Saturday night at nine easter a 60 starts now good evening on what was a blockbuster de in the criminal hush money trial. The former president in blockbuster because after what has at times been a meandering crossexamination, the prosecution is most important witness, Michael Cohen today, trump attorney todd blanche was able to repeatedly raised questions about cohens honesty. Not just in the past, but his honesty and his testimony before this jury this week i was in the courtroom this morning just before the lunch break. Blanche presented Text Messages to cohen between him and former trump bodyguard Keith Schiller. The messages were from october 24, 2016 and they appear to contradict it. Testimony cohen gave monday on direct examination that goes to the heart of the alleged scheme to falsify Business Records earlier in the week, cohen testified about texting schiller. He said under oath that he needed to talk to trump urgently schiller was always by his side. He testified that he you schillers phone to speak to the former president cohen told the jury in his earlier testimony that the purpose of the call was, quote, to discuss the Stormy Daniels matter and the resolution of it but today, todd blanche did something the prosecutors had apparently not done, or at least not discussed with Michael Cohen and their questioning of him on the witness stand. Blanche read previous Text Messages. Cone had received shortly before he texted schiller they show that cohen was responding to a 14yearold crank color who had been pranking him by phone for days. Cohen texted schiller and him about the prank calls and wanting help from schiller about the calls. And that appears is why he then called Schiller Blanche appeared to have trapped cohen arguing that the subsequent call between him and schiller last only 90 six seconds in question whether in this quote comes to us from our reporters in the room, you had enough time to update schiller about all the problems you were having and also update President Trump about the status of the Stormy Daniels situation. Its important to remember that cohen had never mentioned this 14yearold crank color and testimony. Blanche directly stated that he lied under oath earlier this week think about speaking within Candidate Trump on that day. It was a major moment on a de thats all several other notable developments, including the sources tell cnn the defense may call a former attorney for cohen, Robert Costello, to continue the Defense Argument that the onetime fixer for the former president is a liar who have the judge also suggested summations could begin next week. Theres a lot to talk to with our panel joining us as Robert Ray Of Former president s council during his first impeachment trial, former federal prosecutor jeffrey 2bit and seen an anchor, abby phillip, also, three more who witness that Pivotal Moment in a courtroom today are seen and anchor Kaitlan Collins went after the lunch break. Norm eisen, who was the council that was democrats during that first impeachment because theyre, its morning and correspondent kara scannell. Qarrah. Was that moment, the one that stood out to you owe by far . Absolutely. I mean, it was the big moment of the day and the way that todd blanche did it spent a lot of the morning on these inconsistent statements drawing out when Michael Cohen may have lied and then he gets to this phone call and he he begins by saying you spoke with the former. You testified on monday, you spoke with trump on the 24th cohen says yes and he says, do you remember was on Speaker Phone or did schiller hand the phone comes like, i dont remember. So hes hes setting it up in such a way that you think youre going back to this. And then he says, and what about these texts . Messages and then goes exactly as you just described, just confronting cohen with these Text Messages and the timestamps that were so close and that showed Keith Schiller saying to him cohens complaining about this 14 real Calling Schiller says at 8 02, call me coming, calls him at 8 02. Its a 96 second phone call and cohen then says, well, you know, blanche is just building this crescendo. He is focusing in on this on cohen and hes like admitted you lied, you made up this call. And cohen says, im not sure thats accurate later on he tried to correct that a bit and said that the reason why he remembered this specificly was because this was as he put it, so important such a critical thing. And so he had it in his memory has been telling the story for six years. Im not sure that that did the job though. Norm. I mean, did you believe Michael Cohen in what his response to this was because his response fully evolved into, well, i was doing both when he was cornered, he could have basically either said, you know what, i misremembered this, which would have been devastating or what he did which was i did both. I both talked to Keith Schiller about this 14 yearold boy who i want to get vengeance against, which was bizarre enough and i had time to tell President Trump is crucial piece of information, which is im going ahead with the stormy deal and trump agreed and there was a ferocious debate in the courtroom between the people who thought it was a true perry mason moment. And some in my row so who said really . Yes, george, our friend george conway. He said, what is everybody getting so exercise church think the same demand is around. Looted anything, sitting just just in front of andersen. I wanted to grab you and be like, oh, my god, norton, are you hearing we had a quick conversation about it. It was a good moment of cross. It was a very professional and powerful moment of cross i think if cohen had been shown those texts by the prosecution on the direct examination, if they had refresh his recollection, theres nothing implausible about, but actually whats happening right now. I think both subject it seems like a huge mistake. By prosecutors was not the best. It was not do they know did they not look at what the texas there it was not their finest moment. I my experience has been it wasnt it was a blow on the chin, but my experience, 30 years of doing this is that it takes more than one punched knock out a witness. This is a witness that the jury had believed but watching the jury at the time, i did not think it was a knockout blow. Heres the thing if im a juror and again, its impossible possible to reduce jurors. But if im a juror and ive heard and ive been warned that Michael Cohen lie as the prosecutors have said this, theyve set it up. Im prepared for that. Im prepared for hes lied in the past repeatedly. I dont know if a juror is prepared for he lied to this jury two days ago, but now hes really telling the truth. I mean, i dont know. Does that does a juror make a difference between oh, yeah. Heres old lives, but hes really now telling the truth. Jurors understand any clean this up in the hydrogen he was stronger after lunch. Memory is not perfect. Okay people do not have perfect recollection but youre gonna get three for almost witnesses, except for an inveterate liar. So let me just show you whats a really hard or just one started. You want to think is out before its going to leave my mind, which is, if this phone call if his testimony previously was it was so urgent that i talked to trump because i got to check in with the boss on everything i do and, im Going Forward with the Stormy Daniels payment and hes got to approve it. So im calling him now. Its going to be a quick phone call. I called Keith Schiller because i want to talk to the boss. If that was so urgent in his mind why is he obsessing about a 14yearold boy who was allegedly prank calling him and contacting Keith Schiller saying, i got to talk to you you about this weird phone number that shows up. Its not i got to talk to the boss or something really urgent and calling Keith Schiller and talking the boss. And then after that conversation is over, shell same new chiller. Oh, by the way, theres this phone number is not it seems like the 14 yearold boy is the reason hes calling what theyre asked. I mean, you just basically made the defenses case for the memories are not perfect. That is exactly what theyre saying to Michael Cohen that your memory is not perfect and you dont remember exactly that you havent spoke to donald trump on this phone call . I mean, his most devastating line after the text of the 14 yearold was i believe i spoke with mr. He didnt even double down on it after he was pressed on it. And so that is exactly there entire case here that theyve been saying Michael Cohen, how can you not remember this . But then you remember this phone call with donald trump. The best part of crossexamination was todd blanche is followup, which was the jury is not interested in what you believe she got objective, doesnt matter. Thats the kind of comment that you make. You dont care whether that objection sustained, your communicating to the journey said that right . Looking at the jurors, whether absolutely absolutely. Right eye as kaitlan, sad luck. I think the issue with Michael Cohen is that particularly when you have animus toward another person which they have demonstrated pretty clearly it is also plausible for the jury to believe that your memory is colored by your desire to see donald trump behind bars. And thats why this moment i think is so devastating because he is so Crystal Clear on everything that is bad for Donald Trumps case. But on everything from the mundane to other things that apparently at the time he was really worked up about. He cannot remember it. And that is both a problem from the cases perspective, but i just think in general from Michael Cohen, this is the issue with him, is that you cannot always be sure yes, hes been telling the story for six years, but in those six years, hes been trying to get donald trump convicted of crimes is also fascinating. The guardian today, because i had not, i must admit i have not listened to Michael Cohens podcasts. May a culpa but it was was play shocking, but it was play a moment of it was played in the courtroom today. It, was so fascinating because, you know, Michael Cohens testimony has been very even keeled and demean very rational, very. Yes, maam. No, sir. All this and suddenly they played this thing and theres a guys screaming in the room like you, know, its just know my nose i was somebody who does a podcast. I was like, is this as actual normal speaking voice and a podcast because its literally yelling and its clearly written down because hes speaking in a way thats not so hes written down these yet ls like its gotta be all in caps. I mean, it was shocking. I was like between between that just the volume of him and compared with his very demeanor, that was i also was like, whoa, i mean, it fill the courtroom. I dont know if somebody turned up the Volume Attendant loud. I was like did they is this intentionally too loud . Im totally have a cliff of the pikas. Lets play it and play it loud because it was quite loud in the court room. I got to tell you thats your volume