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Takeaways from the first day of the Trump hush money trial | National-politics [Video]

(CNN) — The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is here.

The opening day of the first criminal trial of a former US president began Monday, hitting home the reality that the presumptive Republican nominee for president will be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom as a defendant four days a week.

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Secret recording between Trump and Michael Cohen played in court [Video]

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 hes spoken with the Trump Organizations chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. This company was to facilitate the $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal