cross-examination is a wrap-up or the drag it out i think there's been some more time with their susan nicholasi mean, there's there's a reason why susan is doing it and not todd and they're looking to not offend people, but they're trying to make her look really bad. i think the challenges is that her appeal is the fact that she's not appealing as a form of perspective, i mean, that's what you're trying to paint here. you're not trying to make this look like some lovely person. >> she's not and they don't hide from that. >> so i'm not quite sure what more the defense can accomplish here, but i think that to drag it out a little bit more is probably going to be a little overwhelming you'll see a little bit more cross-examinati on, but remember the prosecution gets to do some redirect examination and clean some things up. >> and so they'll get that chance stormy daniels and michael cohen were the last two big blockbuster witnesses. how quickly do they move to put him on the stand or does this make them? tamp down that. what does that look like? well, look, i don't think this prosecution team has

susan nicholas was the first attorney in that chair. stormy daniels was initially on the witness stand, and when they were getting into those graphic details, which the prosecutor has made clear today, they oh, back on a lot of what was in their initial interview with stormy daniels, that's why they important denied this motion for a mistrial. the judge but the judge's decision here was so thoughtful that he said yesterday, and there was no court. he went into his chambers and he reviewed the testimony from tuesday. he went over it and he looked at the past evidence of her interviews and what she had said previously said her accounts, not all that different. she didn't come in here and say things that are all that different and he said what qarrah was noting, which is essentially that you guys made this a decision for the jury because you came out in your opening statement and questioned her credibility. so the prosecution had to resign very important point about about her consistency, but limit let me just read what the judge said. he

>> i think he was pleased, clearly with how his attorney did the attorney, susan nicholas, conducted the cross-examination. nehl, she's not done yet. we do expect that this will can you on thursday morning when court resumes, they are off tomorrow. jake, obviously, but but it susan niclas just to highlight, was the attorney sitting next to trump's shoes in the first chair. so a direct line of the witness, and she was the one that when the prosecution was quite daniel's trump kept tapping her arm and urging her to object on at least two occasions that i witnessed susan ecke then did stand up to object and that was in that really intense period of questioning. we're still we daniel's was going into incredible amounts of detail regarding her encounter with donald trump or alleged affair with donald trump, would she didn't he did not mention stormy daniels there and said he just talked about the case and of itself and the basis of it really basically the same people that he quotes ever for single day. >> but i do think that says something of the demeanor that he had walking out a cork bef

>> i know susan nicholas for a long time. she's a task pick lawyer. i am positive. she did that a good faith and she probably said, judge, he wants to retweet this particular article. he doesn't want to violated. it's written by ali, who is on his side and he wants to retweet it. can he do that? but that's not a judge's job to review things in his order. of course, it's his job. it's like what am i going to twilight zone? his order. he could change and evaluate if someone violates it, but he's not like they're to beautiful lawyer totally do i have done it? >> i did it yesterday. just yesterday, judge. when my in federal court that you're not allowed to speak to any of your codefendants or any of the employees who worked for the corporation? well, now he's pled guilty and for his sentencing memo, he wants letters from his former employees saying what a great guy he was. my judge, do it violate your order? >> that's what you said. he can't talk to the employees have had can we speak to them? that's how you adjust your order. if trump had said, can i talk about x and t

see you and trump are often sitting next to each other or the other attorneys, emil bove and susan nicholas, but trump, what hit you on the arm? tap you on the arm, or judy, their object are clearly was writing your notes and saying, i mean, who ultimately was in charge of the defense strategy here, was it you or was it donald trump it was both of us. >> if there's a lawyer that comes in and says that they're in charge of their defense strategy. >> they're not doing a service that our client, every decision that we made, we made as a team and not just present trump on myself, but the whole team so again, every, every defendant, everybody who has her life on the line in history, will tap their lawyer every once while and say, hey, what about this? what about that? i've never we had we not only did we get along during the trial, but we were on the same page about strategy and about what we should be doing and not doing. and it was the one thing that i left with today is he in impressed, hopefully everybody that's that got to see what happened today. the way that he handled himself in the cour

