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Donald Trump takes the stand wrapping her blockbuster testimony just a short while ago,

Hope Hicks, taking jurors inside Trump world

as the Stormy Daniel story broke

and describing how Trump feared allegations

of sexual misconduct would hurt us 2016 presidential

campaign. Hicks tearing up at one point as she faced cross-examination with her former

boss only a few feet away.

We'll take you inside the courtroom for all the key moments of the former President's

historic criminal trial.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Plitzer with a special report in the situation room, The Trump Trial today.

Let's get right to the breaking news on Hope Hicks testimony in the Trump-Hush Bunny trial, the new revelations, the

raw motion, and how it all may impact the jurors deciding the former president's

fate.

CNN's chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reed is outside the courthouse in

New York for us Paula.

So what prompted HoPix to get so emotional on the stand and what was the line of

questioning then? Well that was certainly the most dramatic moment that we've had in this trial so far.

Now shortly before she broke down on the stand, she answered some questions that could be

really critical to the prosecution's case. For example, she admitted that in fact

Trump had acknowledged the payment was made at one point and also that Cohen

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