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Will have a chance to cross-examination, whats their strategy? >> they will argue the allegation is made up by e. jean carroll. they will say there is a problem in the lack of specificity. e. jean carroll does not know the day, the time of year, does not even know the year. she claims it was 1995 or 1996. they are going to say that means donald trump cant defend himself. if she pinpointed a day, who knows, maybe trump was out of town that a day, maybe he has an alibi witness. theyre going to arg...

A ship to ship hub where smaller vessels come in from russian ports. they transfer the cargoes onto larger vessels, and then those larger vessels will head off through to asia from the rise in ship to ship transfers is part of a big shift in shipping patterns. a european union ban on most seaborne russian crude oil and refined products means russian exports now travel much longer distances to reach asian customers. and he says well, smaller vessels are better for docking at russian ports. theyre...

Know, it bolstered the case in some respect and i also think that, you know, theyve got a lot of documentary evidence that it looks like, we havent seen al of it because they havent started discovery. but it looks like they have pretty strong case from th standpoint of the documents, corroborating what cohen testified about. so, i think its a pretty good case and then, the other part that thought was helpful was to the extent that the newspape officials get involved, an testify about the involve...

In, so many words. what i can tell you is tha michael was forced to plead to a second crime involving karen mcdougal even though he did not pay any money in that situation, tha money exchange occurred betwee the national enquirer and kare mcdougal to keep her quiet before the election. mr. trump was involved in th understanding that he would be paid the national enquirer 150,000. michael did get accused of papering that transaction, but he pled guilty to that transaction. so that is the best ans...

Wife on monday, so he did plead guilty, but hed like a chance to look at the jury and explain that were guarding credibility. let me repeat everything, michael cohen has said since he decided to tell the truth. he lied for 10 years for donald trump. he went to the american people in front of chairman comings and he said, i lied. im ashamed of myself. i own that now. from that point on, hes never been shown to have lied. he has been forthcoming with every investigator. he never took the fifth ame...

Hes pleaded guilty to two crimes around lying about this as well. his campaign finance crimes around the hush money payments. and so hes a hes a key person here. this is the defense that his team has for him. heres lanny davis, his lawyer, also speaking to dana bash today. regarding credibility. let me repeat everything, michael cohen has said since he decided to tell the truth. he lied for 10 years for donald trump. he went to the american people in front of chairman comings and he said, i lied...

And fact three is th reimbursement of that illega hush money scheme that donal trump directed and was done in the oval office out of a personal checking account of the sitting president of the united states, donald trump. let me repeat that 12, or rather 11, 35,000 check were written out from personal bank account, to form the trust of a company, on personally for donald trump, t pay back the hush money that was legally paid by michae cohen. so, those are the three things that federal prosecutor...

Of what they saw in his testimony? it was a mistake. you know, bob costello provided clearly nothing. there was no um, testimony that he gave that i was even needed to rebut. thats all been reported. they had me there waiting for about two hours to be a rebuttal witness, but i wasnt needed, which means that the information that he provided was worthless is talking about this donald trump, and he basically said in this email to his supporters, alvin bragg is relying on the testimony of a convicte...

The se and lying t congress in a separate matter. >> i am a convicted felon. i am a disbarr lawyer, but i also brought the documes. theres plenty of testimony, corroborating testimony to go around. >> reporter: mr. trumps attorneys say he will surrender himself ahead of his expected arraignment tuesday. hell be fingerprinted and ha shot and dna sample taken though they say he wiot be handcuffed then hell appear before a judge. all of it ile under the protection of his secret service detail and y...

Pecker is publicly been at least reported as corroborating what the federal prosecutors charge mr trump with. they didnt prosecute him because he was president. but it was the same crime they sent michael cohen to prison for and they said it was a danger to democracy. what michael cohen did so its not a petty little crime, and i think thats what would be corroborated by mr pecker, according to public reports. alright and i want to ask you more about that specifically, in a moment. i also want to...