i will remind you how much of a problem this was in october. take a look. >> i have never said i am a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that i am not. i have said and done things i regret and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who i am.

i said it. i was wrong and i apologize. >> i was wrong and i apologize, quote, unquote. not a deep fake, melissa, an actual statement under duress. how does that work in the story that the prosecutors are trying to tell through these witnesses? >> that goes to the point that the prosecutors have been trying to make. andrew is right, hope hicks helps to furnish that that he was concerned about this, concerned about what it might mean with the electorate if news of karen mcdougal and stormy daniels came out especially hot on the heels of the access hollywood tape. it is a long time since this happened. we have had a pandemic. we have had all kinds of things. are the jurors going to remember that in october 2016, this is all anyone could talk about? it seems like literally the

worst thing that he could do. we have been somewhat ignoring what he can and will do and i think it is very likely that this might seem really quaint to the jurors, in sort of piecing all of this together as a campaign to get elected and to silence some of these facts that could come out and be really damaging to him. that may be harder to piece together. she did a lot of good work for the prosecution. i am interested to see how the defense uses her in their closing arguments. i think they were very tentative today. she immediately began crying. i think he would have bloodied her up a little bit more if she had not been so obviously in distress. >> that is the human side to this as mention. any thoughts on that? >> i just want to take up something melissa said which is that it is right to anticipate that the defense will be saying this is about melania.

as melissa notes, there is contrary evidence in the record but the jury will be instructed did that you can have a dual motive. the state does not have to prove that the 100% intent in his head was the election. if there was a dual motive that he was concerned about the election and his wife, he is still guilty. the state will be wrapping themselves around that jury instruction to say the hope hicks testimony should be believed, including the part about the concern about what melania's reaction will be but that does not mean he was not concerned first and foremost or in part about getting elected. they can embrace that part of the testimony and still win. >> that speaks to how people understand other people's motives. we talk about terminal intent and why jury instruction can matter so much. sometimes i might go running to

get fresh air but i also hope to lose weight. you can just say, i only went running for pressure, that was the only reason. obviously, the criminal motive has to be substantiated enough even if there is other stuff in the mix. andrew and melissa, thank you to both of you. appreciate it. coming up, we have what the judge told trump to his face about all of this. a real rebuke. i am thrilled to tell you presidential historian douglas brinkley is here as we make sense of how all of this will live on for years and years. it is the first-ever trial of a president. first, the tape. that is next. next.

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defendant trump. >> the ex-president's election interference scheme was blown wide open. >> prosecutors call keith davidson, talking about how deals came together for karen mcdougal. >> one of the most significant patches of testimony -- expect trump's legal team tried to paint davidson as an extortionist who made a career out of targeting celebrities. >> donald trump has never been closer to spending a night in jail. >> they are threatening to throw the republican nominee for president in jail for talking, harris. >> city prosecutors have now called hope hicks to the stand. >> i think the jurors will not only be listening very carefully to everything that hope hicks is saying, they're going to be looking over at how mr. trump responds. >> that is just some of what we lived through in one week. the judge also held donald

trump in contempt for the first time. he was fined and warned he could go to jail if he does not shape up. keith davidson, the former lawyer for mcdougal and daniels said trump was worried about the campaign. hope hicks has back that up. national enquirer payments for mcdougal were all about helping the candidacy. prosecutors played that audio discussing trumps dealings about, and therefore his knowledge of, his own reimbursed payments that went to daniels. >> i can't even tell you how many times he said to me, i hate the fact that we did it. and, my comment to him was, every person that you have spoken to told you it was the right move. >> our special continues with a special guest. we have a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. welcome back. >> thank you. >> was stood out to you in this very dramatic week? >> you know white-collar criminal cases are really pretty boring. testimony can be a drag. very

document heavy, very complex but that is certainly not the case in this trial with donald trump. what stood out to me was keith davidson. you know, this strategy that the defense has in really distancing trump from davidson, from these payments and that they establish that davidson only communicating with cohen, never trump. they brought out this fact that the only time that davidson had ever been in the same room as trump was in that manhattan courtroom. he had never spoken to him about this. that was a slamdunk for the defense or the prosecution. that is to establish that there was a transaction, that cohen did in fact pay stormy daniels, he facilitated this whole thing $130,000 in exchange for her silence. for me, i think that keith davidson did what he was supposed to do for the prosecution but i certainly think he helped the defense and hope hicks testimony today

