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quite the testimony there, from pecker. you had trump's attorney trying to pierce his credibility, making the case whether the former editor published these salacious stories about celebrities purchased them for future leverage he did so purely to improve his company's bottom line. is that something that stands in court? >> i think that pecker was a pretty strong witness. and given his intimate knowledge of how everything worked, and his relationship with donald trump over the years he came across as credible. i don't think donald trump's defense team really made a dent in his testimony. and by the time they get to closing arguments i think the highlights of testimony will be what the jurors remember. and, the fact that he was such a strong prosecution witness, pretty calm and collected going to the whole thing on the witness stand. he was pretty unflappable. you know, it's interesting to watch how donald trump is reacting to this. that was his friend. he didn't attack him unlike other witnesses. i wonder why. pecker knows
quite the testimony there, from pecker. you had trump's attorney trying to pierce his credibility, making the case whether the former editor published these salacious stories about celebrities purchased them for future leverage he did so purely to improve his company's bottom line. is that something that stands in court? >> i think that pecker was a pretty strong witness. and given his intimate knowledge of how everything worked, and his relationship with donald trump over the years he...
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but trump's attorneys took aim at pecker's credibility and exposed while pecker said under oath trump had thanked him for killing stories, pecker had told the fbi, trump didn't thank him. one legal expert tells fox pecker's testimony shows how weak manhattan d.a. a alvin bragg's case is. >> david pecker helped trump more than hurt him. testifying his national inquirer buried stories all the time for a whole host of celebrities. so this wasn't just donald trump. and, you know, killing a story, that's not a crime. >> reporter: trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony charges against him. prosecutors allege trump hid the damaging information from voters and then falsified business records to conceal the hush money payments. outside of new york trump faces other legal hurdles including federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election. but just recently the supreme court heard arguments on trump's claim of presidential immunity. depending on what justices rule, that case could be delayed until after the upcoming election. jon. jon: all right. can c.b. cotton, thank you.
but trump's attorneys took aim at pecker's credibility and exposed while pecker said under oath trump had thanked him for killing stories, pecker had told the fbi, trump didn't thank him. one legal expert tells fox pecker's testimony shows how weak manhattan d.a. a alvin bragg's case is. >> david pecker helped trump more than hurt him. testifying his national inquirer buried stories all the time for a whole host of celebrities. so this wasn't just donald trump. and, you know, killing a...
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former national inquirer publisher, david pecker, was the first to take the stand. testifying that he suppressed story about trump's scandals and spread lies about his rivals in the 2016 race. also known as fake news. pecker said he served as the " eyes and ears for the campaign at trump's on request. " then, rhona graff testified under subpoena, saying she remembered seeing stormy daniels in the trump tower lobby, and adding her contact info to the trump organization database. when court reconvenes, tuesday morning, there will be more testimony from the banker, who helped michael cohen pay off stormy daniels. now, here's some food for thought. as we hurtle into week two of trump's hush money election interference trial. if the supreme court rules as expected in the immunity case the case brought by district attorney alvin bragg could be trump's first and last criminal trial before the election. joining me now from a former federal prosecutor, legal affairs columnist for politico magazine. msnbc justice and legal affairs analyst, anthony coley, director of the justi
former national inquirer publisher, david pecker, was the first to take the stand. testifying that he suppressed story about trump's scandals and spread lies about his rivals in the 2016 race. also known as fake news. pecker said he served as the " eyes and ears for the campaign at trump's on request. " then, rhona graff testified under subpoena, saying she remembered seeing stormy daniels in the trump tower lobby, and adding her contact info to the trump organization database. when...
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they tried with his -- the fact that david pecker himself entered into a non pros. cushion agreement, but that doesn't mean that he's lying on the stand. it seems to be very credible. >> now, pecker also detailed making a payout to former playmate karen mcdougal to silence her account of an alleged affair with trump. yesterday trump's longtime assistant said that information for both mcdougal and stormy daniels were in trump's contact list, and pecker testified that he spoke with former white house staffer, hope hicks and sarah sanders, about an extension of mcdougal's hush money contract on a call with the white house. what do you think the jury took from all of that? >> well, i think that the jury can very easily take the fact that this was an organized scheme. this wasn't just the national enquirer, for example, acting on its own, buying stories that they just didn't want published in competitive -- in competitor's news publications, they were doing this for the purpose, for donald trump, to give him a benefit, a presidential benefit, a campaign benefit that. is
they tried with his -- the fact that david pecker himself entered into a non pros. cushion agreement, but that doesn't mean that he's lying on the stand. it seems to be very credible. >> now, pecker also detailed making a payout to former playmate karen mcdougal to silence her account of an alleged affair with trump. yesterday trump's longtime assistant said that information for both mcdougal and stormy daniels were in trump's contact list, and pecker testified that he spoke with former...
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david pecker has been admitting that. he recounts his dealing with the star witness michael cohen to buy in and bury stories, in order to protect president donald 's campaign. they allege an agreement to then hide financial footprints. they told the jury this will also be corroborated with evidence in , the defendant's own words, showing an illegal conspiracy. he said there is not an actual conspiracy charge in this case. that is true. the word conspiracy has a legal meaning and a more colloquial meaning if you have ever watched a mafia movie. they are saying they conspired together. they also attack the whole conspiracy theory, that he attacked through unlawful means. it would be needed to supersize this misdemeanor of financial fraud into a felony case. the trough defense has kind of said, well, maybe the da is being alarmist about what amounts to, however dirty, politics as usual. that is how they argue it. some proclaim there is nothing wrong with trying to influence and to collection. it is called democracy. the da h
david pecker has been admitting that. he recounts his dealing with the star witness michael cohen to buy in and bury stories, in order to protect president donald 's campaign. they allege an agreement to then hide financial footprints. they told the jury this will also be corroborated with evidence in , the defendant's own words, showing an illegal conspiracy. he said there is not an actual conspiracy charge in this case. that is true. the word conspiracy has a legal meaning and a more...
