CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

Tensions and chaos erupt inside the courtroom in the New York hush money cover up trial. The Trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen. About fourteen minutes into his testimony, Costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught Trump’s attention. But, the presiding judge was not amused.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Video exclusively obtained by CNN offers a direct contradiction to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ claims that he did nothing wrong. The rap mogul insisted back in December that people were assassinating his character, destroying his reputation with sickening allegations for a quick payday. Turns out, he did exactly what his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura alleged in a lawsuit she has since settled.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A game of risk the prosecution may have just lost. The Trump defense team’s strategy to paint Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney and fixer, as a liar intent on revenge may have worked. But, if anything may derail the government’s case against Donald Trump it might be what happened today.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The side by side comparison that Americans desperately need is set to occur on June 27th when President Biden and former President Trump will debate live on CNN. There will be no audience, no opportunity for the crowd to make the venue home field for either Trump or Biden. It will happen inside CNN’s Atlanta studios where Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to discredit Michael Cohen on the witness stand today in perhaps the most important testimony so far in the New York hush money cover up trial. We break down the latest testimony transcripts and all the important developments in the trial. Plus, with the 2024 presidential election drawing closer, both candidates are making false claims about a pivotal issue: the economy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the New York hush money cover up trial, Michale Cohen testified for five hours and eight minutes as the government led him through a deliberate testimony which outlined how Trump ordered him to make the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections have created dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California — but could also disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend. The ongoing geomagnetic storm is now "extreme," or level 5 out of 5, the Space Weather Prediction Center said Friday night. This is the first G5-level storm since October 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On day 14 of the New York hush money cover up trail Stormy Daniels took the stand, yet again, under cross-examination. Donald Trump's defense spent a whole lot of time asking questions about what they originally objected to: the details of her alleged tryst with the former president of the United States. Trump's attorney heavy handedly asserting that the adult film actress had made it all up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The president of the United States is drawing a red line in Israel's war in Gaza. In a CNN exclusive interview, Joe Biden is sending a message that will echo across the globe and rattle the normal order of things inside of the Middle East. The commander in chief admitted that American military might has been used to kill civilians in Gaza.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look at two Trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working while the other might be working against the former president of the United States. The first is deny, deny, deny. In minutes, the eight year history of Trump’s repeated denials about Stormy Daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices