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Next step of its operation, rafah all right. Well, barack, thank you very much for sharing your reporting and analysis. I appreciate it and thanks s so much to all of you for being with us. Ac30 60 starts now and good evening, thanks for joining us. We were expecting fireworks in the first day of Cross Examination on Michael Cohen, the onetime fixture for the former president turned witness in his criminal hush money trial. And we got it no sooner had the defense began after morning and the prosecution front ending all possible attacks on winds, character than defense attorney todd blanche repeated a colorful shall we say insolvent cone had used to describe blanche online that prompted a sidebar with the judge who asked blanche, blanche, why are you making this about yourself . The attorneys said he that he wasnt that he had a quote right to show the witnesses bias the judge sustained the objection. The trial got back underway, but it was wasnt long before blanche returned to cohens propensity to mouth off on social media. Blanche has cohen quote, and on that same tiktok. So again, on april 23, you referred to President Trump when he left the courtroom, you said that he goes right into that little cage, which is where he belongs in and im going to clean up the language here. F caves like an animal. Do you recall saying that blanche asked cohen, responded, quote, i recall saying that its sort of set the tone for the rest of the hearing where the former president s attorney, a former federal prosecutor, tried to undermine cohens credibility as well as his recall of conversations with the former president it wasnt the only drama either as allies of the former president , including House Speaker mike johnson and several others who appeared to be in town for a vp audition, showed their numbers. Then for the second day in a row, said what a former president under gag order cannot joining us tonight. Former us attorney michael moore, former federal prosecutors, jeopardy 2bit and timme dia, a Ganglia Williams also seen an anchor, kaitlan collins, who was in the courtroom this morning former federal prosecutor elie honig, and corresponding kara scannell, who was also in the courtroom. Qarrah, what was your impression . And the cross seem to be the last thing that we all heard. So it kinda six our memory, but this morning, what the prosecution also did was use cohen to wrap up their case, going over month by month, all of the elements of the crime, the alleged crime, the invoice is that cohen said were falsified. The check stub that he said the descriptions were falsified, and then the checks signed by majority them signed by donald trump, that he said was all false, all because the retainer then the prosecution tried to get ahead of all of cohens past kind of legal runins and everything. But then the cross i mean, that was we were expecting some fireworks here. What stood out to me was cohen remained compose the whole time, even as he was parsing words with todd blanche over whether he had lied to the Special Counsel during the investment of russia russia, russian investigation, or whether he had given an inaccurate statement that were going back and forth cohen even killed the whole time and then relented and telling blanche, okay, i lied, but he didnt he didnt break us cool and he didnt he didnt give in on some of these other things. But the real theme of the de was blanche trying to establish by throwing cohens words back him from his podcasts, from his book that he hates trump, and that hes on a revenge shore and hes trying to make money doing it. Cohen acknowledging made 4. 3 million on the fell of two of his books, which is actually quite a lot for the sale the twothirds books again, were was like in court, not surprising though. I mean, he is he was Donald Trumps former attorney who took guilty pleas and went to jail parked about and testified today. I do think the prosecutions arguments this morning with Michael Cohen were really interesting for the reasons that qarrah just laid out, but also because there were a few moments where everyone realized it was a big moment from his testimony, were Michael Cohen said, the reason isnt he paid Stormy Daniels that money was to ensure that the story wouldnt come out to hurt Donald Trumps chances of winning the election if there had been no election, he said he never wouldve paid Stormy Daniels most likely, there were those few moments that kind of you know, as we were hearing about the documents and about comments he made while trump, it Kinda Crystallized why Michael Cohen was there what really surprised me is when the cross started this afternoon, donald trump had this demeanor of where he was kinda just closing his eyes again for sustained periods of time. He wasnt always watching the Witness Stand, i believe only once or twice because hes seen kinda looking over because he has to lean over to actually see the witness. And thats not the way anyone expected him to be engaged. I think, especially as it was his attorneys time to grill Michael Cohen. You he wouldnt Stormy Daniels was getting crossexamined. He was paying quite close attention. It was not the same way today, which stood out to me given of course, his hatred for Michael Cohen is much higher even than Stormy Daniels, elie, how do you think todd blanche did . I mean, he is actually not an experienced trial hello, attorney. Well, hes experienced Trial Attorney on the prosecution, sayyed, but defending is very different. And by the way, prosecutors are not very experienced at crossexaminatio n. Im just going to say candidly, i thought the crossexamination was unfocused and underwhelming. I followed minute by minute as we were doing our live coverage, i just reread the whole thing. There were moments i think where he breaks through and scores points, but by enlarge, he was jumping from topic to topic. He missed some obvious moments. Ill give you an example. The first question which you talked about in the warmup, their anderson was wildly inappropriate and i think ms castillo stakes blanche, came right out. He said, weve never met you and may Michael Cohen, right . And Michael Cohen said no and he said yeah, you called me a crying little on tiktok immediate objection. Sustained. Its not relevant what Michael Cohen thinks