Right before they took a break, the prosecution in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case reminded the jury Michael Cohen is not the one on trial here. Despite a crossexamination that got heated, just as he was finishing, and yet an admission by trumps former fixer on the stand did leave the d. A. s office with some clean up to do. Im Chris Jansing alongside my colleagues, Andrea Mitchell and katy tur. Sorry, Michael Cohen acknowledged under oath that he stole 60,000 from the trump organization, that he did it out of anger that mr. Trump cut his bonus. The prosecution is trying to use their second shot at questioning Michael Cohen to redirect the focus back to the former president. Were going to bring you live updates as we read them when Michael Cohen returns to the stand in just a few minutes after the lunch break. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is live at the courthouse. Catherine christian is still with us. Also with us, andrew weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert Muellers special counsels
hour of time zone cross. well, if he had to change his bedtime so he was going to bed on this new shift at 8:30, waking up at 3:30, but let s say that in fact he was going to bed at a different time. let s say he was going to bed at 10:00 or 11:30 on his previous shift now we re asking him to go to bed two or three hours earlier his body didn t have time to catch up or circadian rhythm. i don t know the particulars about exactly when he was going to bed. let me ask you a question about personal responsibility. this seems lying maybe he had a difficult scheduling situation. don t people have some control over their own bodies? what about having a cup of coffee? what about splashing cold water on your face? what about knowing that you re driving a train with hundreds of people s lives at stake? isn t that something that s relevant as well as his circadian rhythm? i think that s actually another great point. let s talk about biology here. so having responsibility is one