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obsessed with this? one individual and taylor swift at the center of a wild conspiracy theory is spreading like wildfire among it's trump supporters special report ahead. let's go out, find and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett and outfront tonight, the breaking news, stormy daniels and trump tower, trump's longtime assistant on the stand late today. she said she saw stormy daniels and trump tower, and she testified that she maintained contacts for both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal for donald trump. trump's longtime gatekeeper, rhona graff, was in many ways, trump's right-hand for 34 years. and this moment on the apprentice accurately captures her central role in organizing trump's personal and professional life he asked me to call you and tell you to meet him tomorrow morning at the new york stock exchange? i can tell you as a reporter, if you needed to reach trump, he called graff anytime i was at trump tower to see trump when i

was a business reporter or on the apprentice, she was there at her desk and his office door. she came and went from his office at her own whim. and that was unique. she was always formal. he was always mr. trump to her, but she had stature and she controlled access to him. in fact, she wants told real estate weekly, coating rhona, everybody knows in order to get through to him, they have to go through me and she told prosecutors she not only remembered seeing stormy daniels and the reception area of trump tower before trump ran for office. but then it was quote, unquote office chatter that trump wanted daniels on the apprentice something that daniel's actually talks about in her recent documentary he said, you're actually really smart somehow. >> look conversation about celebrity princes came up and his angle was i'll get a lot of attention for putting those blondes adult actress on tv and i was like nbc would never let me on television and that's

when he's like, every season i get to pick one person that they can't overrule. it's my wildcard. >> now, you know, graph was not a friendly witness for the prosecution. she remains loyal to trump's. she was only on the stand for about a half an hour, but even in that context, and maybe maybe in that context, what she said today about stormy daniels being at trump tower and trump having that contact information for mcdougal and daniels? it's very important. also important was another witness on the stand today, the man who actually arranged michael cohen's $130,000 payment to daniels. >> gary farro worked first republic bank and he testified that cohen contacted him just days after that access hollywood, grab them by the peak tape was released. >> now remember, at that time, trump's campaign was in panic mode and pharaoh testified that at that time, cohen sat up, set up not one but two llcs. and the second was called essential consultants it was done on october 26, 13 days before the

election. and that's the shell company that cohen then used to pay stormy daniels. and remember, it is that is that payment and trump's reimbursement of that payment to cohen? that is at the heart of this criminal case. paula reid is out front live outside the courthouse tonight, and paula david pecker, crucial witness on the stand and continued and continued and continued but then they were able to very quickly move through four witnesses. so where do we stand right now looking into week two good evening. >> aaron all in our first week of testimony, prosecutors only really got through one significant witness where's the former tabloid king david pecker of you just mentioned. >> then they use their last two hours on a friday to put on these other two. >> and this is really quickly mostly to help them just move i'm exhibits into evidence. but rhona graph or you were just talking about sheep prompted something we have not seen throughout this entire trial. and that is a genuine smile from a very unhappy

defendant. >> so we have another day of court. in a freezing courthouse. it's very former president donald trump's still not warming up to the reality of being on trial in the new york hush money case acquire was back on the witness stand tying pecker's non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to an agreement he made to sell the national enquirer, a deal contingent on the investigation into his company being resolved from a timing standpoint, it would've added that onto the stress of the transaction. pecker testified, they also tried to show how pecker had other reasons beyond just helping trump win the white house for running negative stories about trump's opponents. pecker testified that his magazine ran stories about bill and hillary clinton prior to the 20 trump tower meeting we're in agreement to help trump was allegedly breached running those stories was beneficial to

ami pecker testified after his testimony wrapped up, prosecutors used the last few hours of the de to call two additional witnesses. >> the first was trump's long time assistants, rhona, let me add to call split's rhona graff was a fixture in trump's office for decades. >> she testified how before trump became president, she was his gatekeeper keeping close track of his contacts, emails, phone calls, and meetings. she told the jury it was a very stimulating exciting fascinating place to be there is no court on monday, so on tuesday they'll likely wrap up with michael cohen's a banker, and then it's not clear who the next big witness will be. they have not said a publicly. >> we're also waiting earned for the judge, issued his opinion about trump's pledge, repeated violations of his gag order hearing earlier this week about approximately ten violations. >> prosecutors added more later

in the week, another hearing scheduled so for next week, at this point, it's just unclear what exactly the judges strategy is by holding out on a decision there. >> all right. thank you very much, paul. up and all of our experts here with me jeremy san, and let me start with you. criminal defense attorney, a former manhattan prosecutors. so as i said, you've been in these rooms so were to graph confirms, to contact actually maintained for donald trump, were karen mcdougal and stormy daniels and that stormy had been to the office and there was discussion about her being in the apprentice, which stormy herself has just said in that documentary clip i played. did she give the prosecution what they needed? from her? >> she's did. and she did it unwillingly under subpoena. i wouldn't measure her in terms of quantity and measure her in terms of quality, meaning it was short, but it had value. that value corroborates david pecker while there's no there's no agreement, for example no emails, for example understanding how there's a separation, but yet there's obvious communication puts stormy daniels there. it

absolutely establishes that foundation that is necessary to move it forward. so very basically, if david pecker is, i'll use a term, the bread of this, and that's sandwich, you know, you're gonna get michael's pardon me. michael cohen, who's gonna be the bulk in that middle, but it's all that other pieces that puts it together to make it one story that works and cells and is accurate. the all corroborate each other exactly. >> and as i said, it doesn't whether trump did or did not have liaison with stormy daniels may not be relevant to the case, but it is relevant perhaps how the jury proceeds, whether he was wronged and paying. >> i mean, it's important and this goes towards that. manara also criminal defense attorney, former new york prosecutor, did rhona deliver what you think that she needed even considering she was not she did not want to be there. she was not friendly hey, what's clear to me that she wasn't co-operative, that she did not want to be there because, you know, this woman having worked for donald trump for 34 years, she knows the goods, she knows the good and the bad of donald trump. >> so she wasn't really wanting to cooperate with the prosecution, but i think as

jeremy said, the primary goal of getting from her was one, no emails. and number two, the stormy daniels had been in that building because now donald trump cannot deny that he does not know stormy daniel, because you have a confident someone that is close to you, someone that you trust, and someone who's reliable and credible for this joy because she doesn't have an ax to grind, saying that she saw stormy daniels inside of that building on the 26th floor where you reside, right? >> exactly. and maintaining those contexts. i mean, those are those are those are black and white facts. now, jeremy, when you're in the room today the defense was not given a witness list in advance. all right. so they don't know who's coming when i'm sure he's sitting there dreading the day of karen mcdougal and it can and sharing for when michael cohen walks out there, but nonetheless, what was his reaction when rhona graph comes out and takes the stand? >> yeah you know, this was our fourth day of david pecker's testimony in from the start, trump seemed not interested. he was zoned out, i think for most

of it was a lot of rehashing when they called rhona, perked up stood out, he sat up in his chair. he turned toward her, who's actually watching her testimony. unlike what david pecker and when his lawyers, who is a necklace, start a question him, he really started paying attention because she started with questions. what did you think of him as a boss and she's a good thing to say about him. she worked with them for 34 years and, you know his lawyer, she asked did he did he respect your intelligence and when she said i don't think i would've been there for 34 years if she hadn't. that was the onetime today. we're trump actually crack a smile in court and scene and to be enjoying ronna's testimony. so it was a brief moment, but it was i think actually a positive witness for him, at least that way. >> was there any reaction some of these moments that we're talking about when it's stormy daniels was in trump tower, any reaction that really wasn't. and i think it will be interesting to see as this trial goes on get to the karen mcdougal's on the stormy daniels, if that continues to be the case. but so far in this first week of testimony, he has not reacted when they brought

this salacious stuff up. >> all right. well, so sue meanwhile, david pecker, that four days as part of four days finishes his testimony and obviously you've known him for decades. so the last question asked of david pecker today was, does he believe trump does david pecker believes that donald trump cares about his family, right? there have been a lot of questions about why trump would do these things. was it to protect his family or as pecker said? was it for the campaign, but the last question, does trump care about his family? pecker replies, quote, of of course i do think that cares about his family. that surprised you very much so because trump thinks about trump and his family clearly throughout all this is almost been window the dressing just so it makes him look like he's a family guy, but his focus is always been what's best for me. >> that's why he picks the pupil who works with and that's why he's been doing when he just doing with the power play. so the family for politician, obviously it's unnecessary optic to have but his feeling towards them. no, they're just tools for him to advance his own cause and that

