Michael Cohen testified that he was in London in October 2016 when the news of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape broke.

"Please call me," Cohen emailed Trump adviser Steve Bannon in October 2016.

"It's all over the place. Who is doing damage control here?" Cohen later emailed.

Cohen said he was trying to step in "in order to protect Mr. Trump.'

Jurors also saw phone records showing two calls between Trump and Cohen on Oct. 8, 2016.

"He wanted me to reach out to all of my contacts in the media who needed to put a spin on this," Cohen said. "The spin that he wanted to put out it was that this locker room talk -- something that Melania had recommended or at least he told me that's what Melania thought it was and use that in order to get control over the story and minimize its impact on him and his campaign."

Trump, again, shook his head no at the answer from the defense table.

Jurors then saw texts between Cohen and former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.

"Will be too late ... he is dying right now," Cuomo texted Cohen.

Cohen explained that he believed, "That this is a tremendously negative story in regard to the Trump campaign ... this is going to be significantly impactful, especially with women voters."

Michael Cohen testified that he understood Trump would eventually pay for the rights to Karen's McDougal's story, which AMI had purchased for $150,000.

"What I was doing, I was doing at the direction of, for the benefit of Mr. Trump," Cohen said.

But Cohen and AMI's David Pecker, in their testimony, offered slightly different accounts of why Trump ultimately did not reimburse AMI for the McDougal payment.

According to Cohen, Pecker said that McDougal's cover on Men's Health magazine prompted massive sales, making the McDougal agreement an "excellent business deal" for AMI.

"It was no longer necessary," Cohen said.

"He told me to rip it up, forget it," Cohen said about the deal.

According to Cohen, Trump responded to the news by saying, "Wow, that's great."

According to Pecker, when he told Cohen that the deal was off, Cohen was furious -- and said Trump would be as well.

"He was very, very, angry, very upset, screaming basically, at me. And I said, 'I am not going forward with this agreement -- rip it up,'" Pecker testified earlier in the trial. "Michael Cohen said, 'The boss is going to be very angry at you.'

Michael Cohen said then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg suggested using a non-Trump entity to make the $150,000 payment to AMI to distance Trump from the deal.

"I went to Allen's Office. I expressed to him that we need funding of $150,000 to consummate this transaction. Allen then said to me, 'Well, if we do it from a Trump entity, that kind of defeats the purpose,'" Cohen recounted.

Cohen said Weisselberg suggested using a non-Trump entity for the transaction to distance Trump from the deal. Cohen said Weisselberg asked him to "think about ways that we could raise the $150,000."

"It was in order to keep it separate," Cohen said.

Cohen told the jury that he created the company "Resolution Consultants LLC" to purchase the life rights to McDougal's story. When asked about the purpose of the company, Cohen responded that it was "to use this entity for the assignment of the McDougal matter as well as the other information."

The "other information" appears to be a reference to the National Enquirer's other records on Trump that Cohen sought to attain.

Earlier in the trial, jurors heard from Cohen's banker Gary Farro about Cohen's frantic effort to create a bank account for Resolution Consultants LLC and saw the bank records associated with the company.

According to Michael Cohen, the recording he secretly made of a 2016 meeting with Trump abruptly ended because he took an incoming phone call on his phone.

"I must have believed it was an important phone call," Cohen testified.

Cohen added that he believed he recorded enough to prove to Pecker that the $150,000 reimbursement was coming, which he said was the the goal of the recording.

"I didn't want to record more -- I already had enough," Cohen said.

Jurors saw a phone record from AT&T that suggested Cohen received a call around the time of the recording.

The conversation briefly continued after the recording ended, according to Cohen.

Cohen said he told Trump, "I am going to head over to Allen Weisselberg's office and I will get back to him with more of an update."

Jurors briefly saw the metadata for the recording.

"Did you ever alter that recording?" Hoffinger asked.

"No," Cohen said.

Trump, at the defense table, shook his head "no" at Cohen's response. The former president appears much more engaged now, thumbing through a stack of papers in his hands.

Jurors saw an April 21, 2018, email where Michael Cohen's attorney at the time, Robert Costello, told Cohen, "Sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places."

"The friend in high places was President Trump," Cohen testified.

"It let me know that I was still important to the team, and stay the course, that the president had my back," Cohen said about Costello's emails.

Jurors then saw another email from Costello dated June 13, 2018.

"Since you jumped off the phone rather abruptly, I did not get a chance to tell you that my friend has communicated to me that he is meeting with his client this evening and he added that if there was anything you wanted to convey, you should tell me and my friend will bring it up for discussion this evening," Costello wrote.

According to Cohen, the aforementioned client was Donald Trump.

Asked about the vagueness of the email, Cohen testified that it was "sort of to be covert -- it is all back channel. Sort of eye spy-ish. Didn't want to put anybody's name."

Jurors then saw a June 2018 email between Cohen and Costello that suggested their relationship had begun to fray.

"I must tell you quite frankly that I am not used to listening to abuse like today's conversation," Costello wrote, referencing an "unfortunate outburst" by Cohen.

"Please remember if you want or need to communicate something, please let me know and I will see that it gets done. I hope I am not wrong but it seems to both Jeff and I that perhaps we have been played here," Costello wrote, referencing the back channel to Trump.

Cohen told the jury he was concerned about his communications with Costello making their way to Trump, and he began looking for other lawyers.

Cohen said Costello was "again pressuring me as he had done with constant calls and sending me emails and so on. He wanted to absolutely be retained to represent me in this matter. He was angered that I was willing to sit down with another attorney but not sit down with them, so I had enough."