Here's what happened today

Week five of the hush money trial against former President Donald Trump kicked off with a full day of testimony from prosecutors' star witness, Michael Cohen.

The former Trump attorney and fixer answered questions all day from prosecutor Susan Hoffinger. This included how and why Cohen himself paid the $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, as well as the plan created to repay him– which he says Trump approved.

Cohen testified that Daniels' story, alleging a relationship with Trump, would be "catastrophic" for Trump's campaign. Cohen also recalled Trump telling him that they needed to spin the Access Hollywood tape.

"The spin that he wanted to put on it was that this was locker room talk, something that Melania had recommended, or at least he told me that's what Melania had thought," Cohen said.

Cohen was relatively composed while answering questions from prosecutors, which he did directly and succinctly. Prosecutors will resume their questioning tomorrow morning. Trump's attorneys will then have their opportunity to cross-examine Cohen.

Cohen is the 20th witness called by the prosecution. Prosecutors said they have one more witness to call, though it's unclear who. They expect to finish their side of the case by the end of this week.

Watch: Trump's remarks after Cohen's testimony

Former President Donald Trump addressed reporters after a full day of listening to Michael Cohen's testimony. Trump slammed the case and "corrupt" judge.

"We have a corrupt judge and we have a judge who's highly conflicted and he's keeping me from campaigning," Trump said, referring to Judge Juan Merchan. "He's an appointed New York judge. You know who appointed him? Democrat politicians. And he ought to let us go out and campaign and get rid of this scam."

Holding a stack of papers, Trump reads an earlier statement from Sen. J.D. Vance: "What's going on in that courtroom is a threat to democracy and we cannot have a country where you get to prosecute your political opponent instead of persuading voters." Vance was in court earlier today, supporting the former president.

Court adjourns

Court is adjourning for the day. Prosecutors will pick up their questioning tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.

Cohen: Payments for 'salary' were actually a reimbursement

Cohen says Trump approved the plan, $35,000 a month, and said, "This is going to be one heck of a ride in D.C." He says he'd been around the office enough to know that Trump and Weisselberg had already had this conversation beforehand.

At this meeting, or shortly after, Trump gives Cohen the title of personal counsel to the president. Cohen says the monthly payments were designed to look like a salary but it was a reimbursement for Daniels' payment and Red Finch money.

On Jan. 17, 2017, Cohen texts the operator of his yellow cab medallions in New York, "Thank you. I leave tomorrow for D.C. And just between us, I will be personal counsel to Pres Trump." Cohen says he never put together a legal retainer agreement for future work for Trump "because I knew there was going to be no compensation."

Cohen "beyond angry" with 2016 bonus

Michael Cohen gets his 2016 bonus, which made him "beyond angry."

"I was truly insulted, personally hurt... I didn't understand after all I had gone through," Cohen testifies. "It was insulting that the gratitude shown back to me was to cut my bonus by two-thirds," he adds.

He tells former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg about "how truly pissed off and angry" I was. "I used quite a few expletives," Cohen says. "Even for me, I was unusually angry."

He also told Pecker, "This is the best I get? I couldn't believe it. It was not so much about the number so much as the disrespect that came with it."

Over the holidays, before New Year's, Trump calls Cohen and tells him he'll "take care of it" when he's back.

In the new year, Cohen speaks to Weisselberg about the $130,000 reimbursement. The former chief financial officer tells him, "Let's do it."

Cohen says the Trump Organization also owed him money from the fees he paid Red Finch 2 years ago. Weisselberg adds $50,000 for those tech services and "grosses it up" so Cohen could get the full $180,000. Cohen explains that the figure had to be doubled for tax purposes because he was in the 50% bracket.

Cohen believed he was going to get the $420,000 in one lump sum. Right before Trump leaves for the inauguration, Cohen and Weisselberg go to Trump's office to discuss. It's agreed Cohen will be paid over 12 months starting Feb. 2017, "as sort of a legal service render."

Cohen pitches being President Trump's personal attorney

Cohen said he was upset that Trump did not consider him for chief of staff after becoming president-elect, even though "I didn't want the role" nor thought he was "even competent" for it.

"I just wanted my name included, since I had not once but twice started the campaign, been a surrogate," Cohen says. "I wanted to be considered. It was more about my ego than anything."

He then pitches the idea of becoming Trump's personal attorney to the president. "I thought he would need it because there were still outstanding matters that we were dealign with and every president has a personal attorney," Cohen explains.

Cohen says he also considered a consultant role, which is what he really wanted because "it afforded me the opportunity to stay home, to stay in New York with my daughter, my son, my wife—none of them wanted to go to D.C."

Cohen says he believes he would have been a good fit for such roles because Trump was a businessman before becoming president, and so the public saw him as an "enigma." "No one knew what his positions were," he says, adding that but he did, given his close proximity to Trump.

Texts between Cohen and his daughter, who was studying at UPenn at the time, showed that she had expressed concern about him being upset overt the chief of staff role.

His daughter asked if there would be opportunities in government. Cohen reassured her there was a "hybrid" position.

Cohen to Trump: This was a "real serious" problem

The Wall Street Journal article about Karen McDougal is published on Nov. 4, 2016. The article also mentions Stormy Daniels.

Cohen makes a swarm of calls to Davidson, Howard and Pecker expressing "in a rather angry manner" that they needed to start issuing denials and ensuring that "no one was going rogue," he testifies.

Cohen says he spoke to Trump that night around 9 p.m., stressing, "This was a real serious, again, problem, especially it being so close to the Election Day. I told him exactly who I had spoken to, the substance of my conversation with each of them."

Hoffinger tells the judge she expects to take questioning into tomorrow. Court takes a break.

Cohen pays for Daniels' settlement

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg wouldn't pay it, citing his grandchildren's bills, four of them were enrolled in prep school. So, "because of the urgency that was happening," Cohen ultimately decides, "OK, I'll pay it."

Trump was "appreciative" and told Cohen, "Don't worry you'll get the money back." Cohen said he would not have paid the $130,000 if he didn't think he would get reimbursed.

"I was doing everything I could and more in order to protect my boss, which is something I had done for a long time, but I would not lay out $130,000 for an NDA needed by somebody else," he says.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger shows a flurry of calls between Cohen and David Pecker on Oct. 25 2016. Pecker was the former publisher of the National Enquirer.

Hoffinger asks Cohen whythere were so many calls, Cohen chuckles, "Signal is terrible with keeping phone calls. They'd drop all the time." Pecker also complained about the encrypted app during his testimony.

Cohen says he called Trump before going across the street and wiring the money to Daniels. Phone records show two calls between Cohen and Trump around 8:30 a.m. that morning. One lasted 3 minutes and 1 second, the other 1 minute and 28 seconds.

"I wanted to assure he approved of what I was doing because I required his approval on all of this," Cohen explained of his decision to call Trump. He adds, "On top of that, I wanted the money back."

Hope Hicks' description of Cohen as someone who did things for credit continues to pop up in Cohen's own testimony. Cohen says he immediately informed Trump the money was wired so his boss would know the task was accomplished and so he could take credit for it.

Cohen: "We were losing control" over the settlement with Daniels

Court is back in session and Michael Cohen has returned to the stand. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger resumes questioning about the funding deadline on Stormy Daniels' story.

Trump is seated at the defense table with his eyes closed.

Hoffinger asks Cohen why he wasn't truthful with First Republic about the description of the LLC account he wanted to open. Cohen replies, "I'm not sure if they would have opened it if it stated, 'To pay off an adult film star for a nondisclosure agreement.'"

Cohen reads the email Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson sent on Oct. 17 2016 about cancelling the agreement. "We were losing control over this settlement... as a direct result of my failure to wire funds," Cohen said, affirming he was "very concerned" by this point.

Dylan Howard, then editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer, also texted Cohen that day, saying Daniels was going with the DailyMail.

Cohen, freaked out, calls Trump but gets his voicemail. He doesn't think he can delay the funding until after Election Day, despite Trump's wishes, Cohen testifies.

Melania Trump texts Cohen at 8:53 a.m. the following day, Oct. 18. "Good morning Michael, can u pls call DT on his cell. Thanks," the message reads. Cohen recalls going on CNN that night. Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Cohen about the reports of Trump's behavior towards women.

"I advocated for Mr. Trump in the best light possible," he testifies. "Denials, as well as exclamations, that I've never seen him act in this manner."

While scrambling to find a way to fund the LLC account and pay Daniels, one of the options was to see if someone wanted to purchase a membership to one of Trump's golf clubs. Another idea was finding someone who might be hosting a wedding or bar mitzvah and would pay the money.

Lunch break

Court is taking a lunch break until 2 p.m.

Trump calls Daniels' story a "total disaster" for the campaign

Michael Cohen says Trump called Stormy Daniels' story a "total disaster" for his 2016 presidential campaign.

"This is a disaster, total disaster. Women are going to hate me. Women will hate me. Guys, they think this is cool, but this is an immediate disaster for the campaign," Cohen said, recalling Trump.

Trump said he just wanted to get "past the election." If he won, he'd already be president. If he lost, it wouldn't matter. Cohen asked how things were going "upstairs" with Melania.

"He wasn't thinking about Melania," Cohen testifies. "This was all about the campaign."

Prosecutors are now showing communications with Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson regarding the settlement between Daniels and Trump. Cohen says he was not planning to make the Oct. 14 payment deadline; he was "following directions" to push the matter out until after the election.

Cohen: Daniels' story would be "catastrophic" for Trump's campaign

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger has now turned the questioning to Stormy Daniels.

She asks Cohen what kind of an impact Daniels' story, alleging an affair with Trump, would have on his 2016 presidential campaign.

"Catastrophic," Cohen answers, saying it would be "horrible for the campaign." Cohen recalls Trump saying he met Daniels while playing the celebrity golf tournament with former NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

When the Daniels story resurfaced, Cohen recalls Trump being "really angry with me."

His boss said, "I thought you had this under control. I thought you took care of this," Cohen recalls of Trump. "I expressed to him, 'Mr. Trump, we did... but I have no control over what she goes out and does."

Cohen recalls Melania's advice on Access Hollywood tape

Micahel Cohen recalls finding out about the Access Hollywood tape while in London celebrating his daughter's 21st birthday and his anniversary. He tells Steve Bannon to call him.

"I wanted to assure that things were being properly taken care of to protect Mr. Trump," Cohen says. An email from Cohen to Bannon reads: "It's all over the place. Whose doing damage control here?"

Cohen recalls Trump calling and telling him that they needed to put a spin on the tape.

"The spin that he wanted to put on it was that this was locker room talk, something that Melania had recommended, or at least he told me that's what Melania had thought," Cohen says.

Chris Cuomo, then-CNN anchor, texted Cohen that weekend, asking if he was going to defend Trump. Cohen told him he was being asked by everyone to do shows beginning on Tuesday.

Cuomo told him, "Will be too late, he is dying right now."

Despite his fiery personality, Cohen has been fairly reserved on the stand.
He's remained calm and composed, and has not been very animated. He's also simply answering questions as they're asked– a stark contrast to Stormy Daniels' testimony. This, perhaps, is not surprising, given Cohen is a former attorney. The adult film star repeatedly rambled beyond the scope of the questioning and gave so many details that Judge Juan Merchan interrupted her more than once.

Tuberville: "That courtroom is depressing"

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, J.D. Vance and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis were inside of the courtroom as Michael Cohen began his testimony this morning. They just addressed reporters outside of the courthouse.

"That courtroom is depressing," Tuberville said. "This is New York City, the icon of our country. And we got a courtroom that is the most depressing thing I've ever been in. Mental anguish is trying to be pushed on the Republican candidate for the president of the United States."

On X, Vance slammed Cohen for secretly recording his conversation with Trump.

"Michael Cohen admitting he secretly recorded his employer. Just totally normal conduct, right?" Vance wrote. "The best part is he said he did it only once and only for Trump's benefit. A standup guy!"

Cohen back on the stand

Court is back from morning break and Michael Cohen is back on the stand.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is resuming questions about Trump reimbursing David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer.

