She's great. Well from sharing the stage and stage fright to taking the stand a

nervous and emotional hope picks faces her longtime boss and friend Donald Trump in court.

Welcome to a special edition of Laura Coates Live alongside Abby Philip right here in New

York and it was a dramatic day in the Manhattan courtroom for Trump who now now has spent 11 days sitting and hearing testimony

in his criminal trial.

And you know, today I got to see it in person with my own eyes.

And let me just tell you, when she was speaking, the president and the jury and myself were listening very intently.

And yes, she did cry on the stand.

And I'll tell you what happened there in just a moment, but what the defense is hoping the jury

keeps in mind is the answer to the final question she was

at. In 2017, while you were focused on your job at the White House you didn't have anything to do

with the business records of the Trump organization some 200 plus miles away from

New York City.

Did you?

Her answer? no. So Hicks there testified that she did not have

knowledge of the falsification of business records. That's the actual charge against

Trump, so that's really important, but as one of his closest

days she bolstered a key part of the prosecution's narrative that Trump was involved in the

deals to silence damaging stories before the 2016 election.

Today Hicks was asked about a 2018 conversation that she had with Trump after that Wall Street

journal story broke that had the Stormy Daniels hush money payments in the story from the

transcript Hicks says President Trump was saying he spoke to Michael and that Michael

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