asked and i'm quoting now, am i correct that you hate president trump daniels responded, quote, es trump's lawyer followed up by asking,& you want it to go to jail. daniels responded and i'm quoting i want them to be held accountable. it's been a very dramatic day of testimony. i'll be back in two hours, 6:00 p.m. eastern in this room cnn special coverage of this trial continues right now. >> on the lead with jayyab cnn news, and welcome to lead. >> i'm jake tapper. it has been the most i'm telling day so far in donald trump's criminal hush money cover up trial, because for the very first time today, we heard testimony from stormy daniels, who's alleged sexual encounter with mr. trump is at the very heart of this case. remember the rendezvous itself was not a crime, not in nevada. >> a nor would be any alleged hush money payments tough to

stormy daniels. the crime according to the new york district attorney is the falsifying a business records that were used to conceal the payments to keep stormy daniels from telling her story publicly in the days leading up to the 2016 election election but today's fermi daniel's told her story under oath explaining how she met trump at a golf tournament in lake tahoe. then got a dinner invite where the meeting location turned out to be tom's hotel room. mr. trump allegedly greeted her at the door and sat and pyjamas and despair, you the details that you've revealed in court will just say one thing led to another another being the alleged sexual encounter, but the defense took major issue with much of the explicit content and moved for a miss trial. saying that all those details that she had been told that the prosecution ands permitting have been cautioned not not to tell had nothing to do with the case itself. and the defense attorney said that her testimony he had gone over the guardrails that the court had said, judge, one, we're

sean has denied the motion for mistrial. stormy daniels right now is being questioned by trump's attorneys. let's get straight to cnn's kaitlan collins. kaitlan, you were inside the courtroom all morning. what were those moments like in the room is stormy daniels testified, especially about some of the details that the jong-shinn caution the prosecution from steering away to disk, you're away from i mean, it was uncomfortable, jake and certainly intense and that was what it was just the prosecution questioning stormy daniels that was before the cross-examination started. that's happening right now, but it was kinda this moment in the courtroom where there was actually another witness who testified before stormy daniels got on the stand talking about trump's books and quote from him so my frugal he was and how involved he was in his business. no one even remember. is that because of course everyone at that point understood the stormy daniels was going to be the next witness on the stand and she tests justified that she had not seen donald trump's since 2007. so it's been 17 years and now here they are coming

face-to-face inside this courtroom as she walked behind him fence table and took the stand and then about ten or 15 minutes into her testimony, the prosecutor asked her to stand up and identified donald trump, and she kinda had to lift up out of her chair. she pointed to him, noted that he was wearing this navy blue jacket, but jake, i mean, it was just remarkable to see how trump was reacting as stormy daniels was testifying. and as you noted, going into those explicit details about how they met, he was kind of grimacing at points when she talked about what he said about melania trump. the only time she was brought up that he noted to her that she said they did not even sleep in the same bedroom. he had a scowl on his face for most of the time, but he was paying attention j there was a period for a sustained amount of time where he was closing his eyes like we've seen in other instances, as this travel has been going on, he was paying very close attention. it one point that seemed to be allen denials when she was telling stories about that night they met, but but certainly paying attention jake and right now in

court, trump attorney susan a. >> niclas is suggesting to stormy daniels that her story that she told under oath earlier today about a man threatening her, necklace, the trump attorney is suggesting that the man never existed. stormy daniels said, yes, absolutely, he existed niclas said is the story made up stormy daniel said none of it is made up in the court is taking a brief afternoon break. i wonder kaitlan, if you could describe stormy daniels demean your demeanor. do you think she came across as credible from the excerpts we were given from inside the courtroom sounded like she tried to make some jokes, even x-ray to jokes at least once and they didn't seem to go over particularly well with the jury. >> how did she seem yeah, that seemed to kind of be a defense tactic from her. just essentially talking about her line of work and what she does and obviously it's not like an accountant or a publisher sure.

