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than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome to cnn and special coverage. if former president trump s hush money criminal trial, i m wolf blitzer in washington, along with abby phillip. who s just outside the courthouse in new york today, michael cohen, trump s former we re fixer and lawyer is back on the witness stand. prosecutors appear to have some work to do during their redirect of cohen after he made a purely stunning admission during cross-examination? today, defense attorney todd blanche was able to get cohen to admit to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the trump organization. abby, you were inside court today? playing, how it all went down that s right. wolf, earlier in the trial during the direct examination, cohen had actually said this, that he had pocketed monday money from the trump organization. that was meant for a technology company. but today, while he was being pressed by the defense attorney todd blanche cohen agreed that it was ....
welcome, to the special coverage of criminal trumps criminal trial. it is a week that could be make or break as key witness michael cohen unloaded on trump but then found himself on defense with trumps fate now hanging in the balance. the star witness takes the stand against donald j trump. michael cohen now the star witness. the ex-president coming face to face with the man who used to do his dirty work. who now has turned into the key witness. telling the court, everything required mr. trump s sign off. will he keep his cool during the cross-examination? i think the punches are building cumulatively. i think that tuesday there were bruises, and today there is blood. stor cohen is a bad human being. if i was a juror i would think this guy is making it up as he is going along. we have heard different people, legal experts, longtime journalists, and other observers close to this. i can tell you, was inside the courtroom. including the key cross on thu ....
and again that matters. because the question being raised whether past the point of anger which he s allowed to feel and into something that involves a vendetta where the truth might be sacrificed. or lied about that history. he said he did ask to be president trump s personal attorney, but not a different rule of general counsel. it went on and on like this today, if you will. ke this just like it did the other day. and so it s possible or dilute the larger.defense attorneys are trying to make, but that they are trying to raise. it s possible on the other hand, and i was watching michael cohen go through it, that the cuts can slowly eat away as the key witness to donald trump s state of mind. another way to put this is without the other money guy, allen weisselberg, who is in jail can certainly make trump look bad here in the real world. others can factor that in, the guys have been to jail twice now. without the cfo they needed the other trump aid who knew about ....
starts now. welcome to this two-hour the beat. michael cohen is donald trump s self-described fixer. as defendant he was rolling deep today. trump not only arriving with top republican figures but also one of his own co-defendants from a different one where he s 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 wide-ranging team reporting on this historic trial for you. while the d.a. has been on offense for weeks, with damning receipts, strong witnesses we ve told you about. today s continued heat on michael cohen is certainly slowing the prosecutor s momentum in this trial. trump s lawyers conducting a winding relentless cross-examination that has the d.a. s case wobbling. the worse news for the d.a. is t ....
the stand under cross-examination when court resumes. so it begins another hour here i am john roberts in washington. sandra this is going to be an interesting hour ahead. be to consider in court resumes at 2:15 p.m. he oftentimes walks back and around 2:10 p.m. so we should be seeing him shortly. i am sandra smith in new york this is america reports. trump s defense team has tried to show cohen as a untruthful and vindictive, angry he never got a job in the white house. cohen is dented by his testimony that the payment that was made to stormy daniels was done at the direction of the former president. john: that is not what he said when he confided to form a legal advisor bob costello years ago, here is what costello told america s newsroom this morning. he kept on saying over and over again 10-20 times i swear to god, bob, i don t have anything on donald trump. and then when we got into the discussion of the stormy daniels nda he said specifically, and i cross-ex ....