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. >> but the bulk of this week's testimony came from david pecker. >> that's the former publisher of the national enquirer, who described how his publications suppress negative stories about trump as he was running for the presidency in 2016. john dean served as white house counsel during the nixon administration, and he joins us now john, always lovely to see you. thanks for coming on on this saturday. i'm curious, just first of all, what you've taken away from this first week where do you don't win or lose a case on on a week? you actually could lose it if you fumbled too badly, but this case has shown this prosecuting team knows what they're doing. they're telling you a story they've said an overview. they've sort of laid the basis of the broad conspiracy phoe to influence the election. and they're now getting down into some of the details for the jury. so it's just a stage setter at this point, pecker was a good witness the publisher of the national enquirer and it's been an attention grabbing week for the jury and the public and it's a case that likely is largely going to hinge
. >> but the bulk of this week's testimony came from david pecker. >> that's the former publisher of the national enquirer, who described how his publications suppress negative stories about trump as he was running for the presidency in 2016. john dean served as white house counsel during the nixon administration, and he joins us now john, always lovely to see you. thanks for coming on on this saturday. i'm curious, just first of all, what you've taken away from this first week...
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he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration. pecker agreed he was after court. trump weighed in on the trial, eight days that we sitting in courthouse. i just want to thank hey, everybody for being here michelle for through this, like everybody else. >> michael cohen's banker took the stand on friday afternoon, explaining to the dreo he helped set up a bank account for the shell company that cohen ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment stormy daniels, there's no court on monday, but the banker will be back on the stand tuesday, answering question from prosecutors before trump's lawyers get a turn at him. kara scannell, cnn, new york and coming up former us attorney general, bill barr says donald trump should not be anywhere near the oval office, yet he still plans to vote for him assignment with hottie cornish. >> listen wherever you get your podcasts pain means pause on the things you love. >> but brene me go cool the pain with bio free. and keep on going bio freeze. >> green means go verizon small business days are here. april 22 to the 28. get a fre
he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration. pecker agreed he was after court. trump weighed in on the trial, eight days that we sitting in courthouse. i just want to thank hey, everybody for being here michelle for through this, like everybody else. >> michael cohen's banker took the stand on friday afternoon, explaining to the dreo he helped set up a bank account for the shell company that cohen ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment stormy daniels, there's no...
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what you heard from david pecker was about that agreement, that donald trump, david pecker, and michael cohen had to unlawfully influence the election. and they talked about and testified about this 2016 meeting where they anticipated that women may come forward and have damaging stories about trump that could hurt the campaign. david pecker testified that he was going to be the eyes and ears of this campaign, and that he was going to alert michael cohen and the campaign about anything that would be damaging so, to make sure those stories didn't see the light of day. however, what is really significant, for the conversations pecker testified, dealing directly with donald trump. both before the election and after the election. before the election, testified about talking to him about the story, trying to kill the story with karen mcdougal. after the election, he testified about conversations where donald trump thanked him for making sure those damaging stories did not see the light of day. the defense tried to act as though this was all business as usual, but that really backfired, becau
what you heard from david pecker was about that agreement, that donald trump, david pecker, and michael cohen had to unlawfully influence the election. and they talked about and testified about this 2016 meeting where they anticipated that women may come forward and have damaging stories about trump that could hurt the campaign. david pecker testified that he was going to be the eyes and ears of this campaign, and that he was going to alert michael cohen and the campaign about anything that...
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david pecker has no information about a crime against trump. you heard tabloid goes -- gossip, soap opera drama, and i'm going to be honest with you, the president is quite happy with the first week. one other point. what you heard about president trump, other celebrities in order to if protect their brand had this same experience with david pecker. to so i'll challenge any attorney to show me any evidence against trump that was developed last week. there was nothing. bryan: so the prosecution is looking at david perk as their first -- pecker as their first witness, and there are the analysis lists saying he set the base for the central argument of their case which is this was the about election interference. these payments weren't about trying to hide salacious details that would harm the reputation of his family or himself, but this was about making sure that his 2016 campaign was not stymied by this salacious stuff. that was the purpose of david peck or going out there -- pecker going out there and starting this case. are you saying at the d
david pecker has no information about a crime against trump. you heard tabloid goes -- gossip, soap opera drama, and i'm going to be honest with you, the president is quite happy with the first week. one other point. what you heard about president trump, other celebrities in order to if protect their brand had this same experience with david pecker. to so i'll challenge any attorney to show me any evidence against trump that was developed last week. there was nothing. bryan: so the prosecution...
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pecker testified they also tried to show how pecker had other reasons since beyond just helping trump win the white house for running negative stories about trump's opponents. pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 2015 trump tower meeting were an agreement to help trump was allegedly breached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the de to call two additional witnesses. the first was trump's longtime assistant, rhona. >> let me add the cost rhona graff was a fixture in trump's office for decades. she testified how before trump became president and she was his gatekeeper, keeping close track of his contacts, emails, phone calls, and meetings. >> she told the jury it was a very stimulating, exciting, fascinating place to be court is not in session on monday, but the trial will resume on tuesday. likely wrapping up a banking associate who work closely with michael cohen to build the shell company that he used to pay stormy daniels. and then it
pecker testified they also tried to show how pecker had other reasons since beyond just helping trump win the white house for running negative stories about trump's opponents. pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 2015 trump tower meeting were an agreement to help trump was allegedly breached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the de to call two...
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then he even says, pecker is a nice guy. sending the message to pecker. how do you think the judge should proceed? >> they say, if you say to your child, be home by midnight, and your child comes home at 12:30, he will keep coming home at 12:30. when judges rule and are very clear about what is permissible or not permissible, and there is a direct violation of that ruling, it will continue to happen. i expect judge mershon. i think that is exactly what will happen. judge merchan will find 10 or 12 violations of the gag order and find the defendant for violating that. and violating the judicial rulings. the direct violations of the gag order. you are referencing this earlier. you are loosening all credibility with the court. talk to me about what you expect to see with the gag order. is there any way that puts them in bond bars -- behind bars for a day? look, he's been strong in the court. generally, he told trump to sit down and he sits down. he's been diminished. that's the good news. he doesn't have much to work with. he has these fines of $1000 of viol
then he even says, pecker is a nice guy. sending the message to pecker. how do you think the judge should proceed? >> they say, if you say to your child, be home by midnight, and your child comes home at 12:30, he will keep coming home at 12:30. when judges rule and are very clear about what is permissible or not permissible, and there is a direct violation of that ruling, it will continue to happen. i expect judge mershon. i think that is exactly what will happen. judge merchan will find...
