Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
where michael cohen was not being forth coming without specifying what he wasn t forth coming about. and so it is not just lanny davis who is taking issue with the southern district, but it is also guy petrullo who worked there on two stints and worked in an executive capacity and quite upset about the strident tone of the southern district m memo and upset with how they characterized his willingness to coo coooperate and here we are now with the three-year sentence. and phil rucker, the washington bureau chief, and white house bur rerow chief for the washington post and someone who knows michael cohen and has covered donald trump so we well. what are you what do you take from this and what the president said to the reuters last night, and distancing himself, and trying to distance himself from what happened to cohen and all of the criticism that the president has leveled against cohen in comparison to say manafort and some of the others? well, andrea, this is a pretty extraord