Day 8 of Trump New York hush money trial

The first document is being shown to the jury is an email from Farro's assistant informing him that Michael Cohen called on October 11, 2016.

Farro received another email two days later.

The banker called Cohen who told him he wanted to open a new LLC account. Cohen said the account was for "capital real estate," Farro says.

"Need an account opened for Mike Cohen immediately. He wants no address on the checks. Calling you now to discuss," an October 13, 2016, email Farro wrote says.

Then banker says that it wasn't that unusual for an LLC not to have addresses on the checks.

Cohen called to set up an account for Resolution Consultants LLC.

The jury is now seeing pages of documents that show Resolution Consultants LLC was created by Michael Cohen as a Delaware entity.

For background: This was the LLC Cohen created for the Karen McDougal payment that never happened.

Farro is being asked about email servers at First Republic and what information they recorded.

The emails include bank transactions and client communications, Farro testifies.

Now the first document from several binders full of them is being shown to the jury.

Trump's attorneys, Emil Bove and Todd Blanche, are flipping through big binders full of documents as Mangold begins introducing documents into evidence with Farro.

Trump is sitting between them, staring straight ahead with his eyes closed.

Farro is being asked about recording keeping at First Republic. Prosecutors will introduce evidence through him.

He says Cohen held personal accounts and entities there including some lending programs. Cohen opened bank accounts while working with Farro, he says.

"I didn’t open any accounts for the Trump Organization."

Farro says there was a branch nearby Michael Cohen's office in Trump Tower so he'd frequently go there in person.

Farro says he was "very excited to be working for him."

Farro, after testifying about different types of banks and banking transactions, brings up his connection to this case.

"Frankly, I didn't find him that difficult," Farro says of Cohen.

Farro says he worked with Cohen from 2015 through 2018 or 2019.

Prosecutors have called a third witness to the stand: Gary Farro, a former senior managing director at First Republic Bank.

Farro worked at First Republic Bank when Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, used his own home equity line from the bank to pay the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels.

Cohen's then lawyer Michael Avenatti provided an email to CNN in 2018 that showed a First Republic Bank employee confirming the deposit to Cohen, who used his personal and trumporg.com email accounts.

The bank employee who confirmed the deposit was an assistant to Farro, according to NBC.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles started her cross examination of Rhona Graff, who was Trump’s executive assistant for decades, shortly after 3 p.m. ET Friday. 

Here's what you should know about her short testimony:

Graff describes working for Donald Trump: The former president smiled as he watched Graff speak when his attorney started to ask questions of his former longtime assistant.

Graff says she assumed Stormy Daniels' visit to Trump Tower was regarding "Apprentice" casting: Necheles brought up Graff's earlier mention of seeing Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower. Trump's attorney went into a line of questioning about how Trump was very involved in finding contestants for the "Celebrity Apprentice," confirming with Graff that Trump looked for "colorful" or "interesting" candidates to cast.

Trump often had to sign checks at the White House, Necheles confirms with Graff: Necheles showed Graff an April 2017 email in which Madeleine Westerhout had requested a FedEx label. Necheles asked if this was for sending checks down to the White House. "I don’t know why she requested it," Graff said. Necheles confirmed with Graff that Trump often had to sign checks and it wasn't unusual for him to sign checks while he was on the phone or had people in his office.

Prosecutor Rebecca Mangold is questioning Gary Farro, a finance executive who is on the stand.

Farro is currently going over banking regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act.

He says there are certain types of transactions that require more review by the bank, including transactions involving wires. Farro also says that transactions involving political candidates also require more review.