6 PM ET: Cohen testimony wraps, US AG contempt proceedings, Putin-Xi summit & more

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

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Michel Cohen testified about the logistics of a hush money payment and a key call in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial. A House committee has voted to advance contempt proceedings against the US attorney general over the president’s audio files in his classified documents case. The White House warns Israel that more humanitarian aid needs to get into Gaza. Slovakia’s prime minister remains hospitalized after an assassination attempt. Finally, Russia and China display a united front as Ukraine’s president warns of the Kremlin's advances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From CNN, I'm a Foma D.K.
0:04.0	With the five things you need to know for Thursday, May 16th.
0:08.0	Donald Trump's legal team tried to undermine Michael Cohen's credibility
0:11.5	in the former president's criminal hush money trial.
0:14.3	They confronted Cohen about the logistics of an alleged hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
0:20.1	Cohen, Trump's fixer and personal attorney testified that he paid Daniels's lawyer
0:24.3	$130,000 through a shell company before the 2016 election in exchange for her
0:29.8	silence about an affair she allegedly had with Trump a decade earlier.
0:34.0	Trump has denied the affair and the payment.
0:36.3	The former President's attorneys pressed Cohen on a key call in October 2016 that directly
0:41.2	linked Trump to the hush money deal.
0:43.3	Cohen testified that he told Trump in a call that the payment was funded and the issue
0:47.2	resolved.
0:48.2	But Trump's defense team says that's not true.
0:51.0	They argued that Cohen was asking Trump's bodyguard for help about
0:53.7	harassing calls from a 14-year-old. The House Judiciary Committee has voted to
0:59.6	advance contempt proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland for failing to comply with the
1:04.2	congressional subpoena.
1:06.5	Republicans want access to audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with Special
1:10.4	Council Robert Herr, in which Herr described Biden as a quote, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,
1:16.3	a characterization that Biden has disputed.
1:19.1	While the transcripts of the interview have already been released, they argue that the tapes are crucial to their impeachment inquiry into the today at Garland's request. The House Oversight Committee will also take up the
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