davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha
talked about how in his words, michael cohen was forced t plead guilty to a second crime involving karen mcdougal, th former playboy model who als claimed to have had a affair with trump even though he didn t pay an of his own money in that situation, what you make of the? i think what lenny is doing is trying to show, he is tryin to distinguish between michael cohen the man who pellet guilty, who went to jail, versus michael cohen the witness. as he just pointed out, th government has used witnesse in the past, if we pull it bac from the specifics, because don t want to dispute disput plead guilty they don t do it because the want to. whether his client was force into doing a, what he is distinguishing between is th idea that someone can be a convicted criminal and someone can still be a valid witness he also brought up the goo point that there has been a lo of evidence to support michael cohen s testimony. that is something we would expect he would never want anybody to bring a c