Us. Im ana cabrera along with jose diazbalart reporting from new york with our special coverage. Stormy daniels back on the stand this morning in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Facing Additional Cross Examination right now from trumps attorney about her allegation of a sexual encounter with trump and a subsequent coverup. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse, and here with us for the morning, charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and teb die owe agone da williams, former Senior Investigative council for the house january 6th commission. Take us inside that courtroom. Whats happening right now . Reporter already pretty contentious to say the least. It seems as if Stormy Daniels is much more prepared this morning than she was tuesday at the start of her testimony, especially when it came to Cross Examination with Susan Necheles. It seemed as if it was as contentious as it was the first goaround. Susan necheles asking repeatedly was this just about m
york city. cohen could be charged before the end of the month? yes, and there are just two weeks left in the month, wolf. sources tell cnn the southern district of new york is keenly aware midterms are approaching. because prosecutors don t want the decision to influence politics, we could see an indictment soon or word of a deal made with the president s former fixer. hi, mr. cohen, how are you. doing great, yourself in. they re preparing federal charges against koenlmichael co president trump s former fixer. he was spotted in the lobby of his lawyer s office only after the new york times broke the story they re looking at $20 million of loans stemming from his taxi business. when you talk about anything over a million, it is significant and you re definitely looking at jail time. i look forward to giving all the information. cohen under a microscope by federal prosecutors ever since the fbi raided his home, hotel
the shell companies that michael cohen set up, that he was paying off various people, that he was clearly involved in things that were illegal, and clearly connected with the president while he was doing it. as for the white house counsel, we ll have to see what comes out of robert mueller s report. what do you make of the president s comparing the russian investigation to mccarthyism? it is delusional to say that. i mean look, the president feels he should never be questioned. we have seen that over and over again. i guess the one that leaps to mind is when he said i believe it was treasonous for us members of congress not to stand up and applaud him when he was speaking. he expects not to be questioned. he expects to be worshipped. that s not the system of government that we have here. it is a representative democracy. everybody is supposed to be held accountable. he doesn t want that obviously, but that s not the way we do things here. that s why it is particularly important on
your piece. the prosecution is out of the southern district, there could be parallels, there are parallels between manafort and cohen. on the one hand, violations that we think will be bank fraud, perhaps tax issues, dealing with tax stuff. but here s the difference. the difference is cohen has said i would speak in the event that i had to. it is about my family and it is about my country. that s the bottom line, not about you, mr. president. to the extent that he cannot, that is trump distances from cohen, he is not a guy that brought my water, not on my campaign three seconds, two months, three days, whatever trump says, he is a guy that knows the real deal. he can spill and tell the real deal. and let us not forget the reality of the matter is that there s this thing regarding stormy daniels and campaign finance and where did the money come from to pay and was it in reference to the campaign or was it personal. all those things imperil the
room and office in april. it is not just lying about loans for the taxi business, they re looking at cohen s involvement in the stormy daniels payout. weeks before the election, he arranged a hush money payment to the porn star who allegedly had an affair with the president. the campaign finance issue can lead to knowledge of cohen to do this. he signaled he would be willing to talk to investigators to protect himself and his family, telling abc news his family, not his former boss, is his priority. quote, my wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will. i put family and country first. the shift in tone from the man that once said he would take a bullet for the president heightening tension between trump and cohen. the president s lawyers continue to fire back. the guy is unethical, he is a scumbag, he is a horrible