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one legal expert tells fox pecker 's testimony shows how weak manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's case is. >> -- pecker helped trump more than hurt him, testifying his "national enquirer" buried stories all the time for a whole host of celebrities, so this wasn't just donald trump. and, you know, killing a story, that's not a crime. finish. >> reporter: trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony charges against him. prosecutors allege trump hid damaging information from voters and then falsified business records to conceal the hush money payments. outside of new york trump faces other legal hurdles including federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election, but the supreme court has heard arguments on trump's claim of presidential immunity. molly, depending on when the justices rule, that federal case may be delayed until after the 2020 election. back to you. molly: a lot to watch. you wrapped it all together for us. thank you, c.b. griff: president biden says he'd be happy to debate trump, but trump doesn't quite believe he means it. will the two c
one legal expert tells fox pecker 's testimony shows how weak manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's case is. >> -- pecker helped trump more than hurt him, testifying his "national enquirer" buried stories all the time for a whole host of celebrities, so this wasn't just donald trump. and, you know, killing a story, that's not a crime. finish. >> reporter: trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony charges against him. prosecutors allege trump hid damaging information from voters...
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david pecker . correct. court cannot be back in session until tuesday but the breakdown is happening right now. running me is joyce vance and hugo lowell. we were in new york at the same time for this title. david credibility. he was saying donald trump, he considered to be his mentor. yet, to his credit, even on cross examination by the defense attorney for donald trump, david pecker stood his ground. he held the line and said this was all to help influence the outcome by benefiting donald trump's campaign. >> "the national enquirer" wanted to protect this trump and this came through all through the testimony. it was extremely significant because trump was hoping or trumps lawyers were hoping to a certain extent they would be able to suggest that he was disgruntled, that they hadn't been friends for some time. they didn't have close connections anymore. but, with david pecker going on the stand and say i find as a mentor and i like his business deals and consider him a good guy as far as he was concerned, i
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he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration? pecker agreed he was after court, trump weighed in on the trial eight days that we all sitting in courthouse. i just want to thank everybody. i'm michele for through this, like everybody else michael cohen's banker took the stand on friday afternoon, explaining to the dreo he helped set up a bank account for the shell company that cohen ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment stormy daniels, there's no court on monday, but the banker will be back on the stand tuesday, answering question from prosecutors before trump's lawyers get a turn at him. >> kara scannell, cnn, new york former president donald trump will also have a key hearing next week on the gag order against him. thursday morning. judge, merchan will weigh prosecutors arguments that trump violated the order four more times this week when he talked about michael cohen, david pecker, and the jury. that's an addition to ten other incidents which he is accused of violating the order joining us right now, camille vasco a
he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration? pecker agreed he was after court, trump weighed in on the trial eight days that we all sitting in courthouse. i just want to thank everybody. i'm michele for through this, like everybody else michael cohen's banker took the stand on friday afternoon, explaining to the dreo he helped set up a bank account for the shell company that cohen ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment stormy daniels, there's no court on monday, but...
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everybody thought that david pecker was going to be maybe on and off, an hour, introduce a few documents. he's turned out to be two days and frankly, what's fascinating, molly, is the defense turned him, i think, into a trump witness, a pro-trump witness. they frankly cross examined him and he came out with some good things about trump and demonstrated there were other people that did the same thing. and my question always is, why aren't they being prosecuted in the same way trump is. >> what do you mean by that. who are the people you would highlight when you mention that? >> there was tiger woods and other celebrities. he indicated there were these non-disclosure agreements, they would purchase a story and sometimes they would run them and sometimes they wouldn't, and so, i'm left with the conclusion that it's only president trump who is now being prosecuted for what i would argue are mickey mouse charges. >> we're talking about here, the catch and kill, that's what we're getting the window into here, how catch and kill works, how broadly it was used. the sort of pay by play journalism
everybody thought that david pecker was going to be maybe on and off, an hour, introduce a few documents. he's turned out to be two days and frankly, what's fascinating, molly, is the defense turned him, i think, into a trump witness, a pro-trump witness. they frankly cross examined him and he came out with some good things about trump and demonstrated there were other people that did the same thing. and my question always is, why aren't they being prosecuted in the same way trump is. >>...
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pecker, part of his testimony seemed to actually help donald trump. i mean, he was a prosecution witness, but he said he had done the nda's, so-called catch and grab schemes, buy a story that somebody didn't want to get out. he did it for around schwarzenegger, did it for tiger woods. it may be unseemly, but it's not illegal, right? >> absolutely, it's not illegal. and based upon the prosecutor's case, sits determining whether they're trying to win on a criminal conviction or trying to get sordid details out. we don't know precisely what they're accusing donald trump of doing criminally. and they have to show that he falsified records in order to further some other crime. to this day that has not been affirmatively disclosed by the prosecution and there are many convoluted theories out there that don't quite add up. david: yeah, but tom, i was talking to annie mccarthy earlier. maybe there are a couple of lawyers on the jury, but the others don't know if it's legal or not. and the judge isn't telling them. isn't it the role of the judge to explain whe
pecker, part of his testimony seemed to actually help donald trump. i mean, he was a prosecution witness, but he said he had done the nda's, so-called catch and grab schemes, buy a story that somebody didn't want to get out. he did it for around schwarzenegger, did it for tiger woods. it may be unseemly, but it's not illegal, right? >> absolutely, it's not illegal. and based upon the prosecutor's case, sits determining whether they're trying to win on a criminal conviction or trying to...
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david pecker, over the course of four days he testified about crucial 2015 meeting between himself, trump and trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen. prosecutors allege that it was at that meeting that the trio hashed out a plan to help trump's political chances by suppressing potentially scandalous stories about him. that strategy came to be known as catch and kill. now it may not seem like there are any similarities between trump's criminal trial in new york and the fake elector scheme but for one thing both involve the falsification of documents or records. on top of that both cases allege the former president worked with others in addition to a crime. 16 people in michigan were charged with felonies last year for their roles in the fake elector effort. six others in nevada have been similarly charged. in georgia last summer the fulton county district attorney pressed racketeering charges against trump and 18 others. that is a charge that is typically used to take down organized crime. four of those defendants have since reached plea agreements with prosecutors. fulton county is th
david pecker, over the course of four days he testified about crucial 2015 meeting between himself, trump and trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen. prosecutors allege that it was at that meeting that the trio hashed out a plan to help trump's political chances by suppressing potentially scandalous stories about him. that strategy came to be known as catch and kill. now it may not seem like there are any similarities between trump's criminal trial in new york and the fake elector scheme...
