let's get straight to cnn's kaitlan collins. kaitlan, you were inside the courtroom all morning. what were those moments like in the room is stormy daniels testified, especially about some of the details that the jong-shinn caution the prosecution from steering away to disk, you're away from i mean, it was uncomfortable, jake and certainly intense and that was what it was just the prosecution questioning stormy daniels that was before the cross-examination started. that's happening right now, but it was kinda this moment in the courtroom where there was actually another witness who testified before stormy daniels got on the stand talking about trump's books and quote from him so my frugal he was and how involved he was in his business. no one even remember. is that because of course everyone at that point understood the stormy daniels was going to be the next witness on the stand and she tests justified that she had not seen donald trump's since 2007. so it's been 17 years and now here they are coming face-to-face inside this courtroom as she walked behind him fence table and too

the news continues the source with kaitlan collins starts. now say tomorrow straight from the source tonight from never trump are two potential vice president never say never, i guess republican senator j.d. vance, now, one of donald trump's staunchest advocates, not only trying to help him win the white house but also in the running to join in this time, he joins us live in moments and a former president back on the campaign trail tonight after being held in contempt for violating his gag order nine times he's now racing back to new york just to learn if he just violated it. >> again also tonight we are tracking the clashes in the crackdowns that are happening on college campuses across america. >> hundreds of protesters have been arrested, and we'll show you knew exclusive police bodycam footage in moments. one of our sources tonight is former new york city mayor bill two block z0 on how his successor is handling it. all. >> i'm kaitlan collins and this is the source at long last. >> there is music to donald trump's ears, macho man, and ymc

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go ahead, caitlin lanny, it's kaitlan that answer that you just gave to anderson. there was a look a little over a minute, close to 90 seconds. >> that is how long the phone call was with keith schiller that night. >> and what michael cohen argued today is that he simultaneous so we've talked about the okay for the hush money deal and these print calls that he was getting from a 14-year-old. i mean, is the jury really going to find that credible that in 96 seconds they had both of those conversations i think it could be that the jury will hold that against michael cohen is not being truthful, but it's not going to change where i said this case is about documents that speak for themselves. >> the weisselberg document is more powerful for the jury to look at to prove that donald trump lied, who's by the way the one who's indicted, not michael cohn whether michael us about holding lanny, that's right. but you also mentioned your the other night that michael cohen spent over 100 hours with prosecutors, not just this office when this district attorney, but in general, i

i was your back and i could hear the jury was kaitlan in an eye. we're looking at each other across the aisle. did jurors were looking at each other, which they seldom do. they were rolling their eyes, they were pursuing their lips, they were shaking their heads whatever value castello had to the defense. and as you reported, there was a hot debate about it within the defense, whatever value we had was eliminated. and the irony elie and i have often talked about this will michael cohen keep his cool? he's such a passionate person. he's such a hot reactor michael cohen kept his cool for an entire week. bob costello, a longtime respect that attorney blew up the entire cell is on michael gold is on the safer 17 hours and maybe find his testimony damaging, but he was pretty calm, cool, collected bob costello is on there for 30 minutes and the judge has to clear the courtroom. >> judge, have you ever have you ever had a clear courtroom? i mean, how remarkable is that that that happened? >> it is remarkable. i have cleared a courtroom, but under very dif

the newest continues to source with kaitlan. collins starts now strike from the source tonight, the calm before the cohen, donald trump about to come face to face with his former fixer. >> now arch enemy, what you expect when it all goes down starting on monday. but before then, an extraordinary warning from the judge today about michael cohen's big mouth. there are also new questions tonight about the killing of a black us service member shot by police and sayyed his own home seconds after the senior airman opened the door, that moment is captured on camera and it's shocking that airman's mother let's hear tonight along with their attorney, ben crump. and if a solar eclipse wasn't enough for you and extreme solar storm is hitting the planet right now. it is the biggest and more than two for decades with the potential to wreak havoc on our power grids and our gps systems while also putting on a spectacular light show. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source it has all been leading up to what is coming on monday. david pecker

let's go back to new york where our kaitlan collins and kristen holmes are kaitlan. so here we are looking at this note which has four requests, pretty detailed requests yeah. >> and what they clearly are asking to have read back to them is different portions of testimony from two key witnesses. the first witness, david pecker, who of course force is the tabloid king who talked about those deals to catch and kill stories. a meeting that he had with donald trump and michael cohen about how to help the trump campaign as it was taking off and then there also asking for michael cohen's testimony about a meeting at trump tower and what's interesting about this and what's important to keep in mind is right now, attorneys are preparing to address a jury note with these four requests, the judge it's actually a robing room right now. is all of this is going on because they have to assemble the parts of this testimony, bring the entire jury, including the four alternatives, back into the courtroom. two then read this testimony back to them when the jury makes her requests like

kaitlan. i got to tell you 11 days in the jury hasn't seen it yet, so they should hurry up and start getting to the stuff that matters to the jury, but this doesn't but what about the argument that we've heard that they're kind of laying the groundwork here to get to that. >> and that's why they're introducing the figures like david pecker and keith davidson to kind of explain that. and if we do expect visually hope hicks to take the stand, maybe this afternoon it's not clear does yadav so we often find out when they're actually walking inside the courtroom. i mean, she is someone who would would she not be able to more closely tie this to mr. trump himself? >> sure. but look look at who the defendant is. he's a grumpy old man. he's like a petulant child is this really powerful person? he had he has fixers, right? he's not the kind of guy that's going to give very explicit instructions on the reason why we're going to pay this money as to influence the election. >> the state needs that kind of

kaitlan all right. >> but you're allowed to go 90 seconds. i do different to have it as a question as well but do you think they should want to call them? i mean, it sounds like what you're saying, lanny, is that all this evidence was already in do you really think they shouldn't have called michael cohen as a witness i think they had to because he's a corroborating witness to testimony, documents, emails, text messages, the timeline. so he is the narrator confirming what is already in evidence. now, they attack the narrator. they changed the topic i can make it a bad. the narrator confirming. and of course, the drama of the case is made by michael cohen. and when a lawyer shouts at him, you lie. i wanted to see if he puts up a witness and we'll see who's telling the truth. but of course, he had to testify jeffrey, but all he's doing is confirming the testimony of others and documents don't lie. >> he has a question. >> i'm sorry, i don't have a question i have something to say. oh, michael cohen got blown apart today. let's be real clear abo

kaitlan collins, and we're all just trying to speculate here if this is a mixed verdict what might that mean? we still do not know, of course it could be 34 votes of not guilty. you could be 30 four votes of guilty. the jury is right now entering the courtroom to render their verdict on these 34 felony criminal charges against the present former president of the united states, donald john trump, and tim parlatore, you have represented president trump in the past. first of all, are you surprised that a verdict came? so i mean, to me, it seems very quickly we could i thought the weinstein jury was out for six days. i'm not comparing the two, but that was another high-profile case. this was not even 12 hours, right? >> this is a very complicated case. i mean, i do think it's interesting that they told the judge that they have a verdict but then asked for additional time to fill out the form. >> you agree with karen's asked me i do and i also think that they did that because they would normally just say we have the verdict i haven't i haven't seen where they've asked for additional time, bu

the source with kaitlan collins starts now saving the source tonight, both donald trump and joe biden's campaigns are prepping for a verdict. the question that's still or mainz guilty. or not guilty. we are potentially days away from knowing as the presumptive republican nominee, as lashing out on social media he calls himself helped the law and order president. but of all the people to invite on stage last night, donald trump picked two rappers who are awaiting trial on murder, conspiracy charges we have the details. also, three missionaries who were gunned down in haiti, including a married couple from the united states. for learning new details of their tragic deaths. >> and we'll speak with one of the victims fathers tonight. >> i'm kaitlin collins, and this is the source we're really finding ourselves on the cusp of history tonight. >> because by this time next week, we may finally know whether or not donald trump will be a convicted felon, or whether a jury of his peers here in manhattan will find him not guilty. it's hard to think of a more memorable or really a more stressful me

costello, but i would be very, very surprised kaitlan if this defendant testifies, so you don't think do you think that they should call any other witnesses or just be done after michael cohen? >> well, i don't want to fall into the rabbit hole of armchair. quarterback because i hear a lot of people critiquing especially before he really hit his stride, mr. blanche and when you're in that position, so they've being a quarterback of the super bowl that people should really just as greyhound used to say, sit down to leave the driving gas, i don't know who they should call the case seemed to really hinge a lot on coal with all due respect to lanny davis. well, i've affection and respect for i heard is filibuster earlier about it. it's no big deal. come on you. it's this is what it comes down to. hush money payments are not illegal nda's are not illegal. i think abby hit it right when she said it all depends on tying it to that extra crime yet to do that late-90s big on this document. but where's weisselberg trump and weisselberg cohen, you only are from cohen who has an allergy to veraci

