Deadline white house starts right now. Hi, everyone, welcome to wednesday, a critical chapter in the trial of the expresident is coming to a close. Questions now swirl about what happens next n trump election interference trial. Todd blanche failed to land any significant blows to Michael Cohens credibility, something theyre desperate to do after he was put in the center of the scheme to catch and kill negative stories that could have hurt Donald Trumps campaign. He told the jury that the president himself signed off on the plan to hide the expenses. Todd blanche started this way, these are literally the first words out of the his mouth. You and i have never spoken or met, have we . To which cohen replied, we have not. Todd blanche, but you know who i am . Cohen answers, i do blanche asking, on april 23rd, so after the trial started in this case, you went on tiktok and called me a, quote, Crying Little cohen supplies that might be something i would say. Blanche went on to defend mr. Co
time for liberals to shut this sdaefrt down this is a political witch hunt an international disgrace. this snot an investigation it is a scam. now they just dan, thank you very much for that. yes , sir. peter strzoknot the only one on the team. new e mails show a man, andrew w wei weissman praise the sale yate s. weissman cent her an e mail i m proud and in awe. thank you my respects. in other words, weissman depiezs trump so much he is in defiance of the president. he remains on mueller s team and
first charges were filed. so this is certainly a big moment in this investigation that began more than a year ago and robert mueller took over in may and now we re seeing the first charges. all right. and mueller s team is examining foreign lobbying conducted by former trump campaign manager paul manafort over the course of the investigation. mueller has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony for people close to.manafort. analyst michael zelden says mule ser most likely honing in on manafort s financial dealings with foreign governments and we spokes to our anderson keeper. here is part of that conversation. if it was andrew w with eissman who was at the courthouse, he has been on the manafort case and it might be logical to conclude that it is manafort. manafort has been under scrutiny for both collusion and his real estate dealings and tax and money laundering investigations.