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john berman. thank you so much. appreciate it. all right. next hour, a major show of republican loyalty for donald trump during his criminal trial. a source telling cnn, robocup, republican house speaker mike johnson, will join the former president at the manhattan courthouse house this morning. the latest in a string of gop allies setting foot in court, also expected possible vp picks. vivek ramaswamy ramaswamy among the list of contenders, hoping to be trump's running mate who have shown up to support trump at his hush money trial, joining me now, a cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona and former trump white house communications director mike dub keith. thank you both for being here mike, i'm gonna start with you. >> what appears the courthouse is the hottest ticket in town. if you want to be trump's vice president. we just learned vice presidential potential doug burgum is showing up as well. we're hearing tim scott is considered showing up. jd vance, we saw him yesterday, standing behind i'm trump. and he al

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sunday, june 2, attack on cnn we've just gotten the full transcript of the day's proceedings and john berman is going through right now before we go through some of the key moments, it's worth noting that it was just over six years ago after months of silence about the alleged payment to stormy daniels, when then president trump finally answer repeated questions by the media and said he knew nothing about the payment, but pointed to michael cohen $30,000 payment don't know what well you. have to ask michael cohen michael's my charney and you'll have to ask michael com i don't know georgetown with transcripts from cohen's testimony today seen as john berman. so we did just get the final installment of the transcript in it was at the very end of the de in this last section that perhaps the most important legal moment took place and it had to do with michael cohen testified about the payment in planning, what trump knew he described a meeting in trump tower in january of 2017 when trump was president elect at that point with allen weisselberg, michael cohen, and donald trump. michael cohen says

or will they faced years in prison for what they call an honest mistake i'm kate ball well, i'm john berman. >> sara is out. this is cnn news central we, are standing by for historic moment in legal and political history, closing arguments this morning no criminal case against donald trump. >> you've charged with falsifying documents to cover up hush money payments to an adult film actress all to influence the 2016 election and we're getting new reporting justin, on how the lawyers plan to make their cases. >> first, trump's attorneys will hammer the credibility of key witness, michael cohen in question, why other key figures in trump's circle will not call to the stand. >> the prosecution is expected to focus on the evidentiary trail, text messages, phone logs, email let's cheques, receipts, and the testimony of 22 witnesses, 20 for the prosecution to for the defense. let's get right to scene as brynn gin grass standing by outside court for this it's a store day. everything really leading up to this britt yeah. >> i mean, here we go, john, five weeks of testimony, and here we are the end,

today, cohen gave more testimony about the fallout and john berman joins us with some of those transcripts. >> yeah, it was really the stormy daniel's matter following access hollywood, that according to michael cohen in rage, donald trump are really set him off. he's describing a moment when stormy daniel's people is to be keith davidson and dylan howard from the acquirer came forward and said, stormy daniel's is looking for some money here. hovland or the prosecutors says, did you tell him donald trump what you had heard from dylan howard and keith davidson cohen says, yes, hoffacker says, and what was his reaction? cohen says, he was really angry with me. i thought you had this under control. i thought you took care of this. i expressed to mr. trump, we did 2011 with the stormy daniel's matter first came up cohen says, i have no control over what she goes out and does. and he expressed to me there was a previous denial just take care of it. >> there was a lot going on in the campaign at the time. >> he was like just cake, take care of it, hoffinger asks, did he say anything to you at th

i'm john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is taking care of business. this is cnn new set okay so we're following developments in two of donald trump's legal battles today, the defense has rested in his criminal trial in new york and walk closing arguments won't begin until next tuesday. things are heating up in another case, the classified documents case out of florida, new photos from june 2022 shows this trump aide and co-defendant walt nauta, moving boxes around mar-a-lago prosecutors say that nauta move these boxes shortly before a trump attorney was going to look through them after getting a subpoena to turn over classified materials today, the judge in this case, judge aileen cannon, is expected to hold two hearings where she's going to be hearing motions to dismiss cases from cook co-defendants, including walt nauta, cnn's kaitlan, poland's has more on those forest. kaitlyn, bring us up to speed. these photos come out. what do we know? what do we need to know more about? >> okay. there's hundreds more documents available in the filings in this c

