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Former lawyer for Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump hush money trial

From CNN's Kara Scannell, Lauren Del Valle and Jeremy Herb at the courthouse

Texts show Cohen telling Davidson to write "strong denial" from Stormy Daniels in response to WSJ article

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is now showing texts between then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen and Davidson. These messages are regarding a Wall Street Journal article about adult film star Stormy Daniels.

"WSJ called Stormy. She didn’t answer. They say they are running story & have a deadline of tonight for her to comment," Davidson texted Cohen on January 10, 2018.

In court, Steinglass asks Davidson if the email was about the Daniels payout. Davidson corrects him and refers to it as the Daniels "settlement."

"Write a strong denial comment for her like you did before," Cohen texted back five minutes later, according to the court exhibit.

"A denial of what?" Steinglass asks. "Everything," Davidson says.

"Including the sexual encounter with Donald Trump?" Steinglass asks. "Yes," Davidson says.

Davidson recalls a conversation with Cohen about not going to Washington with Trump

Keith Davidson is recalling a time near the holidays that year while in a "strangely decorated department store" he got a call from "a very despondent and saddened Michael Cohen."

"He said something to the effect of 'Jesus Christ, can you f**king believe I’m not going to Washington after everything I’ve done for that f**king guy? I can’t believe I’m not going to Washington. I’ve saved that guy’s a** so many times, you don’t even know.'”

Trump is not paying attention to Davidson as he recalls this.

Davidson is shown the receipt from the store where he was shopping at the time he got the call from Cohen to remind him of the date of the call. It was December 9.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked him how the store was decorated. Davidson, after a pause, described it as a warehouse-like big box store decorated like Alice & Wonderland. "There were these huge rabbits," he says.

Cohen said Trump was "very upset" about Karen McDougal article published before election, Davidson says

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass has moved back to Karen McDougal, the other woman for whom Keith Davidson helped arrange a hush money payment in exchange for the story of an affair with Trump.

Steinglass has pulled up a Wall Street Journal story about McDougal published November 4, 2016.

Davidson says he spoke to Cohen at the time "more than once."

"He was very upset. He was very upset that the article had been published. He was very upset about the timing of the article and wanted to know who the source of the article was, why someone would be the source of this type of an article. He was very upset about the timing," Davidson said.

Davidson says Cohen's complaint about the timing of the article was in reference to the "close proximity to the election of 2016."

Steinglass asks Davidson if he knows when the election was that year. Davidson says he isn't sure and guesses November 6 (it was November 8, four days after the WSJ article was published).

Cohen said "his boss" — Trump — was very upset and threatened to sue McDougal, Davidson testifies.

Prosecutors show side agreement with Trump's real name, not his pseudonym

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is now showing Keith Davidson a side agreement which includes Donald Trump's real name and not the pseudonym used in the agreement, David Dennison.

Davidson says Trump's name in the agreement is written in Davidson's handwriting.

The document reads: "It is further agreed that neither party shall keep a copy of this document," and it's noted that only Davidson and Cohen as counsel for the parties would maintain possession of it.

The side letter agreement "decodes" the agreement that uses the pseudonyms, Davidson explains.

Davidson testifies that Cohen was accepting service on behalf of "David Dennison," Trump's pseudonym

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked who was accepting service on behalf of "David Dennison," who Keith Davidson testified is Donald Trump.

"Essential Consultants, in care of Michael Cohen Esq.," Davidson testified.

"David Dennison" and "Peggy Peterson" are the pseudonyms that Davidson had come up with for Trump and Stormy Daniels.