Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york alongside Chris Jansing for what could be the end of testimony in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of crossexamination. Katy tur will join us in a moment. Trumps attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s onetime loyal ally turned adversary. The defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. Is he lying now . The only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifying about is donald trump himself. We are still waiting for a final decision on whether he will take the stand. With us in the studio, danny cevalos, catherine christian, and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sala. Catherine, very low expectation that donald trump will take the stand. One of the things we are interested in, a 19minute sidebar before Michael Cohen came in. We are waiting for the transcript, which should hit during these hours. There was a provocative
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. The cleanup was after the Helsinki Summit saying he meant to say wouldnt instead of would although in that cleanup the president said it could be others meddling and since then calling the russia story a hoax and investigation rigged. The difference between the president s reluctance to call out russia and the security teams willingness to was noticeable. Striking enough to call out this question from dni coats. In the runup to the Helsinki Summit,s u. S. Officials, nato ambassadors to russia said the president would raise the issue of maligned activity with the president. He didnt address that. You said to make the issue of meddling a priority. How do you explain the disconnect between what you are
speech and his officials were so clear in the russia involvement. I think the fact the president continues to acknowledge this is exactly why the intel chiefs had to do this. When you have a threat
everything a lot of people are misinformed by that s the main point of the museum itself and so if you how pictures and media can distort something to look a certain way and the story is not been told that not only not been told me that you did friends family i do so many. hurt by this and. have. there kind of this there are a couple instances where they took things that were in the american history museum artifacts and then put them in a different context you know like oh it has all these like really awful historical constitutions the way they totally don t tell you about in the american history. the building seems to have kind of created a kind of galvanizing quality it s sort of become a sort of a sort of rally cry a sort of mini sort of a sort of protest as well which was not kind of what i thought about but i find
spy. she didn t use the kind of spy technology we would expect, communicating on twitter and what s-up, with those her own age and older men. she was so flirtatious, men walked away wondering what her ulterior motive was, what she wanted from them. this gives you the various ways moscow runs its influence operation, that s what experts said when i asked about her spy tactics. look, vladamir putin has a number of seasoned operatives he can plant in the u.s. to run operations for him. he also will tap people like maria butina through other people he knows to gain information and access in the u.s. that s what prosecutors say is going on in this case, anderson. did she talk about ties to russian intelligence at any point? she did. this is one of the allegations that has come out against her from some of her classmates who wish to remain anonymous, there were a couple instances she
themselves, that wasn t something you two would do? privately? yes. no. i i didn t want anyone to find me in that compromising position, let alone him. i guess at the time i thought more about myself. i wouldn t want anybody to see pictures of me like that. i m protective of my image. so i guess i protected him, too, without even knowing it. were you worried about people finding out? i was for a while. you talked to your sister and a couple other friends. i was. there were a couple instances where we were out in public, and he had his hand on my back, and i kept thinking, i m looking around, there s a lot of people. i m like how do these people, like, what are they thinking? i don t know what they re thinking, so i thought it was going to get out. i was scared every time we went to an event, i thought this is going to get out. i didn t want it to get out. but at the same time, i felt so honored to be with him in a sense that i m like, i don t care who knows.