Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . Good morning to you. Michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the Witness Stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. The word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. The jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. This morning, Donald Trumps hush money coveru
I will remind everyone at the table, we got it in the audience that bob menendez, a strong ally of president biden who is leading the charge on trying to get the information. to dana s point about milley saying, logistic success, he was saying how dire the circumstances were when biden said we are leaving in two weeks. what can you get done in that amount of time? i thought to dan s point about the call to china, the reason he wasn t usurping the commander in chief s power is because mark asberger told him to do it. dan: not the january call. you re talking about two separate calls. the china call. dan: those are two separate calls. i think there was a november/october call and then january. the one he dan: acting secretary miller said we did not authorize the call. two separate calls. you might be right. but not the second one. they asked for one i know he was following the chain of
That call from milley was on october 30th of 2020. and there was one more call after that. this a call from milley to the same chinese general on january 8th this year. significantly, january 8th is two days after the insurrection. now, this is according to a new book by the reporters bob woodward and robert costa. we learned the calls were not secret. not like milley got on the phone and called his counterpart and now it s leaking out. not at all. we learned there were 15 people on each of those two calls. during the discussion on january 8th. he said we re 100% steady. everything is fine. democracy can be sloppy sometimes. according to the book milley went as far to promise his counterpart he would alert them on a strike to the u.s. in the october call approved by esper.