New: Manhattan DA does not intend to call Karen McDougal to testify, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche discloses

NEW: Former Trump WH aide Madeleine WESTERHOUT says Trump sometimes had questions about the checks -- and he would call Allen Weisselberg or someone else in the Trump Org.

Westerhout establishes that Trump did scrunitize the checks, even in the WH, and spoke to Weisselberg

TRUMP is looking approvingly and sympathetically at Madeleine WESTERHOUT as she starts testifying on the stand. He smiled and had a word with his lawyer Susan Necheles as Westerhout said she was slightly nervous to testify. She is appearing under subpoena.

Next witness: Former Trump White House Director of Oval Office Ops Madeleine Westerhout

OK, the cross is really going off the rails now.

You save that claim for argument - there's no way she's going to give you a helpful answer. There are no 'Perry Mason' breakdowns on the stand in real life - much to the chagrin of real-life trial lawyers.

NEW: Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asks Stormy DANIELS to confirm that she never spoke to Trump about the $130,000 hush money.

Necheles: 'You have no personal knowledge about his involvement in that transaction or what he did or didn’t do, do you?'

Daniels: 'Not directly, no.'

NEW: Trump lawyer Susan Necheles suggests Stormy DANIELS was motivated by money to tell her story.

Daniels had said she wasn't interested in money. But in recording, her lawyer said she told him 'sell this goddamn story' before 2016 election otherwise they would lose leverage

NEW: Judge Merchan is no longer allowing photography in the courtroom for the rest of the trial.

It appears someone in the pool violated the court order by taking a photo of Trump from the aisle. The order permits photographers to take photos only from the well itself

This does not sound like something I would say