Moment MSNBC host Katie Phang breaks out laughing over bizarre detail in Stormy Daniels' testimony during Trump's hush money trial

Liberal MSNBC legal analyst and host Katie Phang broke out laughing on air after hearing the lurid details of Stormy Daniels' blockbuster testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial. 

The porn star revealed new details about the alleged 2006 hookup while speaking under oath during a criminal trial with Trump seated just feet from the witness stand, including repeating her claim about swatting the future 45th president's behind.

At one point, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked what Trump was wearing. She said he was 'wearing silk or satin pajamas that I immediately made fun of. 

'Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?' she says she asked him, in a reference to Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner.

Phang, who hosts a show for Peacock and contributes legal analysis to the network, burst out laughing during MSNBC's live coverage with host Jose Diaz-Balart, who was reading Daniels' joke. 

Liberal MSNBC legal analyst and host Katie Phang (pictured right) broke out laughing on air after hearing the lurid details of Stormy Daniels' blockbuster testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial

The porn star revealed new details about the alleged 2006 hookup while speaking under oath during a criminal trial with Trump seated just feet from the witness stand, including repeating her claim about swatting the future 45th president's behind

At one point, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked what Trump was wearing. She said he was 'wearing silk or satin pajamas that I immediately made fun of'

'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize,' she said, as she tried to stifle her guffaws. 'This is serious. I had to laugh. I'm sorry.' 

Diaz-Balart gave her a pass: 'No, no, no, this is — by the way, it's just getting started.'

Phang praised Daniels for what she described as her 'salacious' testimony at times, according to Mediaite. 

Daniels said she made a crack about the late Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner after Trump appeared in pajamas

'It's not the salaciousness of that interaction, no matter how fleeting it ended up being at the end of the day, it is, why would Trump be embarrassed about this information getting out?' she said. 

'Pajamas could be something he doesn't want to get out, but at the end of the day he wanted to make sure none of this was heard because he didn't want it to hurt his campaign.'

Daniels would become a runaway witness as she described their 2006 hotel encounter.

'I had my clothes and my shoes off. I believe my bra however was still on. We were in the missionary position,' Daniels said.

Trump, 77, was already motioning to his defense. 'Objection,' said Susan Necheles, raising her umpteenth objection of the morning.

By then, Daniels, 45, had taken us through her career as an erotic dancer, her first pornographic film ('I'll spare you the details,' she said) and her regimen of STD testing (once a month at the time she said she met Trump; twice a month now).

The jury had heard her talk about 'condom mandatory' porn shoots, a description of herself with 'blond hair and big boobs,' and how she spanked Trump with a rolled-up magazine.

But it was two moments, when she described not being able to remember how she ended up on a hotel bed with Trump and how he allegedly failed to wear a condom, that briefly threatened to derail the whole hush money case.

Either way, Daniels was determined to tell her story of how she met Trump at a celebrity golf event in 2006, before having sex with him and then selling the rights to her story just ahead of the 2016 election.

And tell it she did, using all her skills as an actress to deliver it with hand waves, lip pouts and nose wrinkles, interspersed with laughter as if to underline the absurdity of it all.

'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize,' Phang said, as she tried to stifle her guffaws. 'This is serious. I had to laugh. I'm sorry'

Phang praised Daniels for what she described as her 'salacious' testimony at times

Daniels would become a runaway witness as she described their 2006 hotel encounter

The jury listened, entranced. After a day of dull but essential testimony about invoices and checks on Monday, Daniels was the showstopper.

Some of the jurors kept their eyes fixed downwards as they took notes. Others looked hypnotized.

Her arrival in the courtroom on Tuesday morning was followed by all eyes. Even Trump looked reluctantly across as she arrived wrapped in a long black hooded top, that stretched down below her skirt, spectacles perched above her blond, black-streaked hair, like the Goth librarian of a teenage boy's dreams.

