Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york alongside Chris Jansing for what could be the end of testimony in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of crossexamination. Katy tur will join us in a moment. Trumps attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s onetime loyal ally turned adversary. The defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. Is he lying now . The only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifying about is donald trump himself. We are still waiting for a final decision on whether he will take the stand. With us in the studio, danny cevalos, catherine christian, and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sala. Catherine, very low expectation that donald trump will take the stand. One of the things we are interested in, a 19minute sidebar before Michael Cohen came in. We are waiting for the transcript, which should hit during these hours. There was a provocative
Todd blanche, was going to be terrible. And he actually believes that todd blanche is the worst of the three lawyers and now i have come to agree with that after watching today. My other guest is the person who actually found the 130,000 game going on and started the Criminal Investigation of Michael Cohen. And heres the thing, you know him. You all know Andrew Weissmann. That is who found the 130,000. He started everything that you are seeing in that courtroom. Incredible. The gift that keeps on giving, Andrew Weissmann. Coming up right here. Thank you. Thank you, both. We are going to take you inside the courtroom today for the next hour, but american political history demands that we begin with what happened outside the courthouse today when the Republican Party boldly and bravely rose up in spirited defense of adultery with porn stars, paying off porn stars to buy their silence and Hiding Payoffs To Porn Stars by republican candidates. The Republican Party did not specify whether b
in the intelligence business, he is a collector who will take it to them. we never got that close. a lot of people try to look at the steele dossier and discredit and focus on this tawdry detail, the salacious part. that is one aspect of a larger document that is purporting to claim that the president is compromised by the russians. and i would ask you this. if you have someone, whether you re in the media or an intelligence official you have a source that tells you ten things, eight of them turn out to be true, two of them turn out to be false, you don t simply discredit everything that they tell you. you look at it with greater scrutiny. i don t think sit hearing today that we can say that christopher steele, what he provided was completely false. and the last thing is the president is actually helping us corroborate some of that information because the more time that passes where he continues to not ridicule putin, he continues to act opposite the interests of the united states, he