that trump lawyer is asking when the most recent meeting packer had with prosecutors, packer said to her 3 weeks ago and he said he had probably 5 meetings total with prosecutors. he seemed flustered and can't remember specifics saying i don't have my calendar in front of me. the trump attorney then said it's hard to remember the dates of these things even when they happened just a few months ago. what's your take away from that exchange and equally. >> it's a pretty standard line of cross-examination sandra where once the witness is given a version of events it's helpful to the government or at least the state believes it is helpful that you poke holes in it and it's defence council by showing that lois's -- the witness is not as sure as they seem to perhaps on cross-examination, may be the credibility is not as high as you might have expected. the thing i would hesitate about here is i actually think packer on balance is a good witness for trump khaki is clearly not a hostile witness. and you need to make some points about his memory, maybe that helps in something you want to say a

trump had was just her phone number so all of this is unfolding just now and prior to that david packerd where lawyers for president trump had it one more opportunity to ask him any questions they asked him about a conciliation agreement between american media and the federal election commission the he said he did not thank you was doing anything wrong in 2016 but he did say earlier today that he thinks he violated federal election law in his handling of the karen mcdougall story packer also asked if he thinks trump cares about his family and pecker said yes which is notable because remember yesterday he said he never spoke to trump about his family in handling the stories and that he believed the motivation was campaign related prior to that line of questioning the da office at another opportunity to question him, joshua stein glass and pecker said no, he has told the truth to the best of his ability he went through the stormy daniels story as well saying he did not pay for it but did pay for the karen mcdougall story and the fall story from the trump tower doorman he spoke about how p

being there for the apprentice earlier during the cross-examination of the tabloid executive david packermp's legal team tried to poke holes in the prosecution claims that the former president is directly tied to buying negative stories to protect his election chances and that is where we are at this hour for a clock on the east coast walk everyone i am sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is your world, legal eagles andy mccarthy and tom dupree here to weigh in shortly but first let's get to nate foy who was outside that courthouse on what has been going on inside what do we know nate. >> hello sandra the direct examination of gary pharaoh is underway he's a former senior managing director at first public bank and speaking about his professional history with president trump's former lawyer michael cohen he worked with kellan from 2015 until to the best of his recollection 2018 or 2019 he says he was assigned cohen as a client because he was knowledgeable and skilled enough to deal with clients who may be a bit difficult he said that cohen had several accounts at first public bank if

david packer was _ he's being called first. david packer was at _ he's being called first.david packer was at the centre ofl he's being called first. david i packer was at the centre of this catch and kill scheme, he worked with the national enquirer, a tabloid in the us, and he was essentially buying stories in coordination with trunk, negative stories that would've hurt trump from a playboy playmate and at one point potentially stormy daniels to buy those stories and not publish them, so to catch them and kill them. they prosecution has said that david pecker had at least one discussion with trump about this effort, and i suspect they'll put him on to talk a lot about that conversation and exactly what was said to trump and what trump said in response, and exactly how much knowledge — we can infer from that knowledge — we can infer from that knowledge based on what trump said. great to have your thoughts, things are coming on the programme. thanks for havin: are coming on the programme. thanks for having me- — nada tawfik because there. will come onto the witnesses — but

he said trump never mention his family in conversations about those stories and packer also said when he spoke to trump about him reimbursing michael cohen for paying stormy daniels trump told him he had no idea what pecker was talking about but trump is accused of breaking new york law section 17 cart 152 , on top of the allegation all falsifying business records. allow reeds and a 2 or more persons who conspired to promote or prevent the election to a person of public office by all lawful means and which conspiracies acted upon by 1 or more of the parties thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. the operative word there martha is unlawful and there is still a lot of ambiguity about what exactly the former president trump is accused of doing that was unlawful that led to him winning the 2016 presidential election. that something the jury we'll have to consider. back to you martha. >> speaker-03: thank you. >> martha: fascinating nate thank you. let's bring in jonathan, great to sea you. great to listen to you all day on this but i think nate foy has nailed this. in terms of what we

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i am seeing and hearing david packer come in and testify we did business as usual.in other stories. why aren't they being prosecuted? why nothing about those? the simple answer the jury will glean from this testimony, trump has been singled out. ibly10 this case concerning the former president, president biden made the point to go out on the campaign trail this week, do you believe americans are looking at this and seeing as election interference being exposed? >> great question and i think americans and this jury are smart people. i think they are looking at this and seeing trump tied up in court for days and days and days and wondering why and it is in the middle of at the beginning of the election cycle and rather than being out talking to the people, trump is tied up in a courtroom. >> the supreme court case we heard yesterday, supreme court justices seem concerned about the precedent the federal case being brought against the former president. >> if an incumbent who loses a very close hotly contested election knows the real possibility after leaving office is n

but then david packer said after speaking to his general counsel about being reimbursed, he was toldt a good idea. he told michael cohen, don't reimburse me. it is a bad idea. the deal is off. then we use the prosecution to bridge to the stormy daniels payment and tried to explain why, as they alledge, michael cohen made the payment to stormy daniels at donald trump's direction. that was one piece of it. but back to this issue of intent. you just have david packer placing donald trump's concerns about the election at the forefront of all of their conversations. even says after-the-fact that a dinner at the white house thinking, that donald trump asked david packer how is karen? when both time stormy daniels did an interview with cnn, donald trump complained that they were breaking their agreement. and at one point, dave said donald trump said story -- stormy daniels owed him $24 million for every time he mentioned his name which was against their agreement. christian: thank you very much for that. that sets us up nicely. let's bring in the former u.s. federal prosecutor, sarah kristo

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speak to the defense team is cross-examining the prosecution's first witness, david packer. his testimony has focused on a catch and kill schemes to bury stories about donald trump. it is also revealing negative stories about other celebrities including politicians as well. hello, everyone this is "outnumbered." i am dagen mcdowell. joining us today, dagen mcdowell. fox news contributor, tammy bruce. fox news contributor senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and former speechwriter to president george w. bush, marc thiessen. and we have with the with the kara fredrick, from the heritage foundation. >> emily: first let's go to live to eric who was outside the u.s. supreme court and lower manhattan eric? >> hello, everyone. you know this prosecution case rests largely on the theory that trump wanted to buy the stories of women who had said that they had intercourse with him. when it comes to mcdougall, something new happened this morning. the former publisher revealed in court under cross-examination that no, the former president did not want to buy the story. tha

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pointing to the 2015 meeting as trump and michael cohen and then "national enquirer" publisher david packer where they worked out a plan to conceal public information with former adult film star stormy daniels, all of which trump denies. >> and you had sex with him? >> yes. >> where you physically attracted to him? >> reporter: cohen admitted paying daniels money to -- prosecutors today called it to the porn star payoff. >> it's k says to bookkeeping, which is a very minor thing. >> reporter: in court his attorney said that trump committed no crime, saying i have a spoiler alert, there's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. it's called democracy. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman said that today was one of the most important moments in the criminal trial. >> there are studies that say that 80% of jurors minds are made up at the end of the opening statements. >> reporter: is the prosecution's first witness, and buried brief testimony did not discuss the 2015 2015 meeting h trump and cohen, but acknowledge to pay for storied calling checkbook journalism. instead the courtroo

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trump packer testified today that when donald trump heard that her story might come out, trump told packer, quote anytime you do anything like this it always gets out. okay? >> who knows what donald trump was thinking when mr. pecker testified all of this in court today, when the national enquirer endorse trump back in 2016, trump, after all, returned the favor i've always said, why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o j simpson and all of these things i think maybe we got an idea today why the national enquirer hasn't been awarded any policy prizes. >> cnn's kara scannell was in court for all this. kara, how attentive? >> word jurors, as all of this sleeves was displayed before them jake, it was a very short court session today. >> david pecker was on the and for just over two hours. and during his testimony, the jurors appear to be paying close attention. you could see when pecker was testifying, he often looked at the jury box when he was answering some of the questions. and you could see the jurors eyes following him back to the prosecutor, who would th

a former national enquirer publisher david packer packer admitted he helped trump by and then kill embarrassing stories in the lead-up to the 2016 election. the next tab late owner says trump thanked him for his help in 2017 at the white house. a detail defense attorneys say did not match his previous statement. trump and his defense a the catch and kill arrangement with packer is a standard operating procedure. but prosecutors argue the payment made to adult film star stormy daniels and others were illegal because they were not disclosed in financial records. trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records should be open and we'll be back in court on monday after packer wrapped up his four-day testimony. trump's long-time former assistant took the stand briefly. she is now just the second witness in a trial that's expected to span weeks for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you. coming up next year, michelin, first ever hotel guide has been released. >> which bay area hotels on the list? the latest numbers are showing inflation rates are really high. we'll tell you what

. >> a former national enquirer publisher david packer packer admitted he helped trump by and then kill embarrassing stories in the lead-up to the 2016 election. the x tabloid owner says trump thanked him for his help in 2017 at the white house. a detail defense attorneys say did not match his previous statement. trump and his defense a the catch and kill arrangement with packer is a standard operating procedure. but prosecutors argue the payment made to adult film star stormy daniels and others were illegal because they were not disclosed in financial records. trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records should over. the case over and we'll be back in court on monday after packer wrapped up his four-day testimony. trump's long-time former assistant took the stand briefly. she is now just the second witness in a trial that's expected to span weeks for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you. coming up here, multiple highways will be shut down this weekend in the bay area will tell you when the closures will start how you can get around them. >> and a cup of coff

guest: at this point, we expect it to be david packer. he once ran the company that publishes the national enquirer. and they are -- he is basically going to be on the stand to describe how he and trump allegedly had conversations about how to prevent stories from him -- stories about him from surfacing in the public in 2017. host: i suppose with the first witness we will get a view of how the prosecution and the defense -- i guess what they plan to use. can you give us a sense of what we might expect from both sides going forward? guest: i think the defense's main line of attack is most of the evidence for trump's knowledge or involvement in this effort to falsify business records, most of the allegation against trump specifically comes from michael cohen, his former lawyer. and the defense argument is michael: is simply a liar that cannot be trusted, period. the government's argument would be that he may be a liar and untrustworthy, but in this instance on this case with this evidence, there is enough corroboration of his account that y

. flan about trump, helped by packer. ou about trump, helped by packer. can you explain some of the arguments they have been so far about donald trump's gag order. what they have been so far about donald trump's gag order.— they have been so far about donald trump's gag order. what has happened is trum- trump's gag order. what has happened is trum is trump's gag order. what has happened is trump is accused _ trump's gag order. what has happened is trump is accused of _ trump's gag order. what has happened is trump is accused of violating - trump's gag order. what has happened is trump is accused of violating a - is trump is accused of violating a 939 is trump is accused of violating a gag order, the order was put in place in march because he had made social media posts about the judge's daughter, prosecutors are saying that he violated the gag order because he posted several negative things about things he is not allowed to post about, the jurors, anyone taking part, court staff. they are saying he did that and violated a

packer's company paid 250,000 to stormy daniels. michael cohen made the payments to daniels and will be a key witness in the case. the prosecution must prove trump was involved in the cover-up. listen to his attorneys. >> we believe the president will be exonerated. the jury can see through the media coverage and focus on facts at issue in this case, we believe we have a winning case. >> brooke: the former president said virtually every legal scholar says there is no case, this is a sham that should have never been brought. final jurors were seated on friday. trial is expected to wrap up by 2:00 p.m. today to akccommodate passover. >> carley: california governor gavin newsom worries this could give trump a boost come election time. >> this guy does not care if he's the hero or the heel, he just wants to be the star in the blight brietd /* briet bright s spotlight. i am concerned about over ind indulgence around the day-to-day criminal trial, it is profound but not more outsized than democracy. >> carley: trump is leading in georgia

at they use this to show the depth of their relationship and it continued at the white house where packer said. >>> reporter: brough t him. he provided details as well and then ending the day under cross-examination as drop watch with his arms folded across his body. and at the same time in washington there were three hours of washington over whether trump's claims are immune from prosecution if this can't stop smith's case against him. they want to give him what he want which is another delay in the trial. we will have more coming up more with the former white house attorney but first outside of the courthouse in manhattan. you and i spent a lot of time together today. what do you expect when parker gets back on the stand tomorrow under cross-examination. >>> reporter: weld trial lawyers had about one hour of cross examination with david and in that time he acknowledged it was standard operating procedures for media companies work with politicians. he also testified that he was at the heart of these deals and that he was involved in had many conversations with michael cohen. he served as

packer's testimony last few days, i am not sure why it is related to anything. so the president had a friend at the national enquirer who was willing to manage stories for him, like he was doing for other people. it is not clear -- host: was a catch and kill where he finds stories not beneficial to him and make sure they are never aired. guest: right. according to packer he has done this for all of his friends and people he wants to curry favor with. the new question is, is it a campaign finance related issue for politicians to work with media on managing press and if that is the case, it opens the door for other presidents who have been managing negative or positive stories. it host: works both ways. -- it works both ways. host: there was a question whether the financial arrangement violated fedel election laws hinge on whether the hush money is properly viewed as a campaign expense or a personal expense. that distinction depends on whether trump was motivated by a desire to promote his election or by a desire to avoid embarrassment and spare his wife's feeling

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what are you expected to from packer tomorrow? >> well, i think he is going to actually take the unveil the magic, like the wizard of oz. let me take you behind the curtain and show you what went down once again due to the deal he made, which i'm aware of the specifics, but however, can only project with the southern district of new york to avoid being held responsible. he's going to tell everything. and as much as people were predicting that michael cohen testimony is going to be really influential. i think once people really see the extent that david use the properties of american media, not, not just the enquirer, but the ami owned a lot of other tabloid titles. not only that they own distribution and positioning at newsstands so you can imagine if you're commuter& you're walking through grand central reported authorities or an airport and all the magazines are aligned up. and you're going to see the image. whatever decided to put on that cover. and as he said today, the cover was totally his responsibility and i sat through ma

then the defense was able to start questioning of david packer.d this checkbook journalism, paying to suppress stories, was standard operating procedure and he had done it with several celebrities including tiger woods and arnold schwarzenegger. caitriona: thank you. gary, this a big moment for donald trump at the supreme court, also u.s. presidency potentially protected into the future. talk to us about how the day unfolded. gary: around three hours or so of arguments before the justices, quite a long session. the essential question, does a president, does donald trump have immunity from criminal prosecution, ask he committed while he was in the white house? the previous courts have said no to that question. donald trump's lawyers say yes and as a constitutional basis. jack smith, the special counsel prosecuting donald trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the events around january 6, the attack on the capital, he said no one is above the law. that is what the justices have been working with. they i think were skeptical of the i

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as we heard from david packer about those catch and kill schemes. cb cotton is live outside trump tower. >> reporter: donald trump's defense team appears to be laying some groundwork to argue any dealings trump had with david packer were to protect trump's reputation, his family, but not his 2016 presidential campaign. and after the tabloid publisher wrapped up. he says his company paid $150,000 to silence cara mcdougall and keep her from publicly saying she had an affair with trump, something trump denies. trump's assistant took the stand as the state tries to prove trump was behind another patient to silence stormy daniels. and to have an alleged sexual relationship with trump which trump denies. she said she updated trump organization's contact list which included mcdougall and daniels. she also vaguely remembers seeing daniels at trump tower only once. during cross-examination said daniels may have been there for the show celebrity apprentice, trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges against him. he calls the trial politically motivated. >>

. >> david packer became the first witness to testify in the hush money trial of former president trump. 's testimony will continue tomorrow. he is expected to detail how the national enquirer aided his 2016 campaign with an arrangement burying negative stories about then candidate trump. it will resume tuesday morning with a hearing on whether he will be held in contempt restricting him from speaking publicly about witnesses and others involved in the case. >> i think it went very well. you heard it yourself, this is a case nobody wanted to bring. looking back, it goes back many years, 2013 and before that. it is a case as to bookkeeping which is a very minor thing in terms of all the crime going on outside as we speak, right outside as we speak. this is a case where you pay a lawyer and they call it a legal expense. that is the exact term they use, legal expense, in the books. another thing that was not even said is they never deducted it as a tax deduction. most people want to deduct everything. [indiscernible] they call a payment to a lawyer a legal expense in the books. they called

. >> i thought it was also interesting that david packer testified that donald trump would not pay for stories normally because he would say what is the point? it gets out anyway. so, my question is then when did that start and the reason i ask that is because is it possible that michael cohen was making representations on behalf of donald trump that donald trump had not himself endorsed? michael:'s job was to fix trouble though my problems for donald trump and maybe he took it into his own handset i would pay off this person and this person and worry about having us out to mike afterwards, we really don't know. >> john: if i may add a personal note here i dealt with michael cohen a lot between 2012 and 2017 and even after that. and he was, what's a good way? he was very forceful in defending donald trump. so, you have to wonder. he will rip your head off. if you suggested something was amiss let's put it that way. so this idea here, was he as trump's fixer handling all of these things without signoff from his boss, maybe that is something the defense could potentially talk about here

a key witness for the prosecution's former tabloid publisher david packer.itness stand for four days last week. publishing company was part of the "catch and kill" scheme former president donald trump and trumps x lawyer. pecker said he agreed to by damaging stories with no intention of ever running them. trumps defense and then elicited testimony from packer trying to show this arrangement was not an usual standard procedure in the tabloid industry. >> david packer helped trump more than hurt him testify the national enquirer buried stories for a whole host of celebrities this was not just donald trump. and killing a story is not a crime. court resumes on tuesday banking associate will likely wrap up his testimony on friday he worked at the bank used by again then trump attorney michael cohen two wire 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels leading up to the 2016 election. there's a lot of subplots of this trial more of the gag order which prohibits him from speaking publicly about jurors, witnesses, court staff and family members. 6:00 a.m. eas

packer said he agreed to buy up potentially damaging stories with no intention of ever running them.mony from packer trying to show this arrangement was not unusual but rather a standard procedure in the tabloid industry former federal prosecutor says this. >> 's stories are coming out that are unfortunately defamatory to summons a personal interest they do these "catch and kill" programs for it does not have to do with politics it has to do with reputation, celebrity status the protection of your own image within your family and the public. this is consistent with donald trump's claims of innocence all along. >> 1 quart resumes on tuesday a banking associate will likely wrap up his testimony. on friday he testified he worked at the bank used by again then it trump attorney michael cohen when: wired 130,00 130,000 dols hush money payment to stormy daniels leading up to the 2016 presidential election. the presiding judge in this case has scheduled a hearing for this upcoming thursday to hear more arguments on whether trump allegedly violated the gag order in this case. which prohibits

star and director stormy daniels, a deal that is at the center of this case, the fusion has used packer to set the scene for the jury, introducing them to keep players in the case. how they all fit together in the story right now, the defense tactic in its early questioning is part of a strategy two, strategy to argue the david pecker is work helping trump during the 2016 election was nothing new who? nothing unusual. also notably today, judge juan merchan so far still has declined to issue a ruling from tuesday's hearing on whether trump has violated his gag order, despite the prosecution arguing that this morning that trump continues to violate this order against disparaging members of the jury and the witton this is of course this is four times over the last three days, the prosecution says, let's discuss what our panel and let me start with you, david chatterley. and because the trials going on right now, david pecker shrugging, says he's testifying to the best of his knowledge to be truthful because emile bove trump's bowyer is saying what i'm getting at is these things happened a

