Summer is for going to the movie theater because it's too hot to stay home.

It's for driving with the windows down, listening to your favorite music.

It's for stretching out while you're on vacation to gobble up a TV show.

For a guide to some of the TV movies and music we are most excited

about this summer, listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast from NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Givone.

Some nations are underway and former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York.

Trump Defense Attorney Todd Blanch called Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen the

greatest liar of all time. Prosecutors argued there's a mountain of

corroborating evidence and PR's Andrea Bernstein reports.

Blanche played part of that tape that Cohen recorded of Trump in which they're

apparently discussing hash money, cash checks, things like that.

Prosecutor is actually later called it jaw dropping.

At one point you can hear Trump say 150,

which is the amount that was paid to former Playboy model

Karen McDougal for her to keep her story quiet.

So I'm glad to told the jury to listen to decide for themselves if

Trump actually said 150, but what he did was call attention to it. And Blanch

said, Cohen is the embodiment of reasonable doubt he lied to you repeatedly like many

times before you even met him he is biased and motivated to tell you a story that's not true

and PR's Andrea Bernstein the man convicted of plotting to kidnap former speaker

of the house, Nancy Pelosi, from her San Francisco home, was re-sentence for the crime today.

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