Good evening. I'm Amman Navas. Jeff Bennett is on assignment. On the news hour tonight.

Michael Cohen takes the stand in former President Trump's criminal hush money trial.

Israel marks a somber memorial day as 300,000 Gazans flee the fighting in Raffa.

And we report from Michigan on how Democrats plan to keep abortion rights front and center in the

2024 election campaign.

We're not going to let it just be a state issue.

We're actually going to organize and mobilize to do the thing we didn't do for 50 years,

which has passed a piece of federal legislation to codify well. Welcome to the news hour. On the stand today for the fourth week of

testimony and Donald Trump's hush money trial was the prosecution's star

witness Michael Cohen.

Trump's former attorney and fixer implicated Trump,

testifying that Trump directed Cohen to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels

to bury her story on the eve of the 2016 election and was then involved in

the cover-up of those payments after he won. William Bringham was in court

today in New York and he joins us now. So William, fair to say Mr Cohen is arguably the most

important witness for the Manhattan District Attorney in this case. This is the man

allegedly at the center of those hush money payments and reimbursements what did he testify to today?

That's exactly right on the prosecutors needed Michael Cohen to do basically two things today.

First, as you were describing,

establish that Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen

to pay Storm McDaniels to be quiet

so that she wouldn't spill her story and hurt Trump's chances to win the 2016 election.

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