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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Trump trial day 15 testimony focuses on payments, phone records and social media posts

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: NBC News reports Michael Cohen will testify in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Monday. Also, Trump’s agenda for a second term threatens democracy. Plus, a State Department report finds Israel likely violated international law in Gaza. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene fails to remove Speaker Johnson. Adam Klasfeld, Katie Phang, Timothy Snyder, Nick Kristof, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

The third week of testimony in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial has come to a close,

0:06.0

setting the stage for what could possibly be the end of the prosecution's case next week.

0:11.0

But not before another high-profile witness, former Trump

0:14.5

fixer Michael Cohen. This week we saw dramatic witness testimony from the

0:19.2

adult film star Stormy Daniels, who would not be intimidated by Donald Trump's lawyers out of telling

0:25.0

her account of the alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump and the subsequent scheme to buy

0:29.8

her silence.

0:31.6

Today's courtroom testimony did not include any star witnesses, but it was important

0:36.3

in setting the stage for next week.

0:39.4

NBC News reports that the Trump lawyer turned enemy, Michael Cohen Cohen will take the witness stand on Monday.

0:45.0

Cohen was the fixer of the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels

0:51.0

before the presidential election of 2016.

0:54.4

Now we began the trial today and continued testimony from Madeline Westerhout,

0:59.2

Trump's former director of Oval Office operations. Madeline remains loyal to Trump despite being fired in 2019 after she reportedly told

1:08.0

reporters that she didn't want to be photographed with Trump's daughter Tiffany because of her weight and she used her

1:14.6

testimony to paint Donald Trump as a really hard-working family man a picture

1:20.7

that was unrecognizable to pretty much anyone else who's ever heard of Donald Trump.

1:26.0

Donald Trump's lawyer, Susan Necklace, sought to establish that Trump's concern about the Stormy Daniel story had to do with his family, but it backfired.

1:35.4

Westerhout agreed that Trump was concerned that the story would upset his family, but she

1:39.3

also said he never actually told her that.

1:42.1

I don't believe he specifically said that,

1:43.8

but I could just tell that the whole situation

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