getting up there and talk to you about manuscripts that they review. and that was the witness went before her is i think that was why she was making those jokes talking about her business, talking about certain competitions, that there are miss newton, north america was one of the ones she brought up and she was very personable and casual in conversational. and i think that is why she was kinda i'm making some of those jokes, but jake, she was speaking very quickly. she seemed nervous when she initially got on the stand. there were at least four instances that i counted where the prosecution they had to ask her to slow down because the court reporters couldn't keep up with how quickly she was telling her stories. and then there were two instances where the judge actually intervened and asked her just to directly answer the question that she was being asked not to meander or to give details about what the tile looks like in the of where she said she met donald trump, but that lake tahoe casino and so there were points where it seemed uncomfortable for her to talk about what it

was like and it was just so intense in the room. i think that's why i really known as laughing at her jokes. i think there is a real question of how the jury perceived her and how they believed her. the one thing jake, though, that i do think will be hard for donald trump to do going forward is to deny having any kind of encounter with stormy daniels, which is, you know, to this day he is done because she did have such intense amount of detail of what he was asking her about her putting him on speakerphone about the people that she went with when she went to meet up with him at later occasions. i mean, it was an incredible amount of detail from stormy daniels for donald trump, who was sitting there listening to this after he's denied ever even knowing her yeah. >> and it seemed as though judge merchan, who again, the court started today before they brought in the jury and judge merchan pretty clear that he thought that all that stormy daniels in terms of the encounter itself, all that she needed to say was that there had been a sexual encounter that they had had sex and anything after that beyond

that, he didn't think was needed and yet, the prosecutors and the witness and did not go along with that. and obviously causing the defense to move for a mistrial, which was denied, but who knows what will happen on appeal, assuming mr. trump is found guilty, which is far from a forgone conclusion it does it did seem as though judge merchan was frustrated with the prosecutors. tell us about that it was noticeable. >> jake, i mean, i took a moment and you haven't binoculars when you're in the room because you want to be able to really see their expression to know what you're reporting out. >> the given there are no cameras and truly there to be cameras because it would make such a difference if everyone could experience what, what a few of us have gotten, the privilege of experiencing in that room. he was noticeably uncomfortable as she was going into some of the details. really, it was stormy daniels is prerogative here though. i mean, the prosecution was asking her pretty open-ended questions. >> tell us about that interaction with trump or explain what the two of you

talked about there and she would take those opportunities too. >> go into intense detail. i mean it it it was incredibly detailed i'll i'll say that jake and so there was a question where the judge was there was intense its moment a few moments where they were asking her if she was going into this really uncomfortable detail. you could see trump in his attorneys talking he was passing notes to them. finally, susan niclas, his attorneys started objecting repeatedly and instead of doing what he has been doing throughout, a lot of this trial where the judges rejected their objections. he was sustaining them. he was going along with them and he took a moment to say something to them and to ask after the brief morning break to ask the prosecution to make sure that they were keeping her to answer just directly. what is at the heart of this case clearly did not want it going out. and then of course that is what trump's team was complaining about jake when they got back in the room seen as paul read has been watching all of this and reading all of these updates with us and paula, if i was describing the intensity in

there, this morning, i mean, this cross-examination took on a whole other level just now. yeah. and remember at the start of the de the trump team was outraged that they had so little notice about who the witness would be. and so little time to prepare their cross-examination will clearly kaitlan are doing just fine. this is a devastating cross-examination. they've gotten stormy daniels to concede she hates trump. that she said that she would dance if he went to jail. they have pointed to the fact that she has said she will never hey, him hundreds of thousands of dollars that she owes him. they've effectively undercut her credibility by getting her to talk about conversation she had that at pitching her with her own book. i mean, this has been devastating for storage we daniel's credibility now, big picture. what does that mean for the case as a whole? yeah. well, maybe not much because she doesn't have any direct evidence. the falsifying business records what she couldn't explain today is what exactly trump was trying to hide between the access hollywood tape and election day in 2016. this illicit sexual

encounter with a porn star back over a decade prior she was able to explain to the jury that and how she got paid. but i think what we should really take away from today is this is a preview so what michael cohen can look forward to this kind of sort of devastating eviscerate and cross. >> also the idea that they didn't know or that they were caught off guard by stormy daniels being a witness. i mean, the hush money payment was made to stormy daniels, so i think that's also i was confused by now because every trump did post about its morning. he deleted at minutes later, i saw todd blanche has attorney huddling with the prosecutor, right when they got the ct this morning, it's unclear if that's what they were discussing, but i mean, walking out of this, they obviously didn't think they were we're gonna get a miss trial, but this cross-examination may continue on through this thursday when they're back in session. yeah. the only have about maybe 20 minutes when they come back from this break as easily could go through till tomorrow mara, they're making effective use of social media, something that we're likely going to see with michael cohen. everything you have said, everything, you have tweeted can and will be used against you once you get on the