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it's your dinner, pecker said. as the two walked out, he said president trump asked, how is karen doing? the defense suggested buying and burying salacious stories was standard operating procedure. pecker conceded "the national enquirer" made hundreds of thousands of nondisclosure agreements but when prosecutors asked, on how many of those had you coordinated with a presidential candidate for the benefit of a campaign, he replied, it's the only one. aaron katersky, abc news, new york. >> whit: aaron katersky, thank you. >>> now to the final defendant who has been sentenced in the death of elijah mcclain in aurora, colorado. former emt jeremy cooper receiving four years probation for criminally negligent homicide. mcclain was confronted by three police officers while walking home in 2019, thrown to the ground, placed in a chokehold, and injected with an excessive amount of ketamine to sedate him. the emt and mcclain's mother both reacting to the sentencing. >> i want you to know that i would give anything to have a
it's your dinner, pecker said. as the two walked out, he said president trump asked, how is karen doing? the defense suggested buying and burying salacious stories was standard operating procedure. pecker conceded "the national enquirer" made hundreds of thousands of nondisclosure agreements but when prosecutors asked, on how many of those had you coordinated with a presidential candidate for the benefit of a campaign, he replied, it's the only one. aaron katersky, abc news, new york....
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pecker, one of the the prosecution's key witnesses, wrapped up four days of testimony this week. pecker said his company paid $150,000 to silence former or playboy playmate karen mcdougal to keep her if saying she had an affair with trump, something trump denies. trump's longtime executive assistant also took the stand on friday as the state tries to prove trump was behind another scheme, this one to silence adult film star stormy daniels who claim claims she also had a tex yule -- sexual encounter with trump. graph said she vaguely remembers seeing daniels at trump tower long before the 2016 election. trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges against him and cons to call this case politically motivated. if. >> and we sit here day after day after day, which is their plan, because they think they might be able to eke out an election, but i doubt it because the poll numbers are very good for us. >> reporter: when court resumes on tuesday, bank executive gary farrow will return to the stand. he is the state's third witness. he testified friday that he was the banker of trump
pecker, one of the the prosecution's key witnesses, wrapped up four days of testimony this week. pecker said his company paid $150,000 to silence former or playboy playmate karen mcdougal to keep her if saying she had an affair with trump, something trump denies. trump's longtime executive assistant also took the stand on friday as the state tries to prove trump was behind another scheme, this one to silence adult film star stormy daniels who claim claims she also had a tex yule -- sexual...
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over the course of four days, david pecker testified about a crucial meeting between himself, trump, and trumps the personal and fixer michael cohen. prosecutors allege it was at that meeting that the trio hashed out a plan to help donald trump's political chances by suppressing potentially scandalous stories about him. the strategy came to be known as "catch and kill." catch a story and kill it. it may not seem like there are any similarities between trumps trial in new york and that the collectors scheme about, for one thing, both of them involve the falsification of documents and records. both cases alleged the former president worked with others ind furtherance of a crime. in addition to the 18 people charged in arizona this week, as i mentioned, 16 people in michigan were charged with felonies last year for their roles in the fake elector effort in that state. six others in nevada have been charged and in georgia last summer, the fulton county district attorney rest racketeering charges against trump and 18 others, a charge typically used to take down organized crime. four of th
over the course of four days, david pecker testified about a crucial meeting between himself, trump, and trumps the personal and fixer michael cohen. prosecutors allege it was at that meeting that the trio hashed out a plan to help donald trump's political chances by suppressing potentially scandalous stories about him. the strategy came to be known as "catch and kill." catch a story and kill it. it may not seem like there are any similarities between trumps trial in new york and that...
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over four days of testimony, the former national enquirer executive david pecker told the jury not just how deeply involved trump's team was to use the supermarket tabloids to fuel his 2016 campaign, but how celebrities and politicians generally try to buy, trade, or believe their way out of scandalous stories. the top story for scott rich who posted on facebook, it was just revealed how detached from reality the supreme court has become. several grand juries have found enough evidence to charge him, referring to former president donald trump, with crimes, but the court sounded ready to twist the law again. that is referencing the supreme court oral arguments around trump immunity. here is a portion of trump's attorney delivering opening arguments in the immunity claim case before the supreme court on thursday. [video clip] >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, without immunity from presidential prosecution there can be no presidency as we know it. for 234 years of american history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts. the framers of our constitution view
over four days of testimony, the former national enquirer executive david pecker told the jury not just how deeply involved trump's team was to use the supermarket tabloids to fuel his 2016 campaign, but how celebrities and politicians generally try to buy, trade, or believe their way out of scandalous stories. the top story for scott rich who posted on facebook, it was just revealed how detached from reality the supreme court has become. several grand juries have found enough evidence to...
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pecker allows them to do that. then they have to put in witnesses who will have to walk through some of the routine legal things like how do you get into the documents for let's bring in the banker. how do you verify it is his email server? you bring in his assistance but having pecker as the first witness gives them a road map of where they are going and i think the trump team knew it wasn't going to be michael cohen first. there was no antagonistic fireworks right away. they were careful with pecker to not beat him up on the stand. he still considers donald trump a friend. i am interesting -- i think it will be fascinating. she, again, has known him for so long. she was working at star magazine that she goes way back with donald trump. >> she was in that crucial meeting in august 2015 where they cooked up this plan where david pecker would be the eyes and ears of the campaign and she was walking in and out of the meeting. what did she hear? i think that will go to corroborate michael cohen when he gets on the ste
pecker allows them to do that. then they have to put in witnesses who will have to walk through some of the routine legal things like how do you get into the documents for let's bring in the banker. how do you verify it is his email server? you bring in his assistance but having pecker as the first witness gives them a road map of where they are going and i think the trump team knew it wasn't going to be michael cohen first. there was no antagonistic fireworks right away. they were careful with...
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greg -- picker -- can pecker. gregg jarrett joins us now. do you think with any of these initial three witnesses the prosecution landed any punches on donald trump? >> no, will, i don't think so at all. after a week of testimony, they have yet to present any evidence of anything unlawful. and i think it underscores just how weak and pathetic the case is. david pecker helped trump more than hurt him, testifying his "national enquirer" buried stories all the time for a whole host of celebrities, so this wasn't just donald trump. and, you know, killing a story, that's not a crime. silencing somebody through an nda, that's not illegal. you went to law school, you know this. they're not even in the indictment, trump's not charged with it. so bragg is implying that trump's shady dealings with the tabloid somehow equals criminality. well, it doesn't. i called it in a column this week filth by association which is a sleazy prosecutor's trick. but, you know, i think after a week, will, these jurors are still wondering where in the world is the crime
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on that key issue of the purpose of the payments, the prosecution was able to get in through david pecker that this was about the campaign, not protecting trump's family how can trump get into evidence? his side of that unless he testifies good morning. and then say it's a privilege to be ali, sir, i'm a fan from a lot day that on television so you want to know the easy way, the easy way is at the end of people's case, donald trump takes the stand and he looks at the jury with the first question was of course, i didn't want bonnie to know about this. of course i didn't want my kids to know about this yeah. was there a part of it that i was running for president? >> yeah. >> but i didn't think i need these problems at home. it's enough of a headache to run for president united states. i don't need my wife hit me over the head with a bat. that's the easiest way to do it now tuesday this week, the judge made some rulings we call a new york's sandoval rulings, which is what the government or the people i can ask him, the prosecutors and asked him if he testified. and for a for a defendant who
on that key issue of the purpose of the payments, the prosecution was able to get in through david pecker that this was about the campaign, not protecting trump's family how can trump get into evidence? his side of that unless he testifies good morning. and then say it's a privilege to be ali, sir, i'm a fan from a lot day that on television so you want to know the easy way, the easy way is at the end of people's case, donald trump takes the stand and he looks at the jury with the first...
