Right . You would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. None of this goes perfectly from a prosecutors perspective. Danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the Defense Attorneys perspective. This is why you have redirect. This is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. As much as you plan, you have to be flexible. Is the prosecution happy with the cross . If i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1 2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. Keep doing it. I think at some point, jose, youre losing your jury. I take anas point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. My goal is to never lose my jury. And if youre saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think youre losing your jury. There is an agony in a crossexamining of a witness
People have made to congress to buttress the russian side of the collusion investigation. Thank you for that. We thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live throughout, i mean, from the very beginning craig melvin whos about to pick up our coverage from the day that Robert Mueller was appointed thrappoin appointed, this story has never been far from the headlines. Among these many days, this is huge. This is an infection pointing deep. Were going to continue our coverage. Good morning, craig melvin, msnbc headquarters here in new york city. That Breaking News on the Mueller Investigation is where we start. Shortly before President Trump left for his meeting with World Leaders in argentina, last hour just a few moments ago he called his onetime attorney and fixer Michael Cohen a quote, weak person, who is lying. Cohen made a surprise appearance in a Federal Courtroom in manhattan this morning. He named the president. He named President Trump in a shocking new plea deal involving Trum
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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