i truly hope that this man ends up in prison. It will bring back the year that i lost or the damage done to my family but revenge is a dish best served cold. And you Better Believe i want this man to go down and rot inside for what he did to me and my family so thats what was played in court. A little biased. I dont know but but theres i think a fundamental question about Michael Cohen as a witness, which is is the jury are you going to listen to him . And the cross and the history of lying and say, the hell with this guy. I mean, just write him off or are they going to say, look, hes had this traumatic experience. He went to prison because he thought he was helping donald trump. Lets parse each statement and see whether those States Minister corroborated. And this is really i think the prosecutions great hope, and this is why they examined him the way they did on direct, which was scaffolding his testimony with Test Messages phone records. Now the big problem of width today is those Text Messages came back to bite them at least in this one exchange, but it is also worth mentioning that he had years of contact with donald trump. Its not intubate that whether he could whether he was in touch with him, if hes mistaken about this one phone call, one prosecution responses. So what . No, no, no, it was in touch for ten years, but its not just this one phone on call one. You also have to remember there are two attorneys on this jury who are listening to Michael Cohen admit that he agrees its unethical for an attorney to record their client. Theyre listening to that. Todd blanche is trying to catch him in other inconsistencies. He seems like hes about to catch him in another lie on monday. This is something im watching because he asked him about Recording Conversations with reporters first, which Michael Cohen said he did pretty often, but he said he stopped after the 2016 campaign and then todd blanche pressed him on that. He said, i would have to check and todd blanche responded with this knowing tone. Will well check together in a minute, so it seems like hes just kept catching. Maybe it doesnt change the actual documents, but it could really undermine the credibility ability caitlin, you know, this is a controversial view, but attorneys are also human beings and they understand that sometimes people do stupid things. Sometimes people say when things, when theyre angry and they hold grudges that doesnt mean every word they say is a lie and thats the challenge for the prosecutors. To say, look, we know he lied and they brought out a lot of that on direct. Unfortunately, for them, not everything. I mean, they certainly should have brought out this whole thing about the 14yearold, but this wasnt a total surprise to the jury. I suspect obviously, i dont thats why this case from day one starting with david pecker and the august 2015 meeting in trump tower where you have pecker agreeing that there is going to be this activity, this catch and kill activity to benefit the campaign and going all throughout the testimony with those corroborating notes in alice and weisselbergs hand this is one tile in a mosaic and even today, cohen was much stronger in the afternoon and the jury does not necessarily fixate on that one moment where theres also three because all during the i mean, for until the exciting in break before the lunch break, i kept sitting there wondering, well, all todd blanche is talking about is just lies by Michael Cohen about things in general, not anything to do with a document that was signed about Stormy Daniels or anything to do with stormy downs or anything to do with hush money payments. And to me it felt very meandering and you i was like, okay, yeah, we know the guy has lied a lot and thats exactly except for one thing. And thats another Blockbuster Area of this testimony, which i think is extraordinary, doesnt seem to be something many people have picked up on and that is the following it is an extraordinary thing in my experience for a cooperating witness to take the stand and admit under oath at our trial that they pleaded guilty to something that they didnt commit in other words, per during themselves at the time of the Plea Allocution. Now, i know theres all kinds of stuff here about replaying the how many times can he be untruthful and how many times is the untruthful under oath . But i have to tell you. I mean, at least as i learned, being a prosecutor, if you have a cooperating witness that cant Tell The Truth that a Plea Allocution that means that witness is basically worthless. He testified he lied to the judge wright in this prior case, and his plea was voluntary. And then when he was when todd blanche asked him, well what do you think the judge would have thought of . You wouldnt dont you think the judge would like to have known you were lying . I mean, dont you think that would have impacted his decision and it would have and Michael Cohen was like, i dont know. He said the judge was in on it. So, get us attorneys was in on it. I mean, thats what im pretty and the top lunches for crossexamination. So basically, whenever you get into a problem, its always blame somebody else, blame President Trump, blame the judge, blame the justice department, blame the Us Attorneys Office for the Southern District of new york. Blame congress. I mean, how many places do you have to go or this guy has slide many times under oath and its always somebody elses fault. Its not his fault i mean, i got to tell you in summation thats pretty powerful evidence