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michael cohen a picture of better time times for donald trump and his attorney, michael cohen. he's a good man. he's a man who cares deeply about this country and a snapshot of bitter times now hey guys troubling, went to jail. >> this had nothing to do with me do native new yorkers met in 2006, go and bought a condo and the trump building. and by most accounts, they bonded quickly over their shared values and sharp elbows. >> soon cohen was handling real estate deals, helping run some companies. they say mr. trump's pitbull that in his um, his right-hand man when trump's campaign lit up co-insurance karpin does tie. you guys are down and it makes sense that there would most of them, all of them and trump return the favor, michael cohen is a very talented lawyer, is a good lawyer in my firm as claims of improper hush money emerged, trump initially included cohen and his denials of any wrongdoing, like with this crazy stormy daniels deal hey represented me and, you know, from what i see, he did absolutely nothing wrong when headlines warned that cohen might help prosecutors. >>
michael cohen a picture of better time times for donald trump and his attorney, michael cohen. he's a good man. he's a man who cares deeply about this country and a snapshot of bitter times now hey guys troubling, went to jail. >> this had nothing to do with me do native new yorkers met in 2006, go and bought a condo and the trump building. and by most accounts, they bonded quickly over their shared values and sharp elbows. >> soon cohen was handling real estate deals, helping run...
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i've seen, including mike conversations with michael cohen. he has been very carefully and precisely accurate in what he said. >> interesting david pecker testified today that trump was very detailed, oriented. he said one time trump's office, trump was given invoices and checks to sign and pecker, quote notice that he referring to trump review the invoice and looked at the check and he would sign them. how key is that testimony you think david to proving these charges against trump? >> well, trump's insistence is i had nothing to do with this. >> michael cohen, he's the one who went and did this deal and the fact that there are the audio recordings that were made by michael cohen and menn pecker's testimony. pecker is not been charged with any crime he has immunity so long as he tells the truth, he will not be charged with any crime so he has a great deal of weight to the documents and the audio recordings david, you've covered trump extensively over these many, many years and you say he's not a strong internal person what sort of impact coul
i've seen, including mike conversations with michael cohen. he has been very carefully and precisely accurate in what he said. >> interesting david pecker testified today that trump was very detailed, oriented. he said one time trump's office, trump was given invoices and checks to sign and pecker, quote notice that he referring to trump review the invoice and looked at the check and he would sign them. how key is that testimony you think david to proving these charges against trump?...
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i want to read an interesting line from michael cohen's banker, gary pharaoh. this is what gary farro testifying. every time michael cohen's spoke to me, he gave a sense of urgency and this was one of those times breakdown the significance of the bankers testimony today that is set to continue. we're told next week yeah, when michael cohen says that to gary farro as he's testifying, it's a moment where michael cohen wants to set up an account with this private bank in 2016 where gary farro works. >> this is the bank through which the payment ultimately is going to be set up to be paid to stormy daniels from michael cohen, $130,000 to keep her story quiet. >> and what he's doing is piecing in new parts of the puzzle. the prosecutors want to be able to show the jury every step of the money and the effort toward paying off stormy daniels from donald trump's sphere. >> gary pharaoh is one of the people that can do that both with his testimony and with his evidence, he can help them show the documents, the emails, the exchanges, and a crucial document from him that
i want to read an interesting line from michael cohen's banker, gary pharaoh. this is what gary farro testifying. every time michael cohen's spoke to me, he gave a sense of urgency and this was one of those times breakdown the significance of the bankers testimony today that is set to continue. we're told next week yeah, when michael cohen says that to gary farro as he's testifying, it's a moment where michael cohen wants to set up an account with this private bank in 2016 where gary farro...
