it came from cnn where anger abby phillip interviewed cameron around the allegations when he decidedenting question what the hell he was doing there. a common reaction from cnn there >> can you tell us more about that. is there something known in the industry about how would deity you treated his artists? >> going to get some cheeks after this horsepower joint. >> get some cheeks speak for millions of old white guys when i say what her cheeks? >> i will tell you after the show. let's have some more. >> what about the industry in general so many pointed out that he can get away if the stuff there wasn't a lot of people protecting him is that the case? >> who's the talent agent for this joint doing all this i didn't know what kind of joint this was who voting for this joint could he thanks for joining us thank you for your time thank you for having me. i love him. hello that he thinks cnn as a talent agent. as a network could put a coke at dis- sleep why did he think he was asked to be on cnn in the first place for his views on benjamin netanyahu his analysis of the national debt. when

. >> i'm abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates. and tonight reunited from a distance and under subpoena, the former president of the united it states and the aide who was by his sayyed as he ascended the political ladder, they sat mere feet apart today, there was no mistaking it. hope hicks was inside manhattan courtroom against her will. the woman who spent years answering questions for trump was now answering questions from the prosecution government lawyers see hicks as the code breaker, the person who knows him about as well as anyone and most critically, she can speak to his deep involvement in managing everything about his orbit. but did what hope hicks say while she was under oath actually do damage to the prosecution's case in some ways. >> i mean, through tears at times, she actually mapped out the final month, the 2016 campaign and tumultuous these as the campaign tried at least abby to navigate the method was the access hollywood tape, including by the way, the furious effort to make stormy stories go away. i mean, she r

i'm abby phillip alongside kaitlan collins here in new york. donald trump's fate will soon be decided that the hands of a jury of his peers and the prosecution wrapped up late tonight, just about two hours ago, following the defense earlier this morning now, both sides tried to condense five weeks of testimony into their closing arguments today, it was their last and final chance to make their case to the jury before those 12 new yorkers decide whether to let donald trump walk or making the first president with a criminal conviction. the jury is expected to begin deliberating tomorrow after hearing the judges instructions to them you can see trump earlier. >> walk can to trump tower. he did not speak as he typically does when he leaves court today. but inside that room, durer's first heard from trump's defense attorney todd blanche, who laid out what he said were the top ten reasons to doubt this case against trump. their biggest focus was the prosecution's star witness, michael cohen, and they did not hold back repeatedly slamming the former p

kara scannell, who's been in the court every day of this trial for us and see you in an anchor, abby phillip, was there for us inside the courtroom as well for the first time today, abby, you were in the room with cohen as he testified this morning, what stood out to you yeah. >> well, michael cohen's discipline i think is probably the most important factor in his testimony so far. is the linchpin witness for the prosecution and they needed him to really tick through a series of things that will solidify their case before the jury. and he delivered this testimony. i think in a measured way at point-by-point, not meandering too far off course delivering, it sounds like what the prosecution asked him two and the key moments had to do with what happened when the stormy daniels payment came into play, what he knew that donald trump knew about how that payment was going to be done. and michael cohen made it clear that he was in the room when allen weisselberg it was writing down that are rudimentary equation on the piece of paper outlining what he was owed and that he was also there when allen we

see at a news night with abby phillip starts right now it's just wrong. >> the president of the united states drawing a red line in israel's war in gaza. >> that's tonight on good evening. >> i'm abby phillip in new york tonight. a cnn exclusive, joe biden, sending a message that will echo across the globe and rattle the normal order of things inside of the middle east, the commander in chief, making it admission& a promise. the admission that american military might has been used to kill civilians in gaza i know that you have paused, mr. president shipments of 2000 pound u.s. bombs to israel due to concern that they could be used in any offensive on raffa. have those bombs, those powerful 2000 pound bombs? been used to kill civilians in gaza civilians have been killed in gaza is the consequences those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers? and the promise that should israel flaunt a biden demand to stay out of rafah instead of just stepping on the hose that allows u.s. military aid to flow to israel. biden will turn off the tap altogether i made it clear that

i'm abby phillip in new york for a special edition of newsnight it just moments. i'll sit down one-on-one with a trump relative and a man who may be trump's pick for vice president. but first tonight strangers in a jury box, 12 manhattan nights came to a unanimous decision to convict the former president of the united states of crimes 34 times these 12 people unknown to each other before april 22, we're asked to reach a conclusion about donald trump's guilt 34 times. they agreed 34 times. they said trump broke the law and that he used a paper trail to conceal a scheme to improperly influence the outcome of the 2016 election? and 34 times, they chose to believe stormy daniels and michael cohen 34 times. they declared the defense did not establish reasonable doubt the 12th people whose names will likely soon know and whose perspective we may well, here are the things of the judge. those 12 according the da, alvin bragg. now also deserves the thanks of a nation i did my job. >> our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor and that's exactly what w

for how it really happened, gardner art heist, stealing, beauty, sit a news night with abby phillip starts right now a cnn exclusive, the bad boy, caught brutalizing his girlfriend on tape. that's it's tonight on newsnight good evening. >> i'm abby phillip in new york, new tonight video exclusively obtained by cnn, offers a direct contradiction to sean diddy combs is claims that he did nothing wrong. the rap mogul insisted back in december, the people were assassinating his character, destroying his reputation with sickening allegations for a quick payday i did not do any of these awful things being alleged but it turns out he did do precisely what his former girlfriend, cassie ventura alleged in a lawsuit that she has since settled. ventura claim that in that suit, the rapper followed her around in a hotel hallway that was back in 2016, he yelled, grant asked her through a glass vase at her. the surveillance footage from that newly shuttered intercontinental hotel in los angeles mirrors exactly ventura's words in horrifying detail. representatives for combs have not responded to that vide

i'm abby phillip, and i'm bill. >> we're thanks so much for joining us tonight. those colors splashed across skies, not used to seeing the northern lights fix shade of dark blue you know, sort of lighting up the sky in various places but there could be resounding consequences to human infrastructure as a result of all of that energy crackling through the sky tonight in the rockies, saskatoon highway won every city you can see every color across the sky. this one is rated a g5 out of five, top of the scale. >> and right now it is hitting across the east coast so you probably have gotten this by now. you probably don't even remember the last time this happened, but it is extremely the rare. it is a once in two decades solar burst it's aiming for cute, but it might end up being a rip tide at the end of the de, we'll we'll find out as the weekend continues, the country may soon have to say so long and good night to some of the things that we rely on every day, at least temporarily, satellites, thousands of them that are up in the solar system may go offline. telecom

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coverage of trump's trial is the jury will be back in the room right now seeing a news night with abby. phillip starts the jury is deciding donald trump's fate and he is invoking mother teresa. >> that's tonight on newsnight good evening. >> i'm abby phillip new york tonight. a jury of 12 men and women are considering whether to make donald trump, the first former president to be convicted of a crime after receiving instructions from the judge today, they deliberated for more than four hours and then they send back to notes. you'll hear what those notes were in just a moment and we'll discuss the significance of each of them. but first, you heard the prosecution and the defense making their closing arguments this week, the jury is deliberating over those right now. but now donald trump is making his own closing argument in the court of public opinion. it won't come as a surprise to you that it needs a hell of a lot of fact-checking i mean, what is very unfair as it i'm not campaigning. >> did this room all day from morning to night. >> in the vitamin, which now there were many days before. and

that's tonight on good evening i'm abby phillip in new york tonight, the presidential vacuum, donald trump, wants to fill and to exploit the radical extremists and far-left agitators or terrorizing college campuses as you possibly noticed, and biden's nowhere to be found. >> he hasn't said anything but there is political base now, trump's characterization of what's happening across universities from coast-to-coast is not the whole truth, but look for words from president biden on what's happening on these pro-palestinian and cabinets on defending the right of these protesters to exercise free speech on the need to protect jewish students or police arresting some students. >> and you won't find much. but what is unquestionably and politically painfully clear for the biden campaign is that the problem shows no signs of going away tonight, cnn has obtained new been worn camera footage showing the minute by minute view. when officers entered columbia university last night and we're also watching dartmouth college in new hampshire where officers appear to be arresting protesters on, that