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pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 2015 trump tower meeting were an agreement to help trump was allegedly reached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the day to call two additional witnesses. the first was trump's longtime assistant, rhona. >> let me add the cost rhona graff was a fixture in trump's office for decades. >> she testified how before trump became president, she was his gatekeeper, keeping close track of his contacts, emails, phone calls, and meetings he told the jury it was a very stimulating, exciting, fascinating place to be a court is off on monday, but on tuesday when cohen's former banking associates will be back on the stand to wrap up his testimony. >> then it's unclear who the next significant witness will be. >> but again, it's only three-day trial week, next week, and the other thing we're waiting for is a decision from the judge about trump's alleged violations of the gag order with a hearing this past week abou
pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 2015 trump tower meeting were an agreement to help trump was allegedly reached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the day to call two additional witnesses. the first was trump's longtime assistant, rhona. >> let me add the cost rhona graff was a fixture in trump's office for decades. >> she...
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pecker said i've been truthful to the best of my recollection. trump's long time executive assistant took the stand yesterday, that's her right there. said her boss of about 30 years was fair and respectful. graph said she haggly remembers seeing stormy daniels in trump tower before the 2016 election and daniels claims she had an affair with donald trump. meanwhile the former president and current president taking shots on the campaign trail and president biden made use yesterday announcing he's willing to debate his opponent here and he is with howard stern. >> i don't know if you're going to debate your opponent. >> i am somewhere, i don't know when. i'm happy to debate him. >> former president trump said bring it on. >> inviting biden to debate. he can do it any time he wants, including tonight. i'm ready. i invite him to the courthouse and the demonstrations and it's going through washington and it's a coordinated attack on a political opponent. pete: thank you, david. will: we had former acting attorney general here on the program a little b
pecker said i've been truthful to the best of my recollection. trump's long time executive assistant took the stand yesterday, that's her right there. said her boss of about 30 years was fair and respectful. graph said she haggly remembers seeing stormy daniels in trump tower before the 2016 election and daniels claims she had an affair with donald trump. meanwhile the former president and current president taking shots on the campaign trail and president biden made use yesterday announcing...
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over four days of testimony, the former national enquirer executive david pecker told the jury not just how deeply involved trump's team was to use the supermarket tabloids to fuel his 2016 campaign, but how celebrities and politicians generally try to buy, trade, or believe their way out of scandalous stories. the top story for scott rich who posted on facebook, it was just revealed how detached from reality the supreme court has become. several grand juries have found enough evidence to charge him, referring to former president donald trump, with crimes, but the court sounded ready to twist the law again. that is referencing the supreme court oral arguments around trump immunity. here is a portion of trump's attorney delivering opening arguments in the immunity claim case before the supreme court on thursday. [video clip] >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, without immunity from presidential prosecution there can be no presidency as we know it. for 234 years of american history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts. the framers of our constitution view
over four days of testimony, the former national enquirer executive david pecker told the jury not just how deeply involved trump's team was to use the supermarket tabloids to fuel his 2016 campaign, but how celebrities and politicians generally try to buy, trade, or believe their way out of scandalous stories. the top story for scott rich who posted on facebook, it was just revealed how detached from reality the supreme court has become. several grand juries have found enough evidence to...
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he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration. pecker agreed he was after court. trump weighed in on the trial, eight days that we sitting in this courthouse i just want to thank everybody for being here. >> this, is like. everybody else michael cohen's bank or took the stand friday afternoon, he described to the jury how he helped cohen set up the shell company that was ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. >> there's no court on monday, so the banker will be back on the stand tuesday. we're prosecutors will continue to question him then, donald trump's attorneys will get a chance to cross-examine him as his trial continues into next week, amara victor, kara scannell. thanks so much and doing now by former federal prosecutor, at least we'll good morning to you. let me start here with david pecker and then kind of go through some of the other witnesses. the prosecution. they spent several hours with him trying to get him to explain the process of these catch and kill. the defense then went and tried to undermine some of the testimony
he asked pecker if you felt cohen was prone to exaggeration. pecker agreed he was after court. trump weighed in on the trial, eight days that we sitting in this courthouse i just want to thank everybody for being here. >> this, is like. everybody else michael cohen's bank or took the stand friday afternoon, he described to the jury how he helped cohen set up the shell company that was ultimately used to transfer the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. >> there's no court on monday,...
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the jury heard from ron graf, gary farrow and asked national enquirer official david pecker. were the biggest take aways from the trial so far? pete: here is matt whitaker. what are the big take aways? what should we be looking for? >> a couple things are happening. this continues to be a set up in search of a crime. i don't think there has been anything i've seen so far that suggests there's a law violation. the second thing that's more interesting to me is testimony from the national enquirer publisher who said tiger woods, rahm emanuel, president biden's ambassador to japan currently and arnold schwarzenegger and others entered into similar arrangements. that takes from the political purpose into a personal purpose which is not a violation of the law. will: you talk about a catch and kill scheme. packer said in his testimony no one has ever referred to it that way, donald trump and i did not refer to this is a catch and kill scheme but what you are saying is a lot of famous people do this, purchase stores, have stories paid for so they will never see the light of day, neve
the jury heard from ron graf, gary farrow and asked national enquirer official david pecker. were the biggest take aways from the trial so far? pete: here is matt whitaker. what are the big take aways? what should we be looking for? >> a couple things are happening. this continues to be a set up in search of a crime. i don't think there has been anything i've seen so far that suggests there's a law violation. the second thing that's more interesting to me is testimony from the national...
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pecker defiant at one point saying, i've been truthful to the best of my recollection. the tabloid mogul also undermining the idea mr. trump wanted to bury those stories about women to protect his family, a common refrain from the defense. instead, pecker said he believed it was all to protect his campaign. >> i do have to begin by wishing melania happy birthday. she's in florida. >> reporter: melania trump notably absent at trial. >> laura, does it appear prosecutors got what they needed from david pecker this week? >> lester, pecker is a useful witness for prosecutors to the extent that he can testify about conversations about mr. trump that touch on this alleged scheme to influence the election, but what he can't offer, lester, is any evidence on the actual crime that the former president has been indicted for, which isn't a campaign finance violation. it's the way his payments to cohen were documented on his internal records. now, we'll see if other witnesses can speak more directly to that, lester. >> okay, laura jarrett, thank you. >>> president biden was also in
pecker defiant at one point saying, i've been truthful to the best of my recollection. the tabloid mogul also undermining the idea mr. trump wanted to bury those stories about women to protect his family, a common refrain from the defense. instead, pecker said he believed it was all to protect his campaign. >> i do have to begin by wishing melania happy birthday. she's in florida. >> reporter: melania trump notably absent at trial. >> laura, does it appear prosecutors got what...
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so we did still get some compelling testimony from the remainder of david pecker's testimony, as well as those two other witnesses. one thing that is clear from the wheat when it says that we heard from miss that there was this conspiracy he to get this caching kill scheme, the catch and kill scheme to affect the campaign, to effect the election. in terms of the last two witnesses, we got confirmation from the banker that yes. michael cohen did open up an account. it open a shell company in order to get payment to stormy daniels. that's as far as we got in terms of the longtime assistant, all we heard is that we got confirmation that donald trump did have the contact information for karen mcdougal, as well as stormy daniels, and that stormy daniels was the at trump plaza at least on one occasion, but nothing that really stood out that was so bombshell that will stand out too. jury documentary evidence that he produced sort of establishing the timeline and the importance of getting those payments done before the election that will be crucial, right? absolutely. the urgency. so we learn
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former president in court for day eight of his criminal hush money trial, formeinr enquirer chief david pecker wrapping up his testimony and we got to hear from the prosecution's next two witnesses. trump'get tos former assistant rhona graff, a 34 year veteran of the trump, and gary farrow, a former banker at first republic, when michael cohen was apparently membe seeking to arrange the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. n trump sounding off on another day in court. >> this is all a frightening indictment. it's an order to try and win an election. political advantagte and nothina like this has ever happened. i've been inviteponent ad back to debate, and it's a busy time in washington during the night. imcluding i'm here. >> i'm ready, willing and able. and if he i'll do it on monday night, tuesday night or wednesdao ity night. >> we'll be in michigan, a state that is destroying. >> well, the former president was certainly on the mind of the current president. >> joe biden repeatedly brought up donald trump while reped by howarde stern. >> i don't know if you're going to debate your you ir. id
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and it was a tweet just cameinsf out during the cross of pecker. trump's defense attorney, emil bovee ha, had been repeatedlypei referring to trump as president trump when referencing periodso of time when trump was not in office. the d.a.'s office keeps objectinctine mercg and judge mn keeps sustaining those t objections. so okay, convict him of usinheg the wrong title for trump at that timthe. . >> this is this is where we are like mean. >>, en pretty powerful that one. that's pretty crummy. we call president obamt obthat't president. that's crazy that you wouldn't call a former president th's the president. that's that's their title for the rest of their lives. and it just shows you hos.and es process is. and even though the evidence is completele legay the legal allegations are completely bogus, you still have a clearlyo biased judge this juan merchan who donated biden donated to another anti-trump cause. his adult daughter has raised $100 million on this case. he shoul.d recused. >> he didn't recuse. you have this soros partttan, manhattan d.a
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jeff sessions because david pecker, this national enquirer tabloid king, he got concerned at one point when he got a letter from the fec and he called michael cohen, then trump's personal attorney to voice concern about that. michael cohen told him not to worry because geoff sessions is the attorney general and donald trump has him in his pocket. did trump expect his ag to go easy on his friends i don't know. i don't know what he expected what was your experience? >> my experience was why the time i came in, he did not he did not push me to do one thing or another on these criminal cases. now we tweeted and mavi, his public views on things known, but he never talked to me about them directly, so we did not have you in his pocket. he would argue it's not a question of arguing. i did what i thought was right. >> and you never felt any direct pressure from him on what investigations the doj you did not directly pressure may as i say, he was out there tweeting and doing things that were embarrassing and made it hard for me to run the department that sounds like pressure wasn't pressure. it
jeff sessions because david pecker, this national enquirer tabloid king, he got concerned at one point when he got a letter from the fec and he called michael cohen, then trump's personal attorney to voice concern about that. michael cohen told him not to worry because geoff sessions is the attorney general and donald trump has him in his pocket. did trump expect his ag to go easy on his friends i don't know. i don't know what he expected what was your experience? >> my experience was why...
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pecker said, yes. steinglass said, but at the time you entered into that agreement, you had zero intention of publishing that story. pecker said that's correct. and the prosecutor said, and despite the fact that publishing that story would have helped your bottom line, you killed the story because it helped the candidate donald trump. pecker said, yes. so their counter and cutting against the standard operating procedure, obviously, if this was national enquirer gold and they would have made a fortune off the headline. they decided not to publish it and that was the point prosecutors we're trying to push this was for donald trump's candidacy, not for the bottom line. that's also prosecution gold. >> i mean, to get him to admit that i was willing to do something that was contrary to my bottom line to help a candidate that's exactly what they need to say. >> and that's what the prosecution's trying to do in order to make michael cohen irrelevant, frankly. >> and could you just explain to me because i don
pecker said, yes. steinglass said, but at the time you entered into that agreement, you had zero intention of publishing that story. pecker said that's correct. and the prosecutor said, and despite the fact that publishing that story would have helped your bottom line, you killed the story because it helped the candidate donald trump. pecker said, yes. so their counter and cutting against the standard operating procedure, obviously, if this was national enquirer gold and they would have made a...
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pecker testified, they also tried to show how pecker had other reasons beyond just helping trump win the white house for running negative stories about trump's opponents. pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 20 trump tower meeting we're in agreement to help trump was allegedly breached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the de to call two additional witnesses. >> the first was trump's long time assistants, rhona, let me add to call split's rhona graff was a fixture in trump's office for decades. >> she testified how before trump became president, she was his gatekeeper keeping close track of his contacts, emails, phone calls, and meetings. she told the jury it was a very stimulating exciting fascinating place to be there is no court on monday, so on tuesday they'll likely wrap up with michael cohen's a banker, and then it's not clear who the next big witness will be. they have not said a publicly. >> we're also waiting earned for the j
pecker testified, they also tried to show how pecker had other reasons beyond just helping trump win the white house for running negative stories about trump's opponents. pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 20 trump tower meeting we're in agreement to help trump was allegedly breached running those stories was beneficial to ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the de to call two...
