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Cnn Special Coverage or former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial. Im Briana Keeler in washington with kaitlan collins, who is outside the courtroom. House in new york. And today trumps defense has pressed Michael Cohen, trumps former lawyer and fixer about his history of lying under oath in an attempt to discredit him the defense is also highlighted some of the various insults that he has logged against trump over the years, painting him as a man out for revenge after their relationship fell apart. At one point, the defense play this clip from cohens podcast in october of 20 he 20. Here it is truly hope that this man, ends up in prison. It wont bring back the year that i lost or the damage done to my family but revenge is a dish best served cold and you Better Believe i want this made to go down and rotten side for what he did to me and my family it only got crazier from there with cohens credibility clearly on the line, when trumps Defense Attorney here, todd blanche, is tryi
can get close enough to putin to kill him it has to be somebody from his inner circle that turns. and that s gobble unlikely because they are all in the same boat. if you are the leader and i have been with you for 10 years, if i let you get killed or if i kill you, guess what? jesse: you re done. i m done. jesse: someone from outside putin s inner circle to do that. i m cuban born. i went through the whole cuban revolution thing i have no love for castro. they tried to kill him also. exploding cigars. jesse: and sea shells. jesse: thank you very much. ric prado book is out. i will be reading it over the weekend. i hope. so. jesse: joe biden may be flip-flopping again, this time on oil. that s next. out here, you re a landowner,
even when he says yes and allows them to see the stuff to debunk spygate, as he calls it, they said, yeah, we didn t see anything the fbi does wrong, the president still sticks with that. i don t know how many exploding cigars they will take. whether it was thearter pa, the memo or a spy in the campaign, they all have backfired. there is an everybody but nunes club right now. they are all saying what nunes or the president is alleging is just not true. i m curious, do you ever walk up and say, hey, buddy, what s going on? we have all had a great relationship with him. yes, i have. i have seen mr. schiff say let s take this to the sidelines, talk like normal people, not in front of cameras and sort out the issues. we get crickets.
third briefing and in fact, it s ebn. everybody but nunes. all republicans, all democrats who attended have stepped forward and said there is nothing there except nunes. so i don t know how much more exploding cigars the republicans are willing to smoke that the president offers them but it s time to stand up and say this is nonsense. and house speaker paul ryan says he supports the push by president trump s allies to get more information and also defended the president on russia. frankly, the sooner the department of justice complies with all of our document requests which are legitimate document requests, the better this is going to be for everybody and had they complied with these document requests earlier when we made them we probably could have spared the country of all this drama.