moment surprised you mean bernardo at the end of the testimony of david pecker and i guess it's in a sense, it's hard to put it together hi there in it's probably hard for the jury to write because it happened over four days and there was a day off in between. >> i mean, this was a complicated sometimes if he just sat there from start to finish and then we all learned that you don't just do direct and then cross you then do redirect and re-cross and i'm thinking, oh, my god, this thing isn't six this week is going to be 16, but that's another thing i who did david pecker helped more david pecker definitely helped the prosecution out more because they laid out david pecker laid out the foundation. >> he gave us the background information, and he also changed the narrative. this is not just hush money case. we're talking about the purpose of this money. of killing di stories. what's that helped this campaign? and you're hearing it? from someone that i think was relatable to this jury. i think the jury's going to find them credible client and believable. so even though he was engaging in these catching kill schemes and you know when we go into small marble use to see the national enquirer be like, oh, my god, and now we know how that gets

to be the front page of the paper. you got the inflammation that this is exactly how it worked out when it came to donald trump and when it came to michael cohen. and this is something that i think the jury in plain terms are able to digest and they don't know how to apply this information. but shortly after closing arguments and though extra read back to get more of his testimony, read back, there'll be able to put it all so jeremy, when you were what else stood out to you and you're talking about the difference that you noticed in trump's demeanor when rhona graff was testifying as opposed to david pecker, was there anything else you notice when move up the jury and their reactions that, you know, and i think the last witness we had run around, i had some interesting in testimony. she talked about trump's, she talked about stormy daniels, and then we went to a banker and i think then the atmosphere in the room, it dropped another level. >> this was friday at 5:00, right? it wasn't your banker up here 3:00, but yeah. well, exactly. >> exactly. and so that's where this trial is headed, at least

it seems for the next couple of days, the banker he talked about very mundane regulations and eventually we got to how he how he had opened michael cohen's bank account, but they were laying the foundation. this is at its heart and so documents, case it's got a lot of salacious deals around it, but the prosecution is going to have to take those steps. and so with the jury and with trump, we're going to see a lot of downtime in the mix with michael cohen and stormy. >> you gotta mix in a little of this salacious sex, part of the story, right, jeremy, and then put in what it's about so to that point, guy pharaoh banker, michael cohen calls this guy days before the election sets up this tube to llcs and uses one of them to pay stormy daniels on the context of the date, of course, is right after that access hollywood tape, which is anyone forget and remember that was when chris christie refused to go on a sunday show and defend donald trump, right? this was a campaign and complete free fall at that moment. and this is establishing what the campaign did. >> and we've said this 1,000 times and i know you would agree with me you don't leave

common sense at the courthouse footsteps, you go in, the jury takes that with them and you're following, not the quantity you're following, the quality of that evidence. now we have rona graph, who's giving you the presence corroborating how things were done in terms of no emails and and setting that foundation now you have the banker who says, here are the fake account without a fake accounts, but here the shell companies to move the money to make the payment. it's piece by piece by piece. you can't do this just on the shoulders of michael cohen thighs, on the shoulders of michael cohen. right. you need everything else around him to lift him up. otherwise, there is no correct? right. you can't you can't have it on. i know he has long felt that they were going to do that and that he would be he would say it. but then they would prove it separately from my one to the side. he's he's critical, but everything around him and stew one thing that is david pecker is now walked off the stand men that had been friends. >> again, we put that in quotes, but friends such that they were friends over decades. they have not spoken since the beginning of 2019, according to pecker's testimony. so do you think they'll ever speak

again? i mean, trump has said things about him this way. >> if you look at how once pecker told his tail that he was required to he also tried to make friends with trump again, so more like from the godfather, it's personal, not business and this is kind of that relationship anyways, so pretty yep description? >> yeah. all right. well, thank you all very much. >> and to trump complaining that new york's criminal trial is keeping him from his wife's birthday tonight i simply went? there. but i. met, a courthouse for reg lani of trump's former chief of staff, responds next, plus, i'll speak to the sketch chart is to sketch this scene from today's trial, why she says this moment. and if you look closely at trump's phase, you'll, you'll see the intensity there why it caught her attention and an incredible report tonight on a wild conspiracy theories that are flourishing among trump supporters tonight you don't believe taylor swift is i don't know what to believe about taylor swift a year after