of the lawyer. Its very relevant when Michael Cohen thanks. Of the defendant, which he got to later. But if youre talking lynge, you dont want to make it about Michael Cohen versus the defense or you want it to be michael well cohen versus the truth. So im not impressed by what ive seen from the cross so far. He has a date of figure it out. He said hes going to take all day thursday, but i think he needs a change in course here. What do you guys well, where do be with you. I do think some of what he did was pure tactics. I mean, i think this moving around and not having this timeline crossexamination heres a good thing because you know that that code like any other prosecution witness, has been prepped at nauseum to tell their story. So you want to get them if youre crossexamine and you want to make them tell the story on your terms and not to follow the script that theyve been in. So i can see that i really took away that the jurys probably see it and thinking right now that covid has gripped are in a wafa clearly as making money off this, he clearly somebody whos got his hand in the till to try to sell his books. And as long as he can keep paton trump and things go south for trapped and he can he can make money. Question is, do they look at the president , former president that way . I mean, i dont know yet. I mean, honestly, because then cohen didnt help himself. Hes kind of critical here because hes the only thing that state has to make this connection to make this case a felony, that to move it from a misdemeanor Business Records case to say we were doing it because we were trying to basically break the federal law, the camp the Campaign Finance law. And so hes got to do that. And right now, hes been so hedging in kg during his cross and not want to answer questions. Juries pick up on that. I mean, they will pick up if he answers the questions completely and gives this very vivid memory to a prosecutor and then to the defense attorney, he suddenly dont remember what he did yesterday or not so sure about pick up on that. I dont think that i dont think thats true at all about the felony issue. I think hicks, who is obviously favorably disposed towards trump also talks about how they had to keep Stormy Daniels quiet because of the election. I think it was as elie said, a kind of stumbling start in terms of the theatrical. But he certainly did establish that trump that can really cant stand trump and he hates him and hes bitter and hes not hard to his have not not not not hard to establish what im waiting for is an explanation for the evidence other than the prosecutions evidence pro version. Look cohen paton hundred 30, just Stormy Daniels, trump paid him 420,000. The prosecution has a clear explanation for why these transactions took place, and if they believe that hes going to be convicted the one thing we didnt get it all today and theres a long time to go is well okay. If thats not the explanation for why this money changed hands what is it and blanche didnt do any of that today. And well see if you really do. They have to provide that or is just a reasonable doubt enough to poke holes in what the explanation is by the prosecution. Well, you need i mean yes, reasonable doubt is enough, but doubt as prosecutors like to say, doubts have to be based on reason. I mean, there has to be a reason that these transactions took place other than the prosecutions explanation, and i havent heard it i mean, i think the prosecutors im feeling pretty good right now. I think theyre on their way to conviction. I think the entire burden always always rest on the prosecution. But jurors are everyday rational people. And at some point they start to need a Counter Narrative. You have to give them something to hold onto. You simply cant say that this guy lacks credibility. I think what was effective here is because throughout this trial, we poured so much, frankly about what a scummy guy, Michael Cohen is multiple witnesses, including hope hicks. I said the problems about Michael Cohen. And by the time we get to Michael Cohen, theres a way in which i think he those a little bit of under promising and overperforming and when he gets up there and he comes off from what ive read with a calm demeanor. Hes not fighting, hes not over the top. Hes really coming and hes honest and whats effective i think is that on direct . A lot of the most damaging things that Michael Cohen come out through the prosecution and thats on purpose because by the time you get to the defense youre trying to go over some of these old threads, but its not for the first time youre hearing that he has issues with donald trump or that hes lied before, but that hes a criminal. He said all these things before and unknown to them. So i think it loses some of the oem for the Defense Lawyer is come up, but let me the thing is you have to Michael Cohen needs to be flustered. That is what trumps team is trying to do. It didnt seem what they were very successful at that today. There were a few points where he said, well, thats not a lie. Its an inaccuracy and topline said, okay, whats the difference . And they said, okay, its a lie and he did was caught off guard a few moments on those parts. But when the prosecution was up and they were asking Michael Cohen about what it was like for the fbi to come and to rate his hotel that he was staying in because his house was under renovation, his home, his office, and what that was like, he was describing that he was frightened, despondent, angry up his life had been turned upside down and he talked out this call that he got from trump a few days later and we had heard at the time, trump called and maybe four days after after the raid called him back really he said that trump told him, dont worry, im the president of the United States. Theres nothing here everythings going to be okay. Stay tough. Youre going to be okay. And then they went into this Pressure Campaign to keep an attorney who was aligned with donald trump to not flip and cooperate with prosecutors. My question was held a jury takes Something Like that where they did this its compelling story of what Michael Cohen was facing let me just ask you as somebody who knows Michael Cohen from i dont know how much you actually know him, but from television and probably interviewing him was he likeable on the stand . I mean, was he Michael Cohen, who is the guy in the tiktok videos, who seems to like here and here im selftaught and he was not that person as you know, i spent five hours this weekend watching Michael Cohens testimony from capitol hill, and it actually is really informative for how he was on the stand. I thought i think if you want to get an idea of what Michael Cohen is like on the stand and kara was there for the cross so she can answer that better today then. Thats a really good way because and lenny davis has attorney says, we testify, we tried the night before Michael Cohen blow a gasket when they were impersonating what jim jordan and mark meadows would do. And lanny davis said, great if you do that, republicans will be highfiving you tomorrow. It was a similar method today where he was really trying to be calm. He was saying yes, maam, no, maam. He was looking at the jury. I mean, he was really trying to not be the boisterous Michael Cohen that you see on tiktok or on television. I mean, extremely controlled, especially for anyone whos dealt with Michael Cohen or seen him in interviews, he can be so bombastic can begin so reactive to what someone says almost always wants to have the last word. And in this, he is, just tremendous control on his part of answering the questions even when todd blanche is going toetotoe with him parsing things, he is he is not raising his voice. He is answering the specific question and at times he tried to add a little bit more to it and some Blanchard Hunchback and say, thats not what i asked you, but he didnt take the bait and he didnt react in the way that i think a lot of us have seen Michael Cohen draft. Yeah, not taking the bait is notable for Michael Cohen to me were you surprised that the prosecution is not calling embryos that the resting on Michael Cohen because there was a lot of talk beforehand of is he really the best person to leave them with from the prosecution standpoint, you must be assigned the prosecutors feel like you did a good job. I think what it shows you is that the Michael Cohen we saw today was part of the plant and hes showing up the way the expected him to show up. When i was a prosecutor and handling trials. You want to put week with in the middle, right . If not, its you dont want to end on someone that you think is gonna get up there, get battered and really n on a week . No, because thats not what you want either the defense to go into Closing Arguments with or you want the jury to be thinking that last bit of your case, the fact that theyre ending with him to me says one they bill confident theyve made case, and i think too, that they have belief that hes been a strong witness for them. I think they plan this i mean, prosecutors are not going to assess a lastminute decision that, you know what well just stop with him, but that point theyve thought about the elements, a thought about their case. And i think it bears out because by the time we get to Michael Cohen, a lot of the critical elements of this case, but david pecker and hoping picks like referee was saying, have already been established. So Michael Cohen i think is really crossing the ts, but he was not a witness that you thought before he got on that this case was barebones and he had to build the entire thing up, answered it really close and i think keras point about how they ended with the direct examination with putting in the checks and the documents. Its important to remember for all the drama. This is a case about false Business Records. They put the records in front of the jury at the end of their case, and i think that was very much intentional and if theres a conviction, they will have made the right decision. Kara scannell, thanks for being with us. Everyone else is going to stick around the full transcript of today this morning, just been released, including more of cohens colorful descriptions of the foreign president. 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This is cnn so this is the nine, weve just gotten the full transcripts of the contentious testimony between Michael Cohen and the former president s defense attorneys. They have come out, we should point out that opposing counsel in the hush money trial, i got a preview of Michael Cohen as a witness back in october when he testified in the form of presence, civil fraud trial, including how he would handle the credibility issue. This is what he said ahead of that testimony high credibility should not be in question. Yes, i plead guilty to a 1001 violations with lying to congress, but i also requested that people continue the sentence and the sentences i did it at the direction of in concert with and for the benefit of donald j. Trump joining us. Now, theres transcripts is a very own john berman. So they defense was painting. Michael cohen has man who hates trump had bent on revenge order some of the highlights or lowlights. Well, in this good, i suppose there should be a warning here about language because it crosses but from pg 13, indurated are here you spoke a little bit about how todd blanche right out of the gay, said crying little . Elie said the word here about about five minutes later, he dipped in even more to some Greatest Hits from Michael Cohen. Hes talking about cohens tiktok. You also talked on social media during this trial hello, about President Trump. Have you not . Michael cohen says, sounds correct yes. Blanche says so for example, in april 23, which is after the trial started, correct . Cohen says yes you referred to President Trump as dictator dieback, didnt you . Cohen says, sounds like something i said, which by the way is one of the answers he gives very commonly or sounds like something i said, blanche says, and on that same tiktok. So again, on april 23rd, you refer to President Trump when he left the courtroom and you said he goes right into that little cage, which is worried belongs in an effing little cage like an animal. Do you recall saying that cohen says, i recall saying that. And then a few minutes later in the trial, blanche starts talking about his podcast, cohens Podcast Gas Blanche says, you recall the first one and 2020 as a chito dusted cartoon villain, something he called trump. Cohen says that also sounds like something i said. Again, his common response now blanche says, now, do you recall around that same time, october of 2020, you