CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

The judge in Donald Trump’s New York hush money cover up trial has issued a damned if he does and if he doesn't the to former president over his repeated breaking of a gag order by threatening to send Trump to jail. The jury got a crash course in the nitty-gritty details of the Trump Organization. It was a day of show and tell that included multiple checks and financial disclosures bearing the signature of Donald J. Trump. That is a critical piece of evidence that the prosecutors need to show that their case doesn't just rest on the word of perjurers like Michael Cohen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reunited from a distance and under subpoena, the former president of the United States and the aide who was by his side as he ascended the political ladder sat mere feet apart today. Hope Hicks was inside the Manhattan courtroom against her will. The woman who spent years answering questions for Trump was now answering questions from the prosecution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sex, lies, and that audio tape. Donald Trump's hush money trial has taken a detour into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. The lawyer who played the go-between, between the Trump-led effort to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence gave the jury some critical facts about the painful process to get this deal done. That lawyer also got a dose of hardball from Trump's lawyers. Now, did it poison his credibility with the jury? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Protests sweeping campuses across the country are putting President Biden between a rock and hard place. Why is President Biden on the sidelines when it comes to these nationwide protests? And, is it hurting him politically? Plus, Donald Trump is taking aim at the judge in his current hush money trial, the very same judge who has threatened Trump with jail if he continues to violate his gag order.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

American universities are losing control of their campuses with arrests, tear gas, and suspensions. Schools across the map are cracking down now on pro-Palestinian protests. But, should they? Or, by doing so, are the setting a precedent that undercuts a fundamental American tradition and an American right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The banker, the gatekeeper, the publisher. The second week of Donald Trump's trial was all about the witnesses who can put the former president at the very center of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arizona adds itself the list of states alleging that Donald Trump and his allies broke the law. A grand jury handed an indictment outlining how 11 Republican supporters of the former president lied to Congress, allegedly acting as part of the conspiracy to commit fraud and forgery.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Judge Merchan issued a gag order before the hush money trial began, limiting Trump from publicly discussing witnesses, the jury or the district attorney’s staff. Merchan expanded the order, which Trump has appealed, to cover his own family after Trump attacked his daughter. He has not yet ruled on the district attorney’s motion to sanction Trump for allegedly violating the gag order. Also, David Pecker, who ran American Media Inc. during the 2016 election, testified for around two-and-a-half hours on Tuesday, walking jurors through how he worked with Michael Cohen on Trump’s behalf to squash unflattering stories during the 2016 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, the country heard the beginnings of a story about Donald Trump, but this time, he no longer controls that narrative. Instead it's New York prosecutors who are painting a picture of an alleged hush money cover up scheme where the victims were the American public.Now, in Trump's own version of events, he says he's innocent, a victim of Michael Cohen's vendetta and Stormy Daniels' opportunism. But he's not in control of that narrative either. Trump, who believes he is his own best spokesman and defender, will now have to leave it to his lawyers.Breaking news: officers move into pro-Palestinian protests on the campus NYU. Plus, Trump's co-defendant in his documents case was told he'd be pardoned.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Will the pressure make the Trump jury crack? Week one of Donald Trump’s historic first criminal trial is now etched into the history books and it ends with a full jury box. Week two will start with opening statements. The jurors come from all parts of New York City, West Harlem, Hells Kitchen, Chelsea, Upper West and Upper East Sides. They all say they can be fair despite what they read or said about Trump in the past.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices