Tonight on the readout.

Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen I can't say it publicly but I'm for you and I'm going to vote for you I'm a Republican but screw it I can't vote for this guy because he's talking about ending the democracy

Well, they're not saying they're going to vote for me and they're saying I agree with you

They do you say to them you coward. Why don coward, why don't you say something public, like where's

Jeff Bush, where's George Bush, where are these guys? Why, why, why don't they say,

hey, I'm interested in saving the democracy for our grandchildren?

Well, I don't think the election is over yet on that score.

If you notice traffic was especially snarled in New York City today.

Asked and answered, that was President Biden

in midtown Manhattan today to be interviewed

by radio legend Howard Stern,

while former President Donald Trump was in lower Manhattan back in a courthouse

for his criminal trial. And that is where we begin tonight at the end of the first week for a 12-member jury

impaneled in the first ever criminal trial of a former US President,

Donald Trump.

Today was the final day for the prosecution's first witness,

the former publisher of the National Inquirer, David Becker.

Trump's lawyers continued their cross-examination

focusing on the theme that the

catch-and-kill agreement made between Peker, Trump, and Trump's former lawyer, Michael

Cohen, was just standard operating procedure for Peker and the National Inquirer.

They suggested Pekker's actions were based on business considerations,

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