Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. he apologize nod country. and the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. the prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, danny cevallos, ken delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. and jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from michael cohen saying that he was acting out of blind loyalty to donald trump. of course, the phrase blind loyalty to donald trump reminds
and elliott, let me have you weigh in at this point on both what we are reading that michael cohen has said to the judge. no surprise, but again, that very powerful language. what do you make so far of these court proceedings and of course, we are all wondering if he is going to be remand pod the court. we anticipate that he is going to be able to go home afterwards, and we might even hear from him, and that is what we are hoping for at least. this is a standard court proceeding, and so we have heard from the government, and the defendant, and he is, it seems that he has laid it on pretty thick as he did in the filings and son and now we are hearing from the judge, and so it could be a matter of minutes and it depends how long the judge has spoken for, and frankly been to these before, how mad the judge is. he has probably the order written out, and reading a script in a sense, but if the
over the trump tower moscow deal over the campaign, and donald trump said flatly when asked about it, no, i am not aware of any contacts of my team with russia, and there is a huge contradiction there and why did they lie about it? because donald trump s position could have been, of course, we were talking to the russian, and we were trying to change the relationship with the america s rehaitianship with rush sharks and w with russia, and was he trying the cover something up? we know that cohen provided broad and substantial assistance and talked about the trump campaign transition team activities and so it seems that mueller has made significant progress in the russian conspiracy side of the investigation, kristen. and danny, back out to you standing out sooside of that courthouse in new york where we see the throngs of the media lined up behind you.
fast-moving developments in the case keep him quiet. in a new interview with reuters president trump addressed the hush money payments cohen said he was directed to make to two women ahead of the 2016 election saying, quote, it wasn t a campaign contribution. if it were, it s only civil, and even if it s only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos is at the federal courthouse in new york joining us. i want to bring our viewers up to date. there is some breaking news from insides courthouse. the defense just finished speaking, and just to give a sense of some of what was said, the defense argued no other defendant would be treated in this fashion. cohen had the misfortune of being counsel to the president, the defense asking for mercy saying he did cooperate. he made a personal and rational decision for personal and family decisions not to be in the glare of the spotlight for years, and that is why and this is of course, sort of a summ