Else. Experience, they have four years in office. They know what to do, they know how to do it, and they very clearly plan to implement on day one. Yeah, they certainly do you feel really appreciate it . Thank you and thanks to all of you for joining us tonight. Ac30 60 starts right now tonight on three 60. The preliminaries are over now what comes down to the fixer against the former president . How Michael Cohens testimony could seal Donald Trumps fate as a felon, or how his Credibility Problems could sink the states case. Also tonight, his sometimes less out of often controversial journey from enforcer to informer, the star witness for the prosecution was stops on cable news and federal prison along the way. Plus a true demonstration of solar power, how severe storms on the sun could wreak havoc here on earth, even as they bring the Northern Lights, as far south because alabama, good evening, everyone. John berman here. Infrared are sent and we begin with the Hush Money Trial and the prosecution witness whose testimony Stormy Daniels set the table for Michael Cohen, who will take The Stand On Monday here in new york he is expected to be, if not the final, than at least the central piece of the prosecutions case against his old boss its in client the former president on though it is not yet known precisely what he will say. We do know what has not been said so far by prosecution witnesses namely any testimony that donald trump directed the falsification of Business Records to hide his and cohens Hush Money Payout to Stormy Daniels other witnesses up until now have established that he was very conscious about how he spent his money, that he signed the checks to cohen, that they were to reimburse cohen and then some for paying off daniels and that the former president , along with cohen and Tabloid Publisher david pecker, had arranged his scheme to keep potentially devastating news quiet before the 2016 election cohen could provide the rest or not. We just dont know here is what he has said already in congressional testimony, five years ago so picture this scene in February Of 2017 month into his presidency im visiting President Trump in the oval office for the first time. And its truly inspiring. Hes showing me all around and pointing to different paintings. And he says to me something to the effect of dont worry michael, youre january and february reimbursement checks are coming. They were fedexed from new york and it takes a while for that to get through the white house system. As he promised, i received the first check for the reimbursement of 70,000 not long thereafter again, we do not yet know whether he can also speak to the falsifying documents, charges that make up the indictment and we certainly know that his testimony could be undermined by his criminal record and his ghraieb against the former president , which he modeled here in tshirt form today on social media that is his former client in a Prison Jumpsuit behind bars today, judge juan merchan at the defenses urging, warned him to stop talking about trump and the trial and asked the prosecution to tell him so on his behalf, with more on that, we are joined tonight by cnns Kara Scannell and former Deputy Assistant attorney general, harry litman, both of whom were in court today, also a cnn legal analyst, karen friedman, agnifilo, and cnn political commentator errol louis, who is covered donald trump for decades here on local new york news, when note here. A colleague of Karen Agnifilo is law firm, represents Michael Cohen, though karen herself does not work on the case. She has no contact with cohen and no restrictions on what she can say about it on that note, Kara Scannell, talk about the courtroom today. What was it like in there . Over the highlights . So today was a dry day compared with yesterday with Stormy Daniels on the Witness Stand, but it was setting up Michael Cohens testimony. We saw excuse me, phone records that came into evidence today, and these are call logs between Michael Cohen and a number of these key players. Most importantly, with donald trump, also david pecker, keith davidson, all of the players heres that are around the catch and deal. And as we know from this, did not come out in court today, but i expect well see this. We know from the federal investigation that there were a lot of phone calls just after the access Hollywood Tape came out. And as they were trying to wrap up the steel. So i think that is going to this is getting this into evidence now. So that Michael Cohen can talk about it. Hes on the Witness Stand beginning monday. I mean, added to that, we also saw some of these tweets that donald trump had issued two key time periods. One was a few days after the fbi rate of cohens home hotel room, and office back in april of 2018. And at that point, trump had tweeted that most people would want Michael Cohen to flip. He said, i dont see my gold doing that fastforward to august 2018, the day after cohen pleads guilty and implicates trump in federal court. Trump tweets. I would strongly suggest that you dont retain the service of Michael Cohen if youre looking for a good lawyer. So part of the strategy for the prosecution in those is to show that donald trump perhaps subconsciousness of guilty or knew what was happening planning and they got those in today to those to me were the bigger things with today documents in tweets to bolster Michael Cohen because presumably karen, the prosecution thinks that Michael Cohen needs bolstering his credibility issues are famous at this point. What do you think the biggest challenge is for the prosecution with cohen on The Stand On Monday so in New York State, the words of the testimony of somebody sworn under oath is enough to convict someone beyond a reasonable doubt if the jury credits them. But because Michael Cohen has a criminal history and one of his charges is lying under oath. Thats problematic. So what the what the das its office wants to do is corroborate as much as possible of what of what hes saying. And so far theyve corroborated him 12 ways to sunday. I mean, theyve corroborated every little detail. And when youre a prosecutor and you have a witness whos telling you stuff like, oh, yeah, we talked on the phone. Yes. We went in, met in his office. Yes. This happen when that happened and then you go get the records and the records backup what they said. Thats corroboration and thats what theyre showing the jury that being said of all the evidence that theyve put in, there still this piece of the link to trump that i think is dependent on Michael Cohen and thats the one thing that has not been established yet through corroboration. Now Michael Cohen, we have no idea how hes going to do on the stand and if if passed his prelude, you see how aggressive they were with Stormy Daniels . I have a feeling this is going to be similar, if not much more aggressive here to that point, the karam was making there is this gap in the story that Michael Cohen has to fill in. What is it you think exactly the prosecution needs to have Michael Cohen say on monday, i really think that theyve corroborated almost everything id say theyre looking to go 360 degrees. I think there is ten