witness stand as you can see, chose donaldson right now walking back in. he's got multiple attorneys with him, todd blanch or it's epstein who was indicted in arizona recently, alito hubba, there eric trump, a meal beauvais, and several of his political aids and other legal staffers who were there with assault part paulo, sorry, can to do no. what we were just saying? >> though, is that look, i think the biggest test for trump going forward for the next slide, 45 minutes, is what he's gonna do when he comes out because that's usually when he unloads on his frustrations for the day. i think the most significant legal threat that she poses to trump right now as and he's gonna go off the rails because he's frustrated and violate the gag order. and the judge might have to make good on his threat to send them in jail. >> i think if he can keep we've put together for the next steudtner 48 hours, however long stormy daniels is on the stand, that would really be an accomplishment because this is a test room. >> yeah, it's certainly as jake, i should also note, what are the aids that was there with him. i noticed using the courtroom this morning her name is natalie harb. she's former one american news host. she is the aide who travels around

with them and basically helps for out all of the articles that you wants to read. the coverage. and he's getting including in real times during these breaks, we're told yeah. >> it's off to print articles. kaitlan and paula stay with me because i want to bring in our panel and talk more about what's going on. let me start with you, tom dupree, cross examination has been tense very tense, and not just with the defense attorneys and mr. trump also between the lawyer that i mean the prosecuting attorneys prosecuting lawyers, and the judge. but right now, the defense has been pointing out the fact that stormy daniels has refused to pay legal fees. she owes donald trump he sued her right for defamation, something like that and at what point the defense attorney says to daniels, let's bring this quote up. you hate donald trump. >> stormy daniels says yes, the attorney says you want him to go to jail. stormy daniels says, i want him to be held accountable the defense

attorney, you want him to go to jail. stormy daniels says, if he's found guilty? >> yes how might that play with the jury here you have one of the star witnesses, although she's not she knows nothing about the actual crime per say, but michael cohen and stormy daniels, both of them by their own admission low with the defendant load. right. and look, this is a classic cross-examination technique. you go after the witness for their bias, their prejudice against the defendant. the idea being that if you can show she harbors massive personal resentment against donald trump, which she clearly does. that potentially would undermine her overall credibility in the eyes of the jury? great. that she's not calling it as she sees it, that she has a bias, that she has an agenda here, that she's trying to accomplish. i will say this. i thought the way the prosecution handled her direct examination this morning in my judgment, it went too far. i think the prosecutors made a mistake in diving into the details. the salacious details, they turn the proceedings this morning into kind of a not safe for work but then they didn't need to. this is a case about

alleged fraudulent business recording about how they characterize these payments, what she testified today has no relevance to any of that. and i think the jury very well could say this is going a little too far. did we really need to hear all of this? what is the prosecution thinking and putting all of this? stuff in before the jury. so i think they're paying a bit of a price for it on cross-examinati on this afternoon for going that far inside the courtroom, stormy daniels has returned to the stand after a brief afternoon break, and we will bring you those remarks as they as they happen. oncogene called khardori do you agree with tom, do you think that the prosecution pushed its like a little when it came to the explicitness of the information they solicited from stormy daniels. >> so well, look, it looks like they annoyed the judge a little bit, particularly with some of the details look, there appear to have been some suggestions at parts of this. >> we're not consensual that stormy daniels, dan repudiated immediately and that seems have annoyed the judges so she said she was blacked out. that sort of thing. and that seems annoyed him because that's a very that's a very

electrifying allegation, doesn't seem to be one. she's willing to stand behind. it should not have come out i will say her testimony about the relationship. it is relevant. it became relevant when trump denied that the conrad occurred and it became wwe relevant when his lawyers opened on that, when they said that this never occurred. so yes, the government now is to call someone. and one of the ways you shot up someone's credibility about a story that they say that they were engaging is you ask them about the details? or was it what do you remember what happened? i mean, that's trump. did this trump did this term self. so before the jury entered trump's attorney confirmed that cross-examination of stormy daniels are going to continue into thursday. >> not a surprise. it's four p.m. eastern right now. there's roughly 15 minutes left to testimony, and obviously, the defense attorney has a lot. the defense of the team has a lot more to talk about. jamie get-go when the defense moved for a mistrial they claimed that stormy daniels had changed her story from what she was saying in 2016 that's true. she did change her story. yes. well, i

