Michael Cohen expected to testify Monday in Trump hush money trial: Live updates

Lead defence attorney Todd Blanche is up now, clarifying that Longstreet is just reading things that were written down.

At one point, Dylan Howard said he got into it with his CEO (presumably David Pecker), and “explained that 2 people saved his ass today and i’m leading this call with this people and i’m going to tell them how it’s going to be”

He said he is “not going to burn my lifelong contact for these f***ers.”

Rodriguez: They didn’t pay and she doesn’t believe it and she’s doing her press conf in the morning she hired another attorney

Howard: What deadline did they have?

We previously saw emails between Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson, with Cohen blowing past deadlines for payment and Davidson threatening to walk.

Davidson also said Cohen was making up excuses that he assumed was an attempt to wait until after the election to pay up.

Howard: I’m at dinner I will email contract when back at hotel or by first thing AM

Rodriguez: Daily mail is offering 200

Rodriguez some days later: Never heard from you and stormy leaves tomorrow to go back home. … DM wants it too

Howard: Ok i will call in a few hours

Rodriguez: We’re not doing the trump deal

Howard: Keith gave me a heads up. What happened?

Rodriguez: They didn’t pay when they said they would … Daily mail wants it bad so we’re doing it

Howard: Spoke to Keith last night and we’re all good

Rodriguez: Daily mail too

Howard: Well I will buy it but I ain’t got 250k Lol. GMA can’t pay her – they can license pix etc. I will tie up ASAP if we can get a realistic price

Rodriguez:: Ok what about 150k?

Rodriguez: Stormy Daniels and Trump with her is up on The Dirty and Fox News has been calling. Stormy has not confirmed or spoken are you interested?

Howard: She will confirm on record?

Howard: Can you email me the pitch on Stomy? I need to elevate it to my CEO

Howard: He likely will pay

Rodriguez: Yes I’ll send to you

Howard: How much for Stormy?

Howard: You have that bid?

Rodriguez: Yes working on it

Rodriguez: GMA wants her too

We see email exchanges from Dylan Howard and “G” (with the rest redacted, though we know G is Gina Rodriguez, and Longstreet just said her name).

Longstreet did the redactions in that exchange.

And now messages on 7 April 2016 between Howard and Rodriguez.

Rodriguez: But stormy daniels was his mistress

Howard: Can u email what u have on that

Rodriguez: Yes I will send you have I have

It’s the first of several exchanges between them, mostly trying to nail down a time to meet to discuss Stormy.

Portions of these messages have been seen before during the trial.

Further tweets are shown to the court:

And then this one which appears to describe the case Mr Trump is currently answering to:

[It’s not threaded properly but obviously there was more to that one]

Next, the court is shown this tweet:

Longstreet (who works for the Manhattan DA’s office) previously explained that she was tasked with identifying publicly available materials like social media posts and news articles relevant to the case.

As part of her job, she reviewed somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 social media posts, and then used a screenshot app to save them, note them, and “hash” them, which gives them a digital footprint to preserve their integrity.

The court is shown this thread from 2018: