Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amma Navas on the news hour tonight.

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen returns to the witness stand in the former president's

hush money trial. The United Nations top humanitarian official

looks at current crises and looks back on a career

helping manage global calamities.

The promises that the world's leaders made these recent decades.

These promises are left at the entrance. And a three-year-old with a rare

medical disorder stuck in Gaza and the American families working to

evacuate her for treatment. Welcome to the news hour. Former President Donald Trump's one-time lawyer Michael

Cohen spent his third day on the stand today in a Manhattan courthouse.

Cohen is now the key witness in the case against his former boss and he again faced hours

of scrutiny over the many lies and misstatements that he's made.

William Bringham was again in court today and joins us now.

So William, Mr. Trump's legal team, had Michael Cohen on the stand

the entire day.

What were they trying to accomplish with their time with him?

Trump's lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, in a somewhat circuitous and occasionally zigzagging line of

questions,

tried to keep up the attack that they started earlier this week,

which is to elicit testimony that proves their point

that Michael Cohen cannot be trusted

that he is a fundamentally untruthful, dishonest, and unscrupulous

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