corroborated what he said. what he did say after the payments were done, cohen called davidson and complained because he was expecting a job at the white house. i did so much for this guy and i have been left out. then you have hope hicks saying i don't know cohen to do things out of the goodness of his heart. he does things because he wants credit. he does things for self- interest. the defense is saying that cohen made these payments on his own because he had other instances to bury the story. >> let's dig in on the point. we talked a lot about how much ground was made by the prosecution. again, i remind everybody that it is not like picking between two stories. it is not like, either trump did it or did cohen do it? it is a much lower bar. it is only if the jury has reasonable doubt as to whether cohen did it. i think that is important for us to emphasize because if you are watching this as a viewer,

you may say this story is more likely. based on the evidence, the trial is not over. i do think that another story is more likely but is there reasonable doubt as to whether cohen went rogue? you are saying the defense is getting its points on that? >> you just have to get one person to really think about this in the way the defense is playing it out to be. trump had other things in mind. cohen does go rogue. he has self-interest. he wanted a job. he did this because he wanted to protect the big guy, his boss . the defense is scoring points, at least enough to change one person's mind. >> okay. you still paid it back. even if you say this popped up in a different way, take a look at cohen describing then president trump paying him back. >> okay. >> i am visiting president trump in the oval office for the first time. he says to me something to the effect of, don't worry, michael. your january and february reimbursement checks are coming.

>> that is if the jury believes cohen. the jury is attacking cohen's credibility. >> they are going to say they have the check. >> yes. cohen is a convicted perjure her . that is not necessarily as convincing for me. again, it is up to the jury and whether they find cohen to be credible on the stand. >> are you surprised or doesn't make sense to you that the da delayed cohen? we heard about star witnesses and he had not come up yet. >> i am not surprised. they have to tell a story and they have to go in a particular order. they started with the first witness, david pecker to lay the foundation on how all of this even came about . this deal with trump and cohen. the order that they are going in, i am not surprised.

they are telling a story and they were building up to cohen being their star witness. he's got to be watching this. he's got to hear what is being said. >> i know he is watching it. i want to say that the prosecution is warning him against that. that is something that he can cause some damage on. i am not surprised by the strategy of the prosecution. >> really interesting point especially against your expertise with some of how these lawyers work. we will see both sides of it. yodit tewolde, thank you for being here. >> thank you. up next, we lived there history together. i am excited about this one. that is when we come back. bac. get the rest to be your best with non-habit forming zzzquil. ♪ ♪ -unnecessary action hero ... the nemesis. -it appears that despite my forsinisterquil. efforts, employees are still managing their own hr

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this first-ever trial of a former president matters. it matters to the people involved. it could matter to the defendant if he is convicted of a felony before the election and it matters and many other ways in our life and history and rule of law. is it breaking through? are people hearing about it? do you ever wonder? you are following it if you are listening to my voice right now but there are interesting ways we can try to understand how this is playing out as it happens. it is making headlines all around the world because this is something the united states has never done before. if you check around the country on local papers where a lot of people still get their news, it

still makes the front pages including the cohen tapes, the phone calls recorded by the former trump mixer. those are not only newsworthy but, for many americans, they have echoes in past presidential style, scandals and tapes of the president. >> i'm going to get that closely involved. >> what can we learn from history as we lived through it? i mentioned, we are very excited about our next guest. the acclaimed historian, author of many books including the nixon tapes. welcome. i am thrilled to have you on the special. >> i am glad to be here. it is just a riveting week. it seems to me that trump has really painted in the corner. today was a kicker for a long

week. i do know that it is a spider's web. you've got to follow all of these tentacles. some people may be bored a bit. you may not know certain lawyers or who is on deck tomorrow with the forecasting but we all know and feel trump did this. if he is found guilty, it will be a shocking moment that the president, the leader is substantively facing jail time or house arrest. he may not need this but nonetheless, it takes your breath away that we have allowed our political theater to get to this sort of bottom ground line. >> yeah. that makes a lot of sense. as with anything in a society, it matters what other people think. what are our common understandings? those of us in the news, which is they say that the old -- the