the name we've yet to get to in packers testimony, stormy daniels. stormy daniels is the woman whose silence trump allegedly tried to buy and who is actually at the center of the 34 criminal counts mr. trump is charged with in this case. let's go to laura and ellie at the magic wall now for more information. >> really important quite a de to have testimony from david pecker number today, number two, came out with a bit of an reminders though about who he was really getting to. i mean, there was moments he talked about who he was, of course, to donald trump in the catch and kill scenario. but these two are looming pretty large here. michael cohen and hope hicks riveting day of testimony really, and david the packers testimony was crucial in its own right. but what he's also doing a prosecutors doing, they're setting the table for me. witnesses who are going to come later, including most of all michael cohen now david pecker is testimony established michael cohen was donald trump's picture. we hear that expression all the time. it's hard to remember no

now, packers being called a coconspirator by the prosecutor and finds himself staring at his longtimetrump from across the courtroom as a first witness in the hush money trial called by the prosecution tom foreman is outfront them a decades-long relationship between and trump that benefited both menn may have been joe's friends from back in the 90s, more than fellow new yorkers on a quest for power and fame. david and donald trump were for decades a match made in media heaven so how did it all come to this? >> i don't think they even paid any money to that tabloid. okay. >> i don't think we made a payment to that tablet nobody except for me would be looked at like this. nobody for a long time. the relationship was good for both menn trump gave national enquirer or access to his fame, the tabloid gave him headlines, trump catches russia's white house spy. >> trump must build the wall. trump takes charge. the paper gave him its first endorsement ever. the president trump returned the favor. i've always said, why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for edwards and oj simp

former american media ceo david packer.e testified he had : suppress damaging stories about trump during the 2016 campaign. they have not shared the witness list publicly so it is unknown who will testify next. but in anticipation of his testimony, live stream several times on tiktok talking about the case. he appears to be accepting monetary donations from his followers. todd blanche already told the jury that he is a convicted juror cannot be trusted. he lied in the past to protect trump who was his former boss. trump himself spoke outside the courtroom last week. that is one of four alleged gag order violations adjudge will consider in a gag order hearing on thursday. there has already been one gag order hearing after prosecutors alleged that trump broke the gag order 10 times. there will be another one with these four additional examples coming up on thursday. judge cundiff side to possibly find trump or order him to remove the question posed from social media and his campaign website. it is said to resume tomorrow at 9

before packer's testimony continues tomorrow morning trace, the judge will rule on if former president donald trump violated the quartz gag order with several social media posts and if so what the punishment will be. court will end early tomorrow because of the passover holiday. >> thank you. let's bring in former chairman of the house... great to have you on. i'm looking at this stuff, we talk to our legal analyst and they still obsess it just seems like there's no remedy for what is -- it's a mockery. your thoughts. >> they can't even articulate what the charges are. supposedly it's a federal campaign finance violation but this is not a federal -- in federal court. it is absurd that they are doing this. i think trump's legal team makes a really good point that when you pay somebody 400 plus thousand dollars as your attorney and they are trying to claim that that was simply reimbursement but that doesn't coincide with the other number, and why is this coming up now? this is years and years after. it's just a coincidence that it's five months before an election. >> trace: you are exact

packer testifies, quote michael cohen would send me information about ted cruz or ben carson and marco rubio. that was the basis of our story. and then we would embellish it from there. and then just so everyone understands what that meant, the ted cruz sex scandal, five secret mistresses, bungling surgeon ben carson left sponge and patients brain. i remember that who doesn't remember that? right? there was maybe there was even some fake picture i right. >> with the sponge. okay. donald trump, healthiest visual ever elected what is the prosecution showing? jurors here okay. >> this is very strategic on the part of the prosecution and david pecker, who is just a background witness in this case actually, delta very devastating blow to the trunk defense because especially the part you're mentioning where there was an arrangement that michael cohen would, according to david pecker, would call him up after one of the republican debates. and whoever was doing the best and the debate, he would direct him my david pecker to run a devastating story about that person. and what's that? setting up

