Key takeaways from Stormy Daniels' testimony in Trump trial

>>> HELLO AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. ONE TRIAL UNDERWAY AND ANOTHER ONE ON PAUSE FOR DONALD TRUMP. AND DEATHLY POSTPONING THE JUSTICE FROM HIS CLASS OF THE DOCUMENTS CASE AGAINST TRUMP AND FLORIDA. ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN MAY 20. HIS CASE WAS UNLIKELY TO BEGIN BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THIS NOVEMBER NOW SEE THAT EVEN LESS SO. MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK ADULT FILM ACTRESS STORMY DANIELS TESTIFIED IN THE CRIMINAL CASE ON TUESDAY ABOUT HOW SHE MET THE FORMER PRESIDENT AT A CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT. SHE ALSO GAVE DETAILS, MAYBE TOO MANY, ABOUT THEIR ALLEGED SEXUAL ENCOUNTER IN THE SUBSEQUENT NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT SHE ENTERED INTO AFTERWARDS. THE PAYMENT TO SILENCE ARE PAID BY TRUMP'S FORMER ATTORNEY MICHAEL IS AT THE CENTER OF THE CASE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO 34 COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO COVER UP THE PAYMENT AND HAS DENIED AN ENCOUNTER WITH DANIELS. THEY ASKED THE JUDGE TO DECLARE A MISTRIAL OVER HER TESTIMONY, HOWEVER THAT WAS QUICKLY DENIED. TRUMP SPOKE BRIEFLY TO THE PRESS AFTER THE COURT ADJOURNED FOR THE DAY. >> THIS WAS A VERY BIG DAY AND A REVEALING DAY. YOU CAN SEE THEIR CASE IS TOTALLY FALLING APART. THEY HAVE NOTHING ON RECORD. EVEN SOMETHING THAT SHOULD VERY VERY LITTLE RELATIONSHIP TO THE CASE. >> WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED IN BOTH CASES. KATRINA KAUFMAN IS STANDING BY, BUT WE BEGIN WITH SCOTT McFARLANE. WHY DID THEY MAKE THIS DECISION? >> THE JUDGE IS EXPRESSING SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS CASE. SAYING THAT THERE ARE ALL OF THESE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND ISSUES THEY HAVE TO SORT OUT. THEY ARE INTERTWINED WITH THE DISTINCTIVE CLASSIFIED RECORDS COMPLICATIONS OF A CASE THAT ALLEGES FORMER PRESIDENT HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY EXPOSED TO SECRETS. PUT TOGETHER SHE SAYS THAT TRIAL DATE IS JUST NOT TENABLE. WHAT IS MORE IS SHE DID NOT SAY A NEW DATE. DID NOT PUT A DATE LATER ON THE CALENDAR TO KEEP EVERYBODY ON PACE. THIS THING IS NOW OFF THE CALENDAR, WHICH RAISES THE PROSPECT IT COULD TAKE MANY MONTHS TO GET BACK ON TRACK. THE IDEA OF THIS TRIAL HAPPENED BEFORE THE ELECTION WAS ALWAYS A TENUOUS ONE. THAT SEEMS TO BE FAR-FETCHED AT THIS POINT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NOW LET'S BRING IN OUR CAMPAIGN REPORTER AND ATTORNEY WHO WAS INSIDE THE COURTROOM TUESDAY IN MANHATTAN. BEFORE WE GET TO THE ACTION IN MANHATTAN ANY REACTION TO THE CASE? HE SAID THIS WAS NOT LIKELY TO MAKE IT BEFORE THE ELECTION ANYWAY. >> I CAN SAY I AM SURPRISED. I WAS AT THE HEARING WHERE WE DISCUSSED THE TRIAL DATE AND SHE HAS SEEMED TO HAVE NO URGENCY WHEN IT COMES TO SETTING A DATE FOR THE CASE, BUT IT HAS BEEN NOT A GREAT A FEW WEEKS FOR JACK SMITH BETWEEN THE SPRINKLER ARGUMENTS ON IMMUNITY AND NOW THIS INDEFINITE TRIAL POSTPONEMENT IN FLORIDA. >> JUST TO REMIND PEOPLE. THE REASON IF IT DOES NOT HAPPEN BEFORE THE ELECTION THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CASES GO