Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, Star Witness In That Civil Fraud Trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. Michael cohen. This is about accountability, plain and simple. We leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. I thank you all for coming. A few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in the 250 million civi
this is sort of who she wants to enter the race because she s saying, look, this party is out of touch, and here s another person who is. joe biden is, and she ll point to michael bloomberg too and say the same thing. can we do this exact same conversation again? this was absolutely fascinating. i d love so. thank you both for coming in tonight. two terrific writers, mara day, amie parnes. we appreciate it. coming up, he said it about paul manafort, michael cohenen. and today he turned to an golden oldy to describe his relationship. we ll have more when we come back.
but then there s a standard narrative here. we saw it with omarosa .now we see it with cohen. i was somehow caught up in this cult of donald trump. we saw similar language with omarosa. now the scales have fallen from their eyes and they come to see the light. i don t buy that. what i buy is the fact that there s corroborating evidence to suggest that cohenen knowingly participated in illegal activity with donald trump. when he got caught, particularly around the moscow thing, that s when he started opening his mouth. the southern district of new york wanted him to open his mouth about some other things and he refused to do it and now he s doing thee years in federal prison. which issing interesting. crystal mason in texas for voter fraud is doing five years in federal prison. so it s interesting. a lot of people are pooh-poohing this, that this is a small campaign violation.
what that tells us is that the president was directly involved in crime, directly involved according to both michael cohenen, georcohen, pecker and given the pattern of behavior here, we have donald trump lying about knowing about the payments to stormy daniels. we have a we have conversation on audio, right, where cohen is actually saying to donald trump, we knew this before the sentencing where donald trump is saying what about paying cash? and he said no, no, i m going to create a company. now, if you think you re doing something lawful, but why are you creating a shell company to then have your attorney make a personal loan to you that then is going to get booked as invoices for legal services to your company that you know are are not legal services to your
payment ever took place. then he told people to ask michael cohenen abo about it. now his stance is a payment may have taken place but it was done without my understanding of the legal context of it. then we have him talking about how no one is ever prosecuted for campaign finance law. trump pardoned someone for campaign finance law. he knows campaign finance laws are, in fact, enforced by the federal government. but one of the problems he has is he s told so many different lies about this situation that it s incredibly impossible to believe right now. one last thing to your point about the legal team he s surrounding himself with who seem incapable to handle the task at hand, we were talking with rudy giuliani about the cohen result, the plea. and he was talking about the crime. his point to us about why this was insignificant was the following, quote, nobody got