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Prosecutors played an audio recording of a 2016 phone call between President Trump and his then attorney Michael Cohen in court. On the call you hear Trump respond to Cohen saying he needed to open a company, and that he's spoken with the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up.
Judge Juan Merchan corrected former President Donald Trump's false statement about the gag order during his hush money trial. Trump falsely said the gag order prevents him from testifying. CNN's Elie Honig discusses what the gag order actually does.