AWAY. >> CORRECT. HE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE STATE CHARGES, BUT THE FEDERAL CHARGES HE COULD. >> WHY IS STORMY DANIELS'S TESTIMONY IMPORTANT? >> ONE COULD ARGUE PERHAPS THE PROSECUTION DID NOT NEED QUITE SO MUCH TESTIMONY FROM HER, BUT REALLY SHE IS RELATED TO TWO DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE PROSECUTION'S CASE. WE HAVE THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS WHICH ARE REALLY FOR TRUMP SUPPOSEDLY FALSIFYING DOCUMENTS WHEN HE PAID BACK MICHAEL COHEN, BUT HIS PAYMENT WAS TO HER SUPPOSEDLY TO KEEP HER SILENT IN THE DAYS LEADING UP BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT THE PROSECUTION WAS ALSO TRYING TO PROVE THIS UNDERLYING SECOND CHARGE WHICH IS THAT ELECTION FRAUD WAS COMMITTED, AND A PART OF THAT IS THE CATCH AND KILL SCHEME THAT IS DANIELS A STORY. BEING SUPPRESSED BY DONALD TRUMP LEADING UP TO THE ELECTION IN ORDER TO HELP HIS CANDIDACY. THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO PRESENT THE STORY OF WHO THE WOMAN IS AND HOW SHE FIRST MET DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM AS WELL AS THE HISTORY OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. >>'S DEFENSE LAWYERS CALLED FOR A MISTRIAL. WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT? >> STORMY DANIELS SAID A LOT IN COURT TODAY. SHE SHARED A LOT OF DETAILS AND SPOKE VERY FAST THEATER IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY THE JUDGE KEPT TRYING TO CURB THE AND ASKED HER TO SPEAK SLOWER BECAUSE ALSO WHEN THE OBJECTIONS WOULD COME IN SHE WAS GOING SO FAST BASICALLY BY THE TIME HE SUSTAINED SHE HAD ALREADY ANSWERED THE QUESTION AND SHE WAS JUST SHARING SO MUCH COLOR, BUT WHEN THEY ASKED FOR THE MISTRIAL HE SAID HE DID FEEL LIKE TOO MUCH DETAIL WAS SHARED. IT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR A MISTRIAL AND ALSO TESTIFIES THE DEFENSE AND SAID WHY WEREN'T YOU OBJECTING MORE? AT ONE POINT HE HIMSELF ACTUALLY STOPPED HER FROM SAYING SOMETHING AND POINTED THAT OUT AND SAID AT ONE POINT OBJECTING TO WHAT SHE WAS SAYING BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT DOING IT, SO HE SAID THERE IS SOME RESPONSIBILITY ON THEM AND OFFERED TO GIVE LIMITED INSTRUCTION TO THE JURY RELATED TO CERTAIN TESTIMONY WHICH THEY ARE STILL WORKING OUT. >> THE CROSS EXAMINATION TODAY AND AGAIN THURSDAY. WHAT WAS THE TENOR OF THAT? >> IT WAS EXTREMELY TENSE. I WAS IN THE COURTROOM AND THE TENSION WAS PALPABLE. SHE IS ONE OF TRUMP'S DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WHO DOES NOT OFTEN SPEAK IN COURT BUT IS KNOWN FOR BEING A TOP-NOTCH DEFENSE LAWYER BELIEVE THAT AFTER STORMY DANIELS. SHE WAS SHOWING A LOT OF WHAT SHE CALLED INCONSISTENCIES IN HER STORY. THINGS SHE HAD SET ON THE STAND AND WAS BREAKING OUT HER BOOK AND SHOWING PASSAGES THAT PERHAPS ARE THEY THE STORY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY. SHE IS REALLY DOING EVERYTHING

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Keywords: Politics, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Trial, Crime, New York, Florida, Jack Smith, United States Department of Justice, Prime Time with John Dickerson Clips, U.S., CBS News

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Length: 6min 10sec (370 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2024