Pronounce a verdict about donald trump or to get on a political is a trout guy that i got interrupted. Sorry, a Courtroom Break after Michael Cohen testified this morning the donald trump told him, take care of it. The it were Claims Being Made By Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels calling add it, cohen adding quote, this was all about the campaign get cnn special live coverage continues with markup today with us welcome to cnn Special Coverage of former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Laura coates is outside court in new york. Today, trumps former for fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen has taken the stand so far. The prosecutions star witness has testified about his work for Trump Zeroing In on two instances where he worked with the National Enquirers david pecker to catch and kill negative stories about trump and that includes a false allegation from trumps former doorman about trump supposedly having fathered a love child. Cohen testif
inside the memoir are a ton of revelation, including this one, to perk up the ears of prosecutors and jack smith s office. cheney reveals mccarthy told her two days after the election he talked to trump and trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election. he needs to go through all the stages of grief, he said. cheney writes, she thought to herself those stages seemed to involve tweeting in all caps. we all know what happened after the election. donald trump fights desperately to overturn his election defeat. kevin mccarthy enabled him every step of the way. liz cheney says about the current speaker, cheney recounts how johnson pressured members to throw out election results from four states trump had lost. when i confirmed with him the flaws in his legal argument, he would say something to effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. according to cheney, that effectively became the republican party ice agenda. here s what happened just before the capitol was
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. We played that clip of donald trump call thing an attack on the nation. Cohen, interestingly in interviews with George Stephanopoulos and others, said the fbi was very courteous and respectful. He did not describe the raids on his home and offices as an attack on the nation. Does that seem to be more that he softened on his stance against the fbi . He seems to. I recall him saying he would take a bullet for the president. Maybe thats going into court and Pleading Guilty. But the pardon itself is a political calculation. Im not very good at that. I dont know whether hes a candidate or not. But at this point, with what he has in front of him, what he did and what he knows, he seems like hes taking the smart path, the one where he admits his guilt, sort of takes his medicine, and hopes the court will give him some consideration for that. Joyce, when you look at what lanny davis, Michael Cohens at
classified documents probe. and a source says, that trump has been charged with seven counts. at least one of them conspiracy. he s set to appear in miami federal courthouse on tuesday afternoon at three pm. kara scannell is in miami tonight. and kara scannell, what are you learning? and obviously, between now it may be until then with wait until then to actually have this not under seal. yeah, erin burnett, it s a big question of will prosecutors unseal this indictment between now and tuesday. and if they don t then on tuesday when he s appearing in court that might be the first time that we learn what these specific charges are, and, in the case of a lot of these indictments, they are known as speaking indictments, that will go through, in some kind of narrative form, with the prosecutors allege the former president had done the violated the law. so, there will be a lot more that we can learn once this but on tuesday, as we wait for that, i mean, this will be just like any
cohen will have to be truthful will prosecutors, not just on his own terms. he ll have to tell the truth about everything. he ll have to disclose all of his crimes, and other crimes committed by other people that he s familiar with as part of a plea agreement. so there s always a dance that has to be done, and it may be at the end of the day, cohen can t fulfill all of the obligations he would have to fulfill to conclude the agreement. barbara, joyce did a good job listing off the things that michael cohen can speak to. we put together a list ourselves. payments to women, like stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. everything that went on in the trump organization. i think there s some tape we ll play in a minute where he implicates the cfo. you can follow the money for investigators. he, as we said, can talk about his allegation that donald trump had prior knowledge of the trump tower meeting. and all the potential business enter actions with russians