runner, bob ferguson, realized late last week that two more candidates named bob ferguson had suddenly entered the race. both of those extra bob ferguson's abruptly dropped out yesterday, just before the deadline, after the original bob ferguson threatened them with felony charges it turns out that this apparent bob mob was orchestrated by a conservative activist who try to confuse voters ferguson calls the move and attempted attack on democracy and the election system. but he does say that he does not plan to prosecute at this point. pick electors voting, mustering, conspiracy theories. and now there are three blobs. >> i guess anything goes. i mean, this is this is a new level like chat-gpt can come up with that strategy. >> you need an actual cuban been to come up with the bob strategy no, no chance, even if it sounds like scarlett is not coming up with that genius. >> i'm just saying definitely dirty tricks all right, well,

this has been fine. >> thanks to the real scott jennings and the eyes got jennings from an appearance parents today. thanks to all of you for jojoining us. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now michael cohen. >> back on the stand, donald trump's onetime fixer. now courtroom foe is already testified for more than five hours, and the real fireworks of cross it's examination could begin today, working overnight, secretary of state antony blinken in ukraine, meeting with president volodomyr zelenskyy at a crucial moment and the war as ukraine loses ground. >> but knew us weapons arriving now how on the front lines also less those are explosives bringing down pieces of the collapsed francis scott key

bridge plus new body camera footage offering a glimpse into the panic and confusion on the night of that deadly disaster. i'm sarah sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central and good morning from outside the courthouse in downtown manhattan, we have reached the white hot center of the criminal case against donald trump for the very first time, someone has testified in this case that they witnessed donald trump committing the acts he is facing 34 charges for that person is michael cohen who testified for the first time that donald trump knew of the hush money payments scheme to cover up stormy daniels story about a sexual tryst. >> some 15, 20 years ago. remember? donald trump is

charged with falsifying documents to cover up hush money payments to stormy daniel's all to influence the 2016 election in yesterday at the very end of the day, we got testimony about those documents. michael cohen, donald trump's former fixer testified he was adding meeting with trump and trump organization cfo allen weisselberg, and he testified to this. the question, did mr. weisselberg's state in front of mr. trump that you are going to receive $420,000 over the course of 12 months. michael cohen said, yes, question, what, if anything, did mr. trump's say at the time answer he approved it and he all also said this is going to be one heck of a ride in dc. one more question. did musk, mr. weisselberg's say in front of you, mr. trump, that those monthly payments would be a retainer for legal services? michael cohen says, yes, he testified that donald trump approved of the scheme. that testimony, the end of yesterday

today. today though, perhaps even more importantly, we are set for the cross that could begin in the next couple of hours with me. cnn's brynn gin grass, who has been in and out of this core for the last four weeks. this is such an important moment. >> yeah, because this michael cohen did exactly what the prosecution needed him to do. he tied everything together so far, any implicated the former president in this payment scheme, any did it in a very cool and collected way, right? the opposite of what jurors have been hearing about him, which other witnesses have said he's a jerk and he was very kohn walking through everything that he did on behalf of the president, according to him. now he said that he would always look for the president's approval. he would seek it. he wanted him to be happy with him and he basically walked through the chaos that was happening after the access hollywood tape it came out and when stormy daniels story was sort of being pushed around to kind of get payment for. so let me give you another example. you had a great one there, but another one where he says this, he said to me that he had

spoken to some friends, some individuals, very smart people, and that its hundred and $30,000 you're a billionaire, just pay it. there was no reason to keep this thing out there. so do it and he expects expressed to me just do it, go meet up with allen weisselberg and figure this whole thing out. obviously that was right before what you discussed, how those three men went into a room? discuss how these payments were going to be figured out over a long time. discuss position for michael cohen within the white house, just to get those payments actually legit. and then that's where we end today. we're going to hear about what happened inside that oval office room, which we have the waiting for from the prosecution. >> and then of course it's the defense's turn. >> how much more is the prosecution say they have? >> a few hours, two hours. he was on the stand for a five hours and they have a few hours to go. and then of course is going could be the defense's turn, which is like kate said, it's going to be fireworks. they're going to go after his credibility. they are going to talk about the fact that he's a convicted felon and that he has a vengeance that he has books and podcasts that all are about donald trump that is certainly

