Welcome to our new special, New York versus Donald Trump. I'm Ari Melber and we are bringing

you our new breakdown of exactly what's happened this past week which was really

the last week of arguments in this historic criminal trial of Donald Trump the

first ever for a former president as you certainly know by now now this final

week was a short one but a lot actually happened

Michael Cohen was back on the stand finishing his four days of testimony and

Trump's lawyers began and ended their case so we basically in one week saw the

DA and the defense team both

rest and we saw the defense witnesses who at times stumbled. Here's how it

played out. The defense wrapped up with Michael Cohn after three days of cross-examination.

It was a grueling three days.

The prosecution has now rested its case.

The defense has also just now called its first witness. has now

called its first witness.

Robert Costello back on the stand later this morning

after yesterday's fireworks.

He was nearly tossed from the witness box and his entire testimony was nearly stricken from the record.

An extraordinary moment.

His whole attitude on the stand could have the defense team rethinking its strategy of calling him at all.

The defense has rested its case after calling just two witnesses,

but Donald Trump did not testify in his own defense.

That's how it went down and it was action-packed. Now Michael Cohen's cross raised some doubts

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