Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen expected on stand next week in hush money trial
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The third week of testimony and former President Donald Trump's criminal |
| 0:04.7 | hush money trial came to a close today in New York City with prosecutors saying |
| 0:09.5 | they may be able to rest their case next week. |
| 0:12.8 | William Bringham was in court today. |
| 0:14.6 | He joins us now to tell us what he saw and what comes next. |
| 0:18.1 | So William, five witnesses took the stand today. |
| 0:21.6 | What did jurors hear? |
| 0:23.9 | jurors heard a procession of witnesses |
| 0:26.6 | talking about some very granular bits of evidence, |
| 0:30.3 | like how checks were sent from the Trump organization in New York City down to the |
| 0:35.1 | White House and how they got signed by President Trump and then sent back to New York. |
| 0:39.6 | How cell phone calls and text messages are recorded and authenticated both by prosecutors and by cell phone companies. |
| 0:49.0 | And while some people have been arguing that these are kind of dry, dull technical pieces of evidence, |
| 0:55.3 | I mean especially compared to Stormy Daniels over the last couple of days, that's true, |
| 1:00.7 | but this is also, these granular details are in essence the core of this case. |
| 1:07.1 | This is a case about falsifying business records. |
| 1:10.2 | And so those quotidian details are important and they will be in some way what this case lives and dies on. |
| 1:16.5 | Still in many ways there's a lot of anticipation looking towards next week when Michael Cohen, |
| 1:22.1 | Donald Trump's former lawyer, is expected to testify. |
| 1:25.7 | He's considered the prosecution's star witness. |
| 1:28.7 | So what are we expecting to hear from him? |
| 1:31.6 | Michael Cohen is at the absolute center of this case. |
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