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david pecker was defined at one point, saying "i've been truthful to the best of my recollection ." the tabloid mogul also undermined the idea that trump wanted to bury those stories about women to protect his family, a common refrain from the defense. instead, he said he believed it was all to protect his campaign. >> i do have to begin by wishing melania trump happy birthday. >> reporter: melania trump was notably absent at trial. >> court will not based on session monday so the trial resumes tuesday at 9:30. with that, let's bring in our leadoff panel, john allen, politics reporter for nbc. eugene scott, senior politics reporter fracks yes, and the former federal prosecutor and senior writer for political magazine. thank you for joining us. trump's former longtime executive assistant testified for half an hour. she was known as "the gatekeeper" and set a company directory and numbers for stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. she also said the trump organization was paying her legal bills. why, what did the prosecution gain from her testimony? >> they introduced a small fact, which i
david pecker was defined at one point, saying "i've been truthful to the best of my recollection ." the tabloid mogul also undermined the idea that trump wanted to bury those stories about women to protect his family, a common refrain from the defense. instead, he said he believed it was all to protect his campaign. >> i do have to begin by wishing melania trump happy birthday. >> reporter: melania trump was notably absent at trial. >> court will not based on session...
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david pecker may have done. to they're trying to attribute david's packers knowledgeinance of campaign finance violations to donald trump. there shouldn' vdonaldt been a e instruction right then and there by the court there tht cannot assume that because david pecker knew something that donal that d trump knew its but this is this is the kind of case that an inexperienced political operative is trying ae in manhattan. and let me just say one more thing. thisin m gag order. the gag order was to make sureti that the president did not make or direct others to make o a public statement. when donald trump repeats untruths. i so so what other people have said he is not makinnot makig oe directing them to make public statements. and that's why he is not h holding him in contempt yet because it is so written. these people are so incensed, so full of hatl of hate that tho anything to keep this man down. and ye anyt he goes outside, he talks to construction workers, he goes to a bodega, they cheer him. he goes to kentucky
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witness, david pecker, largely stood his ground despite trump's legal team attempting to undermine his testimony by claiming the deals to bury stories like karen mcdougal and stormy daniels were standard operating procedure. the second witness, donald trump's former executive assistant, monograph, provided testimony that she entered karen mcdougal's and stormy daniels contact information to the trump organization database. third, we had gary ferro, former manager at first republic bank, which prosecutors say michael: used to obtain a $130,000 home equity loan which michael cohen later funneled to stormy daniels through a shell company. friday, he authenticated bank records which prosecutors showed to jurors. that testimony will continue in trial resumes tuesday morning. prosecutors are using his testimony to authenticate documents related to the transaction. that testimony continues when the trial resumes tuesday morning. judge merchan announced a gag order hearing will take place thursday, to hear new arguments about all of the alleged violations that donald trump has committed this w
witness, david pecker, largely stood his ground despite trump's legal team attempting to undermine his testimony by claiming the deals to bury stories like karen mcdougal and stormy daniels were standard operating procedure. the second witness, donald trump's former executive assistant, monograph, provided testimony that she entered karen mcdougal's and stormy daniels contact information to the trump organization database. third, we had gary ferro, former manager at first republic bank, which...
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pecker considered trump a friend and he wanted there.er cp him out. paying for stories is something "the national enquirer" di storf the rich and famous all the time. tiger woods, schwarzenegge r. >> mark wahlberg. even obama's right hand man. rahmt hand m emmanuel.but he but he never used the phrase catch and kill in front of trump. he also said that star witness michael cohen was prone to exaggeration. >> the prosecution alsome ass called trump's longtime assistant to the stand to run a grapisoh. n hi he had a big smile on his facewh when ronan testified. shtoe said trump was a fair bos who respected her intelligence. rer intellshe said they mostly d business, but occasionally trump would ask her about her family y trum and sometimes told her to go home early. >> court adjourned for the day,n and now he can finally wish melania a happy birthdayhe. jurors can leave for dentist appointments, but trumju dp has to stay on ice and can attend his own supreme court hearings. his son's graduation and hisjust wife's birthday party. >> she just told the judge
pecker considered trump a friend and he wanted there.er cp him out. paying for stories is something "the national enquirer" di storf the rich and famous all the time. tiger woods, schwarzenegge r. >> mark wahlberg. even obama's right hand man. rahmt hand m emmanuel.but he but he never used the phrase catch and kill in front of trump. he also said that star witness michael cohen was prone to exaggeration. >> the prosecution alsome ass called trump's longtime assistant to...
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it was david pecker who testified. and explained how this whole thing worked to buy and bury negative stories through the tabloids to boost the campaign. was that your purpose locking up the story about the play mate to influence the election? and he confirmed yes. pecker details how they worked with cohen. we will show you headlines that are for the most part false. a false allegation about then trump competitor marco rubio. another one. i can show you. let me look at the next one. infamously going after ted cruz. pecker testifying that story was knowingly manufactured. right down to the doctored photo. however bad it looks they said it was not a trump campaign thing. it is just how they roll. they brought up arnold schwarzenegger and that deal. pecker said the agreement i had with arnold is i would advise him about stories out there. acquire them. buy them for a period of time. defense highlighting cohen didn't pay him back for the mcdougal story to get jurors to doubt if this was a trump campaign thing. i spoke to h
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david pecker helps with that a lot. but months after that deal with the enquirer, mcdougal appeared on television. >> pecker said an aggravated trump called him to complain, saying, i thought you had and we had an agreement with karen mcdougal that she can't give any interviews and trump continues to fundraise off of this criminal trial in an email blast, his campaign asked supporters, will you vote for me if the deep state throws me in jail? he then went on to make the false claim that demonstrators are being blocked from protesting in front of the lower manhattan courthouse and morgan norwood. abc news, new york. >> a workplace dispute in baltimore is being called a wake up call about artificial intelligence. a teacher is now facing charges for allegedly using ai to make his boss appear racist. the now former high school athletic director is accused of trying to retaliate against his school's principal with a recording of a racist rant. he shared it across social media, leading to the principal's removal. but it turns
david pecker helps with that a lot. but months after that deal with the enquirer, mcdougal appeared on television. >> pecker said an aggravated trump called him to complain, saying, i thought you had and we had an agreement with karen mcdougal that she can't give any interviews and trump continues to fundraise off of this criminal trial in an email blast, his campaign asked supporters, will you vote for me if the deep state throws me in jail? he then went on to make the false claim that...