think there may be some slight differences, but we sat and read the interview she gave to andrew sing cooper. >> it pretty much lines up. >> isn't that 2018? the interview with anderson cooper so i may not be the know, but i'm i'm i'm saying what's the point is that like she initially had denied hi, everyone. >> i'm sorry. yeah. i understand she initially, she said she said absolutely. >> jeh her story because she she had signed this nda and she explains why she changed her story because she was sticking to the nda. all right. the jury has returned to the courtroom. >> we're going to stick we're going to come right back everyone. >> standby for just tuning in. trump's defense team is questioning adult film actress and director stormy daniels. you can see the updates there on the side of your screen. we're going to squeeze in a very quick break, stay with us how would really happen with jesse l. martin? >> sunday's at night on cnn

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ability to tell the truth given the financial stakes you are looking to extort money from from president trump. nicholas asks false daniel says raising her voice, this has to do with the fact that nicholas is questioning whether or not stormy daniels was actually threatened by someone who told her to keep her mouth shut. this is a story that stormy daniels told anderson cooper in 2018, i believe i also said on the stand under oath today, and i think is at the heart of when donald trump sued for defamation. there is no evidence that of anybody threatening her, which is not to say it didn't happen, just to say she did not report it to the police and there's no evidence of it. necklace returns back to the story from 2011 actually, asking whether she authorized keith davidson to have the story taken down. all i know is i wanted to down she said, i was much braver person in 2016 than i was in 2011. a lot of this back-and-forth about whether or

not she has been honest in her testimony before stormy daniels testified today, kristen homes the, prosecution spent some time introducing excerpts from two of donald trump's books, and they were trying to get the heart of donald trump's character. let's read some related to his business dealings. one, as i said before i always sign my checks. so i know where my money is going. i don't know if we're going to put up that. the graphic and, also pay attention to the small numbers in your finances such as percentages and cents numbers that seemed trivial. add up and have enormous implications. my parents hemorrhage, frugality into me at an early age and it's the most important money management skill a person can use. call it penny pinching if you want to, i call it financial smarts what are they getting at here? well, it's a continuum relation from what we saw yesterday, this idea that donald trump is obsessed with his finances, that he has his hand and everything that of course he would know. and this is obviously the link part which they're not making. but eventually that of course he would know if payments from his private personal account we're

going out and what they were going to because he is so obsessive and controlling when it comes to his business. now what we saw on the counter side of this yesterday was trying to paint a picture of the defense of a chaotic time as switchover in trump organization because donald trump had been elected president because they didn't know exactly how the new systems we're going to work. could donald trump had actually been in charge? we saw one of the records keepers they had yesterday today asking questions. do you actually know what happened once donald trump received the fedex of the check? she said, no, i just know that it got signed and sent back spoken to when it comes to donald trump, he is a control freak, not just about his finances, but about the messaging around them, but the narration around he believes he is his own best defender. >> yeah any xi1 necessarily wrong and sometimes he's he's

accurate. >> he would, he would not consider it to be an insulting these are control freak right now on the stand, something going on. very important. niclas is challenging stormy daniels asking if y was she was trying to sell her story, if she had been so afraid by this individual that supposedly threatened her necklace is implying that she wasn't really scared i was terrified. stormy daniels says, i just had to change my tactic because it was a new ball game because donald trump was now running for president the truth is, you saw that opportunity to make money. nechele assess susan alkalosis, trump's attorney. i saw the opportunity to get the story out. stormy daniels says, i didn't put a price tag on it. the jury is now i'm seeing some texts between daniels manager at the time, a woman named gina rodriguez, and dylan howard who was the editor in chief of the national enquirer. these are dated june 2016, and they're essentially trying to paint the defense. stormy daniels is somebody who would do anything to make money and including making up stories about donald

