So shady, Michael Cohen secretly recorded his client, donald trump. He has already been convicted of lying to congress and done prison. Yet the Michael Dean Cohen is the prosecutions star witness. In the new york versus trump trial. Cohen used to be trumps lawyer and personal fixer as he was called. Legal experts say his testimony could make or break this case. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Michael cohen says he was directed to falsify Business Records in order to conceal payments to sex film worker Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Those payments were in exchange for silence about her alleged affair with trump and while no witness this is perfect, we know that cohen is a special brand of liar like your pants are on fire. The judge in the case has refused to put a gag order on cohen, who posted several hours on tiktok cant stop talking about trump and the trial. The judge said maybe he could talk a little less this weekend. He sid that on friday. Yeah.
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will be back in the room right now seeing a news night with abby. phillip starts the jury is deciding donald trump s fate and he is invoking mother teresa. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip new york tonight. a jury of 12 men and women are considering whether to make donald trump, the first former president to be convicted of a crime after receiving instructions from the judge today, they deliberated for more than four hours and then they send back to notes. you ll hear what those notes were in just a moment and we ll discuss the significance of each of them. but first, you heard the prosecution and the defense making their closing arguments this week, the jury is deliberating over those right now. but now donald trump is making his own closing argument in the court of public opinion. it won t come as a surprise to you that it needs a hell of a lot of fact-checking i mean, what is very unfair as it i m not campaigning. did this room all day from
the journal reports, mr. pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. trump s involvement in the mcdougal deal. joining us now, barbara mcquade, a former u.s. attorney and an msnbc legal contributor, and david corn is back with us. barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this wall street journal reporting? well, it s a very painstaking walk through the very same criminal information that michael cohen pleaded guilty to. but they filled in a lot of gaps here and filled in a lot of blanks. you know, it is protocol at the justice department when you re not going to charge someone, to refer to them by a pseudonym, candidate one, executive one, et cetera. and based on the reporting, we now know that president trump himself, if this report is true, was intimately involved in every step of the way, which makes him essentially an unindicted co-conspirator. but for the justice department policy of not charging a sitting president, they would