This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and the prosecution has rested its case and now it's

Donald Trump's term.

His defense team has called a witness, Robert Costello, an attorney who at one

point advised Michael Cohen. Costello has claimed that Cohen's lied about him under oath

during this trial. This comes after a shocking revelation on the stand earlier today,

threatened to rock the prosecution's entire case under intense questioning by the defense,

Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, the star witness for the prosecution, admitted that he

stole from the Trump organization.

And we're not talking lunch money or funds taken from some transaction that has nothing to do with the charges against Trump.

We're talking about $60,000, technically larceny, that was part of the $420,000 payment made to Cohen that was allegedly falsified to reimbursement for

hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

That payment or those payments that make up the $420,000.

That's the crime at the center of this trial whether they were falsified

even though the prosecution had technically raised the issue of the

60,000 theft earlier in the trial,

they didn't really spell it out clearly to the jury.

They certainly didn't explain that this was a crime.

In fact, CNN's senior legal analyst

D. Le Honegg points out that Larceny over $50,000 in New York is actually a

class C felony, which is more serious than the charges Trump is on trial for right now, being either a misdemeanor or at the most a

class E felony.

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