i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source despite the constant complaints that we have heard about how his ongoing criminal trial as keeping him off the campaign trail. donald trump's fan, his day today off from court at his mar-a-lago club in south florida. out on the campaign trail. but that again, after what we all heard in that courtroom yesterday, maybe it's not just the former president who needed a breather meanwhile, on the campaign trail today. and that key battleground state of wisconsin president biden is trying to beat back the issues that are vexing his campaign before november in an exclusive interview here on cnn, erin burnett asked president biden if he's worried that he's running out of time to improve his standing with voters when it comes to the economy biden says that corporate greed is to blame for some of the pain that americans are feeling. but on the whole, he argues, is already made huge progress polling data has been wrong all along. we have the strongest economy in the world let me say it again. >> in the world, no presidents had the run. we've had in ter

i'm just politically kaitlan, what would what would this mean i mean, the argument is that trump would relish it in the sense that he would be able to argue what he's been arguing everyday tie that courtroom that he is being politically persecuted here, that he can't use his first amendment ride. >> he can't speak freely that this is protected political speech the idea that dog i'll trump actually would want to go to jail is ridiculous. anyone who knows him knows that he doesn't even like to stay in a hotel when he goes on foreign trips, when he wouldn't as president, it was a whole thing to actually get him to stay overnight and places. so this idea that he actually does want to do this for the optics perspective. i mean, when you speak to his closest advisers, they'll allies, they'll say that's completely far-fetched they'll do they think it would work to their advantage, maybe politically, but i do think donald trump heating this is something that you never see donald trump do, which is actually watching his words and he keeps acknowledging that every time he goes into that courtroo

i should know she's now working with the biden campaign and kaitlan joins me tonight and kaitlan first, i just want to say thank you for coming on to talk about something that is so personal and also so painful and being willing to talk about it publicly. >> because for those who aren't familiar with your story, when you became pregnant, you were told to wait weeks for your first prenatal appointment because of that abortion law that i just mentioned there. >> can you just walk us through what happened to you? yes. thank you again for having me on this evening. hesitant. i found out that we were extending the summer of 2022. >> we were extremely thrilled. >> i moved to call my provider and schedule my first prenatal appointment, but was denied that prenatal appointment. as a result of the time was the recent dobbs decision? in the provider's office basically told me that they were not seeing patients until that 12 week mark just to try to mitigate a bit of the medical liability that comes with seeing patients before that 12 weeks. unfortunately, my husband and i did not make it till 12

the sources of kaitlan collins was in the courtroom in a moment, we'll talk with her about what she we saw a judge one or sean phi find the former president the maximum $1,000 for each count and warned them that further violations could land him in jail is not only unique, it's totally constitution. >> judges totally conflicted, totally absolutely conflicted that easily in this case i'm supposed to be in georgia. i'm supposed to be new hampshire. i'm supposed to be in ohio. that's over the place and they have these sitting here for biden trial. that's a vitamin trial in fact, it's not and there's no evidence that it is. the judge said thursday for hearing on for other alleged gag order violations and testimony will continue thursday from former karen mcdougal and stormy daniel's attorney, keith davidson, who was on the stand today as well. and as we talked about what he said on the stand today, we're also monitoring lead developments at columbia university where protests ssrs are occupying one of the buildings and hundreds of new york police officers, members of the department strategi

what happened back in 2016, kaitlan collins had him on her show last night, asked him a, lot of about what happened, including what we've learned in this hush money trial about how active donald trump and his associates were in in placing incorrect information about crews and his family in the national enquirer, listen to what he said he'd just been elected president. i got a job. i got a job to represent 30 million texans. and frankly, if i was going to let my hurt feelings make me say i'm not going to work with you. i needed to be prepared to resign my job and go home. i was in that position as she didn't win any states, but she was the last person standing i understand. and that's and she was in a hard-fought primary. i i had been in that spot and it took some time for me to decide what to do now, she did when vermont and dc she did those republican powerhouse look, but at the same time, you're there is no trump has indicated it, has said in his word is only temporary. >> a lot of the time that she will not be his vice presidential pick. it is hard at this moment to see any, any re

