i just have one more question. but a lot of the reason that this is being greeted with three inch headlines in every country. it is not necessarily because everybody is totally engaged with the substance of the falsifying of the business record. to the commission of another crime. the actual details of this is not what is driving it. driving is that he is the first president to be convicted and what is he going to do. we are worried about what trump might demand or expect supporters to do in response to this. the extralegal protection and violence is very much front of line for the future of our democracy. i would like to hear what you think about that and how you calibrate that and how you have dealt with what i know has been the anxiety around the threat
white house. he will weaponize it against every single person at this table. he does not care. he is vindictive. he has written about it. if you punch me, i will hit you 10 times harder. if he has the power, again these are his own words. he wants to rewrite the constitution. he wants to strip the legislative branch and the judiciary of the equal powers under the government. confer all powers to the executive branch. what happens to the rest of us? you will end up everybody in guantanamo bay. because they are critical of him. let me ask you a detailed question. you talked about the documents. the smoking gun document. the one that has alan weissenbach and the handwriting where you break it down. did you know that document existed? and when did you become reacquainted with its
and i did and i paid my taxes on the 15%. that is how they wanted me to do it. so i said okay. lawrence o donnell is standing by and wanting to ask you a question. michael, thank you. are you going to go through my entire life history? because i m a new yorker as well. michael, i would say pick up your first day of testimony what i said on the show that night. the michael cohen that i saw in the courtroom that day. everybody knows that guy. every new yorker knows that guy. and there is a version like that we all know. i just want to emphasize this point for the audience. i have a question of what people thought was the most dramatic part of your cross- examination. i guess danya perry that
as an excuse for what had just happened at that point four days earlier? joy, it s a great question and it s sort of related to what we were just talking about a minute ago. he is going to feel completely unbound now by any sense of having to operate within somebody else s system to the extent he even bothered, but once we get to sentencing i think he s also going to realize that the other thing he wasn t able to control and wasn t able to behave in the context of was the idea that he might be facing prison and the irony for him is that if he had behaved like a normal human being throughout this trial, i think the risk of prison would have been fairly low, but
sexual encounter because they made that an issue in the case? they tried to deny it. yeah. that again was something that i m certain that donald trump dictated to the various different attorneys, i want it this way, i want it that way and why they listened, especially after you see what had happened to someone like myself, why? yeah. i m getting whiplash here. do you think melania and ivanka were begged to attend trial? that s a great question. it s funny because katie phang posted something about how don jr. must have lost paper, scissors, rock and he had to go. this is what they took offense to. ivanka never showed up. jared i don t think showed up