Welcome to the news hour. The key witness in the Manhattan criminal trial against

former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, continued his testimony today.

Further detailing the alleged scheme to hide the payment that Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to protect candidate Trump back in 2016.

But during cross-examination, Trump's legal team painted Cohen as a man motivated by greed,

determined to convict Trump no matter what.

William Bringham was in court again today and joins us now from downtown Manhattan.

So William, Mr Cohen is arguably the most critical witness

for the prosecution here.

This was his second day on the stand.

What did he add in his testimony?

As you mentioned, I'm the Cohen continued his testimony that is central to the charges

here, which is that Trump and others cocked up this scheme to falsify business records to hide

the fact that they had paid Stormy Daniels to stay quiet during the campaign and

that Cohen repeatedly said today he made those

payments specifically to help Donald Trump's campaign and that Donald Trump had

urged him to do so and today Cohen reiterated some of the details of that. He was shown

invoices that he sent to the Trump organization asking to be paid for what he called a legal retainer and said that these were for legal services

which he acknowledged that he never provided any legal services during this period of time. He was shown each of those invoices. He was

shown each of the checks by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger. Each of them, many of

them signed by Donald Trump himself. Each of the check stubs on those checks said that this was

for a legal retainer.

Again, this is the central allegation here that these payments were not for legal work and that all of these records were knowingly

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