started talking about your hope that trump would be convicted of a crime, correct . Cohen says, i dont know if those are the exact words that i said, but the sentiment is correct. You think you might have said, i truly epic. Hope that this man ends up in prison. Is that exact . Cohen says, it sounds like my language on may a culpa. The fact that Michael Cohen so obviously an overthetop is consumed by hatred for donald trump, wants him in prison, is celebrating and is selling tshirts is outrageous. We sort of take it for granted because this is just ben Michael Cohens public persona for the last five, six years. But this should be a bonanza for crossexamination. With three federal former federal prosecutor peters here. What would you do if you found out the eve of a big trial that your star witness was selling tshirts showing the defendant imprisonment. Youd have to think hard about dismissing the case. That is a major flaw in the defendant. Actually, if hes cheeto dust it yeah, that would be no. I mean, youre right. Michael cohen has sort of way with words that can get funny, but laughing about defendant going to jail is, i think its offensive to the jury. Thats not for Michael Cohen to say about. Thats the worst part of all the things that cohen has said. Its one thing to say. Hes terrible. I dont like him use all sorts of swear words, but if you are talking about the results of this case, i mean, thats what this case is about, whether donald trump is eligible to go to prison or not. And you have cohen campaigning for that thats a very negative, negative. And blend. You shouldve the first hour on that. Well, i mean, i dont think the jury is going to forget it. He spent he spent some time on it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, i think we also have to remember these jurors are not like we are, right. I mean, there might not be watching everything prior testimony and stuff that go into sad and so our expectations about how we would perform and what he would do. Maybe a little different than what their expectations are, but hes he is the crucial witness. I mean, i disagree with you about have they proved the case because so what i went back to look at the indictment of de basically theyve got to show that he intended to commit another crime. Not that he tried to help his campaign theyve got to show that he actually had the intent to commit another crime and i dont think theyve gotten there yet and thats what they hoped. Theyve gotten their with cohen but hes gotten to be the one. And so without that, thats why theyre trying to dng is credibility fl time after time and whether its through the comments that he makes on social media how he acts on the stand their wishing washing of his answers. I mean, thats what theyre after. Say, look, you cant believe it, but dont forget, he ran a tape on his client, didnt tell me about every day you you believe that they have proof . Yeah. I think they have been i think when youre dealing with a cooperator, what you have to think about is corroboration. Federal prosecutors are all kind of prosecutors every day they put up murderers, for example, and theyre cooperators. They put up all kinds of people who do done awful, terrible things, much worse than selling tshirts and wishing that someone goes down, theyve tried to kill people. Theyve killed sometimes the victims nedd very case and juries believe them, because if youre going to challenge a credibility, you have to place it again to corroboration. I think thats where the Counter Narrative of explaining why is donald trump citing these 35,000 checks again and again and again, theyre obviously not for legal fees. Rather than get a reasonable explanation, so i think the Cohen Question is going to come down to the corroboration when the jury goes back and think about all of these witnesses, they think about these documents. They think about what is a reasonable conclusion here, because its beyond a reasonable doubt, not beyond all doubt. And i think thats the real challenge for the former president here. But she mentioned but you dont make an ax murderer. Youre cooperator to prove a jaywalking case. And thats sort of where were at. I mean, theyve taken somebody and hes got all this baggage and all this stuff and he cant keep his mouth shut even during the trial. And they put him forward to prove basically a documents case. And i think that may hang with your angry with you. You know, youve got somebody in your prosecuting, theyll chatbot and you want a break bringing the summer thats Cut Off Heads and sold drugs and carriers, guns and all that is your cooperating because thats the one closest to the organization you may have to do it remember the hells angels or whatever it is. But here, you know, youre using a guy that is so compromised. I think and they had to spend their whole case trying to Pre Habilitation him to clean him up i just the guy who the foreign president chose to buy his sayyed for 2017 thats, thats actually i mean, thats the point when it comes to the optics of how the jury sees this and how they are taking in Michael Cohen, maybe they dont know everything. But i mean, for everything that Michael Cohen has said about donald trump, donald trump has said about Michael Cohen. Theyve shown those tweets to the jury as well. Well, where donald trump criticized Michael Cohen for doing what Paul Manafort did not. The fact that Paul Manafort went to jail and saying that he would not flip and talking about Michael Cohen did and saying no one should retain the Legal Services of Michael Cohen, will donald trump did retain the Legal Services of Michael Cohen for ten years and were talking about payments that he made to Michael Cohen at the. Heart of this. I also think the other thing that todd blanche got into and im sure who get more into it. Speaking of how much he made off of his books and after the postpresidency are not being in the white house, its not clear how the jury will take that. Its not like trump as a normal defendant while weve talked about trumps wealth and how its overstated. He is still a really wealthy person and its not not clear that this jury of regular people is seeing Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels making money as this great sin against counting against them, given Donald Trumps wealth, john, one more did cohen say on