May 28, 2024, 6:59 p.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

The judge’s mood remains light. With the jury out of the room, the prosecution and defense argue about whether Joshua Steinglass can talk about Stormy Daniels’s state of mind.

Justice Merchan hears the lawyers out and sides with the defense, telling Steinglass that he’s gone as far as he needs to go in talking about Daniels being intimidated by Trump, and that no further argument to that effect need be made.


May 28, 2024, 6:59 p.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

We are taking what the judge, smiling, promises the jurors is our last break of the day.