he will be cross examined on his prior statements and his prior guilty plea. but that doesn t mean mr. cohe is not a witness who can t b believed i have tried many cases with witnesses with likely criminal records. and as long as there i evidence to support what h says, then juries, as they wil be instructed by the court, ar absolutely free to believe a witness, whether he or she has a criminal record or any other problem. here to respond is th attorney from michael cohen, lanny davis. good to see you, mr. davis you heard the former distric attorney s comments are just now. would you like to respond? yes i know mr. vance has a great deal of respect right on for leaving - in organized crime prosecutions, they only witnes against the mobs will be someone who has killed people. but i don t think that is th
october 28th, 2016, cohe reportedly called trump an updated him on the situation this is the payoff situation with stormy daniels. the same day, cohen an clifford, stephanie clifford reportedly signed a contract that of actively promised miss clifford money in exchange for not talking about the allege affair with donald trump so that is how michael cohen i going to testify he is going to say on octobe 20, eight 2016, a couple o weeks, less than two weeks before the presidentia election, i told donald trum all about exactly where we were he has previous conversation to that with donald trump. the only person who coul refute michael cohen on, thi on the witness stand is donald trump. and we have all seen that he has no capacity, none, to tell the truth. even under oath. and not only that, lawrence you know there is a time whe donald had some self restraint
not guilty in this case, without taking the stand himself to specificall reviewed michael cohen the chronology of this, this i just one day october 28th, 2016, cohe reportedly called trump an updated him on the situation this is the payoff situation with stormy daniels. the same day, cohen an clifford, stephanie clifford reportedly signed a contract that of actively promised miss clifford money in exchange for not talking about the allege affair with donald trump so that is how michael cohen i going to testify he is going to say on octobe 20, eight 2016, a couple o weeks, less than two weeks before the presidentia election, i told donald trum all about exactly where we
they are both lawyers. it s not clear they had an attorney client relationship even if they did, mr. cohe could waive that privilege there is some reason to thin that he has done that. mr. costello could be talkin about statements that were mad to mr. costello by mr. cohen that could happen. it is also, as noted, the case that mr. costello seems to hav close ties to rudy giuliani, steve bannon, and to the forme president himself. and, so he is aligned with people on the defense side i this matter. it is still very much an ope question as to what it is that donald trump and his tea thinks that mr. costello can say that would avoid a grand jury finding probable cause. it s a relatively low standard but, again, maybe there is som
and for the record, individual number one is president donald j trump. michael cohen was sentenced to three years for his crimes. he spent more than a year in federal prison and a year and half in home confinement after the outbreak of covid. but at least up until now th person who cohen says directed him, the person who signs th check that we all saw, has not been punished now of course at the time this is all happening back into 2018, donald trump was a sitting president th united states. the department of justice is a long-standing rule that sitting president cannot b indicted, which, i think, is fine, reasonable on its own, makes sense but we would later come to learn that there is lot more than that going o behind the scenes in the department of justice accordin to reporting for the new yor times, shortly after he became attorney general in 2019 william barr set out t challenge the prosecution. when barr was sworn in, cohe had already pleaded guilty and