Outfront next, breaking news.

New reporting just into Outfront about the Trump team's strategy in court tomorrow.

In what is the most important day of the entire hush money trial, we now know what team Trump

plans to zero in on with Michael Cohen.

Plus more breaking news this hour, a brazen assassination attempt, a world leader,

close Putin ally shot five times in broad daylight, still in the hospital as I speak. We'll tell

you what we know. And Nikki Haley doing it again, primary after primary, double-digit support,

even though she dropped out of the race months ago.

So where are these supporters going to go? Let's go out front.

And good evening, I'm Erin Burnett, and we begin out front tonight with the breaking news.

The Trump is too cheap defense. So Paula Reid has this incredible new reporting tonight about

Team Trump's strategy heading into what they say will be the most important day of Trump's criminal trial.

So in just hours, Michael Cohen's going to return to the stand. And CNN is learning that Trump's lead attorney, Todd Blanche, right, who's doing the cross, plans to zero in on just how cheap Trump is.

Using that cheapness to say that Trump would never have agreed to, quote, gross up the Stormy Daniels hush money payment to Michael Cohen. And this is what goes right to the heart of the entire criminal case, which is the alleged fraud of business documents.

Remember, not illegal to pay the hush money payment.

It is how and when the payment happened that matters.

Trump's basically going to say he was way too cheap

to gross up that $130,000 payment.

Now, this would be a very clear shift from what we saw on Tuesday.

Blanche and Cohen went back and forth,

talking about Cohen's

profanity-laden posts about Trump, how much money Cohen made from his books and podcasts and anti-Trump

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