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hard to bridge that gap from just a common sense perspective, we go to take a quick break next, john berman, who has been going through today's trial transcript for the closer look at the picture of the jurors are getting of michael cohen oh, and also the very latest from university campuses around the country, including ucla. we're police moved in overnight so it's the playoffs. >> what brings you? to adhere today? while you're looking at do you really have to ask for my missile says, look, i know it can be stressful. this tab a year for great teammates build each other up, the trust and the other will be there for them when they were gonna do a trust walls stand up, you close your eyes for trust what he suddenly up doc i've you he was abdominal you're calling some people find there's at an early age others later in life no matter when you find it, consider yourself lucky because it becomes your everything are calling was to build trucks. >> and that's why trucks or what we do we put our everything and every truck so that when you find your calling nothing can stop you from answering nothi

back for the panel and john berman has got more from the trial transcript what stands out. >> so we'vead a chance now that we have the full transcript to go over the cross and put a little meat on the bones of what you've all been talking about here on how the defense really when after stormy daniels, right out of the gate on page three of the cross-examination. this is when susan necklace defense attorney, says the stormy daniels. am i correct that you hate president trump daniels? yes. niclas, you want him to go to jail, right? daniels. i want him to be held accountable. necklace. you want him to go? go to jail, am i correct daniel's if he's found guilty absolutely. niclas, you tweeted in the past that quote, i won't walk all dance down the street when he selected to go to jail, correct. daniel's can you show me that's exactly what i said. that's not necklace then says, can we please pull up j to exhibit j2 only for the witness and the parties, please? exhibit shown. she looks at it. she goes a-ha and daniels laughs. susan niclas did you just laugh? daniel says select it is in quotes

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john berman joint does more of the transcripts. i knew even going through them. >> what else have you felt so there was one exchange that caught my eye that gets to two points here that you've all been talking about. number one, how little michael cohen? on currently likes donald trump and how much he wants to see him convicted in to how michael cohen didn't directly answer a lot of the questions, at least at first that blanche posed to him. so blanched asks him, you've also talked extensively on may a culpa his podcast, your desire to see that president trump getting convicted in this case, correct cohen says, sounds like something i think i would say blanche says, well, sir, i'm not asking you if it sounds like something you would say i'm saying, did you have you regularly commented on your podcasts that you wanted president trump to be convicted in this case. cohen then says yeah, probably. and then blanche says, do you have any doubt? cohen says, no then blanche says so why did you answer? yes probably. cohen says because i don

that until the moment comes and no doubt, looking back on it for a long time as well, right now, john berman is back with more from the proceedings today. >> you guys were talking about how there has been a lot of evidence and a lot of testimony, but how closely donald trump looks at finances, looks at things about money and madeline west, or how who was his white house assist in gatekeeper was asked about an exchange that she had over an invoice they came in front of her and this is the testimony from the prosecutor, rebecca mangold, asking the questions, what's the total amount of the invoice west or has says $6,974. >> mangold says, looking at how the handwriting towards the top, do you know whose handwriting that is western says, i believe that's rhona graff's, that's trump's organization assistant main goal says, can you read what's written in ms grass writing and then buster, he says, dear mr. president, if winged foot, which is a golf club in western new york, will allow me to suspend your membership for for eight years. do you want me to look into it or do you want me to continue pay

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about how the trump organization was run, the full trial transcript released tonight's speaks to john berman is back with more so what what stands out? well, sorry, from the very beginning for the very beginning that michelangelo, who was the prosecutor from the very beginning when he had jeff mcconney h2 is the controller of the trump organization on the stand. he wanted to establish this was donald trump's organization that donald trump was the man in charge of everything there. so this was right at the beginning question during the time you worked for the trump organization, who ran the company? mcconney answered president trump colangelo, last before 2017, what was mr. trump's role in the trump organization? because he says i'm not sure. he was he ran the organization. he was the brains behind it. he i don't know how to answer that question. glandular. when you worked there, did you consider mr. trump, your boss, mcconney says, yes, it's almost like he couldn't even conceive of anything other than donald trump being paramount in this organization? >> and this is someone who i shouldn't.

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so i'm sarah sayyed and with kate bolduan in john berman, this cnn the central all right. and the breaking news this morning, we just learned moments ago when the critical moment in the critical trial, the criminal trial of donald trump he is coming. michael cohen set to take the witness stand on monday. remember, donald trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to stormy daniels, but don't film actress. all to influence the 2016 election michael cohen is the key piece for prosecutors to make this case. it is michael cohen who would likely provide the testimony that donald trump somehow knew or was connected to the falsification of documents. he will take the stand on monday, as i said, this will be a a dramatic moment. cnn's kristen holmes live outside the court with this new information. also christen, it does begs the question, what will we see today in this trial? >> so first we'll talk about michael cohen because this is something that we know both prosecution and the defense have been preparing for. we have been watching the pr