chris, did i want to bring and see you in an anchor, kaitlan collins right now to discuss or sometimes pretty heated interview with senator ted cruz, caitlin, you're really pressed. senator cruz and accepting the election results, did you ever get an answer? >> well, he didn't say yes and no, yes or no to that answer. i think he would argue that that he did try to answer that question is as he did is we went on for several minutes about this in perspective here in the context that's important and crucial to note wolf as you know, is that senator ted cruz was the first senator to object to the certification of the votes i believe the state that he was was arizona that we know there were objections to multiple states is that day played out on january 6. and so this is a key issue because it's kind of become this question. that has become, for some reason increasingly difficult for republicans to answer just a yes or no question. marco rubio, tim scott, you saw those are vice presidential hopefuls? of course. and so i really wanted to take the time in our sit down last night with senator

>> kaitlan, i'm extremely skeptical that mike pence's life was ever in danger.itics and politics people like to really exaggerate things from time to time. i know a lot of folks -- >> i think mike pence would disagree with that, senator. >> the idea that donald trump endangered anyone's lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it's just absurd. and the entire legal basis of this prosecution of donald trump from jack smith -- >> but they were chanting that they wanted to hang him. [ light laughter ] >> look, kaitlan, did a few people say some bad things? sure. [ laughter ] but do we blame donald trump for every bad thing that has ever been said by a participant in american democracy? i think that's an absurd standard. >> seth: and kaitlan, i doubt mike pence was in real danger. first of all, he's excellent at camouflaging himself. if the mob had found him, he could have just tricked them by closing his eyes and pretend to be a statue. [ laughter ] also, no, you can't blame donald trump for every bad thing anyone says ever, but you can blame him for the bad

i did not this is the defenses. >> kaitlan. we knew they were going to get up and then we're going to say mr. mcglone. >> did the defendant asked you? you to do any of these things because throughout mcglone testimony, he provided no direct evidence that trump was involved. we have an update. the defense attorney, it says mccartney testified to a series of emails involving on but asked if he ever spoke to cohen about any of the issues no. talked to michael. now, she's saying he did not talk to michael collins. so at this point mcglone has is not provide a direct evidence linking the alleged crimes to the defendant. and i think you're going to see the defense attorneys and just hammer this again and again, mean mcglone says he didn't talk to trump three years, including 2017, which is the year when this alleged criminal conduct occurred. so this feels like it could be a feeding frenzy for the defense attorneys. >> how does the jury here that i mean, they just listened to him walk through obviously, a person who is intimately fam

kaitlan, where did things go from here? >> kate, it's a long road ahead for donald trump in these three other criminal cases, he's facing the classified documents case in florida in federal court, where he's accused of mishandling national security secrets and obstructing justice. and then the two cases he's facing related to charges around the 20 20 election, january 6, a state case in georgia and a federal case in washington, dc. all three of these have no trial dates at this time. that's because there is work to be done in all of the different fronts of these three cases, one by one, let's take them the classified documents case in florida that's bogged down at the moment in legal work, judge aileen cannon has a lot of requests from the defense that she's needing to get through. she has hearing set out until the end of july. the trial date is currently postpone there just isn't one on the calendar and there's a lot of work to do about how classified documents can be used in that case potentially shown to a jury. it's goi

kaitlan, of course, we will be back later 9:00 p.m. eastern to anchor her show. the source or we'll of course, be watching let's break all this down with our political commentators right now. i'll start with kristin salt to sanderson, senator cruz is the latest high-profile republican refusing to say that he will accept the results of the 2024 election. flat-out question, what does that say about the gop right now? >> right now, a lot of republican prominent leaders are angling either to be vice president or they'd like to have a lot of influence in a trump administration zoo for them, they feel that that is a trap question. they feel that it is unfair that republicans are asked it. you heard senator cruz just say that for them, the way but they sort of deal with this is they say there was a little bit of fraud here, a little bit of fraud there. >> we don't really know they tried to dance around it because they know that for very many republican voters, they do feel that donald trump was cheated out of the election, and whether they mean that in terms of fraud or

