On the stand today and Donald Trump's hush money trial was Los Angeles lawyer Keith Davidson.

He negotiated both the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal hush money agreements at the center of the case against the former president.

William Bringham was in court today and joins us now to break down the latest developments.

So William, this was the continuation of Mr Davidson's testimony about how he actually negotiated these payments.

What else did we learn in court today?

That's right Jeff.

Prosecutors teased out more information about this negotiation that he had to get his then clients,

Stormy Daniels, as you mentioned, to be paid $130,000 so that she wouldn't go public

with this story of an alleged relationship she had

with Trump right before the 2016 election. And at one point during his

testimony, Davidson acknowledged that he knew that this payment to Daniels and the other

one to the playboy playmate Karen McDougal were intended to somehow help Donald

Trump's campaign and this is central because prosecutors here want the jury

to see these payments as election interference and then Davidson later in his

testimony told a story about how after the election he got this hour long phone call from Michael Cohen who he described as being despairing and despondent because he hadn't been given a job in the fledgling Trump administration.

He actually, Davidson said he worried that Cohen might actually try to kill himself.

And in that conversation Cohen also mentioned that he was really upset because Trump had still not

repaid him the $130,000 that Cohen used of his own money to pay Daniels.

Again, this is Central too because it is that eventual repayment and how those

repayments were accounted for that are the center of the 34 allegations of

falsifying business records that Trump stands accused of.

So how did Mr. Trump's attorneys try to undermine Keith Davidson's testimony when they

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