Special Saturday Night at nine eastern ac30 60 starts now good evening. On what what a blockbuster de the criminal hush money trial. The former president blockbuster, because after what has at times been a man during crossexamination, the prosecutions most important witness, Michael Cohen, today, trump attorney todd blanche was able to repeatedly raised questions about cohens honesty, not just in the past, but his honesty in his testimony before this jury this week, i was in the courtroom this morning just before the lunch break. Blanche presented Text Messages to cohen between him and former trump bodyguard Keith Schiller. The messages were from october 24, 2016 and they appear to contradict Testimony Cohen gave monday on direct examination that goes to the heart of the alleged scheme to falsify Business Records earlier in the week, cohen testified about Texting Schiller he said under oath that he needed to talk to trump urgently and schiller was always by his psi. He testified that h
Right . You would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. None of this goes perfectly from a prosecutors perspective. Danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the Defense Attorneys perspective. This is why you have redirect. This is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. As much as you plan, you have to be flexible. Is the prosecution happy with the cross . If i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1 2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. Keep doing it. I think at some point, jose, youre losing your jury. I take anas point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. My goal is to never lose my jury. And if youre saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think youre losing your jury. There is an agony in a crossexamining of a witness
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Prosecution. Michael cohen, back on the stand. Susan hoffinger went through the different times that Michael Cohen has lied, his legal troubles, the fact he has been disbarred. And under crossexamination from the defense. He is obsessed with revenge against donald trump, thats what theyre saying. As donald trump roles and with a full entourage including the Speaker Of The House. President trump is a friend and i wanted to be here to support him. Tonight, chris hayes and alex wagner break down what happened inside and outside the courtroom with Rachel Maddow, katie phang and msnbc political experts, when special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes, along with alex wagner. Thank you for joining us for our special coverage of day 17 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. We will be joined by Rachel Maddow and Lawrence Odonnell in a minute to break down what we heard from the most pivotal witness in the case, Michael Cohen, today. In my case
Is a wonderful man. Hed oftentimes have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene . Excuse me, im about to have a friend for dinner, as the poor doctor walked by. Hannibal lector, congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter. Yeah. Donald trump in new jersey, of all places, praising a fictional Serial Killer. That was good. This is exactly, mika, this is why the Biden Campaign desperately wants to see more bizarre moments like this during trumps rallies. I promise you, theyre more upset donald trump is in trial right now than donald trump, because they know when he goes out on the road, people see, the guy is just not there. He is celebrating a fictional character there who one of the most grotesque, horrifying people of movie history. Yeah. By the way, if youre going to a rally like that, why are you cheering that on . What can you be thinking at that rally other than, this doesnt make sense . That is my point. This is why i disagree with the concern he is in court rather than