the stand about trumps involvement with the payments . He said it was pretty direct and this was in the direct examination in the morning where Susan Hoffinger continue youd what you did yesterday. We havent exchange here about the payments to Stormy Daniels, which was ground they covered yesterday, hafez, your says why in fact, did you pay that money to Stormy Daniels . Cohen says to ensure that the story would not come out, would not affect mr. Trumps chances of becoming president United States often here, if not for the campaign, mr. Cohen would you have paid that money to Stormy Daniels . Cohen says no, maam. Todd blanche issues and objection, the judge overrules. That says you can answer. Cohen says no, maam. Than hoffinger asked at whos direction and on whose behalf did you commit that crime . And then cohen says on behalf of mr. Trump, i do wonder if that gets to the point you bring up. Michael can talk about that in a second. I just want to very quickly say they also gotten the direct examination into the oval office visit, which is something caitlin been talking about for some time, where cohen says i was sitting with President Trump and he asked me if i was okay in the oval office. He asked me if i needed money. I said no. All good. He said because i can get a check and i said no. I said im okay. He said. All right. Just make sure you deal with allen as an Allen Weisselberg and hoffinger asks, did he say anything about what would be forthcoming to you . Cohen says yes, it would be a check for january and february and then at that point in time, you had not yet being reimbursed for the payments you had made history Stormy Daniels cohen says, no, maam. This is a perfect example of What Temidayo and michael were just talking about that meeting. The fact that that meeting occurred is corroborated 5,000 different ways. Theres emails, theres texts, theres theres testimony from madeline who is the secretary outside the oval office . No question that meeting happened. No question when it happened but as to what exactly what but said, thats really just Michael Cohens word. And so he is corroborated, but hes not all the way corroborated. The jury, they cant get around the fact that the jury has to put some faith in Michael Cohens word a especially about the purpose of the payments. I mean, thats thats very important part of this case is that did this money was it a reimbursement . I think theres a lot of proof about that, but also the the the records, the Business Records that are allegedly false they have to trust colon that cohen that that trump knew the records were false. Thats really on colon and thats a big part of the confirm and this very much, katelyn. Ill just question how the jury will take all this coming up. With Jury Consultant gives his take on Michael Cohens crosses horses, stops loading at the best part, you need verizon. Verizon get their crazy powerful now work out here and get six months of disney bundle on them string with six months of disney bundle on us. And watch and the new Galaxy S24 Plus also on us only on vera batman. Does it like a snack wonderful pistachios. Get cracking they say we should stop eating so much meat so we made meet out of plants because we arent quitters impossible. Were solving the meat problem with more meat you now have your cash back and you could earn on everything which is one car chase freedom unlimited. Its off. Youre off the rack in or grabbed fracking, your cash back in, cash back home . Im glad jets baby back for tacos at the taco shack. Im working on my six pack switch to a king suite. 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My next guest says, cohen mightve even come across as likeable and delivered one line, the jury will remember forever by saying, quote, i was needed deep into the cult of donald trump during his now for nanoscale feel, a Jury Trial Consultant and attorney as well. How do you think cohen did today . I give him an a as a witness, given the baggage that hes coming onto the witnessed in width if you just took that baggage and you gave it to any witnesses and okay. Go testify he did, as well as hes gonna do. I dont ill give them as a person. I mean, i dont think anybody wishes that he did all of those things are set, all those things. But having done that and now taking the witness, then he did great. He didnt fight. He took the punches he needed to punch and i think key came off credible. Do you think the defense in their crossexamination, i mean, the way todd blanche started it out do you think it played well with the jury i dont i dont know that i would have started making it about me and now we saw what the judge said at the sidebar, but its very hard to sit here and grade another lawyers paper when youre not in his position, i thought he did a reasonably good job. He made the points you need to make. But Michael Cohen was absolutely excellent. He was very well prepped. I loved the line that it sounds like something i would say because it really takes the wind out of the crossexamination. Hes not arguing with him. Hes not saying well, i dont remember. That makes the lawyer put it in front of him. Then he says, all i do remember, the jury gets annoyed with that. He handled that perfectly. That line for shore with scripted by his lawyer. He didnt come up with that, but it was the perfect law. But thats a lot about that line and it sounds like something he might say, and it sounds like such a throwaway casual thing, but the idea that has been scripted out ahead of time, they worked on that line. They worked on that because its like no responsibility, right . Yes. But its like, well, it sounds like something was the perfect one. Yeah. And it also blends no matter how hard somebody comes at you with that, its just absorbs it and once thats why its perfect. But you know, at that moment at the beginning, when todd blanche did us those questions, they were stricken from the record. The questions and answers. But i mean, the jury is still hears that, like its still maybe its on the record, but its still in their mind that that happened. Yeah. Of course anything that gets said in court, even if get stricken, even if the judge instruct the jury disregard that of course, if i tell you not to think about pink elephants, thats the only thing that you can think about. So i got to the problem though for blanches, the first two questions he asked were both objection sustained. There was the question about what did you say these main things about me and then he started asking Michael Cohen about comments. Michael cohen who may pop publicly about the jury objection. Sustained. Your credibility as a lawyer matters so much in front of a jury. And the first thing here, the sidebar . No, but they see the results. They know the result is objection. Sustained. You dont want to go over two, right . Or not sure about the point that that ellie and i were were were just discussing about its one thing to hate donald trump. Its another thing to be campaigning for a conviction and a Jail Sentence when you are testifying in the trial, that might lead to a conviction in Jail Sentence. I mean, isnt that a level of bias that is bigger than even worse, that then you can imagine, i wondered percent, no terrible judgment, terribly out of control. But given that you did those things, he handled it as well as he could have handled it. But youre absolutely right. I mean, what what a disaster to be doing, things like that and how out of control and see that is lawyers cant control on the prosecuted. Nobody can control this guy. But he did well. Again, then in that case, i mean, because doesnt that just call it a question everything he said a curve . It does, but the way he answered questions, the way he presented himself, the way he maintained his cool and his calm, the way he didnt fight, the way he didnt try and deflect that was all absolutely spot on have you ever seen a witness with that much in that obvious a personal animus towards the defendant. I mean, look, the one thing you dont have in this case is that he doesnt have a Cooperation Agreement. Yeah. So as you know, somebody with a Cooperation Agreement arguably has equal, if not more bias if theyre trying to get out of jail, hes not playing any kind of get added jail free card, which when youre crossing a cooperating thats where you hammer them. You dont want to go to jail. Youre youre, you will say anything to avoid jail time. They dont have that, but blanche de to hit on that because he said the first time you approached the manhattan da, you were three months into your sentence. You had three years and so he did make the argument that you are trying to maybe work your way out a little bit early, but youre right. I mean, ordinarily well, you have someone whos looking at a monster sentence and the crossexamination is your only way out is through this witness. They ended through pleasing these guys, the prosecutors that dynamic is only very subtly present with michael collin, but on the flip side, you have a guy who i would argue has a greater incentive, which is entire identity. He is consumed by hatred for the defendant. Id never seen that type of personal hatred and personal lusting for the person to go to jail. Like ive seen in this case. But the one thing i will say though comparing i think look at Michael Cohen as a person worth thinking about other cooperators and other witnesses. To this jury, theyre thinking about our human story, and i do wonder, is there a space here where theyre seeing the times where they youve been loyal to someone and theyve been back stabbed and seeing Michael Cohen is someone who perhaps he has his betrayal inside of him, but he has a reason for that. And i do wonder, is there a connection to be made there because that did get drawn out . He stood by the former president , the former president , and hes now the one whos paid the consequences. So yes, its not good for our Jury We System is not good for its system of justice, but it is a human story. I think some people will connect with. I agree. He, he made himself very relatable in that way that he was so loyal to donald trump and he was so hurt and, you know he is now trying to right wrongs that he did. I thought the line cult of donald trump was tremendous. That line well be remembered forever. Its one of the greatest leinz, but he did, he did really hurt the defense here. In other ways. I mean, he said he did ten hours of work in 2017. Now remember, the defense open that these were legit legal fees. I think weve seen a mountain of evidence that they werent how are they getting out of that . You promise things to a jury. They promised at multiple well times in their opening, they are going to be eating that on summation unless they call some witness to try and justify these 35,000 a month paton. Were going to answer that though. He did say they did ganim say, well, i get work for the family and the got i thought there was actually a decent bit of testimony that todd blanche elicited. He said Michael Cohen was paid 350,000 a year basically every year leading up to 2017, plus a bonus. So the argument is it wouldnt have been that outrageous or that notable to now suddenly be paying him 35,000 bucks a month, which comes out to four 20 per year. But the question is, if, what if thats what six in their mind that testimony that blanche elicited or where there was an hour this morning, were the prosecution walked Michael Cohen, we saw every single check of the 11 checks that donald trump sign for him. Michael cohen had to read the invoice that he sent to Allen Weisselberg. He showed the truck the check that donald trump sign donald trump jr. Eric trump as well. And every time Michael Cohen said that was a false envoys, it was for no Legal Services and they have that document and weisselberg handwriting which explains how they came to the 35,000 a month, which again, the prosecutions evidence fits together. And what im waiting for in the defense is how theyre going to attack it in a way other than Stormy Daniels is terrible. Michael cohen is terrible know what is, what is the what is the alternative explanation for these facts other than what i mean put forward since these you have michael cote, you tomorrow, theres no court. So the jurors have Michael Cohen in their minds going into a day and that they dont have testimony and then theres going to be testimony on thursday Michael Cohen will be on the stand and then friday, theres no court, so i mean, Michael Cohen is going to be very present in this jurors mind tomorrow and all through the weekend . Yes. So strategically, what the defense wants to do is kinda run out the clock on thursday. They want to