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donald trump trump is like just get it done. he's not in the weeds. in fact, at one point, michael cohen says none i got it. alan and i are going to handle you don't worry about it. we're going to pay him. you don't worry about the how and the how is the crime. so when that tape comes up, that's gonna be a problem for the prosecutor. >> i also think that part of the thing about trump paying attention to details is more to what caitlin was saying, which is the amount of money even for a very rich person like donald trump, he didn't really want to part ways with $150,000 for karen mcdougal, 134 stormy. he did not want to part ways with that money to get his attorneys tried to get out of it once the election was over. so it's really about the dollar here that was concerning to himhe we can come back and decisions still looming for trump and whether he violated the judge's gag order multiple times. the hearing earlier did not go well for the trump attorney with the judge warning trump's lawyer at one point that he was losing all cre
donald trump trump is like just get it done. he's not in the weeds. in fact, at one point, michael cohen says none i got it. alan and i are going to handle you don't worry about it. we're going to pay him. you don't worry about the how and the how is the crime. so when that tape comes up, that's gonna be a problem for the prosecutor. >> i also think that part of the thing about trump paying attention to details is more to what caitlin was saying, which is the amount of money even for a...
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, trump's team suggested the payments trump made to cohen. we're not a payback for funds paid to stormy daniels, but instead payments to his personal attorney. trump defended himself against these charges after court on monday so whatever bill and they can make all the legal expense i got indicted for that land shifted blame to cohen saying the reality is mr. trump is not on the hook, is not criminally responsible for something mr. cohen may have done years after the fact, blanche said the prosecution's outline of a supposed catching killed deal with was not a scheme, but completely irrelevant. events. and not illegal in the afternoon as briefly took the stand, he did not look at trump, but trump look directly at him as he testified care what was david what did he talk about on the stand because it was limited his time today? >> david was on the stand for about 20 minutes and he started to describe to the jury how the national enquirer operates, telling them that they engage in checkbook journalism, meaning that they would pay for stories. no
, trump's team suggested the payments trump made to cohen. we're not a payback for funds paid to stormy daniels, but instead payments to his personal attorney. trump defended himself against these charges after court on monday so whatever bill and they can make all the legal expense i got indicted for that land shifted blame to cohen saying the reality is mr. trump is not on the hook, is not criminally responsible for something mr. cohen may have done years after the fact, blanche said the...
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. >> that's right at trump tower. and the crux of this was that there was a very explicit agreement made that they talked to openly about this being about how can you the enquirer help during the election and saying, well we can buy up stories saying, i bought a b, your eyes and ears essentially? yes. exactly. so we didn't get into all of the meat of that in the testimony that happened today, it was very preliminary. he was on the stand briefly, but what he did do was say yes, we bought stories. he called a checkbook journalism. he said he had to personally authorized anything over ten thousand dollars, which would apply to these pivotal transactions that the prosecutors are trying to establish. and we'll hear more about that tomorrow. it was the defense in their opening statement said that there's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election gen prosecutors would argue otherwise, and the the very meaningful distinction here is whether you are paying to influence the election and acknowledging that as an elector
. >> that's right at trump tower. and the crux of this was that there was a very explicit agreement made that they talked to openly about this being about how can you the enquirer help during the election and saying, well we can buy up stories saying, i bought a b, your eyes and ears essentially? yes. exactly. so we didn't get into all of the meat of that in the testimony that happened today, it was very preliminary. he was on the stand briefly, but what he did do was say yes, we bought...
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could happen in trump's second term. you only have to look at his first i will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats that executive order he signed just before losing the 2020 election turns government jobs into political appointments. >> during the trump administration, the power to fire employees at will and replace them with loyalists making them according to this federal report, subject to removal for partisan political reasons, they want people doing scientific research to the nuclear regulatory commission who don't have the qualifications to perform that kind of work. they're all like qualification is an allegiance to the trump agenda. >> jacqueline simon represents a large government employee union. she says the expertise of government workers can't be replaced on a political win once that kind of stuff is politicized, let's say you deny disability claim based on somebody's politics. >> how do you feel as you think about what the federal workfo
could happen in trump's second term. you only have to look at his first i will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats that executive order he signed just before losing the 2020 election turns government jobs into political appointments. >> during the trump administration, the power to fire employees at will and replace them with loyalists making them according to this federal report, subject to removal for partisan...
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trump was still ranting. >> i have a trump hating, judge with the trump-hating wife and family. >> there's also the 2018 lawsuit, trump's settled, which resulted in the dissolution of the donald j. trump foundation. the new york state attorney general accused the charity of using the foundation's money to boost trump's campaign. irs non-profit rules prohibit making expenditures to influence the outcome of an election the judge ordered trump to pay $2 million to settle the case in a statement after that, trump insisted every penny of the 19 million raised when two great charitable causes randi kaye cnn, palm beach county, florida. >> so i have to unpack there joining us now a cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. so should what do you make? first of all, the prosecution's request to introduce evidence from past trials against the former president. >> so this is a warning shot. it is a legally mandated filing. the prosecutor just have to put in and what they're essentially telling donald trump as they would with any defendant is, if you take the stand in this case, of course, we will cross-e
trump was still ranting. >> i have a trump hating, judge with the trump-hating wife and family. >> there's also the 2018 lawsuit, trump's settled, which resulted in the dissolution of the donald j. trump foundation. the new york state attorney general accused the charity of using the foundation's money to boost trump's campaign. irs non-profit rules prohibit making expenditures to influence the outcome of an election the judge ordered trump to pay $2 million to settle the case in a...
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trump was still in the courtroom standing. we saw a secret service agent walked over him to talk to him that this was just moments after those final five alternate it's worth selected and told to return monday for opening statements we have our full panel. that announcement from judge juan merchan after jury selection concluded 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. now seated for now, so this is going on that week, and this will go on for another four or five weeks and it's very unfair trump appeared board much of the trial de for as attorneys on both sides probe potential jurors until they fill the remaining five alternate seats. >> moments after the full jury was picked, a bizarre and tragic moment outside court as a man set himself on fire, authorities say he was previously known to the police. and while they are searching for any domestic terror connections, that is not believed to have been the motivation in court. a handful of perspective jurors became emotional. one was excused after she told the judge she
trump was still in the courtroom standing. we saw a secret service agent walked over him to talk to him that this was just moments after those final five alternate it's worth selected and told to return monday for opening statements we have our full panel. that announcement from judge juan merchan after jury selection concluded 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. now seated for now, so this is going on that week, and this will go on for another four or five weeks and it's very...
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trump lean back in his chair at one point, his eyes closed trump's attorney, susan necklace focused on bias against the former president. she told those in the jury box, you all bring biases and you particularly bring biases about someone who is as publicly and outspoken as president trump. there's nobody that doesn't know him in this room in the afternoon, the court moved to a routine hearing to determine how much trump's legal history the prosecution will be allowed to ask him about if he testifies which he said he plans to. prosecutors argued they should be allowed to question trump about the findings in the e jean carroll defamation case, among others, despite trump's attorneys strong objection. the former president shook his head as the prosecution spoke about how he defamed carroll when will the judge actually decide if prosecutors can ask the former president about his past legal cases so, judge number sean said that he would rule on this on monday, likely before opening statements get underway, know trump's lawyers also tried, again to try to learn who the prosecutions first wi
trump lean back in his chair at one point, his eyes closed trump's attorney, susan necklace focused on bias against the former president. she told those in the jury box, you all bring biases and you particularly bring biases about someone who is as publicly and outspoken as president trump. there's nobody that doesn't know him in this room in the afternoon, the court moved to a routine hearing to determine how much trump's legal history the prosecution will be allowed to ask him about if he...