perfect fit now, comfort looks good news night with abby phillip. next on cnn closed captioning is brought to you by skechers, hands-free slip ends this tiny home trend now, this is more like it the same goes for my foot work. why one hands-free with wide fits, get your sleep dry wipe fit sketcher, slip a game of risk that prosecution may have just lost. >> good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york tonight, the trump defense strategy was obvious from the job. it was to paint michael cohen as a line liar obsessed with revenge but what was an open question as cross-examination started was whether he had the strategy would actually work. of course, we won't know until the jury actually renders its verdict. but if anything made israel, the government's case against donald trump, it might be what happened today. todd blanche, the lead lawyer for the former president, is on the attack. he asserting that a phone call that cohen claimed was about the stormy daniels payment hey, man wasn't made to trump at all, but rather to keith schiller, whose trump's bo

trump's second term plans let's tonight on new side good evening i'm abby phillip in new york tonight. the final countdown to closing arguments and trump's hush money trial is on summations are set for next tuesday and then the judge will hand this case off to the jury. those 12 men and women are charged with deciding whether the former president remains a free man. >> it is a heading decision, but no less consequential than the one that every day americans will face in november. >> now virtually every word uttered in that courtroom, every movement by the judge, the jury, the defendant, scrutinized, dissected but outside of the courtroom, trump has given the country plenty of new evidence about what he plans to do if he captures the oval office so let's go headlined by headline lawfare trump plans to prosecutors predecessor joe biden for all of the many crimes to trump says biden is committed, but refuses to actually name saturday night massacres. well, trump says shore. he told time magazine he would fire us attorneys who don't follow his orders to prosecute is opponents you consider

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pressure, and improve heart-healthy rush to walmart and find total bce news night with abby phillip tonight at 10:00 a.m. on cnn because closing arguments once a longtime until just before apm, we're still waiting to get the final installment of the trial transcript, but what we've got is revealing enough, john berman is back with more details. what are you looking at? >> so danya perry, who represented michael cohen, was on a few minutes ago and she was saying that michael cohen actually counted the number of times that todd blanche the defense attorney, called him a liar. so did we the number we came up with and a glickman of my producer between calling michael cohen a liar that he was lying, he lied or just lie or perjury, 78 times, 78 times todd blanche said, in this is what one of the things that blanche said directly about michael cohen. he's literally like an mvp of liars. he lies constantly is lied to congress. he lied to prosecutors. he lied to his family, his business associates. he lied to his bosses. he lies to reporters. he likes to federal judges a little bit later, he said, i

he may be onto something, but went to a specialist there should have lara codes live alongside abby phillip right here in new york and just hours from now, abby donald trump will face his the de on trial for falsifying it's a cover up, a sex scandal. here you see him across the two weeks and he has now spent listening to testimony inside that cold 15th floor manhattan courtroom from an in-between the whispers to his lawyers and the note passing and the closing of his eyes the jury is starting to see and hear testimony stranding a very key question just how involved was donald trump in the payouts too quiet damaging stories from stormy daniel's, from karen mcdougal before the 2016 election process? secures pulled out the receipts today in the form of phone calls and cohen had secretly recorded in one of those calls, cohen is heard at telling stormy's former lawyer, keith davidson that trump was upset with the stormy daniel's deal what about me? >> and i can't even tell you how many times he said to me, you know, i hate the fact that we did it and my comment to him was but every person that y

