important. reporter: never more important. they re going through the counts, and then they re associating each count obviously with the invoices and with the checks as well. and let me remind folks, by the way, i m doing this all day, so i may sound like i m repeating myself, but i do think it is important when it comes to the counts, you have 12 counts when it comes to ledgers, 11 counts, invoices, 11 counts, checks as well. and let me quickly read you this part in which they talk about the count. in order to find defendant guilt on count one, on or about february 14th, 2017, in the count of new york and elsewhere, the defendant personally or by acting in concert with another person or person made or caused the false records of the business records of an enterprise, specifically invoice to michael cohen. number two, the defendant did so with intent to defraud, intent to commit another crime, or aid in commission thereof. and he goes on to say that there are 34 counts that
what s your thought? yeah, i agree with you, michael, i think the color here are the viewer makes a good point, which is the jury form e, the jury doesn t write an essay. here are the reasons for her verdict. you just check a box, but i ve done cases like this where there they re subcomponents to the charge i used to do racketeering cases and you have to prove a certain number of racketeering act and we he would ask the jury in the forum which of these racketeering act do you find proven unanimously or not a so that the jury will be able to tell us specifically how they made their finding b. so the defendant has noticed and see silver covered on appeal. and now this is going to be an appeal issue that frankly, prosecutors but have avoided if they just said, hey, jury, tell us the specific one of those three menu options which you chose well said elie honig. thank you. appreciate you thanks, michael. all right. stone account more of your best and worst social media comments, don
logistics here. if this does go to a trial, and you impanel or have a jury, who does not any security clearance, how do you try a case all about classified documents if the jury doesn t see the evidence? that s a question question. i m not going to bore you with something called sefa, which allows government to deal with some of that issue. the main way you deal with that is you have to declassify the documents, and so what you re talking about is the state of the documents, and whether it was national defense information at the time that the alleged criminal acts occurred. not at a time that it s been presented to the jury. obviously the jury needs to see that, and they re not clear to see those. that s the typical process. you don t use currently
we asked him, i asked him what if they push you on the kind of witness you are. you heard his answer what did you think i think he is spot on i mean essentially, he may be the star witness but the jury doesn t have to go just on michael cohen. this is a case that not only involves testimony by michael cohen, but it s also testimony by david pecker. and david pecker, michael cohen, donald trump met together to hatch this scheme and to basically keep a woman s story about donald trump out of the nat national enquirer. and you keep pressing that fact and the jury meaning even if arguendo as journalists say, that doesn t cancel out. if i had two witnesses, i thought i had a solid case if i had three witnesses, four witnesses, ways a slam dunk. right more criminals avoid what this is exactly that s how they work the other piece i want to ask
in, dia in, diane. this is got to visit mozell, just after the jury left the property. i want to be clear, the jury doesn t have anyone guiding them through this. when they re visiting the shed and dog kennels, which you can see, they didn t have anybody pointing any out to them, but according to the pool, they were able to see from the road, one of the juries standing in the feed air, glancing up at the door frame, something that has been talked about over and over again. according to the pooler, the grass has grown up around the area. they described it as feeling almost haunted. there was still a deflated football, but no sign of the