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addition of my show. up next, the beat weekend. welcome to our special. the new york versus donald trump. we are bringing you this brand- new breakdown of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of the former president and current candidate as well. this was a tough week for the defendant. there was gripping, dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot, and of all the witnesses we have seen, she is the most famous through her encounter with trump, and there were testimony and key days of testimony from witnesses who were in trumps orbit, who could speak about what she said and cooperate -- corroborate it.

we are looking at this game and how they try to influence the 2016 election. we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know, according to the public remarks, working off the public evidence, we nowhere near the end of the thing. two witnesses left according to the da's team. we have the star witness, michael cohen, beginning monday. another witness and then they will be ready to rest as soon as the coming week. michael cohen is central to the da's case and he has testified under oath that trump was in on everything. >> he knew about everything. everything had to grow through mr. trump and it had to be approved by mr. trump. >> that is what he sounded like last time through legally binding testimony while he was under oath. there is a lot of punishment if you perjure yourself to

congress. we expect to hear him be the same. they will rest the case, as i mentioned, by the end of the week. that could change, but it was a confident line, meaning of something unexpected does not happen or there is no issue with the judge or something beyond their control, they expect to have this thing done by thursday. of course, steps after that, the defense gets to respond and the jury gets to deliberate. whether or not they can make the case, they are saying by thursday, they believe they will have legally set out all of the evidence, every element of the two crimes they say president donald trump committed. this week started with a bang when they clashed with the judge over him getting caught, blatantly violating the gag order and that meant even as they barrel forward, the da only has a few days left, and the judge had to tell the defendant and the lawyer he could face a jail sanction of this continues. future violations could be

punishable by incarceration. prosecutors are making good on what they said they would do. follow the money and show the receipts. that is important, as we mentioned. we will get into that with our experts as part of this special, that the witnesses matter because they bring everything to life. if they do not -- they do not have much without receipts, and they have some signatures from the defendant and other paperwork that is damning, showing this is not a random one off, but a whole plot run through the trump organization and through president donald trump's personal bank account. we have what he wrote to cohen . prosecutors called actress stormy daniels to the sand, where she told them why she understood trump wanted her silenced at that time. >> stormy daniels became a household name for shaking the corridors of power. >> everybody wants to hear what stanley demos -- stormy daniels

will say. >> a riveting bombshell. sometimes icky testimony. >> you wanted money. that phrase repeated multiple times. >> i think shaming a sex worker -- >> at his -- it is his motivation to shame her, and it is not working. >> she will not let her story be mischaracterized. >> daniels testified over two days and it was quite detailed, at times graphic, and as an observation, that could sound like an opinion. that was something the judge at times had to patrol. at a legal level, some of the details would be beyond what it was necessary for the evidence to support the da's case. this is not like an to be where you can jump around on different topics. the questions and topics are regulated by the judge. now, within what she did say, she testified -- testified that

when they had their initial encounter about it in public, that bolsters the da's case that the only issue with the campaign motivation, part of the crime, they say, not just some generalized hush money. daniels based aggressive questioning from trumps attorney, who used stigmas that discredit her because of her job. she accused daniels of extorting trump. she said that was false. that was an allegation in the form of the question. she said maybe she made the whole thing up, was not only did she deny, but that would be a tough pill for the jury to swallow when they have seen so much other cooperation -- cooperation they also said that sharing her story has negatively impacted her and there is a lot of that. they paved the way for other witnesses and some are not as exciting, but they go to what i say they have to prove, not that things happened, but that

it was an intentional financial cover-up that trump knew about at the time. there is a bookkeeper from his company who said that trump spoke to his former cfo, weisselberg, daily. that testimony was backed up by another staff assistant, who said on thursday that they remembered a couple times where there was a question about a check and trump would pick up the phone and call the now conducted cfo, weisselberg her. she became emotional and said she met with the defense earlier in the week to prepare as a prosecution witness, but that gives you some perspective. that is okay, by the way. the witnesses may have a mixed perspective, no matter who they are called by. the main obligation is supposed to be telling the truth and the jury assesses that. friday, the judge floated the idea of having that aforementioned convicted trump moneyman, weisselberg, testify

himself. that would be a big deal. i mentioned some unexpected things could add time. if you added a witness and you had to arrange him getting out of rikers jail, that might take a little extra time. he is in new york after pleading guilty to perjury for a different trump case. not this one, but a related fraud case because the allegations of fraud have dogged trump in different courtrooms and that is the second time weisselberg has gone to jail for things he did, that were basically related to him arguably, or legibly, at the behest of his boss, president donald trump. they say they have looked visibly concerned at the suggestion that weisselberg come in. they seem to think that he is loyal, but better off not heard from. now, we are also seeing the way that, day by day, this process can yield different information. the staffer i mentioned, when she testified friday, she said trump would sign checks, sometimes without even reviewing them.