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. >> i'm abby phillip. what on earth is going on with the republican party is just a huge problem for the biden campaign how do you know that those numbers are false? >> news night with abby? next on cnn close captioning brought you by meso book.com her firm only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. >> if you or a loved one who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now tonight, donald trump explaining why he says he didn't testify in his hush money trial of der the beginning repeatedly saying that he wanted to he made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify anything i did in the past, i can bring everything up then, you know what i've had a great past, but anything closing arguments are on tuesday. we will see what the jury decides after the six weeks of evidence in this case that they have heard laid out. thank you so much for joining us here on the source cnn news night starts right now. >> once a mistake, twice something more ominous. that's tonight on this good evening. >>

from the cable news nightmare known as cnn, where anchor camee abby phillip was interviewing rapper cameronbout the allegations surrounding p diddy. that's when cam decided to chug a supplement and questionlemenn the he was even doing there. a common reactio n, cnn guests. >> roll it. can you tell us a little bit more about that? i mean, is there is there something known in the industry about how did he treated his artists? >> so i'm going get some chickso after this. >> horsepower joinme cheekt. inappropriate. get some cheeks. miappropriate. i think i speak for millions of old white guys when i sayllwu what our cheeks are about today . the show. all right. well, draw your map and let' t's haves some more. >> what about the industry in general? i mean, so many people have pointed out that diddy couldn't get away with this stuffd ou ifo there weren't a lot of people protecting him. do you think that'prs the caseo >> could a talent agent for this like being able to sitw around, watch a wedding doing all this? i didn't knowhat jointw this wae joint that invited me to yo yo, who booked me for t

criminal defense attorney arthur aidala, former federal prosecutor, jeffrey thuban, seen an anchor, abby phillip, who was in the courthouse today. new york times senior political correspondent, maggie haberman and arun kara scannell, who was the courtroom. also with this johnny jones, former chief judge of the us middle district court of pennsylvania, qarrah, you were there and i know you just got the transcript what was that moment like between judge merchan and robert costello it was really intense. >> i mean, i had not seen anything like this and it came as castello was on the witness stand being questioned by prosecutors excusing by trump's lawyer here's a prosecutors had objected a number of times. i counted there were at least 15 sustained objections. a judge saying castello couldn't answer the question because those a former prosecutor and even after the judge sustained some of them, he continued to speak. you could kind of see the judge getting frustrated, but then it snowballed after costello had after one of these sustained objections costello let out a gs and it was audible enough to

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outages cnn's going to have special coverage of the severe solar storm tonight who's night with abby phillipt 10:00 eastern. she's going to take viewers through this spectacle of the northern lights and the risks posed by the solar storm here on earth. coming up sunday on state of the union, republican senator jd vance of ohio, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. but sunday morning at nine eastern and again at noon, only here on cnn up next the new york hush money cover up case and a retired judge who's been inside the courtroom to watch throughout the trial. he's going to join my friend wolf blitzer next in the situation room. i'll see you back here on the lead monday and before that, we will have trial coverage on monday

i'm abby phillip, and you're watching a special edition of this slide. >> and i'm laura coates in today'sourt and it was filled with unsavory stories to say the least. i mean, the sex and there was plenty of that and not just a rumor, trysts between the former president or a porn star or a playmate. the defense put keith davidson life on display for the story and his noir like character arc, apparently as the guy who makes things go away for the rich and the very famous the lie is now, there were plenty of those from the former president, including, well, this one well, i'm not allowed to test if i am under again idea i'm not allowed to testify unconstitutional gag order. nobody has ever had that before. we don't like it, and it's not fair again that is a lie. >> and maybe most importantly, there was the audio tape today, this surreptitiously recorded conversation between then candidate donald trump and his then-fixer, michael cohen about that cash deal that trump wanted to use to bury those stories about these alleged encounters i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that