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for donald trump's opponents. so that's a big contribution, and that's the way the prosecution is framing. this was a big up for donald trump's campaign, and it constituted election fraud so in your opinion, windom trump comes out and says, we'll look i was paying a lawyer and we said legal fees. >> what's wrong with that? what's the answer to that so in this case, it's not just legal fees which professor would do, sorry, go into moser i think in this case, it's not simply that he's paying michael cohen, is that michael cohen is being is reimbursing. >> they're paying these payments to stormy daniels. there's the work that david pecker is doing and bringing in, coordinating all of this together. and that's sort of the misdemeanor part. there's also the tax fraud issue that is also been pointed to, hasn't been brought up. and david pecker is testimony. i think it will come out later on thursday, but the idea that donald trump had to gross up michael cohen in order to make him whole for the payments as he is actuall
for donald trump's opponents. so that's a big contribution, and that's the way the prosecution is framing. this was a big up for donald trump's campaign, and it constituted election fraud so in your opinion, windom trump comes out and says, we'll look i was paying a lawyer and we said legal fees. >> what's wrong with that? what's the answer to that so in this case, it's not just legal fees which professor would do, sorry, go into moser i think in this case, it's not simply that he's...
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there was a pattern that first $30,000 was paid to a trump tower doorman to squash a rumor that trump had fathered a child with an employee this was the first time, according to prosecutors that the head of american media, inke, david pecker, who publish the national enquirer, had ever paid anyone for information about donald trump for his part, trump has always denied having the child in question. this is a copy of the signed source agreement between the doorman and david pecker, who at the time was a trump loyalist the agreement reid's source shall provide ami with information regarding hurting donald trump's illegitimate child. according to the statement of facts filed by prosecutors when trump was indicted in the stormy daniels hush money case, pecker learned in the fall of 2015 that the doorman was trying to sell information regarding a child that trump had allegedly fathered out of wedlock at pecker's direction. the prosecutor said ami negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the doorman $30,000 for exclusive rights to the story, not to publish it, but to bury it. >> the doorma
there was a pattern that first $30,000 was paid to a trump tower doorman to squash a rumor that trump had fathered a child with an employee this was the first time, according to prosecutors that the head of american media, inke, david pecker, who publish the national enquirer, had ever paid anyone for information about donald trump for his part, trump has always denied having the child in question. this is a copy of the signed source agreement between the doorman and david pecker, who at the...
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trump's. so i mean, that's the only reason that that matters. but the other thing i would just note, i mean, the karen mcdougal story is not over. this is just the beginning of what we will learn about this. karen mcdougal story. and when you look at the charges jeong documents here for trump, there are some hints about where this goes next david pecker ends up paying her, but at some point, he decides to not get reimbursed from trump wod and i'm curis as to why that happened. so ts is the opening salvo, but there's more to come. >> so again, you're not going to find the crime a to z found in any one paragraphf testimony, prosecutors have to build a case here. i think two things jump out at mfrom the transcriptone,his is a full nine alarm fire in trump wld & in the national enquirer in pecker'environment, they are i mean, they're pulling each other out of meetings. borderline panicking. the other thing is that a establishes a really important chain of communication because this is one of the r
trump's. so i mean, that's the only reason that that matters. but the other thing i would just note, i mean, the karen mcdougal story is not over. this is just the beginning of what we will learn about this. karen mcdougal story. and when you look at the charges jeong documents here for trump, there are some hints about where this goes next david pecker ends up paying her, but at some point, he decides to not get reimbursed from trump wod and i'm curis as to why that happened. so ts is the...
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trump's then lawyer turned fixer. michael cohen, told pecker not to release the doorman until after the presidential election. the agreement the doorman had made with ami in 2015 also stated that if he shared his story anywhere else, he'd be forced to pay a $1,000,000 penalty in 2019 after he'd been released from the deal, the doorman self-published a book, writing in the description, i was the trump doorman back then. i wasn't able to fully give my side of the story randi joins us now, where is that doorman today? >> what anderson we know that doorman certainly is no longer working at trump tower the last time cnn actually put eyes on him was back in 2018 when we tracked him down to his house. that was an eastern pennsylvania and that really was the last known address for him. he's really fallen off the radar, at least the media's radar until this trial, of course. and one would assume anderson that he's likely working somewhere, right. because that $30,000 he was paid was likely not enough for him to live on all the
trump's then lawyer turned fixer. michael cohen, told pecker not to release the doorman until after the presidential election. the agreement the doorman had made with ami in 2015 also stated that if he shared his story anywhere else, he'd be forced to pay a $1,000,000 penalty in 2019 after he'd been released from the deal, the doorman self-published a book, writing in the description, i was the trump doorman back then. i wasn't able to fully give my side of the story randi joins us now, where...