show powering progress this is cnn the world's news we're back with more on the former president's hush money trial back with me, stacy schneider, a manhattan criminal defense attorney, and jeremy saland, a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney's office. our guys, looking ahead to monday this weekend, stacy, if you're on the former president's defense team what are you doing to prepare well, i know what my defense is if i'm on the president's defense team and the defense is that i have to point out to the jury that michael cohen is convicted felon. >> that's trump's former attorney who's pled guilty in federal court. and served a three-year jail sentence involving this alleged scheme so i'm going to open up probably on michael cohen who the elephant in the room. and give the jury an opinion about how awful he is. the next thing i'm going to do is open up and