keep Michael Cohen on the Witness Stand. You might see todd blanche slow rolling it just to get there because before that reason because they want because then theres gonna be some distance and theres going to be threeday weekend because theres no court on friday. Michael cohen fades a little bit and then i dont know what the defense case is going to be. They say theyre going to put on an expert witness. I dont know expert as to what theyve created a situation where theyre disputing that these as were reimbursements, theyre saying they were legit legal fees. That is the factual battleground that the defense has established. So i dont know what experts they say they might or did they say that they definitely will join him . He says that he had dissipated tabulate said twice he had dissuades going until the end of day on thursday, which means that ill monday though, Michael Cohen would still technically be on the Witness Stand if the prosecution wants to do the redirect, the question is, is if they dont feel like todd blanche has been all that effective, if the prosecution does that much redirect with Michael Cohen, they may or a todd blanche might calculate let me stop it an hour before the end of the de, let them do you want are you going to try and end with Michael Cohen on thursday if you can, you dont want him back . On monday. But i think thats how its going to be hand by the way, quick power move that prosecutors do once in a while with a cooperator after a long aggressive cross, if you feel good about it as a prosecutor that you witnessed, stood up when the judge goes. Okay. Mr. Thuban, redirect, you just stand up. No redirect, your honor. Its like were good i dont think theyre gonna do that here. Yeah. No, i dont think it signals to the jury he didnt. He didnt hurt we didnt write but a Short Redirect often accomplishes the same thing if you want to clean that up, but that is definitely a power move. And based on at least these first day, i could anticipate the prosecution doing just that ronaldo still fascinated. Thanks. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it coming up. The former president had some political back backup today at the court courthouse. So as you can see, all seem to share his Fashion Sense to come vice for ambush. Im obsessed with that. Everybody has some dressed identically. Do Weirdness Thing by his president ial hopefuls and speak good the house, why they are all made the pilgrimage to get their clothes all the in same colors and get down to the partner. Next how long have you been tracking our cars value with corona . Just like seven months. Should we sell it . We hold all silver vans are going for more right now. Should we are low mileage is paying off. 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All the answer is jp Wealth Management. I melies nonna in washington, and this cnn once again the foreign president had a republican entourage with him in court today, including more Vice President ial hopefuls in this time, speaker of the house, second in line to the presidency, Speaker Johnson, use the opportunity to take shots at today star witness something the former prisoners, barred from actually, of course, doing this is a man who has clearly on a mission for personal revenge and who is widely known as a witness who has trouble with the truth. He is someone who has a history of perjury and his wellknown for it no one should believe a word he says today Speaker Johnson also profess the innocence of the foreign president and called The Trial A Sham is appearing slide former congresswoman january 6 Committee Vice chair liz cheney to write this on x. Im surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the i cheated on my wife with a Porn Star Club i guess hes not that concerned with Teaching Morality to our young people after all and right here in new york, a big fundraiser headlined by the former president cohosted by the parents of Jared Kushner attendees include more tenders for trumps vp pick, including centers marco rubio and tim scott and south dakota governor kristi known joining us to discuss a cnn senior political commentator, david axelrod. She did not bring the dog . Yes. Lock up your dog. She says dogsoda with well what a bizarro, i mean, this really reflects how strange this campaign is. I mean, it used to be that Vice President ial candidates would go to party dinners and they do television and urges to audition for the vice presidency. Now they show up in court in support of their candidate, who is on trial for what is on trial for and theyre basically carrying his his his words out to the world. But im im relieved that Speaker Johnson has offended by people who dont always tell the truth. The Trump Campaign released a Fundraising Video that according to them, was shot inside the courthouse today, lehrer trump, eric trump appearing it with Vivek Ramaswamy donald trump himself actually pops up to the end to give a thumbs up. Is that a first funded raising appeal from a courthouse . I would think so, but yeah, i dont have anything to compare it to because weve never had a president who has been on trial in the middle of a campaign either. But listen, it does speak to the place that donald trump is in right now in terms of the republican party, he is a force. He, they think he is doing doing well in this campaign. These guys want to be Vice President. Thats why theyre turning up. Its a Command Performance in some ways. And for Speaker Johnson, look, donald trump basically allowed him to survive it. He went down to maralago. He made his peace with trump and trump basically stood down. If he had put his shoulder to the wheel, he could have deposed johnson when Marjorie Taylor greene did what Marjorie Taylor greene did or certainly made it harder for him. So he is paying back a debt and buying an Insurance Policy on his Future Tenure as speaker of the house. Jeff, do you think people like jurors notice whos in the courtroom behind im going to speak as a manhattan residents. I dont think a lot of manhattan residents know who mike johnson is or what he looks like. So i dont think that he wasnt actually in the courthouse today. Oh, he wasnt that he just made like it was going to or fans or you know, i you know, to be honest, no the way the kardashian name became famous ugly a lawyer, but not really a lawyer, was