It is monday, may 13th. This is Fox And Friends. Fox news alert. Michael cohen is set to take the stand today in trumps new york criminal trial. Cnns the case is politically motivated. I doubt the new york indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name is not donald trump. Brian really . Is that a cut from our show. Bi trump leading biden in ba battleground states. Lawrence and providing homeless alcoholics with more alcohol. What could go wrong . Brian fantastic, dont get them help, get them liquor. Stay drunk. Steve final hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Remember, mornings are better with friends. Ainsley fox news alert. Star witness in former President Trumps criminal trial Michael Cohen ignores reporters on his way to court, where he will take the stand in an hour ever. Brian shortest cameraman ever. Steve we saw Michael Cohen take off and you probably saw him pull up. He has arrived in downtown manhattan. He has lied under oath before. He hopes the jury will
At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are going to aggressively cover the issues we have deemed most important and they are big ones. Among them, the President Elect evoking nazi germany to characterize u. S. Intelligence agencies, offering kind words to the russians who the Intelligence Community believe hacked the dnc and clinton campaign. Trumps Secretary Of State pick exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson possibly lying under oath at his Conf
And that very day, the next day, he wired 130,000 to stormy Daniels Lawyer in what the prosecution is outlining is that this was at the direction of Donald Trump, an effort by Michael Cohen to conspire to influence the 2016 election. Again, i say all of this is significant because Donald Trump, if you go all The Way back to 2018 and ever since, he has obfuscated on his answer. But he back in 2018 after the initial story broke of the Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, 130,000 arrangement, in April Of 2018 Donald Trump was denying he was aware of it and instead said that would have been a Michael Cohen thing. Now what the prosecution is laying out in a clear Time Line is that they intend to present to the Jury Evidence and testimony that disputes that and that, in fact, Donald Trump was at the core of ordering this and coordinating the effort to silence Stormy Daniels and therefore, the reimbursement
you d have to ask rudy giuliani. i barely knew rudy was the context. also reminiscent of the michael cohen thing. i don t know. you ll have to ask michael. it s just a matter of time before he says who s rudy giuliani? i don t know rudy giuliani. i ve never met rudy giuliani. i ve never been photographed with him. why would i have any connection to him whatsoever? you know, it s the speed with which the president seems willing to throw people under the bus as this all started a few weeks ago is you should talk to mike pence and talk to the vice president about some of the conversations he s had here. and so i think there are photographs of him and his son and rudy giuliani together if not separately with these individuals. the president cannot credibly say that he has no connection to the individuals at all. again, i ll echo what i said earlier. that doesn t mean the president is getting charged with a crime or impeached, but he can t distance himself fully from these individuals
linked to the release of those hacked e-mails so robert mueller, these are appetizers, frances, to the main course we re going to find out what he has ultimately. on the side here, there s the whole michael cohen thing, glen. this week he postponed his is testimony citing ongoing threats by the president and rudy giuliani. president trump later said cohen is being threatened by the truths how will it the president be accountable? i think he can whether in open court or impeachment hearings is in question. if i were to see one of my defendants when i was a prosecutor say something to an associate like lay, you know that guy who flipped on me, watch his father-in-law. i would do two things. first i would invite the father-in-law to my office promptly and say sir, i m sorry but we received information that we perceive as a threat against you.