to a jury to say you shouldnt believe anything. This guy says. And if you have to rely on his testimony in any fashion whatsoever in order to convict donald trump iee an order to fix donald trump . Its intent. You have a reasonable doubt. You cant have anything else. Butter reasonable doubt and yet in that moment, when blanche tried to push him and said so youre not accepting responsibility. He said, i do accept responsibility. He stood up to max, but he doesnt accept responsibility. Norm for the most important thing which is he saying that he didnt plead guilty to a crime and coincides 22nd. Now, he say that he accepts responsibility. He was the meaning and hitching. Its actual thoughts dont seem to accept responsibility, but the phrase he uses, the phrase i accept full responsibility constant and there cant be any daylight there because if there is daylight that is a huge problem for the project are going to get a break and were gonna have a lot more kara scannell. Thank you so much as always, everyone else is going to stay here. Silver com we just received the image, the defense used of that texts cohen centers schiller about the crank color will show you that plus john berman is going through todays transcripts victims of mesothelioma and their families may be entitled to receive a cash award from the estimated 30 in Asbestos Trust Funds with over 50 awarded. 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The call was these calls for allegedly by 14 after that, Keith Schiller texts cohen saying call me and surely after minute, seconds later, theres a call from from Michael Cohen to Keith Schiller which he had previously testified was a call to get to trump to tell them Important News that he was moving ahead on the payments to Stormy Daniels. Any claim that trump had to agree, were joined now by john berman, who has more on this moment, although the full text of this crossexamination that so that was so momentous is not out. We have almost all of todays transcript except this part. As you can imagine, which is very frustrated, but you need a great job explaining it based on what you and others have reported from inside the courtroom . Look, He Todd Blanche One after Michael Cohen on this, Michael Cohen basically said, i know that keith was with mr. Trump at the time and that there was more potentially than this. In other words, more potentially than me just talking to keith about the kid, maybe i talked to him about something else. Then he said, i always ran everything by the boss immediately. And in this case, it would have been saying everything has been taken care of. Its been resolved, and then he ultimately had too many because based on what was going on, based on the Text Messages and so on, based on the other Text Messages about Stormy Daniels matter, that is how we came to the conclusion that he talked to trump about Stormy Daniels on this phone call. It was all the other things. Blanche challenged cohen to confirm that his Trial Testimony was based on materials prosecutors showed him in preparation for quick questioning. This was an important moment because then blanche has saying, well, wait a minute so youre only testifying to this phone call because prosecutors showed you a call log that had this phone call and youre claiming that that basically jarred your memory. This is the setup of this crucial phone set up to the crossexamination to follow. He said, yes, that refreshed my recollection. Well, we do it just didnt refresh his recollection of the 14yearolds color. Can i ask a question . What what is the ultimate significance of lets assume he just lied about all this. But does this mean that donald trump didnt know that he was, he was reimbursing know, but its what exclaiming this was one of the examples. This was a key moment when he directly told donald trump im going ahead with these payments and trump approved it and he trope kept do it. But but we have abundant proof, including trumps own words in a tweet, in a, in a Financial Disclosure form from the white house where he says, i reimbursed Michael Cohen four. So why is that you have Additional Communications the next day with cohen davidson, howard, and pecker, and then you have to direct calls on the 26th at 8 26 a. M. And eight 30, 4 00 a. M. And that was when he was wrong and that was when he was making the transfer actually have the transcript of that call two days later where colvin was asked, did you call mr. Trump before you went upset . Set up the account to make the transfer. He goes, yes what in substance that you discuss with them on these two calls . Cohen said in direct, i wanted to ensure once again, he approved what i was doing because i required approval from him on all of this, by the way, i should also point out earlier that morning, i guess before that, he texted the Keith Schiller back pursuing the family of the 14 phone call or he would seems very obsessed on this milk saying, please dont do this. Im 14 years, literally since when morning that moment happened then they went to break, which is a great moment for the defense to end on, obviously, then they come back in the room and todd blanche greeted Michael Cohen when he was at the witness stand. His boys is voice was barely audible. He he said good afternoon, mr. Cohen and Michael Cohen responded. Mr. Blanche, but you could barely hear it in the courtroom and obviously hes speaking into a microphone then the text did not been redacted when you were still in the courtrooms . I dont believe they