blanche was here to susan nicholas was here.ould lean and say things here and there. >> but we didn't really get a big sense of anything in terms of hammond interacting. and have you shown your sketches i've been inside. our work. >> i think we shall discuss it. so i brought my and i brought my ipad which has this adobe fresco things. so there's one that stormy daniels looking at. i think that might be the orange turd tweet. >> here's this. this is a combined four different drawings that i did which was is that stormy daniels early in the trial, there was a lot of looking at evidence, but go back to the one of the room just for one second, guys so there's the judge and their stormy daniels in there and susan necklace on the far right. and there's donald trump just kinda staring straight ahead. i have her arm arm wrong there. i knew she was doing something with her arm and the much better professional courtroom sketch artists, jane rosenberg and the other ones name is escaping me even though she's fantastic. if we could show thei

everyone knows susan nicholas is terrific. it's an oddity that she's not there. a good job, but that would not be a normal choice. >> what do you think happens next after keith davidson? who do you think they'll put on as a character? >> you saw what they're basically doing which is standard. after a witness, they do a lot of collaboration through witnesses that we might say, oh, it's boring. that's not what the trial's about. >> the documents are what jurors ask to look at when you're deliberating. can you bring in that document? >> yeah, because it's hard evidence. it gives an anchor to a case. it gives you a timeline. you know, i had doubts about this witness saying it, but he said it. for instance now with them putting on a witness that's going to talk about michael cohen's phone and the documents from it, the reason that's so important and the reason you do that not just through michael cohen because he can say it's my phone, they want it from an independent witness who said, no, we looked at that and forensically we can tell you this is the date of it. this

susan nicholas, one of the attorneys for donald trump is asking several questions talking about a paymentocumentary. stormy daniels says someone called her a human toilet and she capitalized on the joke and the best person to flush the orange turd down. she meant president trump. what are they trying to drive at with this point? >> none of this can play well with the jury. the defense is trying to extract two main points here. one that stormy daniels makes a lot of money and famous because of her relationship with donald trump. it's to her benefit to stay in the spotlight and be there as a witness and all of that. secondly, stormy daniels hates donald trump. she said it under oath on tuesday. she defiantly acknowledged the post she has written about him and dancing down the street if he went to jail. right now we're getting notes from our producer in the courtroom talking about a post where she said she would flush donald trump down the toilet. this all plays into a jury's mind when they think about whether a witness is credible and how much this person is there just because they hate thi

trump's attorney susan nicholas is back at the podium for re-cross. here. paula reid and kaitlan collins. so this means that the prosecution has stopped, has finished with their redirect. so once nicholas asked her questions, that will probably be it. >> yeah, that should be it. and then look, it's clear the prosecutors didn't think what happened on cross-examination this morning, damages the actual heart of this case stormy daniels, her testimony is important. she's a main character. she can explain what happened in tahoe. she can explain what happened in october 2016 from her perspective, but she can't actually speak to the charges of falsifying business records or really whether trump did this to influence the election, though she did under cut the defense that this was it's done to protect his family. so prosecutors clearly saw what happened this morning and on tuesday and thought you know, this isn't going to make or break us. let's clean this up quickly. >> and the move along yeah, it's not clear really at all what today accomplished in terms of this

. >> john: when either todd blanche or susan nicholas or emily bovee take over the cross-examination,ere doing that for donald trump, what would you do with cohen? >> i would, and i suspect i don't know mr. blanche only by reputation which is excellent. i worked very closely with susan pier and she is terrific and she did a really nice job with stormy daniels. but they've been -- it's almost like in the movie secretary where they are holding back on the final stretch but i think they get the web out and i think todd blanche comes out swinging in a measured way. cohen has an allergy to veracity. this guy can't tell the truth. he told "the new york times" none of this occurred. he's going to tell this jury and have told the jury it did occur. he's all over the board here and what's interesting in the place where i primarily practice in pennsylvania, our perjury statute has a subsection that says if it was sworn testimony, if in sworn testimony you say it happened and in sworn testimony beat you say it didn't happen, the commonwealth need not prove which is the light. they know he's lyin