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statements about attorneys, court officials, their relatives, and potential witnesses. trump had already set his sights on this man, matthew colangelo, senior counsel to the manhattan district attorney, and part of the prosecution team trying trump's criminal case. >> this is all from doj. the smoke comes out of washington coordinated with the district attorney and the trumps pre gag order tirades against colangelo's center on baseless claims. trump's criminal trial is secretly controlled by president joe biden, the white house, and the justice department his top person called angelo and some others i've been placed into the da's office to make sure that a good job of election interference. trump pointing to colangelo's pass showing he once served as a senior justice department official under biden before leaving to join the manhattan district attorney's office, which is prosecuting his case. trump surrogates have

been pushing this same conspiracy theory about colangelo's was senator tom cotton saying on social media, joe biden's former number three official at the department of justice left dc to help go after president trump in new york and congresswoman marjorie taylor greene promoting the same conspiracy. >> matthew colangelo, it colangelo's should know. he faces years in prison. this was planned from the biden white house and merrick garland's doj at the highest levels during opening statements monday colangelo's referred to trump as someone who engaged in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. he previously had this to say about his current position assisting with the district attorney's focus on finding natural crimes will promote confidence in the legal system by making clear that the same rules apply to everyone, no matter how powerful those who know him describe an attorney who was sharp, strategic, and not easy. delete distracted by

critics meticulously focused on the facts on the law and how the law was broken. and this is not his first rodeo with trump colangelo's is harvard educated and in addition to previously working in the justice department, he also served as an the attorney with the new york attorney general's office where he oversaw the investigation into the trump foundation, which led to its dissolution despite his credentials and no validity to trump's claims, the falsehood about colangelo's could still stick. >> yeah. it's dangerous because it works. facts be it's clear that for much of trump's space, what he says will always be accepted as truth, will always stick. it doesn't matter, for instance, that the manhattan da doesn't report to biden or to the federal government and the results is diminishing public faith in democracy. and specifically the justice system now in the past, trump has promoted a number of various

conspiracy theories on various topics, including the coronavirus at one point you remember, remember, he tried to make it out that obama wasn't born. >> president obama wasn't born in the united states, but yeah, the whole merced certificate thing, he had a thing on climate change claiming that global warming was a hoax, but when you speak to these experts, they all basically say the same thing, which is that despite the truth, despite the facts because trump is the one saying it, his core his based they continue to believe him yeah. >> this is really incredible when you see that. all right. jason, thank you very much. >> all right. well, let's bring in stephanie grisham now, she was the white house press secretary for former president trump, and also the former chief of staff for then, first lady, melania trump and stephanie, you told me that melania is watching this trial very close. it's late obviously today we heard from rhona graff, trump's longtime assistant, who had testified that she had contact information for both storming mcdaniels and karen mcdougal that she maintained for donald trump. >> and that stormy daniels had been in trump tower and we

heard david pecker say that trump had asked him twice about mcdougal calling her, quote, unquote our girl referring to her as how is karen so how does all of this make melania trump feel? i mean, some of this most of this is new information for her yeah absolutely. i'm sure that, you know exactly what you just said. the fact that he asked about her in the white house, the fact that some white house staff got on the phone with david pecker to talk about keeping this secret even further, those were new details to me. and so i know they were new details to her and i'm sure she's not happy about it now. make no mistake. she's not sitting home crying over this, but like any woman would be any married woman are one in relationship it's not fun to hear these details and i think that the difference between karen mcdougal and stormy daniels is that karen mcdougal hasn't been really out there in the news. she says they had a year long relationship that they exchanged. i love you's and i don't care who you are. that's never going to be funny

to hear. no, no. >> it's humiliating for sure. >> obviously, we don't know how closely she is following this, but trump did complain on his way into court today, stephanie, about having to be there instead of being with melania trump for her birthday. here's what he said this morning. >> i want to start by wishing my life were you happy birthday? >> i should be with her, but i'm the courthouse for rnc. >> so far. >> i'll be going there this evening absolutely. >> case furnishes out with this horrible unconstitutional okay now, you also posted a two-minute video on social media for her birthday, highlighting her time as first lady, and that is what really stood out to you today's stephanie, how come you know, i rolled my eyes when he did that, it was it was so beyond inappropriate, but yet so donald trump that on the way into a trial where they are talking about alleged affairs,

not one but two, that he had that is wishing his wife and happy birthday. she and i talked before before about how they actually work really birthday people that that wasn't a big deal to either of them, which i think is pretty normal for a lot of married couples that have been together for a long time. >> and so that was a performance, four voters that was that was not to her same with this video. >> that is a performance to try and get voters to try to get those suburban women and those independent because he knows that she's a very, very popular verse lady and that she, you know, that people really like her. and this was just a performance for them. it had nothing to do with her. it didn't surprise me at all. i'm sure she rolled her eyes it's two because it was just so typical selfish donald trump. >> all right. stephanie, thank you very much. i appreciate it. good to see you you too next, i'm going to speak to the sketch artist who caught this moment trump coming face-to-face with his trusted longtime assistant so what was trump's reaction to her testifying? plus breaking news. we've got terrifying video just coming in of a massive and

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freelancers, fiber the white house correspondents, dinner, live tomorrow at seven eastern on cnn tonight. uh, different sayyed of donald trump on display in corp. trump at one point, growing very animated he urgently addressed his attorney, who was preparing at this moment that you see on your screen to cross-examine the former national enquirer publisher, david pecker. now this key moment was captured in this courtroom sketch by christine cornell, who's been in court every day of donald trump's trial, and she is back with me now. so i just showed it on the screen, but you've got the actual sketch here oil pastels as you are there that guess you're going to hold or they're just pastels? yes. okay. well, i'm sorry okay so tell me though and we'll hold it up here. so the camera can look at it because it's even bigger than this one. >> this one? yeah. yeah. okay. okay. so tell me why this moment really caught your attention. donald trump and his lawyer, david pecker is here on the stand. >> okay. we've been knocking ourselves out trying to get something from the donald and it's really tough because

it's like watching the, the moon on the wane and you just see that little toenail sliver. most of the time that's all you can see if today in the middle of his cross-examination mr. beauvais cross-examination of pecker? >> yeah donald, right after the mid-morning break, practically lunge did him because he wanted to get his attention. >> he wanted his lawyer to come and sit down so the speed, physically lunging he lunged. he reached for him and then beauvais sat next to him, and then he was very animated, a very directed and very much who felt, oh, that's what they're talking about when they say this guy kind of rules the room when he's there you felt that energy from him i mean, honestly, he's been practically comatose for the last week and a half, right. >> everyone you have described so many times when he's there i look at xyz close the listening, but yeah, yeah. like this. well, he's he's coming to life now and it's because this man is one of his oldest

friends. and they're really made a lot of mischief together so, well, that's maintenance. so you finally got this and this is today under cross-examination. all right. so how would you how would you characterize his demeanor? i mean, i can see the intensity here could you tell the emotion as to whether it was frustration or anger or was it hard to discern? >> you know, it was walking in line a little bit because pecker was in the room to not the judge or the jury, but pecker was looking at him wanting to make eye contact with him and donald looked at him and pecker had look like you know, g friend, we're still runs, right. i mean, that's what the mood i got from pecker and with donald, i got like he blew his cheeks out, like and at this moment there's no jury, there's no judge you're saying it this moment? no, judge. >> i mean, there's no judge, no jury wow. >> so it really was but as a

personal as a moment, again, it was very personal moment and then after that, it was followed by his personal secretary who'd been with him for 30 years. and he smiled a little liver and, you know, seeing those human contacts is really starting to make a real picture for us. >> so, so rhona graff was there right at one point, she tells the court of him. >> right. and she said some very damning thing. she didn't she wasn't there to do that. she was not a friendly witness to the prosecution, but she does she did say stormy to angelman trump tower our she said those things, but then they asked her about her relationship with trump. and at one point, christine, i'm quoting from the transcript from what are reporters said. i think that he was fair. and what's the word i'm looking for a respectful boss to me. sometimes you a peek is headed and say, go home to your family the that, which i thought was very thoughtful him, you know, it's funny when she says that i remember and i had interact with her many times over the years. her saying that to me once he cares about my family, tells me to go home to our family. i actually had heard

her say i just remembered that now, reading this, but how did he react to her testimony? >> well i mean, basically what she testified to was that there were these she made these information contact cards for him so, yes definitely had a relationship with both of these women. one of them especially carol, karen. karen? yeah. they had two different addresses for her, so he obviously been following her for some time with stormy. it was just a single number. >> just a single number? yeah. did he seem warm looking at rona that there was some sort of a care absolutely absolutely. >> i don't think he felt like she was betraying him. i think that he's not denying that he had any contact with these people at all i don't think that's the issue. i think it's much more complicated legal stuff. >> right. you know, christine, thank you very much. >> and thank you for sharing this moment. it's worth