and once again, once trump's team is done, i have seen it to paula reid and john berman here outside of the courthouse with me and polo. obviously, one of the things that they're still designing is once they're done with michael cohen, which could go back and forth for a little bit this afternoon, is whether or not the defense is going to call witnesses besides the epc export that they're talking about. now, and you've been tracking the robert costello issue very closely. what's the thinking and why they still i haven't decided yet if they're calling this witness so they have to see how michael cohen's testimony wraps up to answer whether they really need to bring bob costello back in to further and cohen's credibility. >> there's a belief that blanche has done a pretty good job so far and that they don't need to drag this out any further by calling costello it. but obviously cohen's testimony is not i've done. so it's still an open question, but as we've reported, there's a divide within the trump team about whether calling hit all that would be beneficial. they don't call costello

i'm kate baldwin with john berman and sara sidner. this the cnn news central donald trump just slept trump tower for court as his criminal hush money trial resumes in less than 30 minutes. >> the big question today, who will take the stand? among the most notable witnesses who may be called his former fixer and attorney michael cohen, adult film star stormy daniels, and former playboy playmate, karen mcdougal on friday today hope hicks, who was one of trump's closest and most trusted former aides, took the stand. >> she had dramatic testimony briefly coming to a stop at one point when she began to cry during cross-examination over the weekend, trump hosted donors and potential vice presidential picks at the republican national committee's spring retreat. >> he also he ramped up his attacks several attendees telling cnn he accused democrats of running a gestapo administration. cnn's beringia and grasses outside court and kristen holmes is in washington. brynn, we're going to begin with you. do we now know or is there any clue as to who

i'm john berman, live outside the manhattan courthouse and we do have breaking news, big breaking news. we just got word that stormy day daniel's is expected to testify today. this could be one of the marquee moments and the criminal case against donald trump. he is charged with falsifying documents and came to interfere with the 2016 election. it all stems from $130,000 in payments to daniel's and adult fill maxouris to keep her quiet? get about allegations that she had a sexual encounter with trump years ago again, we are expecting her to testify today, perhaps as soon as the small morning let's get right to the courthouse itself, scene as brynn gingras is live outside the building. this is one of the moments brynn, that people have been waiting for yeah john really what a day in court it is going to be a couple of things. >> i think our court reporters are really going to be looking out for when stormy daniels does take that witness stand, is whether or not there because any sort of eye contact that is made with donald trump as she enters the courtroom. and also, what will donald tr

we've got john berman and kristen holmes back here. and john, obviously, their goal going into putting rubber because cell on the stand was to undermine michael cohen's credibility. it while jim trustees aren't doing that, he thinks he did that effectively in that case, it's not clear we don't know how the jury sees it, so we can't project on them, but it's not clear that he and anyway, was able to undermine michael cohen? know, look, and again, i think jim's absolutely right that the defense strategy and probably really good strategy was tried to put michael cohen on trial here make this trump versus goal and who do you believe more and you're only really hearing from michael cohen here and if he's not believable, this case goes away. that may be a good defense strategy, but i'm just not sure robert costello helps that because as we said before, in a way, then you're also putting up someone to compare michael cohen to one robert costello, who do you like less here in costello gave cohen and run for his money, at least in his behavior

i do have cnn's paula reid and john berman here with me and paul. obviously, i should note we'd jump has more family members in tow with him today, donald trump junior is seated next to alina habba in that first row behind his father. he actually just recently made an appearance here at this case, but it is notable that trump has to stay inside the courthouse as the jury is going to be in that jury room deliberating don't know how long it could take. >> yeah. he's going to hate that. he's made it clear. he does not clearly he doesn't like the case, but it also doesn't like the courthouse. he really just does not enjoy being in there. so he's gonna probably be like a cage tiger and that'll be something for his lawyers have to deal with. and it really stinks for anyone, obviously to be a defendant in a criminal case. it's stressful. you're waiting, but they have no idea how long they'll wait, even when the jury does come back with a note, it could just be a question. so this is going to be a challenging few days for him. well, and i should note the co

i'm k-fold on the sarah cider and john berman. this is cnn news central all, right any moment now, donald trump will be leading. >> trump power as he has done every day of court this third week of his criminal hush money trial is wrapping up today this morning. i'll forensic analyst returns to the stand to wait in all the authenticity of several phone conversations that former trump fixer and lawyer michael cohen secretly recorded in one of them. trump is heard telling cohen two hey, with cash for a hush money deal with former playboy model karen mcdougal. there's also a recording of cohen's phone call with stormy daniel's former it's her former attorney keith davidson, who has been on the stand for a couple of days now, the cross-examination of davidson turned very tense as the defense tried to paint him as an extortionist profiting off celebrity deal cnn's brynn gingras is outside court for us brynn, each side's use be using these recordings, trying to use them, of course, to their own advantage. how important, important to have

i'm service-side and with kate bolduan, john berman is now heading towards the site of trump's trial for our special coverage. this is cnn news central the courtroom may be chile in temperature, but the fireworks red hot and explosive and expected to continue very soon this morning when court resumes tombs for donald trump, robert costello, we'll be back on the stand. his testimony was unexpectedly heated, just 14 minutes into his time on the stand yesterday, and i roll an audible sigh prompted the judge to clear the courtroom also we could issue a warning to costello who has an attorney should clearly know better about quote proper decorum in the courtroom prosecutors say they have just 30 minutes left in his cross after the that, the defense has signaled it is ready to rest its case today, meaning not surprisingly, not likely donald trump will be taking the stand, but standby, standby. >> 12 new yorkers will soon decide his fate on 34 criminal charges. cnn's brynn gingras says, live outside court once more for a brynn one more you learned before things start, hadn't things start ra

mark warner, chairman of that committee, told our john berman earlier today that he expects to bring up this issue of deep fakes, this issue of fayek ai and generate a concept because that is a prevailing concern and a tool that we haven't seen foreign adversaries have before yeah, it's a really worrisome development in deed. excellent reporting, zach, thank you. very, very much. zach, own reporting for us. and to our viewers. thanks very much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. i'm wolf blitzer in washington, i'll of course, be back later tonight. it's pm eastern in this room. stay with us inside politics with dana bash starts after a short brea k with armor all a little bit of this protects you from a lot of that armor all less work, more clean by $20, get five back through may 31st fashion moves fast, setting trends is our business. >> we need to scale with customer demand in real time so we partnered with verizon, their solution for us, a private by genome. we now get more control of production efficiencies and greater agility with a custom private five the network, our cust

i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sarah signer. and this is cnn news central working overnight houston's mayor telling people to stay at home after severe storms tore through the area, killing at least four people and damaging homes, businesses, and throwing power lines across streets it's like lightning hitting a transformer there and downtown houston, the storm blew out window, sent people scrambling for cover. >> center point energy is already warning houston residents to be prepared for extended power outages, and there are a lot of them. cnn's ed lavandera are joining us now from downtown houston right now, houston, it has gotten battered with a rain in that county as well what are you seeing this morning well, it might be tornado season, but it really does feel and look like it was a hurricane that blew through here. >> this is a what was a popular dance club here in downtown houston. you see the back wall collapsed like three stories worth of bricks collapsing down we're told nobody was there at the time and it all employees

. >> i'm k-fold with john berman, sara sidner is don't look at me like that, john, this is z to undo central this morning would, have to be excruciating moments for attorneys, not i mentioned the defendant in the criminal case against donald trump. >> the jury, which has been deliberating for more than four hours to ask to be red key pieces of testimony, testimony that was a focus of the closing arguments from the prosecution testimony, largely from david pecker, the man who published a national why are including his direct conversations with donald trump about the catch-and-kill scheme to bury damaging news prior to the 2016 election. could this mean the jury is looking beyond the testimony of michael cohen, who the defense painted as a serial liar, it is impossible to know for sure. trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult film actress, all to influence the 2016 election that the jury also asked for their instructions from the judge to be read once again, they will all be back in court again this morning. cnn is bryn

would john berman and sara sidner, this is cnn news central happening today. >> donald trump, ally and former attorney john eastman is set to appear in an arizona courtroom. he is the first of 18 defendants to be rained on charges stemming from the 2020 fake electors scheme seen it's qiong law watching all of this from literally turning to watch it in phoenix young, what's the very latest from there this morning? what do we expect? >> well, we are expecting john eastman to show up here in court and just a couple of hours and what we're going to see is basically a very standard arraignment. the charges are going to be read to him. he's going to be accompanied by his lawyer. they will be booked and there will be a mug shot. so all of that process very familiar to anyone who's ever stopped in on criminal court. but he is the first of 18 in a very closely watched case here. in the state of arizona and mirrors some of the other cases to what's been happening in some of the other swing states. so eastman is the former trump lawyer. he is the he alleged architect of this multi-state fake elec