Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
sympathize with them. often a client comes to the attorney and says, i am paying you all of this money and you better fight to get me zero time in jail, and the attorneys have to make that shoot the moon type argument that long shot argument for no jail time when the more realistic argument is probably something in the range of 20 to 40 months, at a least statistically. and so that is probably what we can expect in the reasonable range given the national downward trend of sentences for similarly situated defendants. elliott, let me bring you in now, and reflect if you would on with what we have heard so far from inside of that courtroom. and again, this is from wnbc s jonathan dienst and these are not exact quotes, but i want to read a few more for the viewers to give them a sense of the tone of the comment s ths that he ma daimt he said that i blame myself for the conduct that has