May 30, 2024, 11:11 a.m. ET

Jonah Bromwich Reporting from inside the courthouse

David Pecker testified on cross-examination that the phrase “catch and kill” was not used at the August 2015 meeting — and that there was no financial agreement made in concert with the plan for him to supress negative stories about Trump. The defense has argued that both of those data points should cast doubt on the prosecution’s theory.