>> the defense attorney susan nicholas is an incredible attorney.orough in her cross-examination and it will touch upon the statements made in the past. any evidence or inconsistent statement will be fodder for cross-examination. as a defense attorney i have done that repeatedly if there have been public statements made that contradicted testimony. that is something that is fodder for cross-examination. you seize upon it and confront the witness with it. undoubtedly knowing miss nicholas as i do, she will bring that up during cross-examination and it will be continued fodder for the jury to decide how many statements as michael cohen made about that payment and how many different versions having given and which version do i as a juror believe is true? that's the key question for the jurors to answer. >> sandra: mercedes, thank you for joining us. all of us set to be back underway a couple of minutes from now. and you. >> always great to be on with you. >> john: testimony for michael cohen set to resume any moment now. he's expected to pick up right

he was nudging susan nicholas. i was watching during stormy daniels testimony to get her to stand up. an object more and i can only imagine if he was doing that with stormy daniels on the witness stand. what's gonna it's gonna look like when michael cohen is on the way in this you actually saw susan get more aggressive. i mean, part of her cross-examination became more aggressive at one point, the judgment said you have to let stormy daniels answering some of that is for the client keith thought she did a good job and he wanted her to do that pressing and then she did so i think we've talked about the dining damage within the team right now. he knows that he's not going to fire them and get a new lawyer in the middle of all of this. but he is also happy with some of what they're doing is happy as donald trump can be when it comes to the faculty sitting one of a criminal trial, it's a challenge because this is going to be todd blanche during the cross-examination of michael cohen has been his sole focus throughout t

he would kind of motion over and hit susan nicholas on the arm. then she objected when he would do that he was passing notes. yeah. and he was really in a lot of those were sustained. >> i want to ask stephanie something very specific here, but that was sort of i thought an incredible admonishment, obviously, not a lawyer, but when the judge said, i had to object for you, yes. >> why where were you guys without questions? so understand this and what happens. is there sometimes a judges will say stained sustain and the lawyer says nothing about it because at the end of the de you don't want things to come out. that is so prejudicial, right? that meaning so harmful to the defendant that you lose control. and now that is not what they're saying. they said that it was so prejudicial erin something so strange about today. the trump defense team really was not on the ball because they had this pretrial ruling or decision from the judge that stormy daniels they knew was going to talk about being in the hotel room with trump and having her testimony as th

yesterday, the judge in the case had asked them at the end of the de how much longer they would need& susan nicholas had said she if they were going to go later today, she intended to go late enough so the judge said, you guys can all come back tomorrow and continue the cross then. and part of the reason is because on the direct examination, stormy daniels went into a lot of detail about her interactions with donald trump, and that is something that trump's lawyers and the judge said. that's a lot of fodder for cross-examination. so i think we're going to see lot of that continued tomorrow when when stormy daniels is back on the witness stand also, kara, we saw that the judge warned the defense team about something the judge had seen trump doing in court. >> what happened? >> yeah. so this was during stormy daniels direct examination when she was asked by prosecutors are about her interact actions of donald trump in the sexual encounter at the hotel in 2006. and it was at that moment that the judge had it was after that moment that the judge had during a break called up trump's attorneys to the side

here's how trump attorney susan nicholas pressed former white house assistant madeleine westerhout on this issue. full screen here we go. necklace and there were times with all of these, would you say it was hundreds of documents that he was signing westerhout? not every day, but sometimes. uh-huh. >> necklace. and this was in-between other things that he was doing, right? westerhout? oh, yes. uh-huh. necklace. and so would you see him signing things without reviewing them yes. said westerhout necklace. and would you see him signing checks without reviewing them? westerhout? yes. necklace. and you would see him signing checks while he was on the phone? oh, right. westerhout? yes necklace. would you see them sometimes signing checks when he was meeting with people westerhout? yes how strong was that? >> do you think for the defense, i lived that was very strong. you know, you have to also put it in perspective of the corporation that there are any no, they're up at the top at trump tower and those offices are we're very busy. >> well, this was was he was in the white house though. >> o

