My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c
they kind of want to establish this pattern of behavior for the former president. if we think about some of the other testimony that we are expecting from some other key witnesses, michael cohen, we know the defense is going after michael cohen s character. what we re hearing from the prosecution is, for instance, michael cohen, when he is to take the stand, they re going to focus less on his character and more about documentation. they re going to be presenting michael cohen with a lot of documents and saying is this accurate, is this not accurate, to take the limelight off michael cohen s character. in this instance, and i only bring that up to juxtapose that to the former president, this is going to be more of a character testimony, hence the reason they re talking about all of the convictions that the former president has faced over the last couple of years, his corporation, trump organization as well, and so it will come down to hearing this information from the former president,
he is integral to the entire impeachment conversation. to be perfectly clear without hunter biden taking $83,000 a month of a company that basically an industry he knew next to nothing about he got only because of his last name the entire conversation about ukraine in general would never have happened. look, he did do something ethically questionable and the legal experts are debating whether or not he did something illegal. but remember it was george kent who testified against president donald trump who also first raised the caution and concern with the obama white house back in 2015. even he said i don t like the way this looks. this guy is someone who is against trump. someone with an impartial if not someone that is anti-trump character testimony in the impeachment. so hunter biden did do something wrong. he got rich using his last name. while also the obama-biden white house was changing policy in ukraine. martha: okay. richard, would it make sense, does it happen in any
nomination was withdrawn. what would you be asking brett kavanaugh right now? he s going to be hammered with all of the questions he s going to be asked tomorrow. they re going to be brutal, they re going to be personal, and sometimes the reality is there are no good answers. so the number one thing for him is the maintenance of his credibility, is that we were talking about this during a break. when you re asked going into the marijuana have you tried marijuana and you say, yes, i have, they re not looking to disqualify you for smoking pot in college. the test is are you lying about it now on the eve of going to work in the white house. these questions are a character testimony. the issue isn t did you drink in high school, were you drunk in high school, were you a sloppy drunk in high school. it s that as a grown man, a federal judge nominated for the supreme court, are you lying about being a sloppy drunk in high school. and so any dissembling, any
over the last year at the white house. and so there is a real willingness to get behind him and to defend him right now. that could all change by tomorrow. we saw how much it changed in the last 24 hours, nicolle, but for right now they re hopeful he ll make it through. and just real quick, elise, i heard what phil rucker just described, i think david axelrod has a quote on the record, people in the white house we served, the same kind of character testimony for ronny jackson. there are a lot of questions about these allegations. they don t ring true to the people who knew him. so, it does seem like an investigation either in the committee or from an inspector general does need to take place before this can proceed. exactly. that s why i am giving ronny jackson the benefit of the doubt just because he was so beloved within the bush white house. and i ve talked to veterans who think that, hey, maybe it s not the worst thing to have a young enthusiastic admiral who has the president