that goes to a clash among and across both witnesses and the da and defense arguments because, again, the jury's job is not to root for one side and not only take the first thing they hear as possible. indeed, they will get instructions before they go into deliberate, that you have to take it holistically. so, together, they have to kind of unspool everything. the outer loop claim is a fair defense, when he is allowed to lodge, but they have to look at all the evidence and the hand signatures and the books and the bragging about how involved he is to decide whether or not that, plus the tape about these payments, all checks out or not. we have said this before. if we were using the general standard like two sources in journalism, they would have trump at dead to rights. but there is a higher standard, deliberately so.

it is not just two sources or what you think is most likely or what happened reasonably. it is a high standard on purpose for all defendants. it is supposed to be beyond a reasonable doubt, that he did it, and covered it up, ended with a campaign crying indent. a higher bar and that is why we will be watching this next week as the da brings in: -- cohen. trump wants to delay this. unlike every other case he has faced, they have been failing in this court room. will have a couple special guests that we think will help us really wrap up what has been a bruising week for president donald trump. we are back together in just 90 seconds. seconds. thanks to the donations. and our family is forever grateful because it's completely changed our lives. nothing dims my light like a migraine. with nurtec odt, i found relief. the only migraine medication that helps tre prevent, all in one. to those with migraine, i see you. for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment

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this is not what i want to be known for. as a matter of fact, i had for quite a while and it is overwhelming and intimidating and downright scary a lot of times. >> stormy daniels was speaking about this all the way back in 2018 and now for the first time, people of heard from her under oath in his legally binding proceeding. they are joined by a legal analyst, joyce vance, and marissa. professor, when you look at this week, we are always looking for reflection points and it felt like it barreled forward, and some ways, for all the excitement about michael cohen next week, if you were writing a story where the da began to really congeal and focus its case, most of it

feels like it is coming next. it might be from the combination of the receipts of daniels this week before even get to cohen saying, yes, what they said was true. >> it is an interesting rhythm with a prosecution, and you are correct. there is a lot of forward momentum but there also some really mundane and monotonous moments, where witnesses have to look at different forms of evidence. there are those quieter moments. again, punctuated by similarly explosive testimony. i think people are really going to look back on the set of questions that stormy daniels answered from the prosecution and from defense lawyer, cohen. there is an undulating pattern. the real star is not any of these witnesses, but rather the documents that they were there

to elaborate. the documents were the stars. the documents do not lie. they established a prosecution's story. the witnesses were all there to basically elaborate and give context and color for those documents and to give the jurors a story, and trials are storytelling. the prosecution using these documentary evidence decided to tell a broad story and use these witnesses to make that story come to life. >> joyce? >> you know, anyone who has served on a jury understands that judges will say they must not deliberate until all of the evidence is in, until they are all in the room together, and we are treating the case very differently. we are assessing each witness as they testify and every piece of evidence as it comes in. sometimes, that leads us to overfocus on one bit of the evidence or one facet of the case without seeing the bigger picture that the jury will have

when they begin to deliberate. so, i find melissa's assessment to be entirely appropriate when she talks about the trajectory of the case. the prosecution has had, i think, one overarching goal in mind route their entire presentation of the evidence. their goal is to buttress michael cohen's credibility before he ever takes the witness stand because the tough part of this case is proving that president donald trump new, approved, participated, wanted to use the false business records to conceal or aid in the commission of other crimes and at every step of the way, they have masterfully executed that goal, whether it is the way that stormy daniels held up beautifully on cross- examination. she comes across, you know, not just as astar , but as a mom, a real person with real interest

and with an important life story and someone they might not approve of, but who they can listen to and who they can ultimately believe. at the same time, melissa nails the documents. the documents do not lie. they are in evidence and they have weisselberg's writing on them. he may not testify, but it does not matter because the documents are there. >> you are both talking about the documents and how the trump defense or the doubt they want to instill really runs into that brick wall and that is why the da has been having momentum. joe was a lawyer in the new york case until he left. we did speak with him and i asked him about that. if your defense was like this is money for a lawyer or a retainer and there was no fraud because it was true, the problem is the money did not stay with the loyal. it passes through the lawyer and went to stormy daniels. it was -- to add insult to injury, you have the cfo,