i did bring my jury consultant with me which i haven't common with travel, susan susan nicholas, i broughter one day because i wanted but her insights on what this jury was thinking, but i do think that michael cohen had a little bit of a bond that was established over his examination with the jury that is very dangerous for donald trump. todd blanche had to knock cohen afi had one shot at a first impression as my mother always said, you only get one chance at a first impression. >> he blew it. >> what did your jury and consultants say to you she said that she did not think we were gonna get a hung jury in this case by very first cnn trial diary was about trump stroke brad, a g, one angry juror. >> what you should think hung juries are very uncommon, very small percentage of trials turnout in hung juries. and she, there's certain telltale signs when you have an angry or an alienated juror or you look for the jury michael knows this, you look for one of the members of the jury. smile at persistently smile at the defendant or wink or show some tail coming in and out over hostilely, the prose

and so what susan nicholas said was, i thought you said this was okay. and then when i saw you object, i knew that this was grounds and i could object, so she's the vast why she started objecting. >> we're going to take a quick break remember next i'm john berman joins us. he's been going through the newly released but still partial trial transcript for details from this very big de also, what courtroom artists rosenberg, salehi in court today, and she was making the amazing sketches that you see hey with priceline vip family, you can unlock deals five times faster. >> you don't even have to be an actor shull family, i'd be the dad on the de physically. it's clear that i'm the dad. >> okay. so which data is paying you're physical mom, jeans she passed them down to you but who pass them to her ancestry dna could show her who and where her deans came from. >> best of all, it's on sale for mothers de get it now, before she has to remind you these delicious pistachios are absolutely wonderful literally. it says so on the bag see wonderful pistachios are the

she had with trump attorney susan nicholas, who asked her quote, am i correct that you hate president trump, to which daniels replied, yes. as for the former president and he did not have a single word to say about stormy daniels at the end of the day, but had plenty to say about the case itself. >> this was a very big day a very revealing a as you see, there cases totally falling apart. >> they have nothing on motion records and even something that should bear very little relationship to the case disaster for the idea to the source back to disaster well, just for reference, george soros is the billionaire who backs liberal causes& as a frequent targeted republicans and the fort, right, according to cnn and fact, checker daniel dale, he is not donated to da album brags campaign, but did give money to a political committee which did support brag when i bringing the panel tonight, new york defense attorney arthur, i dollar bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin, my fellow cnn primetime anchors that'd be philip kaitlan collins and laura code scaling was in the c

. >> and so what susan nicholas said was, i thought you said this was okay. and then when i saw you object, i knew that this was grounds and i could object, so she's that's why she started objecting. >> we're going to take a quick break coming up next scene if john berman joins us, he's been going through the newly released, but still partial trial transcript for details from this very big de also what courtroom artists jane rosenberg saw in court today as she was making the maison sketches that you see you're calling some people find there's at an early age. >> others later in life no matter when you find it so do yourself lucky because it becomes your everything are calling was to build trucks and that's why trucks are what we do we put are everything and every truck so that when you find your calling nothing can stop you from answering it what's the greatest invention of all time, new hands-free schedule slip ends. you just slip in and they're on it's like they have an invisible built-in shoe horn. so your foot slides into place without bending down, are t

but so several times on tuesday, trump was nudging susan nicholas to get up an object and we saw or dot at least twice after he nudged her and today, the whole criticism from the judge was, why didn't you object more? i mean, it was trump was obviously clearly was a mistake. look, we all make. we always talk about trump influencing his attorneys and trust me, he does and its incredibly difficult to be at trump attorney. we've talked to many of the former ones, but but he was the one urging her to object more. she was not objecting more and maybe what ellie said before. >> it also like you don't wanna make it look like you're hiding from the jury like, oh, my gosh, she's got something we don't want anyone here, so it's a balancing act. >> her libman. thank you back and had the pushback from a key ally before the president who came to the courthouse today would be have you or anyone you know, ever been stationed at marine corps base campbell june camp luck, june's water was contaminated by fuel leaks. >> if you add any water contact while it camp on june had been diagnosed with cancer or

see you and trump are often sitting next to each other or the other attorneys, emil bove and susan nicholas but trump, what hit you on the arm? tap you on the arm, or judy, their object are clearly was writing your notes and saying stuff. i mean, who ultimately wasn't charge of the defense strategy here, was it you or was it donald trump? >> it was, both of us. if there's a lawyer that comes in and says that they're in charge their defense strategy. they're not doing a service of their client every decision that we made, we made as a team and not just present trump on myself, but the whole team. and so again, every every defendant, everybody who has her life on the line in history, will tap their lawyer every once while and say, hey, what about this? what about that? i'd never we had we not only did we get along during the trial, but we were on the same page about strategy and about what we should be doing and not doing and it was the one thing that i left with today is he in impressed, hopefully everybody that's that got to see what happened today. the way that he handled himself in the co

susan nicholas asks and then stormy daniels says, no absolutely not. so that you get a sense of how tense it was. obviously, you get the part about stormy daniels hating are, but you also get the defense leaning in to the idea of the stormy daniels was laughing on the stand, you know, rare it is to ask a witness on cross-examination. you hate the defendant and the witnesses say yes, i do. i mean, it's better that she's honest about her bias, but this is overwhelming. what lawyer is called bias. she hates him. again, if i'm the prosecutor, i'd rather have her just come out and admit what's obvious but that's a big deal. >> the jury's allowed to take that into account and that is very stark testimony. i think we'll stick with the defense will ask michael cohen, do you hate all my goodness, i hate is not there great work. i mean, it's this entire livelihood, it's inspire. entire person makes a literacy more intern on what do you think killing through yesterday, just going to try to give him outcast this guys ever done every tiktok he's ever done. >> it is

prosecutor's office, but it's absolutely appropriate for them to call her up and say, hey i'm susan nicholas who i am. can i talk to you about your testimony? that's nothing that's on unethical. it's not improper. >> i don't know if that happened or not, but she clearly was not there to hurt donald trump she was there to do what she had to do. >> and yet there is the weight of the world on you when you're end the whole world is watching. >> she taught me happy, talk. you heard like from so that that's the thing that it's so interesting so glad i was there, i'm so glad that we have three people who were the all of us were there did it because what you don't see until you're sitting in that room, are you what do you don't here? >> you don't realize is we see this on television and we think it's all like we see on television of everybody knows their jobs. but there is a motion there. there is a feeling in the room and that feeling ebbs and flows and when the prosecutor stood up, nobody knew who was going to be called today. and the first early testimony was kind of procedural and not particular

so it's a very beginning of court today, the defense attorney susan nicholas. nicholas, suggested that they wanted to introduce the fact that stormy daniels been arrested, and judge merchan was like, no he literally said something like anybody can be arrested. the question is what she convicted. but he said something like, you could go outside the courtroom today and get arrested. it doesn't mean anything which was, an interesting thing to hear a judge say but she wasn't convicted. but then later on in the trial, when they were trying to degrade her credibility, stormy daniels and i talked about the fact that she had some show that had something to do with the paranormal or a podcast or something. i don't know. i'm not really up on her oeuvre. >> but anyway, but, but something about like occupant, like she and her husband and a house and orleans and maybe it was haunted, although she admitted that it was actually a raccoon let's for entertainment, i think she said anyway, and they were trying to say like stormy daniels, your gryffindor, that's basically what th

they like susan nicholas better. i don't think they're fond of your leg eye by the way, this jury this is a jury that does not show a lot. so that tells me you have been analyzing smile several times as steinglass was making his which it did go on at length and there were some dry moments where he was going through the documents, but he also would pepper in these quotes, like the one where he said donald trump didn't pay a porn star or pay a lawyer, but he was paying a porn star funneling the money through an attorney when he was talking about he didn't go to the witness store to get michael cohen. he was making the point, this is who donald trump chose to surround himself with. so it was really long, but he had these little leinz and i saw some of the jurors smiling at some of steinglass as lines, which is a big deal because they don't have expressions typically only are there lots here? >> i'm definitely going to defer to the people who are in the room because there's no replacement for that. i mean, i'm looking at

stormy daniels, susan nicholas is a season defense attorney. todd blanche has not done a ton of cross-examinations. he was a prosecutor before this. this isn't really his bread and butter. he's done some, but not this. you can see the difference in their styles susan nicholas sayyed of very rapid-fire questioning. she'd asked a question she knew was going to get that there was going to be an objection to but still, it's already out there. very already heard it. she already asked it. >> todd blanche is sticking his career in many ways on this case. he left his firm could defend trump in this case he took some chances. i think on tuesday doing that crowd, that cross-examination jumping all over the place, bringing up some pretty it's on it's amusing a times offensive social media posts in previous statements that didn't quite work. it's clear he used yesterday to review his strategy, going back this from a different direction and is much, much more effective and expect by the end of the day, they will get into more of what cohen said on direct ex

