Starts now. Welcome to this twohour the beat. Michael cohen is Donald Trumps selfdescribed fixer. As defendant he was rolling deep today. Trump not only arriving with Top Republican figures but also one of his own codefendants from a different one where hes charged. Jeffrey clark was in the courtroom. I saw him myself and briefly greeted him. It was in that courtroom that we continued that Group Coverage of the defenses, the witness, the lawyers. That was a few hours ago when i was in front of the new york criminal courthouse. I am, of course, a member of our whole wideranging Team Reporting on this historic trial for you. While the d. A. Has been on offense for weeks, with damning receipts, strong witnesses weve told you about. Todays continued heat on Michael Cohen is certainly slowing the prosecutors momentum in this trial. Trumps lawyers conducting a winding relentless crossexamination that has the d. A. s case wobbling. The worse news for the d. A. Is that the jury has now seen Mi
at least half of them, republicans. they never attacked trump. they investigated and attacked russia for meddling in our election. it seems that we always come back to where we started, which is that he can t stand, you know, anyone messing with his mother russia. yeah, that s right. and a number of those people you named, strzok, page, career officials. a lot of them are appointeed. mccabe and hayden and brennan. when you see him talking about the intelligence communities, he s talking about not just the political appointees in the obama administration who started some of the russia investigation. he s talking about career appointees who have won job, to serve the country. and you know, he has this idea, you can see it in his remarks, that there is this deep state conspiracy. i guarantee you when he watched the coverage of yesterday s hearing, he was thinking, here are these same people and the deep state, they ve been out to get me from the beginning, they re still out to get m