We give veterans access to support from anywhere in the world. Thats tonights last word to point at the 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, Michael Cohen finally takes the stand point of what the former president s longtime fixer said about the payments to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election and how he tied trump to the hustling scheme. Plus, donald trump brings his political to court for another trump is under a gag order, are they saying what he cant . Then the Police Shooting of air force airman Roger Fortson. What we are hearing from his family through their attorney, benjamin crump, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Monday night. Good evening, im Charles Coleman jr. In for Stephanie Ruhle tonight and we have got a lot to talk about point we are now just 176 days away from the election. 5 years ago we saw Michael Cohen publicly turn on his longterm boss, donald trump, and today, after years of buildup, cohen finally took the stand as a key wit
and this timeline, combined with the information that we know through the existence of these cooperating witnesses, all but does. that in front of a, jury beyond a reasonable. doubt and so i don t necessarily think on its own, on its face, no, it may not be a conviction by itself, but when you put it all together, when you put the lid on the testimony from the cooperating witnesses, it really does create a very cohesive and persuasive narrative. which is why jack smith has such a strong case. yeah. let s fast forward to august 26, 2022. that is after the fbi searched mar-a-lago. the indictment says, not a called employee five and said words to the effect, of someone just wants to make sure carlos s good. that person reassured nauta that jia de oliveira was loyal and confirmed that in a signal chat group. then trump called de oliveira that he would get him an attorney. michael cohen famously said that trump communicates and codes. what role do you see loyalty playing in? this is loy
so he s placing trump squarely in the middle of these campaign finance violations and making it clear that this was done knowingly and willfully. i will also add that i think this loyalty theme is important. just as kind of a corroboration because let s not forget that mueller is also looking into obstruction of justice. and a key part of that was that loyalty oath he wanted comey to take. there is a pattern of expectation of loyalty among the people that are working for him to do the things that he wants them to do. so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. phil mudd, your investigative ears always hear interesting tidbits. when michael cohen says there is a substantial amount of information that robert mueller has that corroborates that i m telling the truth, that means he handed over something, i