talking about taking him out of rikers and he literally writes his plot on paper and says, let's gross it up. let's lie. let's commit tax friday -- fraud. here is joseph tacopina. >> i do not think she is a lawyer. >> she is not a lawyer and these payments were made and they were, according to federal filings, classified on the trump side as legal services. that was false, wasn't it? >> the payments were made to a lawyer, not to stormy daniels. >> joyce? >> well, that is slicing pretty thin, but it ultimately does not work. in addition to the books, where these payments to michael cohen are coded as legal fees and

multiple witnesses have said they were reimbursement payments to stormy daniels, we know that in this california litigation, where stormy daniels, she says she did not approve it, but her lawyers sued trump for defamation. she uses that case and she is ordered to pay trump's legal fees and as part of the file, trump actually concedes that the $130,000 is reimbursement for the payment to stormy daniels. the prosecution can put that into evidence. that may well be what happens with their last witness. we do not know who that will be yet. that is compelling evidence, along with the trump's tweet that there was discussion about this afternoon, where he talks about, well, my lawyer was handling a private agreement. it all adds up to knowledge and it is all contrary to this defense that trump did not know and that these were just legal payments to michael cohen, who somehow went off as a free agent and decided to spend trump's money for him in maybe the slim hope that he would be reimbursed down the road. that story does not make sense and this jury will use their common sense when they

deliberate. >> right, and if that story does not make sense, that takes us to next week, professor, where there might be questions and issues from michael cohen on cross. to believe the trump defense, you would think after everything cohen has been through, including prison, he is now sticking to a new made- up story , perjuring himself again and taking on new liability, and somehow pulling other people into it. i mean, you know, i hesitate to make a musical reference, professor, just kidding. but it is a bit like near the end of the drake kendrick- lamarr battle. he says some of the things that kendrick lamar -- he had planted it. he claimed negative information about himself, so he would say it, so he could say "got you." it is false and i tricked you

into attacking me. if that sounds convoluted, you do not have to know all the details. it is so convoluted that people question whether it is true. i put all of that to you, as well as for evidence of the other issue with: -- cohen. he was moved to to say i would direct the people, the da, to communicate to mr. cohen the judge is asking him to refrain from making any more statements in this case. that is not so great. your thoughts on any of that? >> well, certainly a minor deviation for mr. cohen. you will know what i mean, given your knowledge with the kendrick lamar-drake beef. one of the things is they got out a lot of dirt on michael cohen before michael cohen even came into the room. honestly, the bar is not held for michael cohen. if he even performs reasonably well and strings together some sentences that are articulate and makes a colorful case to

the jury and stands up on cross- examination, it will be a success. again, the strategy here is to minimize the -- by making the documents actually do the work of corroborating his story. they did a lot of work, lining up those documents, providing context for those documents, and pre-vetting all the claims that the defense will make about michael cohen and his credibility going forward. so, again, i think really watching michael cohen next week -- we might actually be very surprised, that he stands up, that is perhaps because the prosecution has done so much work this week, really airing out all of his dirty linen. >> you both have sort of given us and anyone listening a lot more insight into why this is going down the way it is and why some of the negatives are coming out now and the strategy to that as we gear up for what is likely the final four days

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it please the bullies. it will make it worse. >> mr. trump is a con man. he asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair and to lie about it to his wife, which i did. >> the bookend of a couple star witnesses, one this week and one next weekend that the da will be ready to rest its case. in legal speak, that means the prosecutors say by thursday, they will have, they argue, proven elements of two crimes by defendant trump we are joined by michael steele, who ran the rnc and the host the weekend. he is part of our special, as we try to take it all in. thank you for being here. >> it is good to see you, as always. >> good to see you. this might sound a little funny, but there is such a thing as enough lawyers or too many lawyers. we love all of our legal expert. we have had them all. i am turning to you for the story. you know who is not a lawyer?

most of the jurors. what you think about the story they are telling? it is not what people might have expected. you might have thought, well, you start with michael cohen. he is the insider. he is in the room. he has firsthand knowledge. they started on the other side with the tabloid and whether other witnesses and they will end with cohen. what does that mean to you weigh how do you think that will work for the jury? >> a pretty good story. i think they did the appropriate amount of, you know, spice and then sort of the boring kind of here is some of the numbers and here is some of the processes and this is the internal workings, and they will end with a bit more spice. so, i think it has been a very well laid out approach to this jury. what is important is this really talks about how it

matters. they know this jury. they have a sense of where the jury is going to land and what this jury may be interested in knowing. aspects of this jury, you know, that we did not get to know or see because we were not in the room. we were not watching their faces. so, when i selected this jury, that is when the real strategy of how you're going to present this case begins. i think this prosecution, those prosecutors have figured out the way to approach this jury, to bring them into the story, right weigh yeah, we on the outside have gotten all hyped up about the scintillating parts and the naughty bits from stormy and trump, but by that point of the narrative, they had pretty much laid down, okay, this is why.