trump, including making up stories about somebody threatening her, right? >> there are two lines of attack here that the defense is deploying leyen of attack number one is the inconsistency in our story. her story absolutely has shifted over time and i think the defense is fairly effectively exploiting the changes in her story over time to undermine her overall credibility. the second point the defense is hitting hard today is this notion that she's doing this all for money that she had dollar signs in our eyes and it sounds like she's saying, well, the situation changed that in the past. he was just this kind of celebrity real estate developer. now he's a candidate for office. the first amendment balance shifted. i don't know if the jury will find slice if but that's the line of tapper, the trump team has gone. >> so right now these tax between stormy daniels manager at the time, gina rodriguez, and dylan howard, who was the editor in chief of the national enquirer. howard says, i thought she denounced it previously. rodriguez response. she said she will do it under two conditions. stormy. daniel says she doesn't know who dylan howard is. i don't know what this is in reference to.

she says, you want me to comment on something when i don't do the contexts and that's not fair but the argument being made is that dylan howard from the national enquirer is saying to gina rodriguez, stormy daniels manager at the time, you're selling what story you're trying to sell me. she already said twice it didn't happen. everyone standby. the sketch of the day we're going to bring you right now because there are no cameras in this form. i'm ridiculously this is from courtroom artist jane rosenberg. it's depicting donald trump looking on today as prosecutors questions. stormy daniels, you see the photograph there the other image behind trump's faces, trumps image. and then of course that stormy daniels, it depicts a photo you've seen before there it is. showing trump and daniels before. any whisper of hush money payment. i believe that photograph was taken before anything on toward may or may not have gone down. we're going to please enough short break. we'll be right back five good things listen wherever you get your podcasts when migraine strikes, you're faced with a choice, except the

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is sympathizer streaming exclusively on macs we're back with the breaking news, the jury has just adjourned for the de and donald trump's hush money cover up trial in manhattan. and what a day hd has been. stormy daniels took the stand for the very first time for a total of three hours and 44 minutes, we could hear from mr. trump at any moment as he leaves cord no doubt he has strong feelings about what transpired in court today. the cross-examination of stormy daniels were told we will continue on thursday cnn's kaitlan collins is outside the courthouse. frehse, caitlin stormy daniels was getting combative on the stand there and she was being cross-examined by the defense counsel about taxes between dylan howard, the editor and chief of the national enquirer in 2016, and her manager, stormy daniels, manager at the time, gina rodriguez yeah.

>> and dig obviously, we're watching donald talks about to walk through that door because i'm looking at his attorneys right now. and one thing that i think we have to watch for is what he says, because obviously he talks almost every day as he walks into court, sometimes going out. i mean it's an open i've been hearing from trump allies all day about whether or not he violates the gag order after for this, i mean, obviously he understands the provisions of it, but see right. we don't really see this, jake. he's issa time interrupting your right now. >> i apologize because i missed the tropez coming out and we're going to take it live let's listen to him this was a very big day a very revealing a, as you see, there cases totally falling apart they have nothing on the books and records and even something that should bear very little relationship to the case. just disaster for the idea to the source back to

disaster this whole cases just the disaster. >> if you read the legal scholars will see because they're writing about it, they've never seen anything quite like it and neither by i should be out campaigning right now we're leaving at all the poles. i'd like to be campaigning hey, would be leaving my lab four, but i just want to appreciate that. i appreciate the job you're doing your studies, you standing there all day waiting with your hearing the same things that we on another matter is, you know, it's fine who's backers that seemed to be funding the what's going on with the palestinians probably not pallor agitators. then agitate is really at about government ought to find out who they are, where they're from, and treat them the same way as they do the j6 hostages you've got to treat them the same way. these are educators. it really hurting dark country. it's

happening all over the country in cities so what happened last night at the metropolitan museum, these are agitators. and in some of the colleges, i think it's about 20% students. and 80% others. so this is a big problem, but they'd been intimate than the butt and it's a problem from the left, not from the right. this is a problem from the left and i hope you're going to stretch that the academy is not doing well to see inflation is through the roof. >> they're not gonna be able to lower interest rates if they do, it's clearly but it'll be very bad and they do from the standpoint of getting rid of inflation, you have to get rid of the inflation. inflation is you probably heard me say it's a country foster, it busts countries and it has 4,000 years. you go back and look at all time, germany, you look at a lot of countries that way that's one of the kind of inflation we're going through. and they're busted. they are just broke it broke it up in

