Monday, May 13, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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Monday briefing: Michael Cohen testimony at Trump’s trial; Bob Menendez; Richard Slayman; northern lights photos; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump's New York criminal trial kicks off its fifth week today with a key witness. |
| 0:08.0 | That's where we're starting the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Monday, May 13th. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:17.0 | Number one. |
| 0:23.0 | Michael Cohen is expected to testify in Donald Trump's trial today. |
| 0:28.0 | Cohen is Trump's former attorney and fixer. |
| 0:32.0 | He arranged a hush money payment to the adult film actress |
| 0:34.9 | Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Cohen is one of the most |
| 0:39.2 | hotly anticipated witnesses in this trial. Prosecutors need him to show that Trump was directly involved in falsifying business records to keep the payment to Daniels a secret. |
| 0:50.0 | And the questioning could get heated. |
| 0:52.0 | Cohen has pleaded guilty to making false statements. And the questioning could get heated. |
| 0:56.1 | Cohen has pleaded guilty to making false statements in a separate case. |
| 1:01.6 | So Trump's attorneys will want to convince the jury that Cohen is a liar seeking revenge on his former boss. |
| 1:03.6 | Meanwhile, Cohen has been talking about the trial in slightly weird live streams on Tik-Tock. |
| 1:09.6 | Here he is earlier this month, making his feelings about Trump quite clear. |
| 1:14.0 | And as I say in the last line in my book, |
| 1:18.8 | Trumpism is fascism, and we must eradicate it |
| 1:21.9 | from our body politic. |
| 1:24.0 | You can follow live coverage of the trial on our home page from around 830 eastern this morning. |
| 1:30.0 | Number two. People are fleeing fierce fighting in the north and the south of the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:39.3 | The Palestinian militant group Hamas has regrouped in parts of North Gaza. That's where |
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