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🗓️ 14 May 2024
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm on the Navas. Jeff Bennett is on assignment. On the news hour tonight. |
0:09.0 | The prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, is grilled by the defense and former President Trump's |
0:14.8 | hush money trial. President Biden raises tariffs on Chinese imports to |
0:20.2 | protect strategic US industries and ignoring massive protests, Georgia's |
0:26.1 | Parliament and acts a law that opponents say sets back democracy. |
0:30.3 | The consequences of this law will be very bad for Georgia for the civil society of Georgia, |
0:38.0 | for the opposition of the Georgia. Welcome to the News Hour. The key witness in the Manhattan criminal trial |
0:56.8 | against former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, continued his |
1:00.8 | testimony today. Further detailing the alleged scheme to hide the payment |
1:05.4 | that Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to protect candidate Trump back in 2016. |
1:12.2 | But during cross-examination, Trump's legal team painted |
1:15.6 | Cohen as a man motivated by greed, determined to convict Trump no matter what. |
1:20.2 | William Bringham was in court again today and joins us now from downtown Manhattan. |
1:25.5 | So William, Mr Cohen, is arguably the most critical witness for the prosecution here. |
1:30.6 | This was his second day on the stand. What did he add in his testimony? |
1:34.3 | As you mentioned, I'm not Cohen continued his testimony that is central to the |
1:40.7 | charges here, which is that Trump and others cocked up this scheme |
1:46.0 | to falsify business records to hide the fact that they had paid Stormy Daniels to stay quiet during |
1:52.4 | the campaign. |
1:53.7 | And that Cohen repeatedly said today he made those payments specifically to help Donald |
1:59.5 | Trump's campaign and that Donald Trump had urged him to do so. |
2:03.8 | And today Cohen reiterated some of the details of that. |
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