kaitlan, what is the likelihood? that any other trial than the current hush money trial that's ongoing in new york, will actually take place before the november election. >> well, wolf, it's quartz so you never know when it comes to these things, courts can move very fast and all of a sudden there might be a case on the calendar and then it might get taken away or moved very quickly as well. so we just won't know until we get a little bit later into the summer don't bet your life savings on having an additional trial outside of the new york trial before election day. and very much so, or having a verdict by that date in early november but if you do step back a minute, even with the georgia case bogged down now with an appeals court situation, the florida documents case with a lot of work for judge aileen can and still to get done. >> there. is this case in washington, dc that if the supreme court makes a clean ruling against trump, like the other courts have done there is a real possibility that in that four month wi

kaitlan, poland's thanks so much. let's bring back seen as paula read, as well as former trump white house attorney jim schultes said a significant shift, certainly playing into trumps strategy of delay, delay, delay. but also we should note special counsel jackson ms really has voiced some serious concerns, if not animus toward this, judge yeah absolutely. >> i'm there may come a time when he tries to get her removed from the case, but at this point, that's premature. what jack smith knows tonight though, is that it's very possible well, he may not be able to bring either one of his federal cases against former president trump before the election and the election is a significant point on the calendar, because if trump was re-elected, he can have jack smith and both of his cases dismissed. now, hear this this case, the classified documents, k's postponed indefinitely, but the the honor prosecution that smith has ghraieb, the january 6 gaze also on ice, while the supreme court contemplates a trump has presidential imm

coming up, cnn anchor kaitlan collins shares her takes from inside the courtroom, including donald trump's body language as he watched his current lawyers go after his former fixer, plus what stormy daniel's attorney thinks about michael cohen's cross-examination we shouldn't and whether it may seriously damaged the prosecution's case. he's gonna be joining joining us a heads. they went it's time yes. >> a time has come for a fresh approach to dog food every day moore dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmers dog made by. vets and delivered right to your door precisely portion from your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come fashion moves fast so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level with a custom private 5g networks, we get more control. the production efficiencies, and greater agility. that's enterprise intelligence. it's your vision, it's your verizon foreign the weather text here whether tech is the ultimate protection for your vehicle laser measured floor liners, no drill mud flaps, cargo line

i mean, she had access that a lot of people did not have in that white house, kaitlan. and thank you very much. you want me here in washington, michael moore, jeff zeleny, dana bash, elie made his way over did you got here in plenty of time? it was a long, didn't break a sweat along with elliot williams, former manhattan district attorney and prosecutor, karen friedman, agnifilo. karam, those council for a firm that represents michael cohen. she has no contact with cohen, does not work on his case. there are no restrictions on what you can say about his case. disclaimer. disclaimer. disclaimer elie. >> let me go and dan, i'm sorry, but we're out numbered here that the lawyer is out number, the political reporters that's actually yeah, that's probably a good thing. >> it's the way the lord intended and go to the experts for here's an update. >> necklace begins by asking westerhout about 20:16 while she was working for the rnc. let's start talking about that there. i mean, that is and dan and jeff, you guys can weigh in to this is a highly critical point in the campaign w

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 case and this argument and what

however, kaitlan is totally right, not a single jaroun remember, is what woman she works for the trump organization. >> she's a staff. are there i think she's in her 70s now she's the one who helped melania trump, right? her rnc speech in 2016, that plagiarized parts of michelle obama's speech. and she had to apologize and she took the blame for that just to bring this all full circle living in 2016 at this moment, but on thursday, stormy daniels is back how long i mean, if you are the defense attorney, where do you go? oh, wow what they've done before. >> okay. so this is how it works. months ago, they take everything stormy daniels, he said everywhere and you put it i'm old school, so i just do it on paper, but they put it on an spreadsheets and it's by topic. what does she? you say about how she met from what does she say the book. what did she say? and as a group of what did you say here is what did she see there. so you have all those checklists and all these different topics. and then on this side it's like all these different interviews. and then look, you have to have it so mem

i've said that that's not the crime there's kaitlan. you point about one the county told on the checks you're up, your point about the frame? >> it's clear that he watches his money, but that's not the crime. >> it is that secondly, leap of how does it then get written down back in new york city? where is it listed? how is it listed? is it listed as reimbursements to michael cohen or is it legal fetal michael cohen, there has been no proof whatsoever that donald trump had anything to do with how it's listed? on the ledger in trump tower? can i've tried to reframe this for a second now, i'll pose a question to your george if the prosecution stands up tomorrow and says, your honor, at this point, we rest can they possibly when they would have to dismiss the case, it's not necessarily. am i think there's enough circumstantial evidence that they could infer it, but they need to put some more on right? >> so you know, so it would be i agree with that. i think if the prosecution rested tomorrow, it doesn't go to the jury. so they need somethi

