CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

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

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