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Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I'm your host, Greg Sargent. On Thursday, Stormy Daniels faced withering cross-examination from Donald Trump's attorneys in his Hush Money trial in Manhattan. By most accounts, she parried their efforts with humor and a fair amount of mockery directed at Donald Trump, and seemed to survive their assaults on her credibility. That's essential to securing a conviction of Trump. What's troubling, however, is that all of this comes, even as it's now becoming clearer than ever, that Trump's other criminal trials probably won't take place before the election. Which leaves us in the odd place of relying on the trial that's all about sorted, semi-details, illicit sex, hush money, and fraud to cover it all up, as the one place where we may see accountability for Trump. So we invited Barbara McQuaid, a former federal prosecutor, back on the show to help make sense of all this. Welcome back, Barbara. Thanks very much, Greg. Okay, so in Manhattan, Trump is charged with 34 felony counts for fraudulent bookkeeping designed to conceal other crimes related to his $130,000 Hush Money payment to mistress Stormy Daniels.