many cases into little pieces. and that's what could actually we happen to us. so we have to get inflation under control. we have to get prices down so that people can breed, people can live so they can live but again, this was a very revealing de court any honest report would say that i would recommend you read john jonathan, charlie andrew mccarthy, alan nurture woods greg jarrod mark levin a very talented people and others and other system, incredible people out there that are writing about this trial. >> there and the it's a disgrace in the meantime, i'm stuck. i mean, here, instead of being in georgia, instead of being in new capture, instead of being in wisconsin and all the different states that we wanted to be. >> and we're not able to be there because we're stuck in this trial, whichever way this is a hoax. thank you very much

all right mr. trump responding to a rather not safe for work day in court where stormy daniels was testifying about her rendezvous with donald trump. >> let's bring in cnns daniel dale, who fact checks what we just heard from donald trump. he started off criticizing the case, what happened on the case? daniel, then he turned to protests on college campuses, then he turned to inflation then back to the case. what's what caught your notice there was a lot there. >> some of it with subjective opinion. i won't try to fact check, but a few things to fact check. one, he claimed again that he's leading in all the poles know he's slightly leading and national polling averages, but he's trailing in a good number of polls, especially those that have come out in the last week or so there are at least a few he refers frequently to manhattan

district attorney alvin bragg, the prosecutor behind this case, as a soros back district attorney. now i'd say there's some arguable basis for that, but i think it's important to clarify the facts. so mr. soros, who's a liberal billionaire philanthropists, also a frequent target of anti-semitic conspiracy theories, did not make any direct cost contributions to mr. brags election campaign. he also says he's never spoken once to mr. greg. what did happen was he donated to a liberal pack that then in turn donated to mr. brice campaign, as well as other reform minded prosecutors. so this is at best a one-step or move relationship. and lastly, jake, i think it's important mr. trump keeps invoking germany before world war ii is an example of what inflation can do to a country. well, we had march inflation in this country of 3.5%, certainly higher than it's been in recent years. but when we talk about pre-world war ii, germany in the 19, we're talking about 500, 700%. so there's certainly no real comparison between what we have now, what germany had been, all

right. >> danielle de thanks so much. let's go pop over to cnn's kaitlan collins outside the courtroom. kaitlan, what was your reaction to what we just heard from mr. trump? >> i think he was pleased, clearly with how his attorney did the attorney, susan nicholas, conducted the cross-examination. nehl, she's not done yet. we do expect that this will can you on thursday morning when court resumes, they are off tomorrow. jake, obviously, but but it susan niclas just to highlight, was the attorney sitting next to trump's shoes in the first chair. so a direct line of the witness, and she was the one that when the prosecution was quite daniel's trump kept tapping her arm and urging her to object on at least two occasions that i witnessed susan ecke then did stand up to object and that was in that really intense period of questioning. we're still we daniel's was going into incredible amounts of detail regarding her encounter with donald trump or alleged affair with donald trump, would she didn't he did not mention stormy daniels there and said

he just talked about the case and of itself and the basis of it really basically the same people that he quotes ever for single day. >> but i do think that says something of the demeanor that he had walking out a cork before they had started the cross-examination and then once they had started at jake. all right. kaitlan. thank you. get so much. we'll look for more of your reporting on the source this evening. that's tonight and every week night at nine eastern here on cnn. let's bring back our panel so one of the things i want to get to, and if we could prepare that clip with kimmel just to give you a heads up, i'm going to run it one of the issues at play here is stormy daniels denying that she had had a relationship with donald trump in 2018. she wrote a document and then later that month in january 2018, same month? she signed another document, the signature is did not look the same. do we have those if we have those, i'd like to bring them up, so let's bring up the earliest one. so that's january