showed them on the screen. They redacted what they needed to during the lunch break. So then they put them up on the screen and made Michael Cohen read what he was texting this 14yearold that when the kids said he was 14, allegedly, the Michael Cohen responded, will you need to tell your parent or guardian that the secret . Service is now responsible for handling this, and it just kind of is this moment where the jury doesnt often show a lot and they clearly were experiencing the same, had the same look that you had when you came and for obvious reasons lets not forget, this is from 2016. Were in 2024. This is eight years ago. Now refreshing somebodys recollection with a text message, well do you really remember that this is what happened . I mean, thats the whole point of the crossexamination. You basically testify here because the prosecution showed you a bunch of documents and stuff in your in your telling us what you remember for any of you hadnt been shown those documents, you wouldnt be able to tie him anything. Norms point that it wasnt just this one phone call. It was a whole series of phone calls right around this time at exactly the time he is he is transferring the money. Is that all made up to know and the Testimony It Cohen put in in his direct about this call was very general testimony. He was not purporting to remember exactly what was said back and forth. I think i understand the the mental excitement of that moment of confrontation. But i think in the larger scheme of things, this gigantic mosaic that corroborates Michael Cohen, the lack of any other explanation for what trump was doing the later corroborating statement, the log series of witnesses, the many documents i dont believe the jury is going to seize on it. If you add one to knockout punches, yes. You would allayed co and flat. This was just wondering, it comes out with my heres my thing about where about this statement. And also just about Michael Cohen in general theres abundant evidence to donald trump knew about the hush money payments, but that is not the issue here. The issue is the falsification of Business Records from my understanding of the evidence, theres really one key moment where Michael Cohen basically makes the case that donald trump understood that it was going to be fraudulently put on the books as legal fees, and that was a meeting that he had with Allen Weisselberg and donald trump. There are only three people who know what goes on there. One of them is the defendant, the other one is not going to testify, and the other one is Michael Cohen and so if im a lawyer, unless you believe Michael Cohen with regard to that, that evidence and the defense is going to make the argument and summation his testimony is worthless, and these are the examples, and hes trying to gild the lily and he, hes testifying and making it up. Unless you can believe Beyond A Reasonable Doubt that that conversation happened and theres proof of that happened the way that my the way he said right half because its only that way which would prove Donald Trumps intent. Theres no way that a jury should convict on that evidence unanimously, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. Thats going to be and that is why the doubt that is put on the table by Michael Cohens recollection of a conversation that he describes as being pivotal is look, i mean, the bar is so low for the defense to just say to convince one juror that there is not enough evidence. Im not saying that the preponderance of evidence is the donald trump knew what was going on and that there is a Common Sense View that one could have, that he understood that this was not going to be put on the books correctly. But in this court, it takes much less than that to get a juror to say, i dont know if i can believe this guy about this one really critical conversation that has to do with how the records, how the payments were structured so that the records could be falsified. Thats the main problem i think right now for the prosecution will have more transcripts later. John berman, thanks so much. 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Com today for up to 70 off designer brands, it has the designers that get your heart racing had inside a prices new every day, hurry. Therell be gone in a Flash Designer Sales at up to 70 art shop guilt. Com today as weve been discussing Michael Cohens credibility came under attack. Today is trumps defense attorney todd blanche grilled him over key Text Messages and a phone call on october 2016, while the prosecution would like to present, cohen is a reformed liar. Their new questions or the race today about some of the testimony he gave in this trial earlier this week . Its also includes cohens testimony on tuesday when he claimed that he was given advice by attorney Robert Costello in 2018, and that costello was using his connections to Rudy Giuliani. And by extension, former President Trump to Pressure Cohen not to flip on wednesday, castello appeared before the house subcommittee on the socalled weaponization of the federal government to dispute that the story he told yesterday was that Rudy Giuliani and i wish somehow conspiring to try and keep him quiet, to try and keep him from flipping. Thats the term we use in the trade for cooperating thats ridiculous. I asked for a meeting with a District Attorney bragg because i wanted to go in there, let him look Me In The Eye and let me explain all of the stuff that we had on Michael Cohen that showed that hes an inveterate liar. Thats