emphasizing is i didn't i didn't notice it until you mentioned the omission that the judge was not there. this wasn't a sort of do this in this incident with the judge that it was such a personal no. in fact, when i came in and i saw that and i was watching, i was afraid i was going to miss it if i tried to start to draw. so i just picked up my binoculars and just watched so i would have it in your mind? yeah. i thought about whether or not i should have done the drawing of him lunging and then i thought, well, that's kind of like gilding the lily not exactly story well, it is all amazing. >> it's also amazing to think about how you look sometimes when we hear things, we then remember them after, but that you really want to capture it in that instant christine, thank you very much and good to see you as all way next, how taylor swift has found herself at the center of wild conspiracy theories right now spreading along trump supporters nurse named from taylor swift. there well ministration. and then who's

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your best friend kills your other best friend robby surprises and surprises that jinx part two streaming exclusively on macs chasing life, dr. sanjay gupta, listen wherever you get your podcasts tonight, the chilling effect of misinformation among the lies. >> taylor swift is a quote front for a covert political agenda donie o'sullivan spent months with trump supporters to uncover the conspiracies that they believe and how quickly they are spreading even now. here is what he found by now, everyone knows taylor swift has a government siop you don't believe taylor swift is a goldman say, i don't know what to believe about taylor swift this is, joe black that's what we thought. yeah. >> are you guys going to cover

it like i met joe at a trump rally in las vegas because back in january, print cnn you don't like is accurate. i really i think you guys do sound bites. >> you think trump one last time. i take it i do firmly believe that there were some election interference enough that it lost them. they live and all people have to do is a little research to figure it out fell pay joe are you doing i stayed in touch with joe after vegas i wanted to find out more about why joe doesn't trust someone like me a journalist from the so-called mainstream media so we went to visit him in grand junction, colorado here we are in grand junction. what happened what happens in vegas stays in vegas yeah. why didn't you stay there? >> some guys come home from vegas for the new bride. you come back from vegas. >> but a bunch of cnn goes everybody makes mistakes. so if

you want to find out what's going on in the world just right now today. what do you do i check on different platforms that i feel that i can trust one being telegram. >> telegram is definitely one yeah telegram as a platform first developed in russia that has very few rules cnn breaking news are we got some more we're breaking news coming into the situation room right now. the president's twitter account has been suspended. i feel like that's an insult to people to not be able to look at information into turn it themselves. >> they're basically calling that person is stupid. telegram surged in popularity after d january 6 attack when major social media platforms crack down on conspiracy theories and banned people like trump and banned some of his supporters like joe i turn on my phone one day and all of a sudden has been deactivated. >> how does that feel there was horrible i liked facebook social the marketplace. we can do business. you can find

things so it's like being cut off of a part of life. >> so what's a channel you follow on telegram if i want to see someone a news for today, my favorite one, it's called patriot memes i visited joe a couple of weeks before the super bowl it was just as the conspiracy theory that taylor swift was helping read the game to help biden started circulating online. >> who is one of the first things that popped up on chose feed? >> let's go to something that's like news though. >> yeah so this is this is from benny by now. everyone knows taylor swift is a government siop this is exactly why kopan media is having a meltdown about it you don't believe taylor swift as a gun and say i don't know what to believe about taylor swift it's good to keep your mind open. could she be could you not be because we're a few weeks from the super bowl a nurse, they an endorsement from taylor swift. >> there by my and then who's

going to win the super bowl i call that a conspiracy theory, okay? sure. yeah. >> what what i find most difficult to believe, but the taylor swift travis kelce, super bowl conspiracy theory is that you think the democrats could be so organized organized do you think? >> i do? yes we're gonna get together as well as reading the super bowl. >> and taylor is going to back biden for present. >> that's just so much stuff like that is so much organization, but not that hard. you don't think rigging the election, it'd be a lot more complicated and donie, i mean, is it's fascinating and so important that you had that conversation, spent that time getting to know a person. but some of these conspiracies and these lies that you were really tracking down how they're taking root in people's lives our corroding trust. how bad is

it? >> well, i think he just heard it there in the very last thing that you heard, joe black say rice, is that you have this absurd conspiracy theory about taylor swift boss millions of americans have been convinced that the 2020 election was stolen. and if you think about just how vast actual conspiracy that would, that would need to occur for that to happen? >> it's huge rice and so if people can believe as tens of millions people do that the last election was stolen. >> it's just opened up a world to this alternative reality where taylor swift can write the super bowl for joe biden yeah, it is it goes to show you what people can believe and people do believe right now. >> all right, dani, thank you very much. and i obviously that piece was fantastic and fascinating. but you're gonna get to see a lot more but don't he has a special episode of the whole story, miss info nation, the trump faithful, you