going to come up to todd blanche, expected to conduct a cross-examination for the trump defense team. and again, promising to be very very aggressive. brynn gingras. thank you so much for that. and donald trump's still in trump tower uptown right now. he'll be here within an hour or so. >> he's mixing in some campaigning while he is up here in new york, including a fundraising event when many were many of his potential vp running mate selections will be there, perhaps jockeying for the job cnn, steve contorno has got some details on that. >> steve, what do you learn it? >> yeah. john and first vivek ramaswamy, one of those potential vp contenders will be joining trump at the courthouse today. he is expected to meet trump at trump tower and then join the motorcade becoming the latest. and this rotation of republicans who are making the trip to manhattan in a show of support for the former president. he's not the first potential vice presidential candidates to do that yesterday, we saw senator jd

vance there from ohio when he spoke to reporters afterwards, he pushed back against the assertion that trump might be sleeping in the courtroom. listen to what he said i think that luckily the president's supporters should know that he's actually in great spirits despite the circumstances of this, he should be out on the campaign trail but of course he's here with this trial now, as you said, john, the vp auditions will continue tonight in manhattan, where trump will hold a fundraiser and a bunch of these potential contenders are going to be speaking there that includes a list of people that are florida senator marco rubio vivek ramaswamy north dakota governor doug burgum, the florida representative, byron donalds, south dakota governor kristi noem, and then tenant, tennessee senator bill haggerty. >> haggerty and florida senator rick scott will be there as well. john all right steve contorno for us covering the trump fundraising event.

>> later, sarah, i'm gonna go back to you. remember we now have testimony that donald trump knew about the hush money payments approved the hush money payments and new and approved about the scheme to document them as legal services. that is what the cross-examined emanation will try to append when it starts a little bit later today, sarah is going to be an explosive kind of day there in court. no doubt you'll be watching all of the details as we go further here, john will get back to you in just a bit. but first breaking overnight, secretary of state antony blinken in ukraine bringing news that a new round of us weapons is arriving at a very crucial moment in the war against russia. also in baltimore, explosions do the job the collapsed bridge has been removed move from on top of that cargo ship and now we're getting a never before seen look at the moments after the disaster from police body cameras. also, golfers it's capture this video with possible tornado bearing down on a golf course. and yeah, there were people play check this out at morgan stanley

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military aid package just as also russia is making a new and surprising push into ukraine on multiple fronts with ukraine suffering some new setbacks. their cnn's kylie was at the state department. she's got much more on this. kylie, what have we heard from the secretary of state? >> well, listen. he said this morning in his meetings that that latest us weapons assistance, that as of course we know kate has been long-delayed, is now on its way to ukraine. some of those pieces of weaponry are actually already on the front lines and the secretary said that he believes that that's weapons assistance will have a crucial impact on the battlefield for the ukrainians, he also reiterated that the united states wants to see ukraine have victory here, but he admitted that this is a challenging time for the ukrainians, as we know, the russians have been having some advances in the northeastern part of ukraine that has been highly concerning for the ukrainians. and of course the collective support of countries that are supporting ukraine and the secretary of state

acknowledged that there is going to be potentially a long road ahead. he met with the president of ukraine, presence lenski, who was gracious for this new support, but he was also very clear in saying that ukraine needs more particularly when it comes to air-defense. listen to what he said the biggest deficits for us. i think that the biggest problem. yes. and we need really we need to day to petro's for kharkiv, for kharkiv region because they the people who are under attack. >> civilians and worse everybody there under russian missiles now, he also went on to talk about how important it is to have the secretary of state visiting and we should note that blinken is actually going to be delivering a speech today that focuses on a prosperous democracy in ukraine. >> he's also going to be