far prosecutors had not tied trump to alleged conspiracy to win the election and former ceo david packertified that they suppress damaging stories about trump during the 2016 campaign and trump looking to testify but leading up he's been live streaming on tiktok and talking about the case and appears to be accepting monetary donations and he already told that cohen's a convicted perjurer and cannot be convicted in cohen said he previously lied to protect trump and trump himself talked about cohen outside the courtroom last week one of four additional alleged god order violations the judge will consider in a gag order hearing there's already a hearing where prosecutors accused trump of breaking the gag order 10 times so this will be a new hearing about the additional four and the judge will decide on a possible punishment that could include fines ordering him to remove the questionable post from social media and the trial itself will resume tomorrow morning. >> trace: outside and thank you and let's bring in criminal defense attorney and it's amazing when you look at him telling the story

we will get to that later tonight, i know. >> the value to the prosecution of packer's he laid out the frame of the story. now the jury understands that there were these three witnesses, that is all going to be filled out maybe they will believe him, maybe they won't. your idea that this is soo terrible and this is just business as usual, who was their partner and all this. donald trump. you don't think the jury will be offended this guy was running for president of the united states is involved with all beasley's balls. >> that he buried in sex story which you heard from their witness so did this liberty, so that that's a liberty comes with this liberty, that it happens all of the time. it's not that unique. this isn't watergate. that is my point. watergate was a unique time. the first time something likee that has happened. but what came out in cross-examination is it happenss all of the time. >> this time they consulted the lawyers and then they started to back off because they realize they were gearing into territory that made them nervous. >> with the money. and that is what matte

someone is back is captain marlie packer. what of the performance has been like? really impressed. at times, we've had a few soft errors, but it's something that we've really worked on. there's nothing like playing at twickenham in front of 50,000 tomorrow, and i know the girls are really looking forward to it. wejust girls are really looking forward to it. we just had a team girls are really looking forward to it. wejust had a team run girls are really looking forward to it. we just had a team run now. we're really ready to go on. england have only conceded _ we're really ready to go on. england have only conceded one _ we're really ready to go on. england have only conceded one try - we're really ready to go on. england have only conceded one try in - we're really ready to go on. england have only conceded one try in the i have only conceded one try in the opening three games. have you been forced into step into fifth gear yet? i forced into step into fifth gear et? .. . �* . forced into step into fifth gear et? ~' ., �*, ., forced into step into fifth gear et?

packer said in his testimony no one has ever referred to it that way, donald trump and i did not referill scheme but what you are saying is a lot of famous people do this, purchase stores, have stories paid for so they will never see the light of day, never be published. so you point out all those other people in addition to donald trump of done this. wouldn't to be relevant if donald trump had done this before running for president? the whole crime allegation is he did it to influence an election. >> that's a really good point. it would demonstrate it wasn't just done in anticipation of the 2016 election cycle, done by him and many others. these nondisclosure agreements are typical for the wealthy and the famous. people coming at them all the time and willing to enter into these transactions to make these stories go away and most end up being false, you saw that in the case that was testified about, the doorman, you end up with a situation that it is a different world at that level and a lot of people want to ruin your reputation. carley: david packer said he believed the 34 counts of

packers and stockers have some real very interesting historical price discrimination tool in the meat merchandising sector. they haven't been used since 19 1981 or whatever the last case was. we're busy looking at that and thinking about that and making sure how do we make sure there's market access for small, mid-sized farmers, ranchers, processors. the businesses that want to compete in local or regional or maybe even larger markets with these players, what role can we do to open up that space so we have work coming in on that front. the third thing i want to underscore is the importance of rebuilding the institution we all have. but at the usda, it's been hit, the packers and stockers provision was 40% smaller by people in 2020 than it was in 2010. that's thanks to flat budgets during that period. we've been very fortunate to get an important increase from congress. we are using that as wisely as we possibly can but it's a long-term effort to rebuild the skills, the capacity, the instincts, the knowledge base, and it's a partnership, of course, with the anti-trust enforcers and sta