this is why trump did what he did. this is why we are saying this is a crime. so, when you hear all the naughty bits, you begin to go, oh, yeah, now i see why he did not want to tell his wife and he sure didn't want to tell the public when he was running for president what was happening. i think that's a mess it coming up with michael cohen. >> sure. this was related to a campaign, like i mentioned. the person running at the highest level of the trump campaign in that homestretch was steve bannon. as of friday, he is now on pace to spend the coming election day inside a federal prison. i will show viewers the news friday. the white house aide steve bannon, his conviction for divine congress of january 6th is similar to what peter navarro did and he has been -- if only take an unusual supreme court intervention to help them. we should note the supreme court did not do so on a similar charge against navarro.

he could surrender to prison for what he was sentenced, four months in federal prison. that is a significant accountability for a very powerful person and he is also very rich, a multimillionaire, close to the president and got help with the use of trumps power in the past. we have no reason to concur that the president would intervene now, to say the least. your thoughts? >> no, hey, accountability is up you know what, right weigh yeah, when you're held accountable, you will pay. that is what the judges decide. they have affirmed it. now you have to pay for that. what is the great irony is that all these people going to jail for president donald trump, and yet they are still beholden to him in many instances. fan and is not going to stray that far away. weisselberg him and not once, but twice, taking the shot for

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welcome to our special, new york versus trump. they know proceedings can be quite unpredictable. tonight, we want to dig in further to the revealing and even wild moments we have seen thus far. this is our trial fallback segment. we have some special guests. the acclaimed author, kurt andersen, with a new book, evil geniuses . he is also with studio 360 and he cofounded a magazine from back in the day.

we are talking about "spy" from the 80s, which was known for warning new york and maybe the rest of america about this figure they discovered in new york, seen as a b trump. they also labeled him the short fingered bulgarian. that echoed out to the 2016 campaign. >> he was in the room when the phrase short fingered vulgarian was coined. >> i do not understand why they are the size of someone who is 5'2". >> you can see a hand with little fingers coming out. >> the turn of phrase can be memorable. of course, anytime we are doing a fallback, we will mention he has been immortalized by the great jon stewart, who has returned for coverage. he also will host the weekend.

kurt, this is a trial fallback. what is in your fallback list? >> well, it is a similar thing. one is that -- may be among the most serious of my thing is the lack of any audiovisual coverage of this trial. of course, in a kind of general way, the fact this entertainment figure, president donald trump, who became president now being tried for his crimes as president deserves in some epic, poetic justice way to have audiovisual coverage in the courtroom, but moreover, new york state is one of the very very few states that do not allow basically any television coverage of trials. most trials are on tv. it makes sense in general. what we and new york and

louisiana are dealing with -- i do not know anything else about which that can be said, that new york and louisiana, x, y, or z. that seems to be a mistake. this issue, this trial, seems like the ultimate case of where transparency would be important and would serve the public good, right? since covid, the last four years, the supreme court has had live audio, which was maintaining the decorum. there is no television, you know, clarence thomas sitting back or whatever. it is sound and people can listen. it is civilized. you can always do that, it seems to me. i think we have seen that, you know? by the way, in terms of transparency, fox news, for instance, which is covering this trial in a de minimis fashion with -- it might be a

forest of lies, to carry the trial on television. >> you make a great comparison, that even if you have the camera issue, the court in d.c. -- the middleground is the high court, doing the audio and sometimes doing it live on cases of big interest, which would also give people the feeling, the dexterity, the touch, and if you're a trump fan, time. you get to actually hear the defense and we shared a common experience as a country. certainly, the oj case was big precisely because it was accessible. had we had to cover oj like now with only readouts, you never saw the gloves, michael, not sure it would have come across the same way. for your fallback, wanted to play something and you can tell us your thoughts. here they are, bemoaning the gag order on fox. take a listen. this is jesse watters.

