Jake Tapper Describes Scene Inside NY Courtroom

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Several witnesses including Stormy Daniels testified today in the New York hush money cover up trial. Jake walks you through what he saw while observing the courtroom proceedings today. At the end of the day, the proceedings heated back up as Trump’s attorneys argued, out of the presence of the jury, for a mistrial and to lift Trump from the gag order from speaking about Daniels. Judge Juan Merchan denied both motions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.0	Welcome to the lead. I'm Dick Tapper in Manhattan just outside the New York Criminal Court House, where I spent much of the day inside courtroom number 59 watching witnesses
0:33.6	including Stormy Daniels testify in the Donald J Trump
0:36.4	Hush Money Cover Up trial. They have moved on to other witnesses
0:39.7	since Stormy Daniels including Madeline Westerhout whose desk was right outside
0:44.1	Trump's Oval Office. Today's testimony is due to end at any moment. Oh it just
0:49.0	has ended for the day I'm told. Well this hour I'm going to walk you through what I saw, what I sketched, what comes next.
0:54.6	The highly skilled courtroom sketch artists, Christine Cornell, whose work you're going to look at right now and
0:59.2	Jane Rosenberg, they set the scene today as Trump's lawyers cross-examined porn star and director Stormy Daniels.
1:04.8	They're clear objective the defense attorneys to demolish her credibility by suggesting the
1:09.7	encounter never happened and she made it all up for money.
1:13.7	Trump reportedly was seething over Daniels testimony from Tuesday.
1:17.5	According to CNN's Caitlin Collins, Daniels revealed embarrassing details Tuesday
1:21.6	about the alleged sexual encounter in
1:23.0	his hotel room at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament in 2006. The annuals on
1:27.1	Tuesday even suggested that while the sex was consensual, she did not want to do it
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