never scoop again with litter robot this sourness, but kaitlan collins, tonight at nine just momentsgo closing arguments, the stormy daniels hush money trial wrapped up in a lower manhattan, the prosecution getting the lengthy last word nearly five hours worth tomorrow morning after hearing instructions from the judge. jurors will have the case and the former president's fate will be in their hands, joining us. cnn's john berman has been going through the trial transcripts for us we mentioned this moment when judge merchan scolded trump's attorney todd blanche, how did that play out in the trust? >> he came right at the end of todd blanche is summation where he was once again saying that michael cohen is a liar. >> you can't convict just based on michael cohen. todd blanche said cohen came in here, he raised his right hand and he lie to each of you repeatedly repeatedly. you cannot you cannot send somebody to prison. you could not convict somebody. josh steinglass, the prosecutor says objection. judge masan says, sustained. blanche then goes on. you cannot convict somebody based upon

source with kaitlan collins next coming up on 9:00 p.m. here in new york, we're continuing to monitor developments out of the middle east, where we're learning more about the ceasefire proposal that hamas, except in israel, rejected today and is really strikes on southern gaza. >> originally, questions about whether these limited operations will grow into a full fledged invasion of raw file, which by the administration has been warning against for weeks. we begin the hour right now. did they 12 and the trump much money trial and judges second, contempt finding against the former president of today and his warning that a third could mean jail time, that i'm prosecutors calling two longtime trump employees as they try to show exactly how michael cohen was repaid by trump's trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to stormy daniels back with the panel joining us as well as harry lipman who in court today's in la times legal affairs columnist, host of the talking feds podcast and former deputy assistant attorney general i'm

stormy daniels allegation in particular, kaitlan gnosis actually really well because asking him about this at the white house would be like world war ii for the white house staff, they absolutely hated this line of questioning. and it really gets to, it reminds me of how he responded to the access hollywood tape. that's definitely him right on the audio tape, but he's still likes to deny it. and so when he's confronted with the worst parts of himself, he really reacts very strongly and very negatively. and that's what this whole case is about however, i do think stormy daniels the way that she conveyed that trump is going to make the argument and i don't know what his lawyers are going to do, but he's already been making the case. this is a concocted case, too dirty him up before the election to make him seem bad in front of the american public, even though there's no like legally, illegal thing that happened here, that's his argument. i don't know that stormy daniels help the prosecutors in batting that down because she seemed to have a personal vendetta against him. it may be justif

one other important point, kaitlan asieh, the jury is gonna be wondering, where's keith schiller? all of these questions, where's keith schiller? where's karen mcdougal? those are bad for the prosecution because the prosecution is the one that has the burden of proving there case beyond a reasonable doubt. very common defense tactic, stand up and closing ago, whereas keith schiller, folks don't you think he should or heard from him? they didn't call him. i'm not saying it's fatal here. i don't think there's anyone who so obviously missing. it's going to cost them the case. but all those missing witnesses are not great for prosecution. i'll enter number. thank you so much. it's great to have you get rest. are back with us in a moment as we dive into more for testimony from the trial today. plus what michael cohen is now saying that his expected testimony a heart attack do they have life insurance? >> no. >> but we have life insurance john, i'm trying to find something we can afford fortunately, it only a few minutes, select pope found jon of $500,000 policy for only $29 a month and

phillip, also, three more who witnessed that pivotal moment in a courtroom today was cnn's anchor kaitlan collins went after the lunch break. norm eisen, who is the council that was democrats during that first impeachment, was there this morning and correspondent kara scannell kara, what 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 begins by saying, you spoke with the former you testified de 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, oh, 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 what about these text messages? and then goes exactly as you just described, just confronting cohen with these text messages in the timestamps that were so close and that showed keith

the source of kaitlan collins starts now citing the source tonight. she blasted donald trump is unhinged, unstable in total chaos. but after publicly refusing to kiss the ring, donald trump's ring nikki haley says, she'll vote for him in november. republican senator ted cruz is here on the state of the 2024 race. also, another flag would links to january 6. another house. but it's the same supreme court justice that's under fire. for tonight. >> new reporting on what was seen. >> justice alito's home that has critics calling for him to recuse himself also, tonight's senator bernie sanders joins us. this on his break right now underway with the white house and even top democrats i'm kaitlin collins. and this is the source nikki haley has not spoken publicly since she suspended her race for the white house more than two months ago. but tonight and her first remarks since that, she made clear who should we voting for in november, given it won't be her name on the ballot trump has not been perfect on these policies. i made that clear many, many times but