>> they are threatening to throw the republican nominee for president in jail for talking, harris. for talking during an election. i am not a lawyer. i am just playing one on tv, but according to the gag, you could have the loch ness monster as a juror and trump cannot say the loch ness monster is real. that is $1000. boom, right there. >> your thoughts? >> yeah, you know, the growth of a theocracy in this country is amazing. it is absolutely amazing. they must be handing out diplomas for stupid. i mean, you know, it is just beyond the imagination. the fake outrage, you know, jesse and a lot of those folks

know what a gag order is and they know why the gag order was imposed and this fake outrage that president donald trump somehow is being told to shut up because he is talking about the judge and the judge's family and the clerks and the court, et cetera, is not outrageous. it is not anything new because he knows that during the many trials that fox itself was involved in, that they were very careful not to run their mouths and they were very concerned about what president donald trump would say about fox during that time. so, they get it. you know, this fake homage to trump and his crazy, you know, to me, can we just stop with it at this point? we are smarter we are more mature. the rest of y'all need to catch up, you know, because the growth of idiocracy in this country is stifling at this point.

>> and, kurt, you are, like it or not, an expert on how trump rolls, how he lives, how we is, and we showed you your baby cover with the fingers. this judges had to figure out how to deal with them. he has made a bet that he is better off finding him and keeping it moving then getting into a jail clash, but you had a fallback about that. your thoughts? >> i do. i believe justice mershon is publicly correct and has been amazing in his attempt at judicial manor. however, it is -- it seems a mistake in general that the maximum fine in new york state on contempt of court is $8000. i mean, it seems, first of all, as is clear and as i believe the judge said, you know or

implied, $1000 to president donald trump is nothing. it is the cost of doing business and saying whatever he wants and violating the gag order. you know, not even that. in some sense, it is -- we can talk about his money of sessions. it seems to me, at the very least, the maximum fine should be greater to deal with people like, say, president donald trump, for whom $1000 fine is nothing. it might be something for almost anyone else. so, the other option that he has would be to put him in jail for up to 30 days. perhaps you should not do that, but if the thousand dollars does nothing to stop him or almost nothing, then, of course, he needs to threaten pack -- threaten that.

also the jesse watters things being moronic and idiotic, as michael said, the loch ness joke, if that is what it was, was the stupidest version of that joke. >> right. respect. you are a writer, so we appreciate that. the point about dollars -- michael, you want to get in? >> no, no, i am all about it. let the writer put the period on it because he just did. thank you very much, sir. >> there you go. >> my pleasure. >> i have 80 seconds, michael. kurt mays it -- raises a point about how our system works. steve bannon got for must kiss for mother like anyone else's four months. we talked about that. on these other things, the content fine -- contempt fine, does not think they talk you a

weeks pay. if they added it up to a couple months, they might be affected. it is designed to discriminate against the poor and make it basically meaningless and toothless for the very rich. >> well, yeah. and that is, you know, another example of the fact that you have these sweetheart jails that they go to, where the very rich go to. they have the country club jail for the very wealthy, who have been found pilfering millions of dollars from their customers and clients, et cetera. they get to spend their time, you know, playing golf and doing putt putt here and putt putt there. the rest of us sit at rikers. you know, that is the difference. look, i have advocated for a while now that all of the entrapments of the presidency should be stripped from president donald trump during this period because he has forfeited by his actions. i am hoping that in future

congress, they will address this matter, to make it very clear that you do not get to play president while you are in the criminal justice system. all that is going to do is make a mockery of the office you once held and put the system itself in unnecessary knots. if president donald trump is convicted, then-president donald trump should lose secret service protection because you know, by the way, they are called guards in the jail. i do not think there'll be any problem protecting the man who is prisoner number fill in the number, like any other prisoner. we just need to dial that down a bit because, when you have bad behavior by politicians at whatever level, they should be subject to the same recourse of judicial process and outcome as the rest of us. we do not have security. if i committed a crime, trust

me, my state troopers would not be sitting in jail, protecting me. the same should be true for the president of the united states. >> yeah. no, i perish the thought, that they put those adorable blue felt hands of yours, you know, your puppet hands -- that is a call back. you have to go back to -- >> my small hands. >> take it away. >> oh, well -- >> wait, i have to warn you. i have to warn you. kurt, the way tv works, we are over on time. you can have a 22nd sentence. >> just that the prosecution in the case was based on the fact that president donald trump cares a lot about every dime that goes in or comes out. you can look it up. they will experiment. >> one sentence. >> two people cash the checks

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told the jury about that. it is something he recounted when he testified to congress in 2019. >> in february of 2017, one month into his presidency, i visited president donald trump in the oval office for the first time and it is truly awe- inspiring. he says to me something to the effect of, do not worry, michael. your january and february reimbursement checks are coming. >> colons -- cohen the big day will kick off the final week of the da's case. they plan to rest their case by thursday against defendant trump. i was immersed in -- i want to mention we have a two-hour edition of the beat monday. we will see you there and i will be right back. ght back.

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