. >> where when she was pushing back on susan nicholas der her crossings divination, she would say, well, you benefited a lot from your making money off this relationship. this a fair that you have a donald trump and she would respond and say, well, i've also lost a lot as well, and both can be true what they were trying to get at here is rapid fire style is cohen not only hates the defendant, he aides anyone associated with him. >> he's publicly said that he wants to see him behind bars whose vested interest in the outcome of this case. and then god willing to talk about how he is making money now he says it's not a lot of money that is making from his merch store. but we've only gone to the merch store. we haven't gotten to the book deals. nib only touched on the prod cast. so this is going to be a long, very intense neck today at half and he's saying you were telling the truth, then about essentially saying what you're telling to the truth when you are working for donald trump, then michael cohen testified quite at length that he lied on donald trump's behalf a lot. >> i mean, he test

now, the first is this this is a theme that the trump folks i've tried to push and moments ago, susan nicholasshe argued that looks stormy daniels has been making money off of having had sex with trump for over a decade was stormy day daniel's argues that noem, now she owes trump hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. she's at risk of losing her house, and she tells folks in her documentary that it's hard for her to find work so that that is it has been a theme throughout this trial. michael cohen has stormy daniels and whether they are benefiting off of what they have said vis-a-vis the defendant. this other ideas, whether she's being honest and here's susan necklace appear to catch her in a lie, which she asked if she told boy are all read that she had had sex with trump stormy daniels said that she did tell glory all read that and then isn't that gold is brought up stormy daniels book. read from it and appeared that that wasn't true. so they teach the witness right there on the stand really undercut her credibility. and again, this is contentious. stormy daniels is upset. she's a t

often flanking him as you can see, they're taking a quick der and donald trump junior few others, susan nicholas, as you saw, just walked out there. that's karoline leavitt, i believe from the campaign, natalie harb steven chung, trump's campaign spokesperson. steve witkoff, a donor and you can see other members of the trump legal team and posse that are leaving side that courtroom is they're going to go into a room. it's not clear which are impala, they're going to go into. there's two, one that trump would go into that was quite small. so when described it to me is 20 by 15 feat that they would go into for those brief breaks, but they do have a larger room where the other attorneys were huddling and working out of while they were in the lunch breaks or the bigger breaks as they been inside? this courthouse. there's nothing grand or fancy about this courthouse that's for sure far less impressive than other federal courthouses where he's had cases and had to wait for a time during this initial hearings, but he rules date. not only does he have secret service protection, but he has his legal team

you got george soros, 300 k in december. 350 k in november. 250 k in september; susan pritzker 3300 in october. nicholas pritzker 3300 in november. and david rockefeller jr. in september $10,000. that is as some democrats say they are eager to vote in favor of a house bill that adopts the holocaust remembrance alliances definition of anti-semitism as law. >> it's one of the co-leaders sponsors of that bill. of course i'm going to vote yes on that. i think it's a very valid concern that really allowed that -- i mean that's an overwhelming vote of bipartisan vote in the house as well, i think it's -- it's a great bill. i look forward to voting for it. >> peter: president biden is going to capitol hill tomorrow to give remarks for holocaust remembrance day. that is going to be his next chance to try to put some of the vile anti-semitic rhetoric we have been seeing on college campuses into historical context. back to you. >> brian: all right, peter, thanks so much. whether you like it or not. politico says they are surprised. right, about this. but it's working against president biden. he looks terrible in