. >> this source, but kaitlan collins next looking, live picture there of a new massive volcanic eruption underway in iceland. the fifth one since december earlier today before the lava started flowing, officials evacuated famous blue lagoon, a geothermal spa also, any resonance still in an nearby fishing village were asked to leave though many fled months ago when the eruptions began tonight, iceland's national broadcaster, it says electricity has been cut to the village due to lava flowing over roads leading to the area. and it's unclear when power will be restored is it for us the news continues. see you tomorrow. the source of kaitlan collins starts now so during the source tonight, notes on a scandal, the four questions coming from the jury room or well, new yorkers are deliberating the fate of the former president or sharpest legal minds will help us dig into our first clues about what's the jury may be thinking and after weeks so testimony about sucks lies, and an audio tape. >> what happens next is out of donald trump's control for the first time in his life. and the strain is sho

yes, there that's so kaitlan collins. that's where he's trying to the parse it. michael cohen being disappointed, not that it wasn't named white house chief of staff, but that he wasn't even considered white house chief of staff but we'll see what the jury thinks about that yeah it's hard to know. >> it's impossible to know actually check what they're thinking. but this is what michael cohen testified about when the prosecution was questioning him, he said it wasn't necessarily that he thought he could be chief of staff, that he at least wanted his name out there. he felt like everything that he had done for donald trump he deserved and he talked openly acknowledged in court that it was part of an ego boost for him, and paula, this is a moment when it comes down to the credibility as jake was just saying, there what who does the jury believe? when did michael cohen start telling the truth and has he always just been saying things to benefit himself depending on the situation that he's blanche's doing it effective job of raising doubts about michael cohen's believ

i'm here with cnn's kaitlan collins and paula reid. >> what have you been hearing kaitlan about what the defense plan is? well, obviously, they really want to drive their argument home to basically undermine everything that the prosecution is going to say it or telling the same story, just different versions of it. and. donald trump's culpability and closeness and proximity to all of it. and so that's really what they're bracing for today. they are a little bit concerned and i believe the prosecution is as well. the jury's just had a week off and they need to be reminded of a lot of what they heard over those six weeks of evidence and witnesses that were coming before them. one thing i will say about how all of this going to go down and what i've heard about the order of this is donald trump, his frustrated and he learned in recent days that the last word that the jury here is will be from the prosecution, not from the defense team, because unlike the opening statements where the prosecution went first laid out its case, and then trump's attorneys made their argument to the jury. ins

you're back in new york sayyed the courthouse with paula reid and cnn's kaitlan collins. i was going to bring in former new york state supreme court justice jill kohn visor and judge called visor. you've been watching being judge merchan navigate this trial from, uh, judges respective. what are you going to be watching for today? >> well, that's a good question. and from, uh, judges perspective there was a lot to watch first and foremost, will be that to make sure that the prosecutor asks very pointed questions so that michael cohen doesn't go off the rails if you would that could be a problem. hello, i'm for the prosecution. we know that michael cohen has an ax to grind and we know that he doesn't always follow the rules. in fact, we heard last week, judge merchan say michael cohen, stand down, you're causing problems for this trial again, judge merchan's goal is to make sure the defendant gets the fair trial. that he is entitled to get. so he's gonna be watching very carefully and he's going to be on top of the answers to make sure that michael cohen answers precisely t