meeting not just with ukrainian government officials, but with civil society it, and members of the private sector in ukraine. so this is a really fulsome trip for him when coming at that critical challenging moment that ukraine currently faces more than two years into this conflict absolutely, kylie, thank you so much. >> we're going to be tracking. we've been seeing some live pictures. you've seen the kind of camera moving around, trying to follow the secretary of state as he's moving throughout kyiv, we're going to continue to follow his movements and kylie is all over it for us. thank you. kylie. >> donald trump promised a nation, promised a nationwide crackdown on immigration. if he wins the white house again has a now warning that this move could backfire on the us? we have details on that and how trustworthy worthy is michael cohen as a witness? there are numbers. >> we'll be back russia for trying to spy on us. >> we were spying on them i'm sorry, frank this is a war.

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coverage begins tonight at 7:30. nba playoffs presented by google pixel would conference semifinals coverage presented by wing stop on tnt donald trump is promising to crack down on immigration if voters put him back in office. >> but many economists agree the immigrants surge actually helped pump up the us economy's, cnn's matt he can has been talking to experts for us this morning. what what is the potential impact of donald trump's mass deportation that he's promised if he gets into office. >> well, sir, it's easy to see how trump's immigration plan could backfire on the us. now, let's set aside for the moment, the real moral and legal issues here, here's the economic no problem. >> businesses, they need more workers. >> they've got unfilled jobs and there aren't enough workers here in america to fill those jobs. now, here's why economists are warning debt. trump's immigration plan could worsen the worker shortage, right? i mean, businesses would lose some of the workers they have and they have trouble making new ones that could boost wages and inflation lesion enforce the fed to keep

interest rates high for even longer. and that's something of course they would impact everyone. listened to moody's chief economist, mark zandi explain this issue my sense is president trump's policies or inflationary, right? it's higher terrorists, it's more, it's deportation for immigration i think these things are going to lead to higher prices for american consumers if he follows through and deporting a significant amount of immigrants. so it'd be very difficult on businesses and it's going to cause them to raise wages and prices for the goods and services that they're producing. >> no sir there are of course some caveats here. first, we obviously don't know if trump's going to win. if he wins, we don't know if he's actually going to pursue this immigration plans. plus these immigration proposals, they would surely face legal challenges, but we do know there has been a spike of immigration in recent years. the cbo estimates that last year alone there were us experienced net immigration of

3.3 million people. that is more than triple the annual average before covid. and this spike, this has created a real strain for some cities and states have been scrambling to me, how's educate asylum seekers? but as you alluded to, there actually has been an economic positive rate. economists say that this bike and immigrants has actually helped to fill open jobs, keeping a lid on wages and inflation and is actually boosted the us and so economists say that those have actually been positives. now, we've reached out to the trump campaign and they've essentially doubled down when asked about this criticism, trump campaign spokesperson claimed without evidence that president biden, quote, lead in millions of undocumented immigrants and vowed that trump will deport them and quote, re-implement his america first program fro job agenda to uplift all americans. sarah, here's the ironic part. frustration over high inflation that could very well return trump to the white house. and yet economists say that trump's economic proposals,

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we are standing by right now this morning for michael cohen to retake the stand and the criminal trial of his former boss, donald trump michael cohen is the key to the trump case for the prosecution. >> and so far, cohen has laid out a lot of things. how trump directed him. he says to make the hush money payment and then explained that trump signed off on the reimbursement plan. he's already testified for more than five hours and colon will continue to face questions from prosecutors this morning. which also means the real fireworks are still yet to come. donald trump's legal team could begin. what's expected to be a savage cross-examination later today in the meantime, cnn's harry enten has been taking a look at how americans view michael cohen and his credibility. he

is here. let's say the caveat up top rather than at the bottom, which is public polling is interesting and important. >> the only polling that matters when it comes to this criminal trial is 12 jurors is 12 jurors. and i do not have a poll on them and hopefully you'll be not so savage to me during this particular segment. >> the other thing that would be unusual if that was the usual exactly right. i should also point out that as polling was taken before the trial took place, i think it's sort of sort of gives you an illustration that were sort of an immovable force versus an unstoppable object and look here, believe is would be honest, just 47% of americans believed that michael cohen's trial testimony would in fact be honest compared to 48% right nearby who say no, it wouldn't. but of course, he's going against donald trump's word to some extent right? and so how many people believe that donald trump is on it's just 33% of americans do compared to 61% who don't. so it's basically trying to figure out, okay, who is the honest guy here? the one guy that we really don't believe. the other guy that we kinda sort of don't really believe either. it's sort of this interesting thing. it's

almost like a general presidential election these days where you have to unlikeable characters going up against each other, was waiting for you to make i of course, i was making that yet, but it will be interesting to see how this, how this changes with as coverage of his testimony continues. you see this number and that says, what does the public say then about if michael cohen, they think would strengthen or week in the case against donald trump? >> yeah. if you are if you're a prosecutor and your case against trump is based largely on cohen's testimony. it makes the case the plurality answer here is weaker at 38%, but keep in mind here, there's 26% is stronger, but add that to 31% who say no impact, right? he's just part of a larger pillar that you're trying to build out your case. if that's the case, then of course you get a majority between this noem and stronger, but the number one answer here is weaker, and that i think is part of the reason why cone is almost going last, right? you're building up to him. i think this is what prosecutors are keeping in

mind. they realize he's not exactly the strongest key witness in the world. so they're basically saying, okay, he's just the one who's going to tie it all together. and that i think is sort of explained here well by these now and then remind folks because you've been taking what we've been, you've been tracking this for quite some time. how how, how the public viewed if they think donald trump is guilty going into this, you may ac, this 38% weaker. you may see this 48%. no, i wouldn't believe that michael cohen's trial testimony would in fact be the most honest thing in the world. and then you look here, which is it's trump guilty of the alleged crimes in the hush money case, the clear answer here is yes at 50%. so although michael cohen is not exact, i believe mother teresa, the fact of the matter is the public at large believes that trump is in fact guilty of the alleged crimes here. >> oh, interesting. good to see you. nice to see you. thank you so much, john. >> all right, kate, there's a word that you use to describe what we expect here at the courthouse today. and that is

fireworks genuine fireworks that will be in the cross-examination beginning later today. why fireworks because the defense needs to undo some of the things that michael cohen did in his testimony yesterday, namely directly linking donald trump to the hush money payments to stormy daniels and the scheme to cover it up this testimony took place yesterday. the prosecutor, susan hoffinger and you're asked michael cohen, did you call mr. trump before you went and set up the account to make a transfer, cohen says, yes. what in substance did you discuss with him on these two calls? michael cohen, i wanted to ensure that once again, he approved what i was doing because i required approval from him on all of this. that was the sum and substance of the conversation laying out exactly what was going to happen and what was being done in order to ensure the story didn't get sold to the daily mail or somebody else? did you let him know? the prosecutor asieh were going across the street and you're going to get the account setup and make the payment. cohen says, yes, ma'am, would you have made the payment to stormy daniel's without getting a sign off from mr. trump cohen. answer's no

question why not? answer? because everything required mr. trump sign off on top of that, i wanted the money back with me now, legal analyst, joey jackson and michael moore, joey first to you, there is more direct examination. first. in other words, prosecutors will ask some more questions and michael cohen this morning what more do they want to get from him in the next few hours? >> yeah. i think good morning to you, john, that they continue to tie it all lin they have a lot and what do they have? they have the knowledge of the payment very important. they've got the purpose of the payment for the campaign, right? the prosecution says they have the structure of the payment with respect to the reimbursement. they have the meticulous nature of donald trump and his management style, which goes to show from the prosecutor's perspective that this would not occur. but for him. and so what i think prosecutors have done, john on his what they've used other witnesses essentially to lay out the case to talk about the narrative, the catch and kill the conspiracy, the cover-up

they have used michael cohen to tie it all in with the least reliance upon what he says as is humanly possible. why? because we've gone over text messages, we've got over emails we've gone over really, the nature of the phone logs which have him speaking to everyone and everyone who's part of this case, including mr. weisselberg, the cfo, and he's relevant because when you get to the ledgers, the invoices, right. when you get to the checks, he's the guy that knows how to structure the deal. yes. who's in the room and so i think that they will conclude. but last point, they have to bring out more of the fact that cohen not only is he not likable, but he's dishonest and they have the end on the fact that despite your dishonesty, despite your no love for trump, despite him being an enemy, what are you saying here? and he'll say, i'm telling you exactly what occurred and then of course we'll have the next witness that'll summarize it all together. and then the prosecution will rest believing that they prove their case all

right. >> michael moore, a counselor. i have two questions for you. the first one is a mini question, so hold your fire on the cross first. the mini question is this if the jury believes what michael cohen said yesterday and so far, if the jury believes that 90 know that's a big if is that enough to convict donald trump? >> well, good morning. i'm glad to be with it probably isn't enough to convict him if they believe him. but he's not through time after time to lucian, so there's a little bit more to do, but if they at the end of the day believe everything that he says then that might be enough. in the sun during all right, now the follow how much do you think the jury will believe michael cohen? >> what is it that you think the cross will focus? in on when it begins in the next few hours. >> i think the jury's been waiting on the prosecution to tie this thing into a not and really all they've sort of ended up with is a slipknot at

this point as things i've still got some some some loose ends to work with here. and one of the things that you've put up, one of the quotes from the testimony was about cohen tell in the prosecutor that he told trump everything because he needed to know and he wanted but he told him everything. but he's lying to the jury in that one state. he didn't tell him everything. and we know that because he recorded it and he recorded his client record, his friend recorded his mentor and didn't tell him and so that's going to come back to bite him, i think at the end of the day. so i think you're going to see that a fence take a huge attack on that. i mean, it also be think about it. >> the idea that trump knew about the payments that's not illegal to pay somebody off the idea that he'd signed some checks that's not illegal to what we're talking about here what's illegal, what they've got to prove is that he did it specifically with the intent to commit another crime. >> and i think that's the braves they haven't quite gotten over yet. i mean, they could talk about well, he didn't want peace people to know whether it's melania, whether it's the voters. he didn't want somebody to know

but they've got approved that he did all this with the intent to commit a crime. and i think you'll see that a fence drill down on that in great part and i think to the defense is going to really push him on this idea that the only witness that they have to trump state of mind his intent, the purpose behind all this is michael cohen what somebody who i think we would agree is pretty vulnerable on his credibility in you're going to just here this litany of a story about what, what is, what he's not been truthful about in the past? and the yen what he's probably not been truthful about right here today to this jury, so they'll say, not only did allow the government, not only the light of congress, not only lie to his wife, that'll be ladder. he lied to trump he's lied to you. and so what you have those things in play, they really need this other person and that's going to be weisselberg. but we know at least at this point, the state saying they're not bringing him in that may become sort of the missing link to all this. and remember, it just takes that one juror to be satisfied that

the cross-examination wasn't that lawyers good good log is worth their salt. you don't go get a steak dinner after a direct examination thinking you've won the case you celebrate after the cross-examination, we'll see how the client does have fitness, does whether they can withstand soar the scrutiny at that point. and that's what we'll know maybe more at the end of today it may be only a shrimp cocktail after either directly, you wait for this take until after the cross that will happen at some point today, michael moore, joey jackson are thanks to both of you. >> i am now going back to sarah, maybe you got it right, john, every time. all right. thank you. appreciate it. >> all right. disturbing new video overnight shows the aftermath of a deadly israeli airstrikes on a refuge g camp in gaza hospital officials say more than 100 displaced palestinians were huddled in a four-story building when the strike occurred. video shows on social media, people, including children trapped under the thick slab of cement, rebel at

least 36 people have been killed in two different airstrikes, but the death toll could of course rise. meanwhile, us officials say israel now has enough troops around rafah to launch a full-scale attack, a move biden has repeatedly warned israel against. cnn's jeremy diamond is joining us now from jerusalem. what are you hearing about these overnight strikes? >> well, we're getting a lot of very difficult images from the aftermath of these strikes, bodies being pulled from the rubble including the bodies of at least seven children in one of these two strikes. now, one of the strikes happened on a residential building in the nuseirat refugee camp. when we say refugee camp camp in this sense, we're talking about refugee camps stemming from 1948. but in this case, what we're also talking about is the fact that many of these people have been displaced from elsewhere in gaza, in india he didn't this one residential building were told that about 100 people were believed to be

sheltering there when this airstrike hit in the middle of the night around 1:00 a.m. local time. and so while 25 bodies have been recovered from that building, links so far, the death toll is very much expected to rise. another 11 bodies were recovered from a nearby un school where more displaced palestinians were sheltering. that's according to the hospital in new say, rods and so both of these strikes happening within about an hour to two hours of each other the israeli military so far has yet to comment on the cause of the strike, but it does, of course, bring attention to the fact that even as the israeli military is expanding its military offensive in rafah in southern gaza were also witnessing stepped up and very much increased israeli military activity in central gaza, as well as in northern gaza. and that just highlights the facts that as we're watching the displacement of nearly half 1 million people now in rafah

according to the united nations, they are fleeing north, but they are finding that many of these areas simply or not as safe as they might hope, sarah, you wouldn't ask you also because of what happened with the world central kitchen with some of their aid workers dying in an israeli strike, there was also now word that the un had one of its vehicles struck. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah. the united united nations vehicle was struck yesterday. it's not clear by whom at this point, but the israeli military is now saying that they are aware of this strike they say that the vehicle was in a quote, active combat zone. they say that a report was received steve from the un organization about these workers being injured in the strike near a rafah. they say that an initial inquiry conducted indicates that the vehicle was hit in an area declared to be a combat zone. they said they had not been made aware of the root of the vehicle. the united nations meanwhile says that one of its

workers was killed in this attack. the first foreign un worker to be killed other nearly 200 palestinian you and workers have already been killed over the course of this war, the united nations has not yet ascribed to blame for this attack. sarah. >> all right. jeremy diamond. thank you so much for all your reporting, there in jerusalem a remarkable academic achievement and something to celebrate as the school year winds down for so many. >> and this is for one net michigan high school senior, samira staggers was has been accepted into all 11 colleges that she applied to, including five ivy leagues. she is currently her school student body president and selected as valedictorian for the 2024 graduating class. according to some eran, getting into a top college has always been a personal goal of hers. >> but it's not everything that the end of the day, it's not necessarily about what college you go to or what your plan i'm sorry, after high school, no matter what you still have the power and the ability to make a meaningful

