election and not for any other purpose even personal purpose et cetera. the defense is going to make it clear the prosecution has a high burden here date certainly have unfortunate witnesses on which to relight to reach that burden before you talk about michael cote is the witness. he was relying on his accountants to do this. he signed these checks. that likely could be his defense he said he will testify we do not know if you will. is that a reasonable defense do you think for him to say i signed those checks i thought they were legal expenses not with the prosecution say to cover up stormy daniels. >> absolutely. we are talk about criminal intent we have to look at the mind of the defendant and how he was operating when he made those decisions. not only does he have his own attorney telling him to structure these payments but he has accountants telling him how

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