Cohen says he advised Trump it would be better to pay Pecker back through check and to make it look like a "proper transaction." Cohen says the recording of he and Trump's conversation got cut off because he received an incoming call, but he felt he recorded enough to reassure Pecker.

"I went to Allen's office," Cohen explains, referring to former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. "I expressed to him that we need funding of $150K to consummate this transaction. Allen then said to me, 'Well, if we do it form a Trump entity that kind of defeats the purpose because the point is not to have the Trump name affiliated at all.'"

Cohen is calm as he continues testifying.

Hoffinger then asks Cohen about forming Resolution Consultants LLC on Sept. 30, 2016. Cohen explains, "To use this entity for the assigned of the Karen McDougal matter as well as the other information." McDougal was a former Playboy model who alleged an affair with Trump.

Cohen says he had "no reason" to own the life rights of McDougal's story and was doing so to the "benefit of Mr. Trump." Phone records show Trump and Cohen spoke for 7 minutes and 14 seconds on Sept. 29, 2016. Cohen says it was to discuss the McDougal matter.

The court is now being shown a $125,000 invoice from Investment Advisory Services. Cohen says, to this day, he still doesn't know what the entity is but it was "clearly to create separation" and "mask" the transaction for McDougal's story.

The life rights are never purchased because Pecker calls the agreement off and tells Cohen to "rip it up."

Trump's eyes are again closed. Eric Trump and Alina Habba are sitting in the front of the courtroom.

Break

Court is taking a morning break.

Jury listens to recording of Trump and Cohen's conversation

During a lunch, Michael Cohen testifies that David Pecker expressed his anger over not being reimbursed for the Karen McDougal deal.

"I said, 'Look, Mr. Trump said he would pay it back, so he'll pay it back," Cohen recalls.

Trump attorney Emil Bove leans over to whisper something to Trump, who finally blinks his eye open. They're now closed again.

To reassure Pecker that he would be reimbursed, Cohen said he recorded a conversation between himself and Trump. Cohen explains to the court that this had become a "regular conversation" between he and Pecker and he wanted Pecker to "remain loyal to Mr. Trump."

The jury is now being played the recording; Cohen says Trump was unaware the conversation was recorded.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asks Cohen what Trump meant by saying "pay with cash" during the conversation.

"To pay it green, which would obviously be one way to avoid any type of a paper transaction, but that's not what I thought was the best way to do it," Cohen answers.

Eric Trump: I've never seen anything "more rehearsed"

Donald Trump has yet to open his eyes throughout the first hour of Michael Cohen's testimony.

Trump's son Eric is watching his father's former attorney on the stand from the front row. "I have never seen anything more rehearsed!" Eric posted on X of Cohen's testimony.

Sen. J.D. Vance is also in court right now.

"I'm now convinced the main goal of this trial is psychological torture," Vance wrote on X. "But Trump is in great spirits."

"I saw a media report a few days ago that Trump looked like he was falling asleep or bored or something. The obvious narrative they're trying to sell is "yeah Biden is mentally unfit but this other guy is bad too." It's an absurd narrative. I'm 39 years old and I've been here for 26 minutes and I'm about to fall asleep."

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York is also here and posted her experience coming into the courthouse.

"After traveling with him [Trump] in his motorcade, court officers were ordered to prohibit us from standing with President Trump as he addressed media," she posted on X. "Citing 'security concerns,' court officers also prohibited us from speaking to media. Courthouse barricaded for blocks so his supporters can't be seen. They WANT to silence the truth, protect their narrative and create the false perception that he has no support. Far from it!"

Cohen recalls working with National Enquirer

Michael Cohen worked with David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, and Dylan Howard, then editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer, after the two informed him of the doorman story involving an alleged Trump love child. Cohen had two suggestions for the doorman agreement: a penalty for violating the terms of the agreement, $1 million per violation, and no end date to the life rights.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is now asking Cohen about former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also alleged having an affair with Trump. Cohen learns that McDougal was shopping a story about the alleged relationship to news outlets and informs Trump.

