Decade doing trumps dirty work. Credibility issues are why the prosecution used the 20 witnesses who proceeded cohen to basically corroborate his story before they even put him on the stand. It is also why trumps defense team has singlemindedly sought to state their case on discrediting him. Even in cases that might not be read crucial to rebutting the prosecution. For that reason the defense may think they racked up a victory for themselves today because during the crossexamination this morning, cohen admitted that he stole from the trump organization. In addition to the reimbursement for the hush money for stormie daniels, cohen was also given 50,000. That money was supposed to be a repayment for what cohen spent to hire a tech from to rig an online poll on trumps behalf. We dont have time to get into that detail. But as cohen said on the stand, he only paid trump 20,000 and kept the rest for himself. Asked point blank today whether he stole from the trump organization, cohen said, y
Right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole, thanks so much. Today marks a serious, even grim day for defendant donald trump, who of course, was indicted, booked, and had his mug shot taken very famously in an election case regarding possible crimes in the 2020 race in the georgia rico case. He was also indicted by federal Prosecutor Jack Smith in two cases which carry serious charges but, like the georgia case, are actually not currently on track to go to trial by the election. But for trump, the only case where it now matters that he is a criminal defendant is in new york, where trumps trial reached its Inflection Point today as d. A. Braggs team has just told the judge today that the d. A. s office has proven its case based on the evidence and ethus intoning the well known phrase, quote, your honor, the people rest. Thats today in the only case that looks to be going to trial by the eelection. That means the prosecutors literally rest their case and take the position theyve supplied enough evide
they really wanted this meeting. we couldn t get the aid. they wouldn t give it to them. the guy s on the phone with the president shouting so loud he s got the phone out here. he s saying, yeah, the president doesn t care about anything but the bidens. what happened and why is clear. the question is the consequence. right. and people who didn t necessarily know each other. right. i mean they may have heard of each other, worked at the same place, but they didn t know each other and they re all pretty much corroborating what the whistle-blower said. here s an interesting conversation that i had or i m going to have it later on because, you know, you and i talk. john kasich and i talk occasionally to try to figure out what is going on in this world. he believes and i believe this as well, that maybe over this holiday, people are sitting at home in front of their televisions. the tv s on cnn or fox or on msnbc. it s on in the background. you may have a football game on now and th
that when he realized that this was a diplomatic conversation going on, one that he could actually hear, remember, he s a note-taker by trade to some degree at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. he actually took out his phone, hit the notes app, and started tapping out what he was hearing both on the ukraine side of things and also the further conversation about the possible release of a$ap rocky, the rapper that had been detained overseas as well. he started tapping all this out. that s why he has such an explicit recollection of what was said and that s why he was able to relay it to lawmakers. who would have that a$ap rocky in is madness. john, holmes talks about his impression after overhearing president trump ask sondland about ukraine investigations. he said, this was an extremely distinctive experience in my foreign service career. i ve never seen anything like this, someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant and then having a conversation of this level of c
they were asking us what to do. they didn t want to do this. they didn t want to get involved. they couldn t figure out where the aid was. they really wanted this meeting. we couldn t get the aid. they wouldn t give it to them. the guy s on the phone with the president shouting so loud he s got the phone out here. he s saying, yeah, the president doesn t care about anything but the bidens. what happened and why is clear. the question is the consequence. right. and people who didn t necessarily know each other. right. i mean they may have heard of each other, worked at the same place, but they didn t know each other and they re all pretty much corroborating what the whistle-blower said. here s an interesting conversation that i had or i m going to have it later on because, you know, you and i talk. jk skbohn kasich and i talk occasionally to try to figure out what is going on in this world. he believes and i believe this as well, that maybe over this holiday, people are sitting