part of oj simpsons entourage during his trial. And thats how, you know that name became famous. But here, i think this is much more of an inside political game to gain favor with donald trump than it is. To affect either the jury or even people in that trump is doing what trump did before the 2020 election. He is pre spinning a result and they are a betting that effort in delivering a message that this is a political trial, that theres no foundation for, that michael but cohen is a lying Repro Beit H2s bent on revenge this is all part of what trump does so well, which is to kind of set the terms of the debate. So if things go badly he can say, well, we all know at this is about, it. Can there there are now a party to caitlin . You spoke to doug burgum about the trial. He was there. Lets play that when youve got a judge that donated to joe biden, when youve got prosecutors that supported joe biden, when youve got the judges Family Members there are benefiting financially as democrat operatives. And then when youve got, as you just said, on the lead in this whole trial rests on the credibility of someone who spent their three hours this morning describing a great detail how he lied to a grand jury, how we lied to congress, and how we lied in in court cases. And so this is its just a tough thing. I mean, i prosecutions got a tough job to try to build their case on someone whos a serial perjure the one thing that sitting there listening to Michael Cohen testify, which is of course are youre referring to . I mean, donald trump hired Michael Cohen so far . I think that you just said, i mean, that is the person that donald trump chose to be his his personal attorney well, i think yes, thats true that he did hire them, but i think that youll win the crossexaminati on youre going to come out. You heard a glimpse of it this morning that Michael Cohen leveraged the title that he had. He wasnt even doing work for President Trump and he was signing up clients left and right at 4 in Revenue Leverage that its actually interesting saying he wasnt even working for donald trump. Thats part of the prosecutions evidence in the case. I dont think theyre gonna be calling Him Doug Burgum as a witness. But i mean, it just shows that if you dont know the facts of the case, maybe you shouldnt talk so much. You better be careful. Theyre going to take that red tie back whats so interesting about this . I mean, this is also clearly a tryout for people who either want to be Vice President , people like doug burgum, or want to be in the cabinet are hoping donald trump will help them with their political fortunes. It wasnt that long ago when burgum was challenging donald trump for the republican nomination, he was asked if hed ever do business with donald trump, but he said no and he said that the reason that was is because he just believes its important that youre judged by the company you keep. Now that he is seeking to be Donald Trumps Vice President , he is obviously out there arguing on his behalf. The other thing that ive also found interesting that weve heard from doug burgum from and jd vance who seemed to be out vpn each other here is they both criticized the judges daughter. That is exactly what donald trump is doing when they expanded the gag order to prevent him from doing it. I asked doug burgum if donald trump instructed him to do so, which would violate the gag order. He said no, that he was just here as a volunteer sorry to keep harping on this, but we just showed another photo a little wider shot or the one we just showed before, that guy popped up in a red dye. Thats cory mills of florida, byron donalds, a vagrant obviously its reading there are notes written on the back of those times yeah dan youre youve obviously have a lot of experience advising Democratic Candidates for president. If you were advising the democratic nominee right now, would you tell them to go harder on Donald Trumps pending legal troubles, put aside this hush money case. I know it has limited appeal, but how about the january 6 indictment . The classified documents, do you think joe biden should be doing more . More aggressively on that . Look, i think that when you look at the people that he needs to get, i think the people who feel strongly about that issue, at least at this juncture, hes getting those people. He may be able to persuade some at the end on this. The people he really needs to get in, the people who are hanging back and arent as engaged, theyre very much motivated by things like economics like issues. And i think he has to draw a sharp contrast on some of those issues. Now in some ways, theres a lot of knowledge about this on that point. The other thing that doug burgum did say that i think does resonate with voters when we look at the latest polls from the New York Times and sienna is, he said Americans Care more about their Grocery Bills and whats happening in that courtroom behind us. And that is. A point that you dont hear from donald trump often when he comes and speaks to the cameras, but it is something that you have heard from a lot of these you yeah. Listen, ive said from the beginning, if youre sitting around the kitchen too, and i feel strongly about these democracy issues. I think theyre very, very important, but if youre sitting around the Kitchen Table talking about democracy in the future of democracy practice. You dont have to worry about the cost food on your table if you have to worry about that, its more likely the thing on your mind and i think there ive been ive said before i think the president needs to lean into those issues a lot more. He seems more intent on defending his Economic Performance and getting credit for the good work that he has done in many ways and not really advocating for people in tough economy because of the inflation, they would actually get heavy. Thank you. Next more on the crossexamination of Michael Cohen and trumps demeanor during it all joined with someone else who was inside the courtroom our biggest Challenge Uncertainty hidden fees, surcharges. Who knows what to expect, turns shipping to you but vantage, Keep It Simple with clear upfront pricing with usps ground advantage a new group, this assignments in my bag like a bunch of groceries. Alice cheese and greece just contemplate freedom. 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