Described Michael Cohen to prosecutors on the stand as the alleged affair became public. Asked the lawyers what the point of the line of questioning was because it opened the door to what we have been watching from the defense during crossexamination, which by the way, just ended. Theyre trying to use Michael Cohens onetime loyalty against him. Asking Keith Davidson about calling, he was devastated donald trump wasnt taking him to washington, d. C. , saying, quote, after everything i have done for the blank, you can guess what the word is, guy, i cant believe im not going to washington. Ive saved that guys blank so many times you dont even know. Davidson testified cohen complained to him, quote and that davidson thought he was going to kill himself. The defense wants cohen to seem like a spurned lover, out for revenge. The question is does that discredit what is at the heart of the case, falsified documents. Lets find out from our team covering all of this. Joining us now, Nbc News Nat
One of the moms in that picture saying, quote, my baby would have died if she had stayed in venezuela. Important reminder of the struggles that country is still facing. The photographer here, nachos doche from reuters. You can send me a snapchat or instagram. More news nor from ali vels who only has good things to say. Good afternoon. Ill probably catch you later this afternoon. Thursday august 23rd, lets get smarter. Michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. He was a lawyer for me for one of many. They would say the lawyer and they would add the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. Yo i dont know where that term came from. He didnt do big deals. Small deals. Turned out he wasnt that good,
frankly. Did the funds come out of the campaign . They didnt come out of the campaign, they came from me. Its not even a campaign violation. If you look at president obama, he had a Massive Campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general. Almost everybody that runs for off
anti-trump people unite around one candidate. i just want to remind people, some people talked about that in 2016 too when you had all these candidates and donald trump went on to win. so we ll see if it s different this time. the crowded field helped him last time. it appears to be helping this time. we ll see. i know one thing that s interesting, in the conversations you had with people, they re talking about some of the beliefs people have, whether it be about the election or other issues, and i know you were struck by how disconnected some of the people you spoke with are from the truth. you know this dynamic to be true, but when you spend a week there and experience it so often with so many really good, hardworking decent people, it does strike you, erin. we ve talked before about how there s two americas economically the last 20 years, those who have and those who don t. communities that are struggling, those that are thriving. i think we have two americas when it comes to tr
look, it isn t always the most healthy and productive conversation? no. in a polarized society when everyone is in their media silo and the algorithm is tailored to reinforced that, it is nice to have people with different ideas in the same form. trace: yup, fairpoint. robert de niro s grandson died apparently overdosed on fentanyl. his mom for wrote the following on instagram, quoting here someone told him fentanyl laced pills that they knew was laced yet still sold them. for all of these people still effing around, selling the stuff, my son is gone forever. it is a tragic story. we have been talking about this for 2 1/2 years and talking about the border and the fentanyl and you have these factions in hollywood not saying a word about her. and it hits home and his home hard and this is what you have been talking about you know, something has to be done. reporter: something has to be done. bill is doing great reporting.
speaker of everybody in the line and third in line to t thethe presidency. i said the other day there s a reason trump, 10, 15, times day goes after hillary clinton or joe biden or the state of something like that, just to preprogram his people that he s the victim. and we kind of roll our eyes at it but in that silo it works. the fact that speaker mccarthy is a complicated leader right now and has his own problems with conservatives, the conservatives he has a problem with are the most pro-trump people. for him it s about power and they want to say joe biden, joe biden, joe biden, hillary clinton, hillary clinton, hillary clinton. not excusing joe biden having documents in his garage or hillary clinton s e-mail server, but if you were trying to put these into context, they re a and b and z. trump being the z. but they talk to their base in a way, their base operates in a choir practice, only listen to their own media silo and it is