amazing. This guy. He was representing him and hes calling his client an Inveterate Liar Du once he actually can technically representing him a pretty thats what i thats certainly not because spillover emails or the like a look by the way the defense may may call him now. Yes. Although he is a weird i mean, its weird that they had this testimony to get this testimony. Apparently, the privilege was waived. I dont know exactly how that happened. Thats what i would be pretty unusual to call a witness to impeach a another witness on crossexamination will see if the judge allows it, but castello, if he comes his emails to cohen are the most extraordinary. Its like a cookbook for Witness Tampering lets exactly like this. By the way, i forgot got to introduce for not just the veal very and trials are hello, run out Michael Cohen got absolutely hammered today but hes a liar, is not a theory of defense. We still dont know what, what is the theory of defense. They opened as ive said, that these were legitimate legal fees. Theres been no evidence of that. Michael cohen is sticking to the story that i did no legal work for them so hammering Michael Cohen and saying hes a liar, dopa, i think the jury thinks he is a liar. Maybe they have questions about some of these phone calls, but ts other corroborating evidence and i still dont understand what the theory is, and we all know you have to have a theory of defense if you want to win a criminal case well, that was jeffrey your argument along which is okay. The prosecution has put forth a set of facts, believed them are not what is the Defense Argument exactly . There are certain undisputed facts in this case. The two most important of which are michael, cohen paid Stormy Daniels 130,000. No one is going to dispute that. The other undisputed fact is that donald trump paid Michael Cohen 420,000. Is there any explanation in front of the jury other than this was a reimbursement for what . For what he paid out. Now, that means that the documents are false. That means that the corporate documents are false the issue in the case is did donald trump . No. Or cause those documents to be false . That to me is the only disputed issue in this case because the rest of it is just proved and deborah, you to the other point of that that was raised today, itll be fascinating to see how the prosecution handles this. Is todd blanche grilled Michael Cohen on what he testified recently was that in 2017, 2018, he was barely doing any legal work for the trump family, but he he never had a retainer. Well, todd blanche went back and said ever since you worked at the Trump Organization when he left it is law firm the day he met trump and went to try to get a job there. He never had a retainer, Michael Cohen said that was correct. And top lets just trying to make the point where youve never had a retainer, so its not unusual that you didnt have one in 2017 and 2018, but then the question that i had sitting there in the courtroom was when Michael Cohen sent those invoices to Allen Weisselberg. They were paid pursuant to a legal retainer. It said it on every check we looked at all 11 of them and so the question i would have for the defense there is okay. Well, then why was he being paid pursuant to a retainer if hes never had because there was no retainer, its a lie. It was injured that wasnt the issue. The issue is whether theres a Written Retainer agreement, not whether or not theres has been retained. No. He said hes never had a retainer period i was their todd blanche drill down, yes. But what he means by that is there was no Written Retainer agreement, but he didnt wasnt by trump. It is aware painter, issue thats kind of a sideshow. Its not like that big a deal really in the legal field, whether or not you have returner gag, you should have what legal i think the defense painted themselves into a corner. What did he do and what did donald trump think that he was writing those 35,000 checks for what did he think he was paying for . And we dont have any answer to that do you think . Think it was effective for todd blanche to push the crossexamination all the way to the end of the day so that tomorrow theres no cord and you norm you brought this up in the elevator during the lunch break, you were like hes going to push it all the ways that they spend three days ruminating on the lives of Michael Cohen look, you can look at it both ways. In some ways, i think i would have gotten him off the stand and ended with him. And just been done with him. Then you get some distance. And then if youre going to put on a defense case, maybe theyre going to call an expert. They say, i dont know some Election Expert then you start fresh on monday because the prosecution would have had to get up today and do their redirect. Its a little tougher to do it when you dont have three days to prepare because short the defense is reviewing the transcript, but guess who else the prosecution and theyre going to figure out all the things they need to fix on monday. So what would have been maybe a 45minute redirect might be an hourandahalf redirect on monday now that you gave them those three, thats yeah, maybe but i dont if the prosecution had done redirect today, they wouldnt have finished. Can i was still have gone over to next and caitlin is very interesting retainer point. This is one of the most obscure areas of law. The reason which makes your eyes spoke does okay. The figure major yell at really your eyes Retainer Letters the reason he didnt need a retainer was