. >> i'm abby phillip in new york tonight, a date for must-see television right here on cnn june 27. that is one cnn will host president biden and former president trump or the first presidential debate. it is the earliest debate in the election cycle in modern history. and it marks an end run essentially around the commission that normally sets the terms and the times of these things happen. the debate echoes history. there will be no audience no opportunity for the crowd to make the venue home field for either trump or for biden and it'll happen inside of cnn's atlanta studios. it's just the moderators, jake tapper and dana bash and the candidates. that's a throwback to 1960 when john f. kennedy's stared down richard nixon and his very sweaty lip this is all what escalated this morning with president biden, daring over on x going full dirty harry, then trump responding then there was an offer and then suddenly a deal it's a sudden surprise series of events that really, i'm not sure anyone could have predicted and injected adrenaline into this campaign that has been virtually paraly

i'm abby phillip alongside laura coates right here and donald trump's lawyers tried to pan fry michael cohen on the witness stand today and perhaps the most important day of testimony so far, eight oh, tonight, donald rumsfeld? yes. that donald rumsfeld gives us all a lens to view what's left in the hush money trial. the known knowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns. so first the known knowns all those bad fats. so the prosecution took painstaking care to get in front of the jury so that they did not hear them for the first time and cross-examination, that cohen was a jerk, that he was a bully, that cohen was designated a thug, that michael cohen cashed in on donald trump's name all of them facts that the government's attorney put on the record to make the cross case a little bit less of a rough and tumble affair. second, you haven't the unknown knowns how the j. will actually choose to react to everything they've seen and heard from cohen. well cross-examination began with cohen's tiktoks and got for combative from mares snaking through public statements about trump ones like don

i'm abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes.t is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today michael cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecution's case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. if you remember from trump's periphery to trump's, go refer to trump's. do everything fixer. >> and that included the alleged hush money deal designed to silence stormy daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. >> well, mr. trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measured throughout as he told the court how trump avoided email to many people. he said have gone down because of a paper trail. cohen recall trump's saying, and he also painted a picture of trump as the micromanager doling ou

welcome to a special edition of laura coates live alongside abby phillip, right here in new york. and it was a dream madix de in the manhattan courtroom for trump, who now is seven days sitting and hearing testimony in his criminal trial. and you know, today i got to see it in with my own eyes and let me just tell you, when she was speaking, the president and missouri and myself were listening very intently and yes, she did cry on the stand. now i'll tell you what happened there and just the moment, but what the defense is is the answer to the final question she was asked here my transcript in 2017, while you were focused on your job at the white house, you didn't have anything to do with the business records of the trump organization. some 200, 200 plus miles away from new york city. did you her answer no so hicks, their testified that she did not have knowledge of the falsification of business records. that's the actual charge against trump. so that's really important. but as one of his closest aides, she bolstered a key part of the prosecution steroid the trump was involved in

. >> i'm abby phillip the new york tonight. tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. let me set the scene for you. the trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. he's a former legal advisor to michael cohen. now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trump's the tension. but the presiding judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. a judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. and the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. the judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. costello, right judge okay. so when there is a witness on the stand, if you don't like my ruling, you don't say, jeez. okay. and then you don't say strike it because i'm the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroom. do you, understand that costello? i understand. judg okay. then if you don't like my ruling, you don't give me the sayyed i and you don't roll your eyes. do you understand that? do you understand that costell

join abby phillip at ten i'll front next mass deportations, bringing back the travel bans, new reporting on how trump plans to crack down on immigration. if he wins a second term the whole myth has to be re-imagined you didn't know whether you were next tied up? >> yeah. yeah. i was called in and i saw what turned out to be the big stark heist in history what he went from gold medal winning icon to a pariah what really happened with jesse l martin, sunday's at nine on cnn. they say we should stop eating so much meat so we made meet out of plants because we aren't quitters impossible we're solving the problem with more meat okay, everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition or strength and energy ensure 27 vitamins and minerals nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein today at america's beverage companies are models might still look the same, but they can be remade in a whole new way. >> thanks to you. >> we're getting bottles back and we've developed a way to make new ones from 100% recycled plastic new bottles made using no new plastic