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trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump's former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen, though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case, the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret. but prosecutors did not prove their claim. the cover up was about the alleged section the woman with whom edwards had the affair real hunter told cnn edwards did not want the truth to hurt his wife. >> the issues for internal family and. she was trying to hide it from elizabeth try not to hurt anybody. >> he didn't want to hurt elizabeth. or his family a key difference could be the timing of the alleged affairs and subsequent payoffs, which might help spell out the payments intent edwards affair occurred during the 2008 campaign with at least one payment happening after the election was over, long after edwards dropped out of the race in trump's case, the alleged affair happened in 2006, years before he ran fo
trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty, but trump's former attorney, michael cohen, swore under oath that he made the payments in order to affect the outcome of the election cohen, though, was convicted of perjury in a separate case, the edwards case had its own star witness, a close aide to the former senator who testified to helping edwards keep that a fair secret. but prosecutors did not prove their claim. the cover up was about the alleged section the woman with whom edwards had...
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number one, michael cohen with he has criminal convictions and his record, stormy daniels might have had a reason for moving forward with this. she came forward with the story and finally, wolf, really important here too big points made by the defense using the term president trump is innocent. that's not something that prosecutors have to establish this idea of innocence versus not guilty. they said he's innocent. they swing for the fences here. and most importantly, they are attacking the very heart of the charge here by saying that there's nothing wrong with attempting to influence an election. it's called democracy. now look a core part of the case is this this allegation that trump should not have been influencing election. the defense right after that here, a tech trump on it. you're going to hear more about this over the course of this trial. very important, very interesting elliott standby as we bring in more legal and political experts into our conversation. and andrew mccabe, the defense says, they will find their words plenty of reasonable doubt hello prosecutors overcome
number one, michael cohen with he has criminal convictions and his record, stormy daniels might have had a reason for moving forward with this. she came forward with the story and finally, wolf, really important here too big points made by the defense using the term president trump is innocent. that's not something that prosecutors have to establish this idea of innocence versus not guilty. they said he's innocent. they swing for the fences here. and most importantly, they are attacking the...
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that's going to apply to both jurors, but also attacking michael cohen. they are going to work to paint him as a liar. they are going to work to say that this case is based off of the testimony of a liar and you're going to see pretty hard, harsh, vitriol when it comes to these witnesses, particularly from these right? wing social media influencers and from donald trump's allies. >> what do you think show oh, i think that's a really great point. and i think it raises for judge mission ultimately, the question of does he have to reconsider? sequestration of the jury. he may have to do that at the time of deliberations, but especially with the kind of pressure that has been put on the jurors. he may have been a little bit overconfident and thinking you can manage that he did a great job of getting through the selection but you're beginning to see some of the stress appearing in the jurors. he may end up having to go kinda deepens that alternate bull two. so that's something has got to consider. of course, earlier in the week, you express concern about the s
that's going to apply to both jurors, but also attacking michael cohen. they are going to work to paint him as a liar. they are going to work to say that this case is based off of the testimony of a liar and you're going to see pretty hard, harsh, vitriol when it comes to these witnesses, particularly from these right? wing social media influencers and from donald trump's allies. >> what do you think show oh, i think that's a really great point. and i think it raises for judge mission...
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>> i think michael cohen is going to be a major part of the opening. he is as we he currently understand the case, a key part of the da's case on that could change as a introduce evidence that maybe corroborates cohen. obviously, there's been some folks on the witness list who were all sort of wondering what are they gonna be testifying about but at least out of the gate, i would expect donald trump's lawyers to really be hammering on cohen and basically saying, this man is completely unreliable. he's lived every branch the federal government in the last few years, you shouldn't believe them now, if you don't believe them now you need to acquit donald trump. >> one thing i do want to add here about michael cohen is obviously donald trump has his gag order in place where he's not allowed to talk about the witnesses, but that does not apply to his small army of right-wing social media influencers. they are given the same access to information that all of us journalists it's are given, they're seeing pool reports and they are notoing to have e same restri
>> i think michael cohen is going to be a major part of the opening. he is as we he currently understand the case, a key part of the da's case on that could change as a introduce evidence that maybe corroborates cohen. obviously, there's been some folks on the witness list who were all sort of wondering what are they gonna be testifying about but at least out of the gate, i would expect donald trump's lawyers to really be hammering on cohen and basically saying, this man is completely...