because he was employed by the Trump Organization. He was inhouse. Inhouse lawyers dont need a Retainer Letter when you leave under new york rules, you are supposed to have a Written Retainer. So it is proof that he was not actually doing legal work, that he didnt have a Written Retainer letters. Im thats why hoffinger close that was one of her last points in the closing, youre saying that when he was working for trump at the time he didnt need one. He didnt because he didnt have was yeah, he was inhouse at trump or at trump work. So that was one of the many todd blanche lines of questioning that fell flat today, there were times when the jury was bored. There was a lot of questions too about what Michael Cohen wanted after the election we know what position he wanted in the white house. There was a lot of testimony about that which i thought i didnt see it going away or did did you i mean, it was interminable and it led no place. I mean, michael Michael Cohen kept saying i wanted to be personal attorney to donald j. Trump, which align he repeated i like i like your impression. I just i lost interest in andahalf and they were claiming know, you want to be special counsel and that was a phrase his daughter had used. I mean, it just seemed i think it would also be a mistake for the defense to try to weirdly convinced the jury that this wasnt about the election. I mean, that is also one of the things that i think is kind of settled like we know look big, say theyre going to call this Election Expert. I think the judge is going to allow them to call. I think its Bradley Smith in his order. He said that they can fall him to say this is how the federal Election Commission works. These are some of the definitions, but theres one definition that i think you need to watch out for and what is a personal expense versus a Business Expense . And the election law says, and its 50 to usc 30114 and it says its a personal expense. If you would have made It Irrespective of your campaign. And the argument that theyve been trying to weave in the defense is that he would have made this payment to Stormy Daniels to protect his family, to protect millennia. So i think theyre going to try and argue he would have made this Payment Irrespective of the campaign therefore, it is not a Campaign Finance violation. And therefore, by the way, the federal Election Commission would have agreed and whether theyll be able to get that in sounds unlikely. But if you had gone to the federal Election Commission and truthfully disclose, we want to make this payment to Stormy Daniels we we want her to go away. We think that it may have some effects on the outcome of the election will you . Lets prove this as a Campaign Expenditure. The fec would have looked at them like, what are you out of your mind . So it cant both be what the prosecutors . It cant both be. Wait a second. This is a concealed Campaign Expenditure if, if the people who make those fine judgments are like wait a note of course its a personal expense i mean, you know, the john edwards came essentially proof for that. Exactly the words case and it creates an interesting legal issue. And i think thats one reason why you strategize to have those two lawyers on there because theyre gonna be like getting this. Do you think that anything todays proceedings change . What do you think that the jury is thinking about this case and also todd blanche blanche got very heated on this. I mean, he called him a liar. He grabbed the microphone like closely like someone like drunk at a party might grab a mic and his voice was loud and the room, he one point said to the jurors, like, they dont want to hear whatever is that effective. I mean, it was it was a tension. Michael cohen, its, you know, youve got to you got to pick your witnesses. You cant you cant just be able in a china shop with everybody. But i think with Michael Cohen, i think it was totally fine. I was a Wedding Singer moment it was written and it has to be all. Thank you so much, really fascinating. Natalie, did trumps lawyer, todd blanche raised his voice as i just said, at times, he also raised his hand was dramatic flair to put a visual on the point. 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Thats 805. 163978 call now in certain crossexaminatio n of Michael Cohen today down trumps lawyer, todd blanche, grilled cohen on all the times you previously gone under oath, raised his right hand and then lied. This was one of those combative moments captured by the ultra talented veteran courtroom sketch artist jane rosenburg. And were very glad that she is back with us tonight youve got to be exhausted. I appreciate you coming in to talk about the day i mean, too many people in the courtroom, this was an exciting de with the crossexamination toward the end of it, you capture this moment of im todd blanche raising his hand. That was in his crossexamination of Michael Cohen, and he was repeatedly saying, youve sworn in a courtroom, youve raised your right hand do when you saw that, had you already started the sketch or did you suddenly have to . Shift and start a whole new sketch of todd blanche raising his arms. Know this was going to be the moment i did not know itd be the moment and i did start another one with him leaning over the podium like this. He does a lot. Then he raised his hand. I had to switch that so can you just erase an so many times he raised this . You sworn to Tell The Truth, then what did it mean . And in fact, a certain point the judge seemed to of be