. >> welcome to a special edition of lauren the codes live alongside abby phillip right here in new york, anal for years, michael cohen, he was donald trump's attack dog, but today, the person who made it a point to keep track those enemies in line. tourney against his former boss in court. and of course, under oath, trump himself, realizing the importance of the moment, shut up with a huge entourage of political allies, including possible vp pick, jd vance for a president. remaining quite restrained though which of cohen's testimony but on the other end of the courtroom, the jury was listening. they were taking notes and the prosecution's hopefully, each one of those jurors are looking past cohen's let's call it obvious baggage and trying to connect the dots to see if the prosecution has built the case in the last 16 days. that is of course trying donald trump directly to the alleged criminal scheme for those 34 false business records. so ultimately how do they use michael cohen to do that? well, they had him speak to trump's political motivations to silence stormy daniel's, his approva

being here, chat and bill and just a programming note tonight at 10:00 eastern bill, we're in abby phillipo-anchored are special on this event, cnn news night, severe solar storm. this is gonna be something to watch for the next few days. next, we have a c in an exclusive what we are learning about reports of palestinians being shackled abused, and made to wear diapers, had a shadowy detention center in israel. what israeli whistleblowers told me cnn's matthew chance, and what the israeli military is saying now about the allegations with armor all a little bit of this protects you from a lot of that honore. >> last work, more kliger by $20, get five back through may 31st hey, you singing this? what is. the everyone you're telling me you can get directtv. good stuff, and you don't need a satellite dish. i used to love to on my business on those things won-sik pigeon then dishes kept the rain off our beaks. we just have different priorities satellite free directtv, never thought but i'd see the de, our lifespans are quite short, extreme directv without a satellite dish. >> i'm going to do th

i do want to note that kwame jackson is going to be on with abby phillip later tonight for that interview after this news came out all right. >> kristin, thank you for that, paula. thank you as well. let's talk more now with former trump attorney tim parlatore. he represented trump in the classified documents case and this rain metaphor, i wonder what you think about it when you hear that is part of the instructions they wanted repeated the jury, they wanted to hear about this. what does that tell you? could that be sine of a holdout you know, it's difficult to really know for sure, but this is the kinda thing that it suggests to me, especially in conjunction with some of the other notes that the jurors are trying to come to an agreement on certain things. >> and when they want this type of instruction oftentimes is because there's a disagreement amongst them as to how much of an inference is reasonable and what i would be looking for if i were in the courtroom is when the jury comes in and when the judges reading this specific instruction, how are they reacting? how many of them are nodd

outages cnn's going to have special coverage of the severe solar storm tonight who's night with abby phillip at 10:00 eastern. she's going to take viewers through this spectacle of the northern lights and the risks posed by the solar storm here on earth. coming up sunday on state of the union, republican senator jd vance of ohio, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. but sunday morning at nine eastern and again at noon, only here on cnn up next the new york hush money cover up case and a retired judge who's been inside the courtroom to watch throughout the trial. he's going to join my friend wolf blitzer next in the situation room. i'll see you back here on the lead monday and before that, we will have trial coverage on monday morning. morning first thing that's what i'll see you next. have a great week breaking news tonight and the trump trial, new testament trump, his longtime lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, who is now expected to take this then on monday, the judge warning cohen should not speak publicly about the hush money case as trump fumes about his gag order, and the tria

. >> it's it's abby phillip here. i wonder. i mean, now, now we know, hey, i mean now we know that this might be maybe the only trial that we see if donald trump this year is it time for democrats to move on and look at the fundamentals of this race and not see these trials as somehow this x factor that's going to have a huge influence on how this thing turns out in november yeah. >> i think i think we have to because the fundamentals right now, frankly are, are depressing. and we have all of these events in, they changed little nothing. i mean, maybe there's some evidence that trump might be a point and a half or two points. we could end. it was a year for go, but you have to really squint to see that happening. and i don't see the numbers for the present moving now on the upside is we are doing pretty well. they shouldn't racers and that's been pretty consistent over several months. i've seen a lot of senate poland and that does look good. but right now in the presidential race, this is a sticky wicked out there that's all i