"His response to me was, 'She's really beautiful,'" Cohen recalled Trump saying. "I said okay, but there's a story right now that's being shopped."

Howard then met with McDougal in California. Following that meeting, Howard texts Cohen: "Understand I've got this locked down for you. I won't let it out of my grasp."

Cohen recalls, "David [Pecker] had stated it's going to cost him $150K to control the story, and Mr. Trump replied, 'No problem, I'll take care of it.'"

"AMI was going to lay out the funds and as Mr. Trump stated to David, 'I'll take care of it,'" Cohen says.

Pecker told Cohen the agreement was "bulletproof." They had "prevented the story from being released on ABC News and effectively, the story had now been caught."

Cohen updated Trump, who told him, "Fantastic. Great job."

What do prosecutors need to prove?

Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney and fixer, has been on the stand now for just over one hour. Here's what prosecutors need from their star witness.

Quick background: After an investigation by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office, Trump was indicted on 34 charges of falsifying business records in 2023. These records relate to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels by Cohen during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels alleges an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Now, prosecutors need to prove that the former president falsified business records with an intent to commit or conceal another crime. We still don't know if Trump himself will testify.

The prosecution faces challenges with Cohen, who has been painted in a non-favorable light by several witness over the last few weeks. Previously, Cohen also pled guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, campaign-finance violations and lying to Congress. More on that here.

Attorney and legal analyst Jonathan Turley said the prosecution's case is "not even close" to tying Trump to a fraudulent scheme.

"Bragg first has to show [Judge Juan] Merchan that someone claimed to have evidence directly tying Trump to an intentional fraudulent scheme to conceal a crime," Turley said. "Thus far, Bragg is not even close. Indeed, many of his witnesses helped Trump more than they hurt him on the actual charges."

Read more from Newsweek's Mandy Taheri here.

Cohen: "It's fair" to describe him as Trump's then-fixer

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asks Cohen if he lied and bullied people while serving in this role, he answers yes to both. Hoffinger then asks about the common moniker used to describe him—"fixer"—Cohen says, "It's fair."

As the two began spending a "significant" amount of time working together, Trump agreed to sync his contact numbers to Cohen's phone so that Cohen could get people on the line for him.

Hoffinger turns the questioning now to David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, and prosecutors' first witness. She asks Cohen if he spoke with Pecker at the Trump Org. of matters related to Trump prior to June of 2015.

"Yes, but rarely," Cohen answers.

Cohen testifies that he would try to place positive stories about Trump, but was not aware of efforts to suppress negative stories. To add some color, Cohen tells the court, "In 2011, when Mr. Trump decided not to run, he actually promised me he was going to do it in the next election cycle."

He said while he was not an official member of the Trump campaign, it was agreed he would add as a "surrogate."

At the 2015 meeting with Trump and Pecker, Cohen recalls the three of them discussed "the power of the National Enquirer—in terms of being located at the cash register of so many supermarkets and bodegas—that if we can place positive about Mr. Trump that would be beneficial."

"If we could place negative stories about some of the other candidates that would also be beneficial," Cohen adds.

Pecker would also "keep an eye out for anything negative" about Trump. "He would be able to help us know in advance what was coming out," Cohen says of Pecker.

At the time, Trump called the coverage "fantastic, " Cohen recalls.

Photos: From the courthouse

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Cohen begins working for Trump

Michael Cohen was introduced to Trump by son Don Jr., who was doing construction to put together units on Trump's property. This included units that Cohen had purchased and was moving into.

Eventually, Cohen was offered a position "whereby I would only answer to him," as Trump's executive vice president and special counsel.

Trump does not seem to be paying much attention to Cohen. His eyes appear closed and he sits facing the front, his attorney Todd Blanche is angled and looking towards Cohen.

Cohen says he would frequently keep Trump updated on his tasks so his boss would know he was "on it" and to "obtain credit" with Trump, who called his efforts were "fantastic."

When prosecutors asked asked how Trump's praise made him feel, Cohen says, "like I was on top of the world."

Cohen mostly communicated with Trump in person or on the phone, he testifies. He also spoke to Trump through "any number of people," including Trump's assistant Rhona Graff, bodyguard Keith Schiller and the Trump children.

