Trump trial judge threatens to throw out 'contemptuous' defence witness

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer, who is in court to support Donald Trump, is looking at his phone in the front row.
64% : "After he explained what was going on, my life is shattered, my family's life is shattered.
60% : He also worked to secure an endorsement for Donald Trump from a relative of Martin Luther King ahead of the 2016 election, he adds.
56% : "The other one was my life was on the line, my liberty, I was the defendant in that case," Cohen says.
56% : Todd Blanche notes that Michael Cohen spoke to Donald Trump on the morning of 26 Oct 2016 in two phone calls.
55% : "The reason why you wanted to speak with President Trump on that day was to make sure that he approved of what you were doing" with the Stormy Daniels payment, he asks.
54% : "You agree with me right that you have a lot going on both in your personal life and with President Trump in those first two weeks of October?"
52% : The defence appears to be making out that Cohen needed money and realised attacking Donald Trump could be a lucrative opportunity.
52% : Donald Trump should be entering the courtroom shortly.
44% : Michael Cohen tells the court that there is a TV show that is being pitched about his life - with the title "fixer", his self-described job with Donald Trump.
39% : Under questioning, Cohen says in the same month he sold a property with his brother, was involved in litigation, and was helping Tiffany Trump with an extortion attempt.
38% : The prosecution is asking Michael Cohen if he was paid by the work he did for Donald Trump and his family in 2017 and 2018.
34% : "Donald Trump ultimately finished ninth in the poll but apparently refused to pay for the work undertaken.
33% : Donald Trump is whispering to Todd Blanche.
33% : Cohen confirms he did, before Mr Blanche asks about his work on sorting out the extortion attempt against Tiffany Trump the day before.
31% : Donald Trump is back in the courtroom but the jury are not.
29% : Donald Trump appears animated as the court takes yet another break during his hush money trial.
29% : Mr Blanche follows up by repeating Cohen's earlier testimony that he told lies under oath out of loyalty to Donald Trump.
29% : Mr Blanche follows up by repeating Cohen's earlier testimony that he told lies under oath out of loyalty to Donald Trump.
28% : "Mr Costello says that Michael Cohen "said numerous times that Donald Trump knew nothing about those payments" to Stormy Daniels.
26% : The prosecution has signalled it will question Michael Cohen on the call he made on Oct 26 - in which he apparently told Donald Trump that he had made a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
25% : Mr Costello says Michael Cohen told him at the meeting: "I swear to god, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump.
25% : Donald Trump has his eyes closed and is slumped in his seat as the cross-examination of his former "fixer" continues.
24% : Michael Cohen said he told Donald Trump in an Oct 26 phone call that he had finalised a payment to a porn star with whom his boss had had an affair.
21% : "What's going on?"The talk outside Manhattan Criminal Court this morning is whether Donald Trump will appear in his own defence in the witness box.
20% : "He said, 'I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump,'" Costello said, referring to Cohen.
20% : Donald Trump is slumped over with his eyes shut as his lawyers look to expand the scope of their questioning of Brad Smith.
19% : Testifying for the defence, Mr Costello said Mr Cohen told him after the 2018 FBI raids over Russian election meddling and possible collusion by Trump campaign aides that he had nothing on Mr Trump.
16% : Michael Cohen is recounting an alleged plot he undertook with Donald Trump and the head of RedFinch, a tech company, to rig a poll and inflate his boss' standing as a businessman.
16% : Pressed by Todd Blanche, he said the number is "probably closer to 20."It's hard to tell if Donald Trump has fallen asleep or simply has his eyes shut - but he inhaled sharply and appeared to jerk when his lawyers returned to the defence table.
15% : Michael Cohen is now being confronted with conversations he had with reporters in 2018, when he said Donald Trump did not know about the $130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels.
14% : Mr Blanche appears to be making out not only that the prosecution's star witness is a thief, but that the DA's office were biased against Donald Trump.
3% : Emil Bove, acting for Donald Trump, says he was being called to "rebut government's argument about a supposed pressure campaign from President Trump" on Cohen.

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