10, 2018. i recently became aware of certain newsroom alleging i had a sexual and or romantic affair with donald trump many, many years ago, et cetera, et cetera. she's saying it's not true. rumors that i received hush money for donald trump are completely false et cetera, et cetera. so that's january 10th. look at that signature. vary a lot, a lot of style. they're almost as if she's signing the declaration of independence. all right. so then the official statement is stormy dangles on january 30. also denying it and it's a quite different signature and that, has been. a subject of curiosity for some time on that same day of january 30, 2018, a stormy daniel's went on. jimmy kimmel live. let's roll that clip your original statement. the signature on the original statement does not match the signature on this statement. did you sign this letter that was released today? >> i don't know. >> wait a minute. that you can say. like my signature does it doesn't look like your signature, so you're saying

perhaps this letter was written and released without your approval? do you know. where it came from? do you have any idea? i do not anywhere you did not know where it came from so she wasn't under oath. >> you're not put under oath when you go on him and me camel, but she was not telling the truth there and this came out in court today because obviously it is an odd story and strange situation and she said on the stand that she signed stormy daniels on that january 30th statement in a way she had never signed her name before as a tip off to jimmy kimmel none of this is enhancing her credibility, though. i would i would suggest jamie and this is the kind of thing that they are going after. her on over and over again. i just to go back one second donald trump, not one word about stormy daniels. when he came out of court today, notable, at least thus far, we

can count the seconds. he has not violated the gag order, but just they were very clear with her. and you said earlier they asked her, do you hate donald trump? she says, yes. but the prosecutors earlier did establish some key points about the encounter, corroborating phone calls, physical description of the room admitting she went through his toy really treat case things that jurors may really find credible. so are there cases where she didn't tell the truth yes. is she telling the truth now that she's under oath& on the stand, the jurors are going to have to weigh that so kristen homes, eric trump, donald trump's second son, is in court and he's not happy. he tweeted sitting front row, attempting to figure out how any of this garbage from 20 years ago relates to legal bills submitted by a longtime

personal attorney being booked as a good legal expense, but i digress to be clear, they don't give a hoop about the merits of this case. he called the entire cases salacious show and a massive extortion play. and that is what people in maga media are going to hear that message. >> and what we've started to see now i was told this is kind of the next movement, the turn of the wheel from trump advisers is that this is moving from just being them painting it as political to them painting it as political in the sense that they want to embarrass donald trump, that they've brought these specific witnesses that the judge allowed, which we know is not the case, but that the judge allowed the prosecution to go too far and there are a lot of people who believed that they went too far today in terms of those details. but that because of that because of the salacious nature of the details that they're going to push the narrative, that this is not only political, but it's an opportunity they're using this as an opportunity to paint donald trump to embarrass him in front, of the country those

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alleges that she had that sexual encounter with trump after a golf tournament lake tahoe. >> and during her testimony at various points, multiple times, trump was taking notes and pass him to his attorneys and often nudging one of his attorneys who then would object to some of the things that daniel's was testifying two and a number of these instances, the judge was agreeing with trump side because a lot of daniels answers were weighing into areas where she was suggesting that there was a different power dynamic or that trump was taller than her and there was a bodyguard outside of the room suggesting that maybe it wasn't as consensual she has previously said and the judge ruled in favor of trump's sayyed during that. now, when she was testifying daniels is demeanor initially when asked by a prosecutor was very friendly as a colleague noted, it was very gossipy the way that she was speaking to the jury, telling them what had happened and explaining everything. then after the lunch break he came back and that's when trump's lawyers asked for a mistrial because of those questions and daniels

answers that went into this suggestion that maybe this wasn't a consensual encounter, and the judge said he was denying it, but he said that trump's team had a point neat thought that it would have been better if some of the things were not said. so then when prosecutors begin and continuing to question daniels, again, they moved kind of rapid fire through this whole period after she signed the nda, the hush money deal with trump, the one hundred $30,000 payment and moves very quickly through those events finishing her direct examination, it was a completely different pace than it was in the morning morning. when her answers were very long and the prosecution had been giving her a lot of time to explain things. so this then was rapid-fire, but the jury during this whole period, they were taking a lot of nodes notice that one point, at least five of them writing down in a notebook, flipping the pages in their legal pads that they have to take notes so they were very actively engaged and daniels in her gossipy way was kind of making job's trying to be a little bit funny making a

