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Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness ....
You have to your point, to both of your points. You have the physical evidence meaning the documentation, the text messages, the signed checks. You have all of the corroborating witnesses, david pecker, and now you have Michael Cohen. Is this proof beyond a reasonable doubt . Well figure that out eventually, but its all pointing in the right direction. What more do they need from Michael Cohen . Theyre going to need that direct evidence that he acted in furtherance of donald trump i think theyre going to be able to do that well with sounds like the prosecution is really doing a great job laying out the calculated narrative through Michael Cohen but then also corroborating it in a meticulous manner with the text messages. There was an objection but it was overruled. This conversation that cohen was testified to is supported ....
So what we could expect from the prosecution as they continue their questioning of daniels is why ultimately there in those closing weeks of october 2016 she decided to go, number one, with the 130,000 payment. An agreement to sign this nda with trump and cohen versus say going to an outside publication and having her story going public there in the closing days of the 2016 election. But then we could also likely hear the prosecution ask her about her further understanding between her conversations with Keith Davidson, who was her attorney at the time, about what she understood that this agreement entailed. And what led over the course of 2017 into 2018 to her ultimately going public with her story after it was first reported about in the Wall Street Journal and sitting down for an interview with 60 minutes in which she detailed her allegations. Donald trump, we know fro ....