Sexual harassment and discrimination at the fdic and the bullying of lower level employees coming up. The tough questions that the chair of the fdic face today on capitol hill, plus and attempted assassination of slovakias Prime Minister shot multiple times earlier today, the sheer panic in the streets as this attack went down and leading this hour a moment of truth that needs to play out tomorrow in the new york hush money cover up case against former President Trump the criminal conviction or acquittal of a former president could really come down to this question. Does the jury believe donald trump, a defendant, or Michael Cohen, the key witness tomorrow . Jurors are going to continue to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, the key witness in this case. It was once a selfdescribed quote designated thug, unquote for donald trump. Cohen will resume intense crossexamination as the defense argues, that cohen can simply not be trusted just to give you a sense of how the defense set the tone yesterday. Here was trump attorney todd blanche on his very First Exchange with Michael Cohen mr. Cohen, my name is todd blanche. You and i have never spoken or met before halfway cohen. We have not. Blanche, but you know who i am, dont you . Cohen . I do blanche. As a matter of fact, on april 23rd, so after the trial started in the case, you went on tiktok and called me a crying little didnt you . Cohen . Sounds like something i would say unquote apologies for the cursing there, but thats the transcript from court. The judge then sustained an objection from the prosecution. The defense highlighted cohens penchant for serial lying and going over a litany of insults that cohen has unleashed on trump since they became estranged. That includes calling trump a quote, boorish, cartoon misogynist and a quote cheetodusted cartoon villain cohens go response every time he was asked Something Like, quote, sounds like something id say. The defense also got cohen to say he has built up a lucrative business, especially from books focused on criticizing his former mentor and donald trump but before the defense was unleashed on trumps former lawyer, the prosecution had walked cohen through the most important part of the case so far, not what cohen has said but cohen confirming that donald trump falsified Business Records to cover up the hush money Payment Scheme to Stormy Daniels doing this in an effort to influence once the 2016 election by hiding those payments from the public. Now, that is the alleged crime that trump is on trial for, and cohen is testifying under oath saying, yes, my former boss is guilty of this of course, it is also true as we will here tomorrow from the Defense Being under oath has not stopped Michael Cohen from lying before he has pleaded guilty on a charge of lying to congress in 2018 in this trial, he testified the lies to congress were meant to protect trump. He says, you can believe him now because he was later reformed after a quasi intervention from his family. So this is a tale of two cohens and all of that is what this manhattan jury is left to ponder as the prosecution could rest its case as early as tomorrow. Lets discuss with lanny davis, former attorney for Michael Cohen, and Crisis Management mean specialist. First of all, let me correct something i said because id said he lied to congress in 2018. I think i meant 2017. Right . Thats when he lied, testifying Behind Closed Doors before the intelligence committees investigating ties that trump had with russia. His justification is, i did that at the behest of mr. Trump but that doesnt make it any better. Know all of his lies on behalf of according to federal prosecutors who prosecuted Michael Cohen, they wrote at the direction that was there were of mr. Trump does not excuse the lies, but it just shows that he was at that time of his life doing anything. As i perceived him for ten years, lying all the time. Donald trump the Defense Drew Jurors attention to Cohen Social Media posts and his podcasts and the like. Dragging trump. He said cohen made money off books dragging trumps name more than 3 million, going testify. Thats a lot of money for two books. Youve written books. I mean, i didnt make that much. Yeah. And thats what got me to this could all come down to whether the jury believes Michael Cohen or donald trump, both of whom have had their issues with facts in the past why should the jury believe Michael Cohen and not donald trump . So my disagreement is the assumption behind not just you, but everyone that Michael Cohen needs to be believed for the jury to convict for two years. Ive watched the prosecutor, the same team that youre seeing the paired this case with michael in the room . With documents, text messages, and now we know testimony from david pecker from hope hicks, from others and most important, a hot document, meaning a really harmful document to mr. Trump by mr. Bison. I know youre gonna bring about lets show everybody the Allen Weisselberg document. If if we can folks because i do, it is important were bringing that up in a second, but why is that document from asl in weisselberg key because you have called it the smoking gun. Well, we saw that at the time and i still see that the time because if the jury has any question about whether these were legal fees, which is what mr. Trump . He said falsely, or whether they were reimbursements for a criminal payment that Michael Cohen went to jail for . Thats the second issue in the case where they legal fees, as trump says, or where are they reimbursements as Michael Cohen serwer, there it is this is the document were showing here. This isn