Good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the Trump New York

Hushmoni trial. I was privileged to watch some of day 11 inside the

courtroom today. It was fascinating to see up close.

Hope Hicks, once a top advisor or former president, testifying for the prosecution,

recounting first the access Hollywood tape coming out then the Stormy Daniels and

Karen McDougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially

damaging account of what the former president said in retrospect when the

Daniels story finally broke in 2018,

then moments later, Hope Hicks started crying.

Hicks, in that final answer, saying, quote,

it was Mr. Trump's opinion that it was better

to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out

before the election, which could bolster the prosecution case that the

former president was motivated by campaign and not necessarily family concerns

and suppressing both that and the

Karen McDougal stories before the 2016 election.

Under cross-examination though she did paint her old boss as a family man who was

concerned about the impact on his wife.

Her testimony and Michael Cohen also provided fodder for both sides, frankly, painting him

as someone who would sometimes, in her words, go rogue, but also casting doubt on the defense theory that Cohen paid off

Stormy Daniels on his own initiative. In general the picture she painted was a hands

on Donald Trump deeply involved in the details of his business and his campaign motivated largely

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