. >> i'm abby phillip in new york and tonight, the former president goes home. he was right here in new york rallying a crowd of thousands, promising a new york turnaround i've seen new york through good times and bad through boom times and crime waves through market crashes and terrorist attacks but i've never seen it quite like this right now. you don't have public spaces. >> they're occupied by migrants, intense that happened in the bronx. >> what is historically the most democratic burrow in the city, and lead us to say it is an unlikely spot for a republican to campaign obama won by 81, 91% let the vote here in 2012, biden won nearly 84% in 2020. but trump sees an opportunity and opening with black and hispanic voters. even as he makes a post racial appeal it doesn't matter whether you're black or brown or white, or whatever the hell color you are. it doesn't matter. >> we are all americans and we're going to pull together as americans trump painted a picture of american carnage under biden while telling black voters that they were better off when he was pr

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50% on the sleep number your discount code and save you have 50% over real stone news night with abby phillip>> tonight at tim eastern on cnn we're back with our special coverage of donald trump's criminal trial. >> michael cohen's admission today that he stole from the trump organization was one of the final, very dramatic moments of his 17 plus hours of testimony. want to bring in cnn's bryan todd bryan. this was another reminder that for jurors out there, that trump's longtime fixer as he was called, is no stranger to bad and potentially even criminal behavior. >> he's not a stranger to any of that wolf. >> michael cohen has a long track record of lies and misdeeds some of which i've sent him to jail. many of those episodes have been examined during this trial and the question now is whether the jury can still find him credible donald trump's shook his head and smirk, according to cnn's reporters in the courtroom, when his former attorney, michael cohen today admitted heat stolen money from the trump organization trump's defense attorney todd blanche, pinning cohen down on how cohen had on

i'm laura coates alongside abby phillip right here in dc, and we do coordinate our outfits intentionally for you after 11:00. >> the question also is michael cohen motivated by redemption or revenge? >> that's a choice a jury is going to have to answer and be presented with the prosecution is asking the jury to look past all and i mean, all of cohen's many lies and ms and to believe that their star witness, when he says that trump not only directed him to keep an alleged sex scandal quiet, but also new of a bogus plan to disguise payments to reimburse him cohen reference a february 2017 white house oval office meeting. and this photo, the jury was told was taken, right afterward from the transcript cohen says, quote, so i was sitting with president trump and he asked me if i was okay. he asked me if i needed money and i said no all good. >> he said because i can go check and i said no. i said i'm okay. he said, i'm all right. just make sure you deal with alan question de anything about what would be forthcoming to you? cohen responded, yes, it would be a check for january and february no

. >> i'm abby phillip in new york alongside kaitlan collins tonight, combat in court de 14 of donald trump's hush money trial provided a lesson in how not to make friends, how to alienate the judge, and how to maybe alienate the jury as well. stormy daniels took the stand, yet again, under cross-examination and for the defense for donald trump and spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to. the details of her alleged trust with the former president of the united states. now, the crescendo of this hours-long stint on the witness stand. all led up to this trump's attorney, susan necklace, heavy handedly, the asserting that the adult film actress had made it all up necklace& you've bragged about how good you are about writing porn movies and writing really good stories and writing really good dialogue, right daniels? yes. necklace. and now you have a story you've been telling about having sex with donald trump, right? daniels. and if that story were untrue, i would have written it a lot better. there was laughter in the courtroom daniels hover of c

cnn newsnight, solar storm with abby, phillip and bill so we're only on cnn and the lead with jake tapper starts right now next up on the witness stand, the people plan to call michael dean cohen. >> the lead starts right now donald trump's former lawyer, known as the fixer, the next star witness in line, and the new york hush money cover up case. >> what is the impact of this trial on trump himself i'll ask one of his attorneys from the 2021 impeachment, plus former trump white house aide anthony scare, a mooc we'll be here for his perspective and old faithful is back in the news. steve bannon, aka sloppy steve for donald trump possibly one step closer to jail time hi, i'm paul manafort. could be closer to working with his old boss. >> and one of the biggest competition shows in the world rocked by ugly protests, objecting to the mere participation of a contestant from israel. >> so what exactly is driving these mom's prompting security concerns for the israeli contestant welcome to the lead on jake tapper, brace for impact. we now know when the star witness will take the stand in donald