weisselberg. And its a document that basically comes up with the amount that they are going to pay Michael Cohen, which is reimbursement for the payment to Stormy Daniels according to the prosecutors and Michael Cohen, plus 50,000 more for this other thing having to do with like some lunch at bogus polling or whatever thats 180,000 times two, so that theres no tax penalty plus 150,000 because Michael Cohen was upset. He didnt get a good christmas bonus thats in total. Thats 420,000. And then it says 35,000 every month from donald trump that is the scheme and we havent heard an alternate suggestions as to what this is. Its taking a number, adding all those things up including the illegal hush money, which federal prosecutors said was politically motivated based on the evidence, is hush money in itself illegal. Its if its politically motivated, yeah, its illegal. And it deprives the American People of information be bright president ial, okay. But the second issue is the tougher issue. And the weisselberg document proves that by taking those numbers in dividing by 12, you dont come up with illegal retainer. Youre taking numbers dividing by 12 and repaying Michael Cohen in part for the criminal money that he went to prison for if they decide that that document shows that weisselberg knew there were no legal fees on television . I dont know if thats been introduced yet. Rudy giuliani said they were reimbursed, reimbursements. Yeah. And theres more than enough evidence that they were reimbursements. Now its up to the jury to decide. Do we need donald trump to personally look . At the Bookkeeper Writing down legal expenses, which is fraudulent, or can we conclude . And thats why i use my snow on the ground circumstantial evidence prove a jury uses its common sense. Is there any other explanation . Then reimbursing Michael Cohens. So do you have 35,000 checks . Well, i mean they say the defense says that was Michael Cohen being paid 35,000 every month because he was on retainer. I know that cohen saying thats thats both a document by document, contradicts that you keep talking about Rudy Giuliani saying and it calling it a reimbursement. I dont think theyve introduced that in trial, at least not that im aware of. Have they and why havent they if they have not . Thats a very good question. It would be hearsay unless youve got Rudy Giuliani on the witness stamp, but thats probably something that jury cant consider is Rudy Giuliani, but everybody knew within the organization that Michael Cohen was not honore retainer and the federal prosecutors said there was never a retainer agreement, so donald trump has, in recent weeks, been abiding by the gag order. He has refrained from attacking Michael Cohen. He has refrained from attacking Stormy Daniels. He has refrained from attacking the jury. He has been doing that. Michael cohen has not abided by the request that people have made of him to stop insulting donald trump. Hes hes definitely the dial that back a little bit, but even i think it was a week ago, he was seeing wearing a shirt with an image of donald trump in a jumpsuit behind bars at the maralago jail. There it is have you said to him throughout this process, can you just dial it back or not go after him because thats only going to help donald trump well im no longer is right. But youre his friend. I misspent i think i can tell you that hes not going to do that again. Now that the child has started, but i do want on his behalf to say theres a difference between a man whose indicted and Michael Cohen has been attacked, his family has been attacked by trump. He has lived in fear because of trumps. So hes an angry man and doesnt mind calling out trump but as two now, during the trial, i would say its not a good idea. Is there anything that you wish the prosecution has had done differently no, i think the Summary Argument will be my final test to see whether they can make the argument that i certainly saw unfolding when whos in the room and then prepared months after months of preparing him and going through to say to the jury you can change the subject about what the evidence witnesses, emails weisselberg documents speak for themselves, right. And change the subject by having this an attack on Michael Cohen decision by you. Or you can look at the documents and see whether Michael Cohen is corroborated by everyone. And then judge, whether someone who did admit to lying for ten years and own that lie and expressed his shame for those lies can be believed on this occasion its up to the jury, miami davis. Its good. As well. Were going to have you on the show tomorrow you know, im traveling to visit my son tomorrow. Okay. 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Lets bring in cnns mj lee at the white house and Kristen Holmes here in studio. She covers the Trump Campaign for us. First to mj mj. Why was bidens campaign so eager to get this on the calendar so early in june yeah. What we saw jake was a total smack down by the Biden Campaign of the president ial debate calendar that the commission on president ial debates had proposed what the Biden Campaign said was that this idea that the first debate between the two candidates wouldnt take place until midseptember was just ludicrous. It was too late. It would the after some voters that actually participated already in early voting in some parts of the country. And jen omalley, dillon saying in a letter to the commission that the calendar shows a series its limitations of the cpds outdated approach. And this, of course, was not the only issue that the Biden Campaign took with the commission. 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