Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress at the center of the criminal

hush money trial against former President Donald Trump, took the stand in

New York City today. William Bringham has more on the volatile day in court.

That's right, Amna.

In sometimes graphic detail, Stormy Daniels described the one sexual encounter

she alleges she had with Trump, and the six-figure payment she received from Trump's lawyer

to buy her silence before the 2016 election.

Trump denies any sexual relationship with her.

Daniels was forcefully cross-examined by Trump's legal team

who questioned her financial motives

and her shifting stories about her encounter

with the former president.

Andrea Bernstein is covering the trial for NPR and she joins us again now.

Andrea, what did we learn from Stormy Daniels today?

So it was quite a scene because this is a trial where we've heard now testimony from David

Pekker, the former publisher of the National Inquirer from Stormy Daniels lawyer, Keith

Davidson, about this deal that they set up and obviously the defendant is male.

We've heard about Michael Cohen. Here was the woman at the

center of it all coming forward for the first time in the courtroom to tell her

story of this encounter with President Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006 and she as

you said it was quite graphic but she walked the jury through what happened

Trump invited her up to his suite. They were

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