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the prosecution starts with the blockbuster witness, david pecker. now they are moving into the nitty-gritty. what kind of strategy goes into the sequence here? >> i think it is largely chronological, so far, as i can see it. they are just trying to lay out, tell the story in a simple chronological fashion, the best way to tell a story often is chronologically. but, i think that is what is happening here. i expect at some point, perhaps even next week, they are going to need to start to move into, okay, how are these records, how are these payments booked internally within the trump organization. maybe next week or the following week, at some point, the trial needs to get there. that is the meat and potatoes of the actual charges against trump. >> eugene, trump keeps complaining about the trial keeping him off the campaign trail and wednesday, when, you know, wednesday was his one day off from court this week, and he went golfing. obviously, he doesn't want to be in court but is it fair to say he doesn't seem to care that much about campaigning eithe
the prosecution starts with the blockbuster witness, david pecker. now they are moving into the nitty-gritty. what kind of strategy goes into the sequence here? >> i think it is largely chronological, so far, as i can see it. they are just trying to lay out, tell the story in a simple chronological fashion, the best way to tell a story often is chronologically. but, i think that is what is happening here. i expect at some point, perhaps even next week, they are going to need to start to...
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the first witness, david pecker, the defence chose not to be as aggressive with him as they are likely to do trump's former fixer, michael cohen. the soft—spoken former publisher of the national enquirer came off as a reliable witness and he and trump seemed to show a mutual respect, so instead the defence tried to gently prod him to say the scheme was a typical tabloid business decision, the catch and kill scheme, but david pecker said he was being truthful when he said it was done in defence of donald trump's campaign. week one is done in the history books but donald trump will have to face many more familiarfaces. sexual assault survivors and advocates have expressed outrage afterjudges in new york overturned a 2020 rape conviction against the former hollywood producer, harvey weinstein. new york's highest court ruled that during his trial four years ago, prosecutors were wrongly allowed to call witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him. now, weinstein will remain in prison on a separate rape conviction in california. weinstein�*s new york trial was a
the first witness, david pecker, the defence chose not to be as aggressive with him as they are likely to do trump's former fixer, michael cohen. the soft—spoken former publisher of the national enquirer came off as a reliable witness and he and trump seemed to show a mutual respect, so instead the defence tried to gently prod him to say the scheme was a typical tabloid business decision, the catch and kill scheme, but david pecker said he was being truthful when he said it was done in...
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let's go back to the idea of david pecker. the defense team, the trump team was trying to make this come across as standard. this catch and kill idea is standard, happens to a lot of people. and pecker was saying this was actually in furtherance of something more serious. this wasn't the typical catch a story and kill it. there are probably reasons why you would take on a story, pay somebody for it and kill it, but pecker said the unfinished part and this was in furtherance of what donald trump was trying to achieve. >> absolutely and that came across on redirect examination. what happened was the defense attorney has presented what one would call the casablanca defense. there is gambling. ami does this over and over again, that they by people stories. not unusual. in the prosecutor on redirect honed in on the differences. that there has never, even though they have, ami has quashed stories of celebrities and even political figures in the past, they have never been the eyes and ears of a presidential campaign. they have never
let's go back to the idea of david pecker. the defense team, the trump team was trying to make this come across as standard. this catch and kill idea is standard, happens to a lot of people. and pecker was saying this was actually in furtherance of something more serious. this wasn't the typical catch a story and kill it. there are probably reasons why you would take on a story, pay somebody for it and kill it, but pecker said the unfinished part and this was in furtherance of what donald trump...
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they needed to set the stage and explain why this scheme was a legal —— mister pecker. mr pecker explained that with the jury, explained how he had been in cahoots with mr trump for many years, frankly, for the system of catching these stories, stopping news stories, paying for news stories and doing all of that in furtherance of getting donald trump elected president. getting donald trump elected resident. �* , , ., president. because it is not the hush — president. because it is not the hush money _ president. because it is not the hush money payment i president. because it is not i the hush money payment itself, so called hush money, that is illegal, it was allegedly covered up and linked into a broader scheme, which the president said was meant to affect the election, is that right? affect the election, is that riuht? ., �* , right? that's right, the payment _ right? that's right, the payment itself - right? that's right, the payment itself is i right? that's right, the payment itself is not . right? that's right, the i payment itself is not illegal, so what t
they needed to set the stage and explain why this scheme was a legal —— mister pecker. mr pecker explained that with the jury, explained how he had been in cahoots with mr trump for many years, frankly, for the system of catching these stories, stopping news stories, paying for news stories and doing all of that in furtherance of getting donald trump elected president. getting donald trump elected resident. �* , , ., president. because it is not the hush — president. because it is not...
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blanca: el Énfasis hoy estuvo en buscar contradicciones en la versiÓn de pecker y que sus verdaderos motivos para comprar las historias era para evitar que se publicaran en otros lugares antes de que en el national enquary. y que testificado en contra de su ex jefe, porque la organizaciÓn trump estÁ pagando sus gastos legales. al salir de la corte, trump dijo estar dispuesto a debatir con el presidente biden en cualquier momento. ilia: una encuesta revela que pocas personas en estados unidos creen que a donald trump lo estÉn tratando en las cortes, otros acusados. sÓlo 13% de los encuestados creen que estÁ recibiendo el mismo trato que otros enjuiciados. ademÁs, 30 4% cree que lo tratan mÁs severamente que a los demÁs, mientras otros 34% piensa que lo tratan con mayor indulgencia. cerca de tres cuartas partes de los votantes que altamente respaldan a trump afirman que seguirÁn con Él. jorge: el sectario estado, antony blinken dijo que estados unidos tiene evidencia de intentos chinos de influir en las prÓximas elecciones presidenciales en estados unidos. blinken se reuniÓ
blanca: el Énfasis hoy estuvo en buscar contradicciones en la versiÓn de pecker y que sus verdaderos motivos para comprar las historias era para evitar que se publicaran en otros lugares antes de que en el national enquary. y que testificado en contra de su ex jefe, porque la organizaciÓn trump estÁ pagando sus gastos legales. al salir de la corte, trump dijo estar dispuesto a debatir con el presidente biden en cualquier momento. ilia: una encuesta revela que pocas personas en estados...