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for cover i don't know hikes all right. >> you see them? you're going to see a golf cart going as well. on foot on card. they were trying to get out of the way. the national weather service confirmed the tornado, which was part of a strong storm system moving through that area. >> all right? >> and generous returning to stand up, the comedian and former talk show hosts will start on a new our lawn comedy special on netflix. >> it will stream later this year and she's says it will be her last special. this is her second standup with netflix or first one aired in 2018. and if you're wondering if she plans to discuss the controversial ending of her weekday talk show in 2022 after 19 seasons, she says yes i'm going to talk about it. joke about it as well

this morning, president biden is issuing a new warning to china. >> he's expected to roll out in aggressive plan of 18 billion of tariffs on chinese imports as appears to be something of a preemptive strike by the biden administration against china's luck well cost products like electric vehicles batteries, solar equipment steel, aluminum cnn's arlette saenz has more on this from the white house for us are let what's driving this move by? president biden right now? >> well, k1, just a few hours, president biden will announce the his administration is planning to increase tariffs on about $18 billion worth of chinese imports over the next two years, it comes as the president is trying to ratchet up pressure on china, but also show his emphasis on domestic manufacturing comes to semiconductor chips and energy, but it also is coming as the president is combating criticism from former president donald trump and other republicans that he is not tough enough on china. it comes as the administration is trying

to make a play for voters and key states. and that blue wall such as michigan and pennsylvania, where the manufacturing industry is key. now, just to take a look at what exactly these terrorists entail, the administration is planning to increase tariffs on electric vehicles by 100%. that's quadrupling the current tariff rate on evs are there's also about 50% increase when it comes to solar components and 25 i've percent increase in tariffs on other sectors that includes still a aluminum, and batteries. now, these new announcements from the administration are building off as a sweeping tariff proposal that president, former president trump had put in place when he was in office. he had enacted about 300 billion in tariffs on chinese imports. president biden has largely kept those in place even as he had criticized them as a presidential candidate back in 2020. now, the administration says that the tariffs that they are announcing today are targeted to specific sectors,

especially ones where the us is investing here when it comes to domestic manufacturing. but on the other hand, a former president trump is also vowing a widespread tariffs across the board if he's reelected, that would include about 60 increase on tariffs for goods specifically coming from china also applying two cars being imported into the united states as well, but it's clear that the administration is trying to take some effort first to try to tackle these types of issues. a heading into november's election especially as they're making that play for working class voters, uh, trying to show that the biden administration is focused on us production and manufacturing across the board it seems you're laying out a long-term mission and also short-term gains that they could be seeing on this as well. it's good to see you all. let thank you, sarah. all right. thank you, kate. this morning, vivek ramaswamy will join a growing list of republicans who were showing their support for donald trump at his trial. spokesperson says he'll join the motorcade at trump tower

arrived at court alongside the former president ramaswamy is rumored to be on the shortlist for vice presidential candidate along with a bunch of other trump allies who have been at the trial joining me now is democratic strategists up? we are now seeing cohen right they're getting into his car heading to the courthouse after a significant de of testimony, we expect him to be cross-examined today, so there will be a lot of contentious back-and-forth. we expect there. but joining us now to discuss all this democratic strategist and former white house aide to president clinton, keith boycott and republican strategist and political commentator, joseph opinion all right, let's start with the vague ramaswamy heading to court we saw a jd vance there as well. i want to ask you about this sort of new way of doing things. donald trump complaining he can't go on the campaign trail, but he's bringing the campaign. it appears to court is this a good move? >> well, i don't think president trump brought the campaign to court. i think obviously the circumstances of his life have brought the

campaign to court and certainly obviously there's a political angle here, but you have to remember the president does have personal relationships with these people as well. so yes, obviously we can talk about the actual horse race, who is in pole position to become the vice president of the united states. but ultimately, what you see here is president trump in many ways trying to put a spotlight on a process he thinks is unfair to say that you have sam bankman-fried, who has acknowledged funneling millions of dollars in federal elections. and the department of justice has declined to prosecute the fec, declining to pursue any action against president trump with these fines. and yet here we are talking about $130,000 based on the word of a man who was a convicted felon and who has even on the own tapes that he took up his client, which is a complete breach of actual any type of normal efficacy. does not ever on those tapes say mr. president, what you're asking me to do is illegal all right. >> so he basically in those tapes, there's only one he said that he recorded and it's a very short recording. a jury

