karen fáfreedmant( served as th chief assistantçó district attorney in the manha(ép d.a. s office.w3 both joined me now. michael cohen testified that trump had a lengthy relationship. have a listen. i was involvedñr in several these catch-and-killçó episodes. these catch-and-killt( scenario existed between david pecker and mr. trump along before i starte1 working for him in 2007. karen, explainxd us to the significance of david pecker coming back to testify to the grand jury today. yeah, so, there isn tñ2hp lo of question of factok here abou whether or not payments were made. that s not going to be proven by books and records, including the fact that these payments that were made, 11 of themjfñr while trump w+w■ sitting presmant, were made and false entriesxd we retainers. the question that is really for the grand juryw3 to decide ñiis3 trump involved in these payments? did he know about them? did hew3 know about the purpose? did he know that these
that he was the one whoe1 came with the scheme and it wasn t knownñr or approved by the form president or anyone else,fxy% saying, that s not true. ç agreement with the government that this is somethingñi that w sort of,ñr you know, a catch-and-kill program, and started with karen mcdougal, and so that would go, i think, a long way to rebuttingaabuzñr testimony of mr. costello to thr extent that s what he said to the grand jurors, and i also agree with karen, who s incrediblyjf knowledgeable, thai d. want to have the time between an as short as possible because ofq security concerns. that just seemsw3 having bee involved in a case withñrñr9÷0zo concerns, that is something you take incredibly seriously. yeah. and one last question to you, andrew. we have somexd developments outf fulton county, georgia, today as well.!u■
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in front of him for about five minutes. he is not a strategist. he s not a long-term thinker. we talked about this before, any u next to his name, it s a fundamental misunderstanding!; % how he rolls. he is a reptilian survivor, and everything he does is geared towards his own áñqá and now3ó[■ one else s. in this case, by the way, is that michael cohen taped donald trump telling him and directing him to go to allen weisselberg and handle the cover-up payment. reptilian survivor. there s a phrase for the ages. timxd o brien, karen, thank you both. indictment of donald trump looms, the question remains, ho( do you prosecuteñi açó former president? andrew weissmann, a former prosecutor, joins me to break it down next.
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