6 AM ET: Michael Cohen back, wildfires air quality, Red Lobster closures & more

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

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Michael Cohen is back on the stand today testifying against his old boss, former President Donald Trump. US officials say Israel has gathered enough troops for a full scale ground operation in Rafah. Authorities in Canada are scrambling to respond to wildfires raging across the country that are threatening whole communities. Arizona's 1864 abortion ban has been delayed. Plus, Red Lobster is shutting dozens of restaurants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.2	Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck. With the five things you need to know for Tuesday, May 14th.
0:37.0	Former Donald Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is back on the stand today and the former President's attorneys are likely
0:44.8	to get their chance to question him.
0:47.1	Yesterday Cohen told the jury that Trump told him to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels
0:52.1	$130,000 just days before the 2016 election to keep
0:57.3	her quiet about an alleged affair.
0:59.7	And Cohen said Trump promised to pay him back.
1:02.4	His testimony ties together the prosecution's allegations
1:05.2	that Trump broke the law by falsifying business records to reimburse Cohen and hide the
1:10.4	hush money payments. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies the affair ever happened.
1:15.3	Take a listen to him speaking outside the courtroom yesterday.
1:18.3	We pay the lawyer a legal expense.
1:21.1	It's marked down in the book, what, legal expense.
1:24.8	CNN's Paula Reed has more on what the jury heard from Cohen yesterday.
1:28.9	Cohen testified that it was his idea to include a punitive damages clause in the
1:34.2	Daniels deal to ensure that she didn't speak. Cohen said Trump told him to
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