president trump's attorney, susan necklace had her turn, she aimed to discredit daniels, trying to point out inconsistencies in her past accounts of the encounter. >> nicholas also questioned daniels about her motivations to get paid to stay silent, versus wanting to get her story out, and daniels was asked if she has continued to make a living off her encounter with trump. >> what there showing the jury now is that she had this economic motive all along, but also her credibility is in tatters. >> you're a star. testify in a fraud trial about the leader of the free world in his boxers, on a bed about to commit an extramarital affair that has no place in a fraud trial. >> some legal experts say they're still waiting to see smoking gun evidence. prosecutors need to prove trump falsified business records to conceal a crime, like trying to influence the 2016 election. each day, supporters of the former president have joined him in the courtroom, like florida senator rick scott. >> what he is going through is just despicable. it's a crime in this country to use the court system. go after your political opponents after stormy daniels finished her testimony, prose

susan nechele, pushed daniels. am i correct that you hate president trump? yes. daniels replied, you want him to go to jail? nicholas asked, i want him to be held accountable. daniel said if he's found guilty, yes. daniels casual and relaxed demeanor changed as the defenses questions became more pointed, attacking her credibility and trying to establish daniels has always just been trying to make a profit you've been making money by claiming to have had sex with president trump for more than a decade nicholas asked that story has made you a lot of money, right? daniels responded, it's also cost me a lot of money. court is not in session tomorrow, but daniels week back on the stand thursday to continue that cross-examination, but or an oval all be watching for the next 72 hours is a trump can continue to abide by the gag order that prohibits them from attacking witnesses. >> in this case daniels clearly got under his skin today, but the judge has threatened him with possible jail time if he violates the order again. all right. paula, thank you very much joe jackson. >> all everyone's here. let me just start with you.

of cops throughout the room susan nechele is accused stormy of having said she would be essential integral to trump going to jail. stormy said where did i say that? nicholas showed this tweet were a trump supporter called her a human toilet, and she said she would be the perfect one to flush the orange turkey. i don't know if we have that tweet, but it'd be great to show it in court today. the former president there it is, making the best person to flush the orange her down the court today. the former president would occasionally turn in, whisper to his attorney, todd blanche at one point, trump was writing on a notepad the prosecution and defense sidebar, with judge merchan, a lot of times while i was in court and it was really weird because all you don't see pictures of this and note we're not allowed to listen to it. >> but up to nine lawyers all huddle up the bench. >> judge merchan stands up, leans over, they have the private little conversation. unfortunately, those was in the courtroom. you're not allowed to you're allowed to use binoculars during corp but not during sidebars. because they're worried that we're going to be able to lip read, which i

susan niclas bid seem to break throughs. this was with storming. she says, you were looking to get to get extort money from president trump, right? stormy says false nicholas as well that's what you did, right? stormy says false, but it's not false that she got money from president trump's. >> you didn't extort it? >> i sure. it's not rhie, but she playing when that's illegal it's a very significant thing if you want to talk about non-disclosure agreements which are lawful and legal, i have a story get it. >> you want to pay me for my silence particularly appropriate. she's not extorting or stealing or getting anything under false pretenses. he has an absolute right not to engage in that type of contractual arrangement. he did engage in a contractual arrangement. the critical issue here is what was the purpose and intent? was he in tap thing to protect his family? was he attempting to do deceive the electorate? and i think that's the critical question. ultimately, abby, laura, that the jury has to come to a determination of did you falsify these business records, ledgers, checks, right invoices for the purpose of what the intent of concealing the hiding of

susan nechele is said, wow, daniels replied with a pause. that's not how i would put it. the sex and the film's is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. nicholas asked daniels if she made up the story with trump. it that story was untrue. i would have written it to be a lot better. daniels shot back the defense, zeroing in on small inconsistencies and the details of daniel story, hoping to undermine her credibility with the jury, your story has completely changed. nechele is said, daniels and raised voice replied, no you're trying to make me say that it changed, but it hasn't changed. and then they question daniel's earlier testimony that she felt powerless in trump's hotel room, you acted and had sex in over 200 porn movies. nechele said. >> but according to you, seeing a man sitting not abed in a t-shirt and boxer shorts was so upsetting that you got lightheaded. >> this wasn't the first time in your life someone made a pass at you? daniels replied, no, but it's the first time they had a body guard standing outside the door. adding trump was twice her age and bigger than her when pressed, daniels explained my own insecurities made me feel th