Donald Trump is just perhaps one social post away from potential jail time as

his trial enters a very critical week. Welcome to a special edition of Laura Coates

live.

Hours from now, Donald Trump will enter day 13 of his criminal trial.

And the big question everyone's asking tonight,

are we going to hear from Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen? And if so, when are they going to take the stand?

Now according to prosecutors, we are now halfway through their case in chief.

I made that sound far more exciting perhaps to you but we just have about two more

weeks left and yes it'll be a very key moment and by key moment I mean messy to have

Daniels an adult film star testify about an alleged sex scandal that prosecutors say she was

paid to keep quiet so that it wouldn't hurt Trump's 2016 campaign.

But forgive the broken record that I'm about to sound like, but that's not what the heart of the case is really about, okay?

It's not a trial to prove whether he had an affair or a sexual encounter.

The case is about the falsification of business records to cover up the

crime of potentially trying to shield the transparency for campaign finance reasons. That's why, if anything, you could argue that today's testimony actually featured a real star witness.

In fact, two of them, or maybe 34 potentially of them, the physical paper evidence. Now, whether the paper will be

enough to convict, that's a matter for the jury. But it was introduced by way of

two different witnesses. One was Jeffrey McConney, a former Trump organization controller.

The other person, Deborah Tarasoff, an account payable supervisor at the Trump organization.

By the way, she still works there.

Now, if you're thinking you're so, how are these people going to be as exciting as Michael Cohen's

Formed Daniels? It's a paper and documents case and I want to focus on two key

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