little fun of herself and the jurors that i was looking at, the one at these some of these homans did not react at all should they kept a very straight face while she was saying some of these things that had generated some smiles and smirks from those in the courtroom then trump's team began their cross-examination, and susan niclas, there, his attorney at takes so much different tax. she is fairly aggressive. she asks a lot of rapid fire questions chins repeating some of these questions, asking, you lie, didn't she? you heat donald trump, don't you? you want to see him in jail, don't you? in this instant daniel's has demeanor changed quite a did she folded her arms, answered some of these questions a little bit more off kilter. she was forceful and pushing back on some others, but it was definitely a difference get demeanor for the jaroun to observe on cross-examination than when the prosecutors asked her questions, jake. >> all right. qarrah. now, thanks so much as donald trump's hush money to conspiracy trial unfolds. the jury will ultimately decide if he broke the law, but it's also playing out in the court of

public opinion this case, and voters are weighing their choices come november. frank leinz a long time a pollster who tracks the pulse of america. frank, how are voters responding to this trial well, if you're a joe biden supporter, you think donald trump is guilty. >> if you're joe by if you're donald trump supporter, you think this is all ridiculous. >> in the end? >> we are arguing for about 1 million voters in seven states and they're the only ones that matter. and the longer that the trial goes, the more than trumps able to demonstrate or at least accuse the trial of turning him into a victim and the more than trump weekends from those who are looking at this saying, why is it so chaotic jake, i believe that trump is weaker today. than he was two weeks ago. but in the end, i don't think that this trial, at least until a verdict is delivered, is going to have a meaningful, measurable impact on public opinion so you don't see it having much of an impact on the 1 million voters and

those eight states i think that they're frustrated. >> these are people who look at the economy. they prioritize inflation, immigration, and abortion more than anything else. and the trial to them is kind of a distraction. but in the end, what happens in april is not going to or may is not going to determine what happens in october. and more importantly, in november, it does appear as though mr. trump is playing something of a game of chicken with a judge over the gag order. although we should note this afternoon, mr. trump abided by it and did not criticize the witness. stormy daniels, no matter how much he may have wanted to. >> but he has previously said, i think it was yesterday. >> he said that he would go to prison for the first amendment, meaning he wants to be hey, able to speak his mind and he'd be willing to go to jail for that. if he were ultimately jailed, even if just for a couple hours for continuing to violate the gag order rules, what effect might that have on the electorate? two great question. >> every time trump looks like he's done he's numbers go up

from the indictments, from the investigations, from being thrown off the state ballots, from saying things that no other person could get away with. every time he's done it, his numbers have gone up i think that jailing might be different, but he's claiming that he's a victim. he's claiming that the entire force of the government is being used against him and i'd say to those who think that this would be a bridge too far donald trump knows how to turn every moment into victimhood and there should be no exception and now appears that the other criminal trials that trump faces for the classified documents for election subversion on january 6 are likely not going to happen before november do those issues and do those pending cases way on people's minds? yes, they do. and again, i'm going back to just those million voters, because they're the only ones that really matter at this point it will be a deciding

factor in whether you trust trump or trust biren but things that are affecting people in their own daily lives is actually a higher priority. and i believe that when you get to election day and they're going to pull those levers. that choice will not be between which character or attributes or traits matter. in the end, which one is going to make life more meaningful, more livable, and more affordable? i think that's what's going to determine the election rather than the things that are happening over these three, four weeks. >> as we all right. well, frank month flank frontlines. thank you so much. i really appreciate your time and your insights in and teams who have been in court daily for this trial, notice something different about trump in court today as he listened to testimony from stormy daniels. that's ahead. plus reaction from someone who knows trump. well, his former white house communications director is going to join us. that's all i had stay with us if you have graves disease and itchy eyes, the truth may be even more

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we're going to go to her live in a second plus isn't. in biden today condemning the alarming rise of anti-semitism in the united states drove many people deny, downplaying rationalize and ignoring the horrors of the holocaust and october 7th, is absolutely despicable. and it must stop silence iyad comments as recent pro-palestinian protests bill well beyond college campuses, one pro-palestinian group even claiming that they crossed the line into serious criminality and arson and leading this our stormy daniels on the stand going into detail about her alleged rendezvous with donald trump. >> did the prosecution and did the witness go too far against judges orders giving tmi on the alleged encounter, giving the defense legitimate grounds for an appeal. we're going to continue our coverage of trump's trial starting with cnns paulo region paula do you