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cohen fell out of favor, he needed new people to be as enforcers and michael cohen at that point, i think it was on the cusp of falling out of favor. if you go back, i don't have the timeline in front of me, but this has been a constant. donald trump fines loyal lieutenants who will do his business, which is why i think pecker is important. yesterday, i believe it was when he said donald trump was deeply involved, was frugal, didn't like to throw away money, so it was always involved in the financial decisions. so the trustee is not conveyed to say, well, trump said make it go away. he didn't say do anything illegal or he didn't say write checks. that's what they're trying to build that trump knew what was happening. >> it seems to make caitlin the defense team of trump it's now going to try to muddy the waters a bit following the prosecution's opening witnesses, david pecker what are you hearing about how trump and his legal team are going to start dealing with all of this tomorrow. >> i think the question is really how do they distance donald trump from david pecker? because what
cohen fell out of favor, he needed new people to be as enforcers and michael cohen at that point, i think it was on the cusp of falling out of favor. if you go back, i don't have the timeline in front of me, but this has been a constant. donald trump fines loyal lieutenants who will do his business, which is why i think pecker is important. yesterday, i believe it was when he said donald trump was deeply involved, was frugal, didn't like to throw away money, so it was always involved in the...
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he's going to continue to attack michael cohen, especially when michael cohen attacks him on twitter. he's going to continue to so real away on the judge. he's going to real away on the prosecutor as it being politically motivated and alvin bragg is an elected official. he's gonna, he's gonna come after alvin bragg with everything he has and the judge really doesn't have as much. >> he's got the authority to put them in jail, but i don't all i think that does is delay the trial even further. >> the one thing the judge doesn't want is the delay this trial. i just don't think they're going to end up threatening the former president or someone running for president united states with jail time. so it's gonna be really difficult to put those shackles on donald trump yeah, i suspect you're right on that as well. >> laura for prosecutors say they refused to share the witness list with the defense, fearing trump will post about those witnesses on social media. is that normal to not share witness lists with the opposing side? >> one can you blame them for having some level of skepticism on th
he's going to continue to attack michael cohen, especially when michael cohen attacks him on twitter. he's going to continue to so real away on the judge. he's going to real away on the prosecutor as it being politically motivated and alvin bragg is an elected official. he's gonna, he's gonna come after alvin bragg with everything he has and the judge really doesn't have as much. >> he's got the authority to put them in jail, but i don't all i think that does is delay the trial even...
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and this is just all about a vendetta and they're going to tack the credibility of michael cohen all day, every day interesting, laura, give us your analysis of today's so-called sandoval hearing and explain to our viewers what that is a sandoval hearing is a fancy way of saying, i want to put the defendant on notice about what kinds of questions they might ask you if you do decide to testify in your when defense now, it is the prerogative of a defendant to do so or not to do so at an instruction to the jury that they cannot hold it against a defendant if they opt not to do so. >> but a defendant wants to know what is ahead of me. and so the prosecution has already told the court and press n the defense counsel the types and categories of information they will raise things like like the prior civil fraud trial, the e jean carroll trial, as well, to discussions that have happened in the past. it might be of a legal matter. all under the category of a prior bad act. now the issue here though and defense counsel always has an issue with it is because you cannot use what's called propens
and this is just all about a vendetta and they're going to tack the credibility of michael cohen all day, every day interesting, laura, give us your analysis of today's so-called sandoval hearing and explain to our viewers what that is a sandoval hearing is a fancy way of saying, i want to put the defendant on notice about what kinds of questions they might ask you if you do decide to testify in your when defense now, it is the prerogative of a defendant to do so or not to do so at an...