Before he got into that car, and here s abc s chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas tonight. reporter: tonight, michael cohen is looking through a much different set of bars. emerging from the gold gilded doors at his trump park avenue apartment building and taking one last shot at the president. i hope that when i rejoin my family and friends that the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our country. reporter: pushing through a crush of cameras michael, should people feel sorry for you? cohen stayed silent. even as a photographer stuck his lens into his waiting suv. get the [ bleep ] out of the car! reporter: over the weekend, he was all smiles, stopping for handshakes, posing for photos. but tonight, cohen is an inmate at new york s otisville federal correctional institution, where he ll spend the next three years. that s 1,095 days in the minimum