Trump judge wants Michael Cohen to stop talking until he testifies

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

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Former lawyer Michael Cohen is set to testify Monday in former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, but until he actually takes the stand, the judge wants him to stop talking.

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0:08.0	Good morning, I'm Sarah Gannum filling in for Taylor Wilson. Today is Saturday, May 11th,
0:17.0	2024 and this is the excerpt.
0:22.5	Today, Michael Cohen will be the next big witness in Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, but the judge
0:28.8	wants him to stop talking until he actually takes the stand.
0:33.0	Plus, a Biden administration report says U.S. made weapons may have resulted in higher civilian
0:39.3	casualties in Gaza.
0:42.2	And a Virginia school district may be the first in the nation to restore
0:46.2	Confederate names to schools, a move that some fear other districts could follow. But first, after pretty salacious testimony earlier this week, day number 15 of the Trump trial in New York, it ended kind of quietly.
1:02.0	On Friday, jurors were shown a series of
1:05.2	text messages from 2016 between Stormy Daniels former manager Gina Rodriguez
1:11.1	an ex-editor of the National Inquirer, Dylan Howard.
1:15.3	The messages included Rodriguez telling Howard that Daniels was Trump's mistress.
1:20.5	And earlier in the day, Judge Juan Mershaun ruled in favor of the defense, barring the prosecution
1:27.0	from showing jurors a video from 1999 showing Trump bragging about his knowledge about campaign finance laws, prosecutors
1:36.4	wanted to use the video to demonstrate that Trump knew Cohen's hush money payment was an illegal
1:42.2	contribution to his 2016 campaign.
1:45.2	But Judge Mershaughn agreed with Trump's lawyer that the video was too old.
1:50.2	But the biggest news of the day was actually about testimony that is set to come on Monday
1:54.9	when Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to take the stand.
1:59.2	Going into the weekend, Judge Marshan asked prosecutors to tell Cohen to stop talking publicly
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