like, okay, we got it. Lets move along. But did you have to like erase the arms are just start a whole new skin . Know, i braced the arm. I mean, doesnt always work, but thats what i did this time because i had so much else already in there. I felt, oh, i think i could just put that arm up. Its there now. Pull it up. Youve heard a lot of crossexaminations. Did you think did this one register to you . In any particular way no you didnt think it was as excited . I havent seen many, so i thought the end was incredibly ross is often exciting and it should be lawyers get really excited when theyre going to cross somebody. I think thats why they call it the crucible of crossexamination blanche is not not really wellpracticed in a crossexamination. I mean, he i think he would even acknowledge that. And so today was really a big test for him. And for him to kinda have, you know, this disbelieving tone in his voice is Michael Cohen is answering his questions, raising his hands, raising his voice kinda this high pitched voice at times to say, no one can believe believe what youre saying. Almost like tick at times, like, are you kidding me . Yeah. Id say are you finished now, please dont give a speech. I understand your characterization, but we just read it nothing on that letter is not the truth. And ill just say one moment that i noticed today was after a break, they were walking back in the room. Normally trumps strides in by himself. Hes at the front of the room. You can comes in alone and then every were on trails and biden, he and todd blanche, were walking sidebyside, kinda talking to one another. You never really see trump like that with his attorney walking into the room . No. Youre right. Hes always behind him. Todd blanche, i will say that in some of those more shrill todd blanche moments, including the two at the end where he confronted cohen and there was an objection and the objection was sustained. Those were moments that the jury paid. I thought hard to discern attention. They were very attentive. You couldnt read them. They were visibly annoyed with blanche. I saw i roll lynge i really looking away, it was too much and it detracted. It shows his lack of experience because it actually detracted from the point he was making, he would have been better to let the revelation that he had elicited from Cohen Breathe rather than and being objected to and so so loud and unpleasant added it looked to me like the jury was not liking todd blanche very much in those moments. While editorializing while youre crossexamining a witness is usually a bad idea. I mean, thats not what youre there to do. Your their bad from a legal standpoint or just from a Product Jury Impact from a tactical jury impact standpoint, you the jury is not interested in your editorializing. They want to try to get to the facts just like every jury wants to get to the facts. But that moment with the hand raised or whatever im sure that you dated your work and probably noted the time to write someday that will probably appear on todd blanches office wall from short for phi there you go i love critiquing lawyers as much as the next person, but every time i have talked to jurors almost always what you hear from them ms oh, the lawyers were fine, but the evidence was x and they they dont parse the performance of the attorneys as much as we do. And i think this is one of the great things about the jury system is that i think the evidence actually matters a lot more than the performance of the lawyer for the person who does lets parse the lawyers is definitely trump. Yeah. And i mean, if our friend Arthur Adalja was here, he would say trump and his other attorney, Susan Necheles, has way more experience in doing across then todd blanche, but once that moment happened, i was like, okay, thats why todd blanche im just doing this crossexamination. He trump is a very you know, he likes to archetype people and just sort of put them in their categories i can imagine this is speculation, but i can only imagine him thinking, wanting to have somebody with the physicality of todd blanche, who is actually a very broad shouldered type of person to be able to do that kind of aggressive in your face, challenging of Michael Cohen that Susan Necheles is a incredible professional, but shes thats not how she conducts herself in her doing her job. And stylistically, its a choice whether it will matter to the jury. I dont know, but it probably really matters. I think thats a high theater moment. And although jeffries correct to point out that its still ultimately about facts, but high theater moments, people are human factor, not everything people when it comes to jury deliberations, in my experience, those are emotional moments in addition to facts gathering moments and theater trials are theater after all, the theater matters, matters lawyers, without theater and you can go to sleep thats not a problem with his kano thank you so much. Always we return with Michael Cohens former attorney and current legal advisor, Landing Davis has taken whether his client dug a hole for himself or did well for himself. And also, its taken get on the prosecution today going into the final stages of this trial will be right back what is circle . Circle is which hole for a like tosses, limited way circle digital froth to treat for the sweet kick a Confidence Circle is the epr less entity that gets you in the zone available at walmart drinks circle. Com. Ive got good news is a murder. 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