Situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are following Breaking News out of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial in New York City were right, this i mean, it Michael Cohen is facing an incredibly aggressive crossexamination so far, trump attorney todd blanche has gotten cohen to confirm that he wants to see trump convicted in this case, that he makes money off of his antitrump social media posts and even sells merchandise showing trump in jail. Earlier today, prosecutors had cohen explained why he felt there was the Pressure Campaign to keep him from turning against trump. And how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having cohen admit to multiple lines. He has previously told including his plea of not guilty his plea of guilty to the tax charges the sent him to prison cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied
valuation case, i think it is a much more threatening case legally, for him. yes the civil case coming forward to go to trial and, in the fall in october, and it is not a dead case for the manhattan da. they can still move forward with it. when you say it isn t that case, i want both of your thoughts on this, is it your expectation, it is hard to watch, i m sure it is hard for vance to watch, the a. g., letitia james, moves forward with this massive civil case that in many ways has its alongside the the vance hasn t come to fruition. it doesn t mean it is over but it has been, a piece of it is moving forward, the hush money payment. you think it is maybe still alive? i think right now what they are doing, it is yet another piece of it which is, allen weisselberg is sitting at rikers. he is due out april 19th, he is doing time for crimes that had to do with the
answer i wondered it, they wer far down the road on another case it seemed very strong that s the valuation case. this happens or donald trump will have a property and if he needs a back alone h will come in and he will inflate it in order to get the loan and if he s dealing with the irs, he depresses the value of things they have a lot of information about that about false records that wer submitted to banks that case is been picked up by the attorney general in ne york, it s being brought as civil case, it s going to tria in the fall. and alvin bragg was looking at that, and was fairly advance on it. he still made forward with tha case but why the stormy daniel case picked up steam and the went ahead with that first, is a fascinating question i think we may know more about it if there is an indictment and we can read the charges, read some of the evidence that they have, that they may hav picked up additional evidenc
it s novel, will make it harde for any prosecutor to do anything new, and different. i d be surprised at this point brag doesn t feel confiden enough to proceed. i ll pick up on that poin for you. that david talked about. allen brag being so far down this road michael cohen spout our speaking to the grand jury thi week after trump turned down his ow invitation to testify. does that signal anything to you about the prosecutor progress here? david headed out of the par here in terms of where this is at it s very far down the road. one question i don t know th answer i wondered it, they wer far down the road on another case it seemed very strong that s the valuation case. this happens or donald trump will have a property and if he needs a back alone hilltop in and hill inflated i order to get the loan.