Cohen glances at Eric, who is sitting in the front row.

He explains that Trump never had an email address. "He would comment that emails are like written papers," Cohen says of Trump. "He knows too many people who have gone down as a direct result of having emails that prosecutors can use in a case."

"Working for him, especially during those 10 years, was an amazing experience, in many many ways," Cohen testifies.

"For the most part, I enjoyed the responsibilities that was given to me. I enjoyed working with my colleagues at the Trump Org., the Trump children. It was a big family."

Michael Cohen takes the stand

Prosecutors have called Michael Cohen to testify against his former boss. Cohen previously served as Trump's attorney and fixer, he's wearing a dark suit and pink tie.

Trump doesn't appear to be looking in Cohen's direction; he just whispered something to his attorney Emil Bove.

Cohen is now on the stand, he's here under a subpoena. He's walking jurors through his upbringing and education, including graduating from law school in 1991.

"Actually, I didn't really want to be a lawyer," Cohen says. "My grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer."

Prosecutors can't introduce Weisselberg's separation agreement into evidence

Court is now in session.

Judge Juan Merchan begins the morning by addressing the separation agreement between Donald Trump and Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO of the Trump Organization.

Merchan rules he will not allow prosecutors to introduce the agreement into evidence, saying it does not address the charges of this case. On Friday, prosecutors tried to argue that the outstanding severance that Trump owed Weisselberg would prevent him from being a witness on the stand.

Cameras back in the courtroom

As of this morning, cameras seem to be allowed back in the courtroom. A gaggle of four press photographers are currently taking pictures of Trump inside of the courtroom after a two-day ban last week. Read more about that here.

Watch: Trump's remarks ahead of Cohen's testimony

Former President Donald Trump spoke to reporters outside of the courtroom Monday morning ahead of Michael Cohen's expected testimony.

"What this judge [Merchan] is getting away with is disgraceful," Trump said, standing next to his attorney Todd Blanche.

"Including the fact that we have thousands of people, we had 100,000 people in New Jersey, they would like to show their support," Trump said, referring to his rally Saturday in Wildwood. "It is like an armed camp outside. You can't get one person within three blocks of this courthouse."

Trump repeated the "rigged" trial comes from the White House, saying President Joe Biden's top people are "here."

Trump's entourage today includes his son Eric, Senators JD Vance and Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Alina Habba, Boris Epshteyn, among others.

Michael Cohen arrives to courthouse

Michael Cohen has arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court ahead of his expected testimony today.

If called this morning, Cohen will be prosecutors' 20th witness. Several previous witnesses have painted less-than-rosy pictures of the former Trump attorney.

Cohen may face a "grueling" cross-examination as Trumps' attorneys seek to portray him as a liar, a senior attorney tells Newsweek.

"Cohen is going to have to weather what will be a grueling and brutal cross-examination," civil attorney David Ring said. "He must concede he did illegal things and accept blame. If he does that, he can be a very credible witness, despite having a felony conviction and serving time in jail."

Read the full story from Newsweek's Sean O'Driscoll here.

Former President Donald Trump's motorcade has also arrived at the courthouse, where a crowd of supporters has gathered.

Today: Michael Cohen expected to testify

Good morning, it's 9 a.m. in New York City. Today marks week 5 in the criminal hush money trial against former President Donald Trump, and it's set to be an interesting one.

The prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, who previously served as a Trump attorney and fixer, is expected to testify. Prosecutors are seeking to prove that the former president illegally falsified business records after paying off Stormy Daniels as part of an alleged election interference scheme during the 2016 presidential campaign, Cohen made the payment to the adult film star.

Last week, Daniels took the stand for several hours in what was detailed and explicit testimony. We also learned that prosecutors will not call former Playboy model Karen McDougal to testify.

The week ahead: Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said it's possible that the prosecution will wrap up by this week. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said it would call two more witnesses this week, including Cohen.

Schedule: There will be no court Friday as Trump will attend son Barron's high school graduation. There will also be no court Wednesday, as usual.

Get caught up: Here's the latest from Friday.