cohen, the lawyer arranging the payments and stormy daniels, the woman receiving the payments, david packer, an executive for a company that oversees the national enquirer was also in the wings of this incident with another woman who has also claimed to have received a payment, karen mcdougal, received 150,000 after making a similar accusation, that payment was arranged through the national enquirer which cohen then reimbursed. you could potentially hear from pecker and there are other people such as trump's former director who picks as a possible potential witness. she was dealing with cohen quite a bit as: arrange the payments. she contends she did not know payments were being made. she knew cohen was trying to stifle the news and prevented from coming out but she was on the phone repeatedly with him as the payments were arranged in october and then as the news began to break about payments to karen mcdougal in early november of 2016. host: jury selection begins today at the trial and directly after that, what's the timeline for jury selection and the trial and does the former president h

cohen, the lawyer arranging the payments and stormy daniels, the woman receiving the payments, david packer, an executive for a company that oversees the national enquirer was also in the wings of this incident with another woman who has also claimed to have received a payment, karen mcdougal, received 150,000 after making a similar accusation, that payment was arranged through the national enquirer which cohen then reimbursed. you could potentially hear from pecker and there are other people such as trump's former director who picks as a possible potential witness. she was dealing with cohen quite a bit as: arrange the payments. she contends she did not know payments were being made. she knew cohen was trying to stifle the news and prevented from coming out but she was on the phone repeatedly with him as the payments were arranged in october and then as the news began to break about payments to karen mcdougal in early november of 2016. host: jury selection begins today at the trial and directly after that, what's the timeline for jury selection and the trial and does the former president h

i got the greatest names of witnesses, pharaoh packer graph. >> anyway i'm walking away from yes but one thing to just point out, there's a couple of tactics at play here. one is if you're a prosecutor, i used to do some multi-week cases where you'd have good witnesses and bad witnesses mixed in. you liked the idea of leaving them with something solid, unchallenged, good at the end of the week. so it may be that these are basically glorified records, custodian so basically introducing some paperwork for the jury to look at at for 30 before they go home and go oh, there were checks. or there were meetings where there were contexts. it's also smart for the defense at this point to keep it dull, to basically not spend any time cross-examining people where you have no real reason to gain anything because they're not establishing criminal nauta or they're not establishing controversial points. so let them go continue to focus on cohen and wait for that moment well, let me just say so. the email that was just shown that now they're discussing it's from gary pharaohs assistant and him that

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david packer is back on the stand for cross—examination. he gave evidence yesterday.uestions about his efforts to suppress damaging information about donald trump during the 2016 election, as the trial continues. he is facing questions from donald trump's lawyers, who want to show the tabloids practice unflattering stories about him and it was established before he ran for president. donald trump denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty. plenty more on that story and all the rest of the day's story on our website. to stay here on bbc news. thank you for watching. hello. it was a really cold start to the day. a widespread frost. lowest temperatures down to —6 in the coldest spots in both northern england and scotland. but many of us have seen sunny skies like these already. it is a day, though, where clouds will bubble up to bring showers. and we've seen lots of showers in northern ireland. there have been quite a few for the north and east of scotland, and down the eastern side of england. meanwhile, this thicker cloud affecting southern wales and southern—mo

what did you think of david packer as a witness and then he advanced elements of prosecution needed him to prove the case. >> i think he did with the prosecutors wanted him to do which is basically setting the stage and framing the case in a way that will condition the jurors to view the evidence as it comes it over the course of the next few weeks. what we didn't hear was tangible evidence that trump committed a crime read we heard a lot about the shadowy world of the new york tabloid seen and we heard about how packer engaged in the so-called catching kill operations on behalf of other politicians and other celebrities but the prosecutors at the end of the day put a lot of daxs on the stage but they've yet to connect them. we're going to have to obey future witnesses and probably wait a few more weeks before the car under prosecutors draw the connection of criminal activity for the jury. trey: as fascinating as the national enquirer is i want to move on to something weighty year to you, it seems clear that jack smith january 6 case is awkward to go to trial before november but what el