Cnn Special Coverage or former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial. Im Briana Keeler in washington with kaitlan collins, who is outside the courtroom. House in new york. And today trumps defense has pressed Michael Cohen, trumps former lawyer and fixer about his history of lying under oath in an attempt to discredit him the defense is also highlighted some of the various insults that he has logged against trump over the years, painting him as a man out for revenge after their relationship fell apart. At one point, the defense play this clip from cohens podcast in october of 20 he 20. Here it is truly hope that this man, ends up in prison. It wont bring back the year that i lost or the damage done to my family but revenge is a dish best served cold and you Better Believe i want this made to go down and rotten side for what he did to me and my family it only got crazier from there with cohens credibility clearly on the line, when trumps Defense Attorney here, todd blanche, is tryi
nations like our own. but all that is being threatened right now, before our, eyes in a way that i do not think many people quite have grasped. last night we showed you some examples of straight-up menacing threats of violence against school board members, in their requirements for students to wear masks during the pandemic. forget going into the school boards. you go into school boards to remove them. that s what you do. they don t follow the law. they don t follow the law. you go in and remove. i m going in with 20 strongmen. i m going to speak in front of the school board, they can leave or they can be removed. we have all the council people stones that are voting on the mandate, whoever votes yes, we re coming to your floor. we re coming to your home. you want to feel intimidated, you want to intimidate, asked were coming to you. civil war is coming. get your guns. civil war is coming people. there s a building crescendo
so i think the feeling is, look. these troops have really sacrificed over the past 7 1/2 years. this is a moment that deserves attention. savannah, is the white house, are they prepared for apparently a building crescendo of criticism from the left with regard to the president s discussion last night of president bush s role in iraq? and he was generous to the president. yeah. i think they wouldn t be surprised to get that criticism. i mean, how soon we forget in some ways that early on in the presidential campaign, iraq was the defining issue. i mean, that was the skurveling block for hillary clinton in her early primary days because she had voted yes for the war in iraq and president obama presented himself as the anti-war candidate. this was the issue behind the campaign and why a lot of people voted for president obama certainly in the early going. it was clear the white house is trying to strike a ballast night reminding everyone where the president initially stood on the