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retaliation for the bombing of its embassy compound in syria, killing several top revolutionary guard come manders. israel, the us, and other allies managed to take down most of the iranian drones and missiles. but israel then hitting back with a limited strike against it's an airfield in central iran the hardliners flying massive palestinian flags ripping into israel's operation in gaza. and the us is supported worked for israel. the message here, iran is ready for a confrontation that in fact, we are even happy about this. this man says, we are praying day and night for a second the third attack and he says, we've had these threats for a long time, but the difference is now the people are strong. he irgc is strong, and the army be as strong. and we have strong tools i got this cleric says, if he islamic republic of iran will have more conflicts in the future, it doesn't mean we are warm mongering. we're just reacting to the boolean me, the

goggins. but on the streets of tehran, concern the current tensions could escalate and even turn into war for our lunch. i believe the situation will get worse. this man says, as both sides are more combative, and in my opinion, it will lead to war and to calamity for people for this woman says, we are definitely concerned, worry, but what can we ordinary people do about it runs leadership says its military is ready for combat then as they say, war is not in their interest for glycan cnn, tehran and also tonight, the secretary of state antony blinken in beijing meeting with the chinese president xi jinping. >> are kylie atwood is there with him and he spoke to her exclusively about the united states diplomatic efforts in the israel-hamas war. and kylie joins us live now from china, highly tell us more about your conversation well, listen aired. >> we had a wide ranging conversation. we spoke in part

about the ongoing israel-hamas ward us officials have said that they believe the way out of this war would be a historic deal that includes normal causation of relations between israel and saudi arabia. and a clear pathway forward towards a two-state solution between israelis and the palestinians. but they've also said a ceasefire needs to be in place in order for that deal to actually come to fruition. but i asked him if it it would be possible to roll out the framework for that deal before there's any ceasefire in place in a way to push ahead towards a halt in fighting and he appeared to leave the door open to that. listen to what he said we've been clear about what the vision is and beyond that, we've been working intensely to flesh it out working with our partners working with european partners on this as well and i think the more concrete it becomes and the more it moves from the hypothetical and theoretical to something that's actually

possible. >> that's real. >> then everyone involved is actually going to have to make decisions and make choices and so we're doing this work and we're trying to make it as real as possible so that people do decide and 80 grit before ceasefires and play. i think certainly that's possible. we've again been actively engaged on this and what ceasefire are not we'll continue to make these possibilities known. but in order to actually realize this there's going to have to be an end to the i've clicked in gaza. and as i said, there's also going to have to be a resolution to the palestinian question or at least an agreement on how to resolve it now it appears that is a shift in thinking and the potential or of events to get out of this conflict. >> but of course, the framework for this potential deal isn't even done yet, and it will be a major hurdle to get all parties to agree to this deal. not the least of which would be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu aaron korsh has been

staunchly opposed. all right. thank you very much. kylie atwood in beijing tonight and thanks so much to all of you for being with us. anderson starts now good evening. >> welcome to our continuing special primetime covers the fast-moving from hush money trial de eight saw three witnesses testify. former national enquirer publisher david pecker, wrapping up a week on the stand, former trump personal assistance, rhona graff, seemingly undermining the former president is denial about faris, a strong media and yellows and karen mcdougal and a former executive of the bank or michael cohen arrange the, uh, hundred and $30,000 daniels payout. rhona graff, under defense cross-examination in meetings. she was not testifying by choice this but nonetheless, telling prosecutors that she kept contact information for the two women her boss had denied knowing intimately, including stormy daniels cell phone number and two addresses just for karen mcdougal. she also said she vaguely recalled one seeing daniels at trump tower on the 26th floor then when prompted by the defense, she said it might have been in connecit