It was one of the few moments when Trump could see her. His view of her was obscured by the judge's dais, forcing him to watch her testimony on his desktop monitor. 

Daniels avoided looking at him too. She had to lean forward, twisting in her seat to point him out when asked by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger.

The witness box could barely contain her as she acted out her meeting with Trump at a Tahoe hotel.

He had been wearing satin pajamas in his suite when they met, before she ordered that he change into something less comfortable. 

They started with what passes for small talk between a porn star and a billionaire. After discussing union representation in the adult movie business, wrestling and STD testing, she said she made her way through the suite's master bedroom to use the bathroom.

Former President Donald Trump returns to the courtroom after a break for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs

Stormy Daniels testifies in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump listens as his attorney Todd Blanche requests mistrial after Stormy Daniels direct testimony

She couldn't help but rummage through his toiletry bag (think Old Spice and a gold manicure kit), before walking back into the bedroom. There Trump was spread-eagled on the bed in just t-shirt and boxer shorts.

'Like this,' she said, lifting her right leg up to flash her calf and stretching her left arm behind her head in the pose of seductress.

She was startled at first, 'like a jump scare.' The next thing she knew, she was on the bed.

'Was it brief,' asked prosecutor Susan Hoffinger.

'Yes,' was the answer.

Trump did not wear a condom, she said, in a remark that the defense would try to use against her. 

Trump looked straight ahead, a frown on his face.

Hoffinger tried to ask more about her memory and how much she remembered about ending up on the bed. 

Stormy Daniels is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger during Trump's criminal trial

Trump spoke to the press alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following testimony

The jury listened, entranced. After a day of dull but essential testimony about invoices and checks on Monday, Daniels was the showstopper

But Trump was having none of it. He tapped his defense counsel's arm, soliciting a barrage of objections which Judge Juan Merchan upheld, asking for several answers to be struck from the record.

It was a reminder of the way Daniels' story has changed over time, from a consensual encounter to one that now hinted of a more sinister side.

That theme came up again later, when Daniels was asked why she kept it private. 

'I felt ashamed that I didn't stop it,' she said. 'that I didn't say no.' 

Throughout, Daniels gave long answers to short questions. She explained her state of mind and added a barrage of extra details, much to the frustration of the judge.

'Ms. Daniels please keep the answers short,' he reminded her. 

At other times he asked he just to answer the questions she was asked. And court reporter, prosecutor and judge all had to remind her to slow down as her words came in the sort of rapid torrent that even a stenographer with a shorthand typewriter struggles to follow.

The result was a slew of information that at times threatened to introduce new allegations of crimes.

Stormy Daniels with Donald Trump in 2006, at the time of the alleged affair

Penguin Random House executive Sally Franklin gives testimony before Justice Juan Merchan during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels

Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court

Like when Daniels described wanting to meet Trump at a public club rather than in his private office. 'A lot of witnesses,' she said, prompting Necheles to raise her objection with a tired, 'Your honor.'

And then there was the time a stranger approached her in a Las Vegas parking garage in 2011 telling her not to sell her story. It was a hint of a plot that that Trump's allies were out to silence her.

The defense saw their moment after lunch, asking the judge for a mistrial on the grounds that her testimony had raised all sorts of extra questions in the jurors' minds. 

'This is the kind of testimony that makes it impossible to come back from,' said defense lawyer Todd Blanche said. 'How can we come back from this in a way that's fair to President Trump?'

There was no need for her to mention that Trump did not wear a condom, he said, other than to 'enflame' the jury. 

Merchan ruled there was no mistrial. But the defense did have a point, he added.

'There were several things that would have been better left unsaid,' he said in his understated way

In fact, he added that he had raised his own objection when the defense had failed to intervene.

'In fairness to the [prosecution], I think the witness was a little difficult to control,' he said.

That might be the only thing that he and Trump, who has been a disgruntled defendant from day one, will ever agree on.