whole point is in the news, we are doing it hour by hour. you guys are doing it allegedly at a little bit higher pay grade, more sophisticated. you are looking at all of these trends. people are following this more than some other things in the last years of chaos. here is a poll that we have for your view, 45% of people say they are either following this closely or very closely. that is certainly more than, say, a congressional bill battle or other assorted legal issues that you and i and others might say are important but don't captivate the country. it, i am guessing you would say that is probably not at the high watermark of watergate and nixon. how do you make sense of something like that, if it is broadly 40, 50% of the country following this trial? >> with nixon in june 1972, june 23, you have that tape, the smoking gun, where you hear

the nixon is asking the cia to get the code to call off the investigation. all these things start unraveling for nixon. trump is going to come up if he is found guilty. these jurors say you are guilty because he will have to go july 15 to milwaukee. wherever he goes, people will realize he has been convicted. he could pretend to wear it as a badge of honor like he does when he was impeached twice but the truth of the matter is, this cuts close to home. when you are talking about melania trump, his wife, former first lady having to endure the mcdougal and daniels in the seediness of it, anyone who is having dinner with pecker has issues to start with because it has been jump paper from its inception but this is the can of worms that trump revels in. he does give good speeches. if he goes to the convention, he might be able to hold his

base. it is nibbling away at him in wisconsin and michigan. there is no way this trial, particularly if he is found guilty, will be found as an asset re-election campaign. >> that is what is so funny about all of the ridiculous propaganda. i use that word, deliberately. everybody knows that it is bad if you are indicted and worse if you are convicted. that is true whether you want to run a company or country or be in a local community club, golf club, whatever is your sport. it is certainly bad in today's politics because so much is involved with the accusations of criminality. donald trump was a master of that. cricket hillary. he was impeached over trying to create a fake ukrainian investigation. you don't need to be a news buff to know that he thinks this is bad and it will hurt

him. how do we perceive, had we make sense of the history and real- time? is this like nixon? is it like vietnam? is it like the civil rights movement in the way that they become common experiences? covid would be another. is this the other half of the country that is tuning it out and does not want to deal with it? >> i think it is still divided. i bet if you went to fox news right now, they're covering campus protests. they are not really covering a lot of what is going on this trial. >> why would you go to fox news right now? >> i'm kidding. >> people can watch what they want. i'm kidding. >> we are divided that way. it comes together come summer, come the fall. people will have to look at this guy with scrutiny. the mistake we made with book ending trump with the elevator ride, really, we should be looking at it as election

corruption on both ends meaning the access hollywood tape followed by the hush money cover-up, showing he would do anything to not lose election corruption at the outset and then insurrection on the back. those are the bookends in my mind of what the trump presidency is really about. >> can i add a book? so, you have the 16 issues that are now indicted as campaign crimes. you have the 2020 what you just said and you also have two impeachment -- no other president twice impeached. both of those were allow -- about the power. we have not passed the criminal line yet in terms of conviction. that is a heck of a lot of evidence of election times. i will let you have the last word. >> i know you love quoting from hip-hop artists and others but

you know that bob dylan used to say, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. none of us need somebody to tell us whether trump is part of the hush money payment. of course he is. this is not a rogue cohen. this is some lapdog for donald trump doing the dirty business. trump was pleased cohen bought them off for cheap. he probably thought he would go up to a quarter of 1 million and save himself some money. we do have to give trump credit for recognizing what a dire threat it was because he could not have survived the access hollywood right on top of stormy daniels. >> as the testimony showed, i appreciate the dylan reference. he also said hello and bradley both probably lied, the newspapers. they all went along for the ride. in this case, the tablets. good to see you, douglas. >> good to see you.

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no, he's on his stomach again. i got to flip them over. >> $9000 for violating his gag order nine times. trump was like, but i get the 10th one free, right? >> comics roasting this trial but as we continue to keep an eye about how this is playing out, we have noticed that on one of the most popular platforms in the country, especially among younger people, tiktok, the trial is breaking through with people watching, reacting and debating it. >> oh my gosh. do we need to talk about the trump criminal trial? >> hope hicks is now testifying and she is spilling the beans on her former boss, donald trump . >> speaking of punches, trump's attorneys got a number of them in and cross-examination and we got to get a look at how that things will be for michael cohen. >> he can absolutely testify in his own defense. the gag order is not preventing that. >> these folks care about nothing but donald trump. >> this man is known for fooling, talking big and then using the back door to bail out.

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