The Latest | What lawmakers accompanying Trump at hush money trial are doing

NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the lawmakers who accompanied Donald Trump to court sat in the front two rows, directly behind the former president. Others were relegated to the back of the gallery Thursday because there wasn’t enough room in the rows reserved for the Trump’s entourage. Those in the front row at Trump’s hush money trial appeared to look at their phones for large chunks of the morning. When Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche was discussing one of Michael Cohen’s past appearances before Congress, he drew a chuckle from some of the House members when he observed: “When congressmen ask you questions they tend to go on and on.”