heard. but you did have a lot of other testimony from other people. were the prosecution trying to show that there is evidence of this beyond what michael cohen said, i do want to ask you, keith when you listen first to what potential trump running mate and current senator jd events had to say because he to shut up in cork yesterday. here's what he said what's going on inside that courtroom is a threat to american democracy. >> ladies and gentlemen, we cannot have a country where you get to prosecute your political opponents instead of persuading voters joe biden's entire strategy is to chart a distract from inflation at home and war oce's with this sham trial all right. so he's reiterating some of the things that president former president trump has been saying is this line of work working with voters, you think?

all right. we're gonna we're going to fix his audio. >> we have some technical issues. >> can you hear me? yeah. >> can you hear me? all right. we've got you. did you did you hear my question, keith? >> oh, yes. i'm sorry yeah. >> i don't think that the line of questioning sarah is working except for the people who believed that somehow prosecuting somebody who commits crimes is a bad thing. what we see here, and i'm almost embarrassed to the deck. ramaswamy and for jd vance, know these other people is an appalling menagerie of beta males since deptford wives who are afraid to stand up for what they said that he believed in, which is law and order. where is this law and order chant about lock her up. but we saw in 2016 suddenly when it comes to donald trump is excuse him for all of his misbehaviors. and this is not a joe biden imposed row. this is the manhattan district attorney that file created filed these charges after dental trump was indicted by a grand jury of his peers in new york city. so this is not some political witch hunt as trump likes to say. >> but the other thing to sarah

is it, why is it the donald trump keeps coming out and making these press statements outside of court. >> why when he speak inside of court. we've seen stormy daniels testified we've seen michael cohen testified under oath, under threat of perjury donald trump, the one person who claims he is being persecuted refused to sit at the witness and testify in his own defense because he knows he's guilty. and i'm sorry that the republican party has gotten so beholden with down from they refused to stand up for him, but there are people who have actually warned trump's that he was going to pick the best people to represent him if he was elected president. but they're very people. he said he's going to pick his people like his vice president, to chiefs of staff, his secretary defense is attorney general, have all condemned him since he and his national security advisors of all condemned him, since he has has been elected to office. not some democratic conspiracy. these are people who know him the best who has said horrible things about him and said we don't think he deserves to be close to the white house again, except for the fact that people

like, like, like an attorney general come back and say after they said they're not going to support them, they come back and see they're going to support them because these people don't have courage party of beta males, unfortunately, and i listed some of them would stand up with donald trump instead of being sick or fans to him joseph, i know you're here. >> i do want to say donald trump has not testified yet, but it's a bit he could his defense team could call him to the stand that may be the way that they do their defense, or they may call no one. so we have to wait and see until the trial is concluded. but but i quickly want to ask you is we're just getting word that speaker mike johnson, republican speaker mike johnson, speaker of the house, is headed two, according to our sources, going to go down to court to stand with donald trump. what does that tell you about their relationship? he has been highly criticized by the right wing of the party about his ukraine policies and pushing forward that bill now he's showing up donald trump logo. i think obviously it is

unilaterally believed that the speaker is a good man who has a great deal of support within the party. i think it also shows that the republican in party is united around ensuring the joe biden becomes a one-term president. i love my dear friend keith, but at the end, the de, named colony is not going to put joe biden back in the white house. we have a system of justice. it is designed to say that the, you cannot and shall not be penalized for not proc not testifying in your own trial. and so i think this notion that something now we're going to ignore the politics also why politicizing people exercise nick constitutional right as he tried to defend themselves against accusations illustrates exactly why you see this pilgrimage of people going down to that courthouse and saying there was something wrong with what is happening with this process inside the courtroom. but there's also something that's happening outside the courtroom. any court of public opinion that should ask you make you a question. is that the why certain people are saying certain things as it relates to these charges. and we've talked about the court of public opinion. >> you look at the polls and five, the swing states