degrees and laughed and heres what it is. The statement of facts and the da is going to elicit this from cohen says that trump goes to weisselberg and cohen and says you guys take care of this, goa, go away and figure out what to do. Now, and we know a strong corroboration of that, probably the muscle important document in the case, we have weisselbergs handwriting. Its been authenticated as his saying sort of how we get from one but that critical conversation where trump directs it, i think will be only cohen. We heard a lot about weisselberg today and why that jury probably will not hear from him. A very interesting sort of side drama. But i think other than that and ive thought about pretty carefully, thats the only pc has to carry independent. You figure out what to do. Will it be enough for the prosecution to get him to say that or does cohen also have to say that trump new and or directed them to actually falsify the records. Okay . Well, so first of these many tweets that came in and theyre going to be important for not just for cohen, but for summation there. Youre going to have these exhibits, et cetera. And something that came in today was trumps knowing that these were supposedly Contention Payments for Legal Services d2 minus thats phony baloney. And that will be wrong are they what are they going to have to show as to trumps intent . Theyre going to need to show that he knows as the signing checks, et cetera. That that they are for Something Different than what theyre really four, but theyve got a fair bit of evidence of that. And thats why the defenses trying to say hes distracted, he signs, checks, the multitask, et cetera. And this is the gap and this is whats going to meet next week. So interesting, and this is why Michael Cohen is so important. Errol, you know, oh, yeah, go you have covered michael, there was a question, a can you keep it together in terms of not talking about the trial the next few days is the judge really wants him to be going to keep it together on the stand. Thats right. And those both of those are very much up in the air. We have to keep in mind that he doesnt have very many ways to make a living Michael Cohen anymore. And one of them is this industry, this antitrump industry that hes this Cottage Industry that hes cooked up. Well, that involves his books and his podcast. And as a appearances. And its very hard to sort of let that go. I think i think also though that especially on crossexamination, he is very angry. I mean, hes been angry on your shown on this air. Hes been angry in the green room. Hes been angry when ive interviewed him, talk with him personally, and he has a lot to be angry. He comes by that anger, honest plea he has he sat in federal prison from his Point Of View in order to impart at least because he was protecting donald trump, he wants some revenge. You want some payback. The problem of course, is that that will affect his credibility. The jurors, if they see somebody whos enraged, clearly vengeful with a financial motive to strike back it starts to maybe reduce some of it and that 10 that were talking about starts to maybe be a little bit elusive. So itll, itll be very interesting to see if hes, if youll have the selfdiscipline to keep his eye on the larger prize. The last thing ill say is, i dont know if he knows any other way to be a lawyer. This is somebody who was not arguing the finer points of Constitution Fusional Law when he was working for donald trump, he was a bulldog. He was a fighter. He was a scraper and i dont think he knows any other way to operate in a courtroom, even if hes a witness . Yes. The thing is everyone knows whats this take Michael Cohen, the prosecution, everyone involved here, you would think this is the one thing theyre preparing them for, but its still remains an unknown, right . Five meetings though unnormal witness went he one or two. Right. Hes still Michael Cohen. I could tell i was just gonna say hes hes unprofitable i am sure. I like ive never spoken to him. I have no contact, but there are certain people who are unprofitable. They just are who they are were going to talk much more about the case itself. What was before the jury today, the transcripts Kara Scannell today is going to takeover the transcript, reading right now, a closer look at the man in question in so many ways in his journey from Donald Trumps side to the Witness Stand are ready. K has that hes gonna end up winning this election come november, because people are seeing through the nonsense that was Michael Cohen in august 2016, defending his former boss, donald trump and cheering him on to become president. About a year later with trump in the white house, cohen told vanity fair magazine, im the guy it would take a bullet for the president in The Good Old Days of their relationship with cohen forcefully defended trump at every turn, they say mr. Trumps pitbull that in his um, his righthand man case in point, cohen threatening daily beast reporter in 2015 cohen had handled legal matters for trump for more than a decade, but the relationships soured when cohen found himself in legal trouble stemming from his dealings with trump thats when cohen went from fixer to foe, Donald Cannot keep track of the lives that he tells. He always cries the victim when he knows hes going to lose. Demand, doesnt Tell The Truth after the fbi raided cohens office in 2018, cohen admitted that just before the 2006 seeing election, hed arranged to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels 130,000 in hush money to keep quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with trump in 2006. Cohen also secretly recorded trump talking about a Hush Money Payment to playboy model Karen Mcdougal trump has denied affairs with both both women. Good morning. Cohen solidified his role as trumps number one enemy when he pleaded guilty in august 2018 in manhattan, federal court there were eight criminal counts, including Campaign Finance violations tied to his work for trump cohen said that included the Hush Money Payments to daniels and mcdougal. He implicated his former boss. He directed me to make the payments. He directed me to become involved in these matters. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison later in 2019, cohen had harsh words for trump when he testified before the House Oversight committee he is a racist he is a con man and hes achieved in the new York Attorney generals civil lawsuit where trump was found liable for corporate fraud. Cohen helped seal his fate by testifying that trump manipulated property values. Did the president or his company ever inflate assets . Our revenues yes and was that done with the president s knowledge or direction . Everything was done with the knowledge. And at the direction of mr. Trump in 2018, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying under oath to congress the year before all right. Which does some makes him a flawed star witness. Still come monday. No doubt cohen will be pointing fingers in trumps direction. Again. Randy k, cnn, palm beach county, florida it will be something. All right. Were back with the panel after the break. 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