If it's Monday, Michael Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, takes the stand in Donald

Trump's hush money trial telling jurors that the former president directed him to

make those payments to protect his

presidential campaign. Plus US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin delivers one of

his sharpest rebukes yet of Israel's conduct in Gaza.

Warming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

that his strategy in Gaza is unsustainable,

that Hamas has begun to reform,

and that anarchy and chaos could soon follow.

And jury selection is now underway in Senator Bob Menendez's corruption and bribery trial,

as the New Jersey Democrat faces more than a dozen federal charges for allegedly trading official acts in the Senate for

gold bars and piles of cash. Hello there. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Ryan Nobles, where we are tracking developments out of Donald

Trump's criminal hush money trial as his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is on the stand

as we speak in New York as the prosecution star witness.

It is hard to overstate how important a witness Michael Cohen is in this case, as the prosecution

seeks to prove that Donald Trump knowingly falsified business records about the hush money payments to an adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to protect his presidential campaign.

Cohen testified in great deal about the concerns from Trump that Stormy Daniel's story

could hurt his presidential campaign in the wake of the Access Hollywood tape

and that Trump told Cohen to make the payments to Daniels.

Prosecutors also tried to establish that Trump was intimately aware of what Cohen was doing and why,

because it came after they worked together on a similar catch-in-kill scheme

to keep Karen McDougal's story from damaging his campaign. Now Cohen testified

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