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i'm maddie philip in new york alongside kaitlan collins tonight re spect and the cost of compliance with the court. the judge has issued a if he does and if he doesn't threat to former president trump over his repeats he did breaking of a gag order and the paper trail takes a star turn no headline witnesses today in court. but instead, the jury got a crash course in the nitty-gritty details of the trump organization. it was a de of show and tell that included multiple checks and financial disclosures bearing the signature of donald j. trump. >> that is a critical piece of evidence that the prosecutors need to show that their case doesn't just rest on the word of pr jurors like michael cohen, there's also that question of a direct attack on the rule of law. >> the words of judge juan merchan, starting today addressing violation number ten they gag order that limits what the defendant here i can say. the judge seems poised to move past the fines, lamenting that those $1,000 amounts really are just a slap on the hand for the former president. but the question of jailing him also risks makin

the source with kaitlan collins starts now straight from the source tonight, the moment of truth for donald trump is now just days away. >> hey both sides of rested their cases as a contentious new

kaitlan collins, thanks so much that reporting. and let's talk more about this with former us attorney michael moore. michael always good to see you. this hearing is the first judge since she delayed indefinitely the start of this trial. it had been scheduled to begin as early as this week it's been more than a month since she held last tell the public in-person hearing on the case though she has held at least one sealed proceedings since then it appears unless she picks up her momentum here, it's unlikely these charges will go before a jury, before 2024. >> so if that's the case, can trump make this all go away. >> if he can delay it long enough. if he wins yeah. >> i'm glad to be with all of you i just think there's no way this case is tried before the election. now, let's just just call it and go ahead and make that prediction now. >> and frankly, i don't blame the judge totally i mean, actually applaud her for having a hearing sometimes in federal court, it's hard to get judges have a hearing they like to rule on the pleadings,

let's bring back cnn's kaitlan, poland's to explain what we can expect tomorrow. kaitlan rahel, it's going to be a full day in court for jurors to listen to the defense, give their closing arguments, and then the prosecutors give their closing arguments. >> this is the final act of this trial in its seventh week, the first criminal trial against the former president in this case, prosecutors there's are going to be pointing out to the jurors that they have seen all of those transactions of money to pay off stormy daniels to keep her quiet in the 2016 election and the prosecutors are going to try and convince the jury that they have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump wanted to hide those payments because of his political campaign in 2016. >> now the defense sayyed when they give their closing summation, they're going to be arguing that the case hasn't been proven that there just isn't enough evidence beyond circumstantial evidence. and then what michael cohen, donald trump's former lawyer, was saying on the witness stand the proved beyond a reasonab

elie honig, thank's very, very much kaitlan. i understand you haven't an important update for us yeah. >> well, if we're getting some breaking news from inside the courtroom, right now, is trump's attorneys and just returned included with the judge and the prosecutor as and trump's attorneys are now asking for a mistrial based on what ellie just laid out there, the two hours or so of testimony that we just got from stormy daniels saying that she went to so far in that testimony and trump's attorney, todd blink, arguing there is no way for them to remedy that testimony that the jury has already just heard. i should note, trump is no writing it on his notepad is todd blanches attorney is making this argument in front of the judge and blanches talking about that testimony saying that there was no other reason for prosecutors to elicit so get that beyond to cause trump embarrassment. now, this was a concern that started out this morning before stormy daniels even took the witness stand. and prosecutors and the defense for arguing ab

i know a lot of folks and the democratic party a lot of folks that democratic party kaitlan act as if january the 6th was the scariest moment of their lives. i think look, january 6 was a bad day. it was a riot, but the idea that donald trump endangered anyone's lives when he told them to protest peacefully. it's just absurd that's not how law enforcement officers who were there that they see it. and when it comes to mike pence, that's not how the us secret service or vice president pence or his family. >> see you. >> pen said last year, quote, that trump's reckless words endangered by family and everyone at the capitol that day and i know history will hold donald trump accountable unquote. just this week and a very revealing interview with time magazine, mr. trump was asked about political violence after this november's election. the reporter quote, you cite that we're going to win and there won't be violence. what if you don't win, sir? trump responds, quote, i think we're going to win. and if we don't win, you know, it depends. it always depends on the fairness of an election. i do

he controls everything and we heard from testimony and kaitlan like me about really it run kind of as a mom and pop as jim acosta said earlier, i'd say more pop and mom the fact that you've got this playing out, how does that play? you think politically and for this jury, that they assume that he was running the show well, i think politically and for the jury, it is it's a similar big picture question and it is about the intent. and so the jury is having to hear all of this very dry minutiae about documents, not the documents aren't sexy. certainly not saying that you know, you're right. this is a, this is a case about falsification you should have business records today, we saw the business records that was a big reveal however, what this case is going to hinge on, and the reason the subject of most of the debate about the case outside of the courtroom has been about more about the abstract legal issues involved is that we are not learning a huge amount of new information through the testimony of these witnesses. we have known for years here's the broad strokes of these scandals we'v