CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip

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 sig...

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 podcast...

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...

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....

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 P...

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...

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 ab...

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended his decision to put forward a massive foreign aid package that pairs billions for Israel with billions for Ukraine and billions for Taiwan earning him praise from the Democratic president and scorn from Republicans. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joins to discuss Speaker Johnson’s decision and to question Netanyahu’s desire for peace amid war.  Learn more abo...