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
what he has plead guilty to, and the judge sentencing him to crimes that were serious crimes and crimes against the public. one other thing, andrea, michael cohen apologize nod the people of the united states, and apologized for his lack of candor in the investigations and in his lies for which he plead guilty to, of course. so kind of an extraordinary day, and pretty incredible fall of, fall from grace, and this is somebody who is obviously one tof the president s most prominent surrogates, and somebody who spoke very highly of him, and he noted that his loyalty to the president today as he has in other proceedings before today, and so i think that for somebody here in the scope of less than a year going from somebody who might be under investigation to somebody who has plead guilty to in total the ti niity nine char provided cooperation to the special counsel s office, and so three years of imprisonment is a