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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies about tough times in 2016 campaign

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, May 3, and reports on the historical impact of Donald Trump's criminal trial and Hope Hicks' testimony. Douglas Brinkley, Yodit Tewolde, Andrew Weismann and Melissa Murray join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to our special New York versus Donald Trump. I'm Ari Melbourne

0:17.2

we have breakdowns on this entire riveting week of testimony including Friday's

0:21.2

emotional moments for a longtime time Trump aide, Hope Hicks, on the stand.

0:26.2

This is one of those weeks that really showed how prosecutors are proving up this case, putting

0:29.9

forward Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal's lawyer, Keith Davidson earlier in the week,

0:34.2

all to confirm a very damning story that we've heard will come from Michael Cohen, but they've

0:39.5

done it this way to confirm it for the jury before they ever hear from Cohen. And then

0:44.6

corroborating all that with what we've told you about, the receipts, the

0:48.8

checks, the contracts, and then ending this week with a rare view inside Donald Trump's uppermost

0:57.0

senior aides and brain trusts. Long time Trump made Hope Hicks taking the stand

1:01.6

Friday and bringing jurors and the rest of us

1:04.2

into these secret meetings and discussions as the Access Hollywood tape broke

1:08.6

as Trump and AIDS assessed its damage.

1:13.0

Ho Pix, you see there with Donald Trump, that is a coveted post in any campaign and

1:18.7

especially in his, someone who is up on the stage and in his ear and on the plane and that is the role she had so this

1:24.8

was important testimony including the deals to silence these women.

1:30.3

It matters because this is reliable testimony from a long time Trump loyalist.

1:35.2

So that's hard for the jury to just ignore.

1:37.8

It is also from a person as a witness who has clearly decided to cooperate with these kind of

1:45.8

probes to testify under oath that that's the better course better course for

1:49.9

Miss Hicks. I want to mention that she did that today,

1:53.9

but we had some contacts leading up to Friday's testimony

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