i've abby phillip in new york alongside bill. we're and it is a first in nearly two decades, a warning from the government would and there, whether watchers, the solar storm that is now rated a g5 or extreme as of right now on the east coast is underway. >> this is a blast of solar energy ricocheting across the united states. a rare moment where you can look up and see the northern lights visible from coast to coast. normally, you gotta go to northern alaska, iceland, but now you can see them as far south as alabama. tonight's, but it does have some potentially far-reaching disruptions to our infrastructure and our way of life. >> abby what you can see in places as the auroras of dipping into palettes and splashes of blue and green, their purple haze sort of on a black canvas. what you don't see, the real threat to the things that let us make phone calls or get directions from slamming into each other or letting each other connect for national security or shipping our supply chains let us beam this programming right into your liv

. >> i'm abby phillip. what on earth is going on with the republican party is just a huge problem for the biden campaign how do you know that those numbers are false? >> news night with abby? next on cnn close captioning brought you by meso book.com her firm only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. >> if you or a loved one who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now tonight, donald trump explaining why he says he didn't testify in his hush money trial of der the beginning repeatedly saying that he wanted to he made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify anything i did in the past, i can bring everything up then, you know wh

during his first impeachment trial, former federal prosecutor jeffrey 2-bit and seen an anchor, abby phillip, also, three more who witness that pivotal moment in a courtroom today are seen and anchor kaitlan collins went after the lunch break. norm eisen, who was the council that was democrats during that first impeachment because they're, it's morning and correspondent kara scannell. qarrah. was that moment, the one that stood out to you owe by far? >> absolutely. i mean, it was the big moment of the day and the way that todd blanche did it spent a lot of the morning on these inconsistent statements drawing out when michael cohen may have lied and then he gets to this phone call and he he begins by saying you spoke with the former. you testified on monday, you spoke with trump on the 24th cohen says yes and he says, do you remember was on speaker phone or did schiller hand the phone comes like, i don't remember. so he's he's setting it up in such a way that you think you're going back to this. and then he says, and what about these texts? messages and then goes exactly as you just described

i'm particularly for that moment, cnn's abby, phillip, and kaitlan collins, also former trump white house communications director or farah griffin, and cnn's kara scannell, who has also in court throughout today, careless. start with you. i mean, it is fascinating. this is my first time you've been in there every day and in the overflow room as well to see it all up close. >> what was your sense on how things went with hope hicks? >> i mean, i think she gives something to both sides, something to work with there, but i thought was very interesting that her testimony is how she's recounting this she is taking jurors inside the campaign and into some memorable moments, walking into the glass conference room where she's discussing the access hollywood tape, a donald trump, right when she found out that it happened, also take them onto a plane when trump was speaking a campaign rally and she was contacted by the wall street journal. they were gonna go public with their story just four days before the election, saying that ami had paid off karen mcdougal and stormy mcdaniel. so she's giving th

for $1, a former federal prosecutor bestselling author geoffrey tube and cnn news nine anchor abby phillip sources, kaitlan collins, cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig, and the new york times, maggie haberman, who was in court today, maggie. >> what was in court today? >> it's surreal every day, but i would say that the strangest moment came toward the end of the day and it was a rough day of testimony. keith davidson, the former lawyer for stormy daniel's, testified for a long time and trump's lawyers actually did get some dings into him on cross-examination. it got very tense. he got very flustered. he ended up sounding pretty weaselly as he was giving answers. but prosecutors played these exchanges between the cohen secretly taped. one was with keith davidson and then the other was michael cohen and trump but you're just played. and that takes, is basically what jurors were left with as the most dramatic testimony for the day. there was some other not particularly interesting testimony at the very end, as you say, from a custodian of records basically saying that he had checked out co