WHY YOU COULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT LABOR CASE IN DECADES. >>> TESTIMONY HAS RESUMED IN THE HUSH MONEY CRIMINAL TRIAL INVOLVING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. >> TODAY THE JUDGE IN THE CASE WILL DECIDE IF TRUMP VIOLATED THAT GAG ORDER THROUGH POSTS ON TRUTH SOCIAL. TRUMP SPOKE OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM EARLIER THIS MORNING ABOUT THE LARGE POLICE PRESENCE AROUND THE TRIAL. >> THERE IS MORE POLICE PRESENCE HERE THAN ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN. FOUR BLOCKS, YOU CAN'T GET TO THE COURTHOUSE. VERY RADICAL PEOPLE ARE AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. >> CBS NEWS NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT ERROL BARNETT IS FOLLOWING THIS FOR US FROM OUTSIDE OF THE COURTHOUSE DOWN IN LOWER MANHATTAN. IT HAS BEEN AN EVENTFUL MORNING ALREADY, BRING US UP TO SPEED WHAT IS GOING ON, ERROL. >> Reporter: HELLO, BEN AND LILIA, YOU'RE RIGHT. THE LONGTIME FRIEND OF DONALD TRUMP, DAVID , IS CONTINUING TO TESTIFY. THEIR RELATIONSHIP GOES BACK TO THE LATE 1980s. HE AND TRUMP WORKED AT A MAGAZINE TOGETHER AND HE WATCHED TRUMP'S PROFILE RISE OVER THE YEARS AND IT WAS AN INSTANT HIT. IN FACT, WHEN ACQUIRED THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER , TRUMP CONGRATULATED HIM ON A GREAT BY. TODAY THE JURY IS HEARING THE TESTIMONY AND SEEING THAT TRUMP'S AND 'S RELATIONSHIP GOES BACK DECADES AND IT WAS A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP. THEY HAVE LAY DOWN THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE MOTIVATION AS TO WHY MR. JIK ONE -- TRUMP WANTED TO HAVE THIS CATCH AND KILL POLICY AS HE WAS ASCENDING TO THE PRESIDENCY IN 2015 AND 2016. I WANT TO BRING IN A CBS NEWS STAFFER INSIDE THE COURTHOUSE DURING THE PROCEEDINGS. GRAHAM KATES WAS INSIDE. YOU SAW THE DAY BEGAN WITH WHAT SEEMED LIKE FIREWORKS BETWEEN THE JUDGE AND DONALD TRUMP'S LAWYER OVER THIS ARGUMENT OF THE PROSECUTION SAYING TRUMP VIOLATED THE GAG ORDER ALREADY. WHAT HAPPENED? THAT'S RIGHT. TRUMP IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING ABOUT ANY OF THE WITNESSES OR ANYONE INVOLVED IN THE CASE OTHER THAN MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG AND JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN. THE PROSECUTION LAID OUT 10 EXAMPLES THAT ON TRUMP'S SOCIAL MEDIA SITE WHERE HE VIOLATED THAT GAG ORDER, WHETHER TALKING ABOUT TWO STAR WITNESSES, MICHAEL COHEN OR STORMY DANIELS OR REFERENCING POTENTIAL JURORS. THEY WANT THE JUDGE TO HOLD TRUMP IN CONTENT. THEY STOPPED JUST SHORT OF ASKING FOR HIM TO BE INCARCERATED, SAYING WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR JAIL TIME BUT WARNING IN THE FUTURE THAT IS A POSSIBILITY. TRUMP'S ATTORNEY TRIED TO DEFEND THESE POSTS THAT TALKED ABOUT THE TWO WITNESSES, THAT TALKED ABOUT POTENTIAL JURORS, SAYING THAT TRUMP WAS RESPONDING TO POLITICAL ATTACKS. THE JUDGE REPEATEDLY SAID, GIVE ME RECENT EXAMPLES WHEN EITHER MICHAEL COHEN OR STORMY DANIELS ATTACKED TRUMP'S POLITICS. THE ATTORNEY REPEATEDLY SHIED AWAY FROM IT AND NEVER GAVE A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE. HE MADE A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING AND IT WAS A DOCUMENT FROM SIX YEARS AGO. THE JUDGE SAID, I WANT THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE. AT ONE POINT, THE ATTORNEY ASKED THE JUDGE BACK A QUESTION, SAYING, I DON'T KNOW WHY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RECENT ONLY. THE JUDGE, YOU COULD HEAR HIS VOICE RISING, HE SAID, I AM THE ONE ASKING THE QUESTIONS HERE, NOT YOU. IT WAS REALLY AN INTENSE MOMENT. THE ARGUMENTS ENDED THERE. WE HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN A RULING ON THAT. THERE WAS A SHORT BREAK AND EVEN DURING THE BREAK TRUMP WENT ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA SITE AND MADE ANOTHER POST ABOUT THE JUDGE, WHO IS CURRENTLY MULLING THIS CONTEMPT REQUEST. >> Reporter: THE JUDGE HAS YET TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL BE, IT COULD BE A VERBAL SLAP ON THE WRIST, IT COULD BE A $1000 FINE PER VIOLATION, WHICH THE PROSECUTION WANTS, OR HE COULD PUT TRUMP IN JAIL WHICH THE PROSECUTION SAID THAT IS PERHAPS WHAT TRUMP WANTS. THEY ARE LEANING TOWARD PERHAPS THAT BUT JAIL TIME IS POSSIBLE YOU ARE WATCHING DONALD TRUMP INSIDE. HOW IS HIS MOOD AND HOW ARE YOU READING HIS MANNERISMS, COMPARED TO OTHER TRIALS QUESTION GO TO IS REALLY STONEFACED AND STOIC. HE DOESN'T SHOW MUCH EMOTION. IT IS A GREAT CONTRAST TO OTHER TRIALS DURING HIS DEFAMATION TRIAL IN FEDERAL COURT, A BLOCK AWAY FROM HERE, THROUGHOUT THE TWO WEEK TRIAL, HE WOULD SPEAK AUDIBLY SO THAT ANYONE IN THE GALLERY COULD HEAR HIM. HE WAS DISGUSTED AT POINTS, THE JURY COULD HEAR IT. THE LAWYERS AND THE JUDGE HAD TO REPEATEDLY WARN HIM HE WOULD BE IN TROUBLE FOR THAT. DURING THE FRAUD TRIAL THE NEXT BUILDING OVER DURING THE FALL, REPEATEDLY, HE HAD TO BE WARNED ABOUT INTIMIDATING WITNESSES BY TALKING DURING THEIR TESTIMONY. THE JUDGE HAD TO WARN HIM, YOU CANNOT KEEP INTERRUPTING PROCEEDINGS. DURING THIS TRIAL, THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THIS TALK, EXCEPT FOR ONE INSTANCE, HE HAS NOT TALKED VERY MUCH. >> THAT IS NOTEWORTHY NOW, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE JUE E WILL MAKE THE DECISION FOR WHAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL BE FOR THE POTENTIAL VIOLATIONS OF
