From CNN's Kara Scannell, Lauren Del Valle and Jeremy Herb at the courthouse
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is now walking Keith Davidson through the confidential settlement agreement paperwork between Stormy Daniels and Trump.
This was the agreement between "David Dennison" and "Peggy Peterson," the pseudonyms that Davidson had come up with for Trump and Daniels.
"Money wired I am told," then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard wrote in a message to Davidson at 2:32 p.m. on October 27, 2016, according to an exhibit being shown in court.
"Funds received," Davidson texted back at 4:03 p.m.
“Unbelievable,” Howard wrote two minutes later.
“Was never really sure…,” Davidson texted back.
Keith Davidson noted that initially Michael Cohen's entity to fund the Stormy Daniels deal was named Resolution Consultants LLC.
"At some point between then and the final documents did the entity name change?" Joshua Steinglass asks.
"It did," Davidson testified.
After showing the jury an email from October 26, 2016, they are looking at an email response from Michael Cohen at 6:47 a.m. on October 27, in which he asked Keith Davidson to confirm "that the wire received today" would be held in the attorney trust account.
Davidson responded less than an hour later: "I confirm that I will work in good faith & no funds shall be disbursed unless & until the plaintiff personally signs all necessary settlement paperwork."
Davidson also wrote that the settlement documents would name the "correct corporation," Essential Consultants LLC.
Davidson said in the email that he would act in "good faith," telling Cohen he would only release the funds to Stormy Daniels after Cohen confirmed he received the signed agreement via FedEx.
Keith Davidson is testifying that eventually he "lost trust" in Michael Cohen, explaining it had to do with "the delays in funding."
At this point, Dylan Howard got back involved as the mediator, he says.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass has begun by having the court look at an email from Dylan Howard, then-lead editor at the National Enquirer, to Davidson and Michael Cohen, who was then Trump's personal attorney.
The October 26, 2016, email from Howard reads, "Thank you both for chatting with me earlier."
Howard referenced the agreement, a change to reflect an updated name for an LLC to be used, and the "transfer of funds on Thursday AM to be held in escrow until receipt of agreement."
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass has resumed questioning of Keith Davidson.
The jury is walking into the courtroom ahead of Keith Davidson's testimony.
Attorney Keith Davidson is continuing his testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial. He was the lawyer who was at the center of the so-called hush money agreements with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
The lawyer helped negotiate the deals to silence Daniels and McDougal over their alleged encounters with Donald Trump. Davidson said in an interview with CNN in 2018 that he’d spoken with Michael Cohen on several occasions about the two women.
Davidson also said he called Cohen in the late summer of 2016 to inform him that he’d settled a case involving Playboy model McDougal. McDougal sold the rights to her story to American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, for $150,000 and other perks. Davidson said he informed Cohen of the deal as “a professional courtesy.”
During his testimony last week, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified about his communications with Davidson throughout the process of negotiating the payments.
CNN's Scott Glover and Sara Sidner contributed reporting to this post.
