Former but could he find himself on in effect on their faces tough questions. Welcome everyone, im sade smith in for neil cavuto and this is your world. The drama is mounting when donald trump speaks once court adjourned in about half an our will take you there were live. First nate foy outside the courthouse for the crossexamination still happening right now. What do we know . Attorney todd blanche in asking Michael Cohen about his criminal history and he is also establishing the animosity that courthouse towards the former president with a big take a way so far being in admitting that he wants to see trump convicted in this case and coin is also acknowledged to criticizing trump in this podcast as well as in books. You literally loaded to make a living at this point. During his direct exami examination, sandra, prosecutors got the jury ready for his good ability concerns, or an admitted line before the congress in 2017 and again lying to special Council Prosecutors during the molar investigation. On said his loyalty to trump change when he pleaded guilty to federal Campaign Finance violations and tax evasion in 2018. Blanched go and if he is obsessed with trump and here is what his response. On said i dont know if i would call it obsessed. I admired him permanently precooked generic so cohan in the final witness for prosecutors, his direct examination lasted a day and so we will see how long the crossexamination will last and then prosecutors will have another opportunity to ask anymore questions. Again we are expect former president former President Trump to speak when he leave the courtroom at about 4 30 before he attends a fundraiser later tonight. Martha sandra nate foy where when court adjourns, thank you. As we await the former president to speak what do our next guest make of cohens answer so far as he undergoes this crossexamination . Was as former the patent is that the from the preand criminal defense attorney Mercedes Cohen. Tom, your take on what you have heard so far . It went according to i knew that the trump at defense team would come out hard going up or going from premature every angle. They are going after him aggressively on his motive for testifying on his bias, on his hatred of donald trump, his desire to see the former president put behind bars. The difference is not really kind networking theyre going after him very aggressively because i think everyone understands how critically important Michael Cohen is with the prosecutions case and the defense wants to make it abundantly clear to this jury that this is a man who simply cannot be tested. Sandra does seem like initially there was a lot of time spent attempting to point out that cohan has been very specific with the details of his conversations with former president of his former boss donald trump but seems pretty vague on details with the da. Yeah, you know, my take on that is that i think the defense has a very good job of teasing out collect Cohen Dunnellon are questioning pointing out that he had this very precise with the da problem which happened much more recently, he drew a blank. Well i dont remember this, i dont remember that. Is so adhering defense made the point very effectively to the jury that mr cohan might have a bit of a selective memory in this case. Sandra we know there is only one more day of this trial this week on the trail tomorrow. There is no trial on friday. In in fact one of the jurors because the theyre going to wrap things up 4 00 on thursday, we are told. Youre talking about nine, ten hours of Michael Cohen understand so far if the rep here in the next few minutes. Tom, where you think they go next . Weve been told now, this is a lot with this from the prosecution. Look, is all surprising that this is it for the prosecution. I kept thinking there has to be more here at some point we are going to start to see the Smoking Gun Evidence but we dont have it. It was Michael Cohen final witness and look, the fact that the day off is tomorrow on wednesday i think it will play in favor of the Trump Defense team. They can spend all day tomorrow reviewing what cohan testified today developing you crossexamination, attack that they can then deploy thursday. Trusting the way this trial is schedule is playing out is actually cutting in favor of the defense people to their interesting. We have mercedes back with us. I will bring you know this because before heading into Court Earlier today,. Com said this about what he is being accused of that court room. At two is a Legal Expense i didnt do it, a bookkeeper that and she did exactly right, took a Legal Expense and call it an ilLegal Expense. This is the whole case. Are you allowed to call illegal express in Legal Expense humankind know what else you call it actually. Sandra is that his case center and what is a Legal Expense. Your thoughts . Is interesting. The defense will definitely make a lot of father of those particular terms. They will say that payment was made the Michael Cohen. Therefore it could considerably be categorized as a Legal Expense. So there will definitely be a plan the issue will be is that, of course, the prosecutors are going to pounce on that and say no, when scientists talking about the words themselves, we are talking about the underlying intent, what was the intent of those payments made, by were those payments made, where they made because you were concerned about millennia over them and because they were concerned about because of your campaign . Were going to show and weve shown through all of these are these testimony and evidence that the concern was about the campaign. But it definitely is good fodder for the defense to make that connection during clause rods. Sandra as just mentioned, no court tomorrow, no court friday they will resume thursday. Tom, i wonder who the players in favor of . Yeah, i think right now i would give the advantage to the defense. Really the ball is in an offensive court right now in terms of how they want to go about blowing up the prosecution star witness or the additional time works to their benefit. Will also give the defense, to figure out what if anything they want to put on other side of the case. Remember what the prosecution rests at that point is an offensive term to put on their case. My best bet here in the defense is going to go with a very very streamlined presentation. Will not be something that takes my guess is that eventual put all its case in one day or less countable cant call one, maybe two for this escandon will not call former President Trump subject eventual resident will get the Closing Arguments and then the whole case is in the hands of the jury. Martha whats the crime . I mean, certainly cant or will be a lot of deliberating. They will not come back that quickly because there was a lot of testimony that came in, a lot of individual jewels, theres a lot of moving parts, a lot of testimony documents, records and underlying all of this we havent even seen the Jury Instructions. Is based on what the judge is going to actually allow the jurors to hear in terms of what the crime is calendar for ten of the crime, its not like theyre going to be able to pull a book out of the library on schmick its a murder, as a robber, is all that. These are completed statutes that have really never been tried in this way. So its going to be interesting to see what those Jury Instructions are like. It will certainly be quite the feat for the judge to make rulings on those Jury Instructions b. A lot of argument as to what should be allowed, what shouldnt be allowed. Goby along, a not possible at the end of the day out in to the liberation be longer than at least a day or two. Sandra real quick, final thought on this, im being flagged on our sidebar from the first thing this morning from our producer in the court room that confirmed cohan and the last prosecution witness and trump attorney say that they may only have one Expert Witness or newer bottle with the sun at all depending on how cohan goes. Real quick, final thought. I think there is a very smart move. When youre a defendant of a criminal case its not like is not your bird prove your innocence. You can get up there and say the particular carry their partners prove candidate improve guilt, we dont need to put anything more, take the case, jerry and i think that is where the trump team is going to do. Martha sandra tomcat mercedes, thank you for joining us. Sandra look at this, a record day on wall street, the nasdaq, The Tech Heavy Nasdaq Closing at a new alltime high. At all the major averages did rally on this tuesday. 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That remind you in the ed trial it may have been nonbiblical but it was pretty Severe Weather trump attorney in crossexamining what the sitting judge right after the question crossexamination that he found Michael Cohen writable. s whatever they bought him today, if he answers calmly and directly, would you really get an impression that i believe judge engoron got that he is credible. Sandra dollars former Michael Cohen attorney Michael Davis responding to Jonathan Turley tradition of todays crossexamination youre reaction to that exchange first, jonathan . Hello. [laughter] hello. Of actually known larry for many years, i respect him. Id used metaphors but he uses such medical medical failures figures such as an honest Michael Cohen which we havent really seen so we both engage in some degree of letters. Where he is in a good job with michael. I the problem is that cohen has shown over and over again that he will only tell the truth if he literally has no other option. And for much of the direct testimony, he did have an option. He had to speak to why he pleaded guilty to crimes. He had to speak to why he admitted to lying under oath. But even under those tight circumstances, he may have committed perjury. Many of us were really sort of bold over by his explanation of why he surreptitiously taped his own client, the former president. And he said that he did it to protect trump essentially in order to keep david packer, in the former publisher of the national enquirer, sort of inline. That makes no sense at all. Know i can even understand however, supposed to achieve that purpose. It seems quite clear that he was backing material he can use against trump, like, an insurance policy. Know if we are right, that he just after talking about , pretty repeated it again. He also said that he committed perjury to protect content. The problem is many of these specific acts of perjury occurred after he denounced trump after he became his most vocal critic. So there is already on their work areas that we think he has crossed the line. Sandra this idea of the cohen wanted to hold trump accountable, this has come up multiple times and they crossexamination. I was getting another readout from any change that happened moment ago inside the court. Blanche is playing i guess hes playing Emotion Of Maricopa Podcast For Cohen right now. There was a sidebar after that, not remember this is a really rough readout of whats happening in there. Blanche ask if cohen said trump needs to her handcuffs and do the prep work, cohen does not recall seeing it but wouldnt put it passed him. Digging through this more i get an exchange comes up where cohen said that he did not meet with them and had nda office, ask if you had a strong desire to ask to hold trump accountable, cohen sounds said sounds correct. So you have to be wondering how this is sounding and playing on for the jurors in that room right now. Absolutely. You know, going there just heard cohen going to go gray details about because he made eight eight years previously saying really great certainty as to what was said by whom. And then when asked about conversations he had with ndas office recently, he just has no memory at all. Now there has to strike many of the jurors as rather convenient. But i think there were beginning to see how this by the prosecutors photo giving them a glimpse, really the depth of the conflict, the animosity of this witness. Those si are important because the prosecutors are going to want to provide the jury from seeing some of the most outrageous aspects of his trolling on tiktoks. Which he described, by the way, as a sleep deprivation technique. Is that he discovered tiktok because you has trouble sleeping. Really, because hes been trolling for dollars on tiktok. He has been trolling for dollars on virtually every platform he can find. And once again you hear testimony like that and you wonder whether the new Michael Cohen is any different from the old Michael Cohen. Including the old Michael Cohen who does a couple of weeks ago that was called by a federal judge as Serial Perjurer who still gaming the system. Sandra jonathan, he wrote this after Michael Cohen testimony just yesterday. You said, mr fixit Michael Cohen bombs understand, offers no new evidence to convict trump. So is it fair to say you did not hear anything today that would change your mind on that jonathan . Well ill use one of cohen lines, i have no relation of anything i said yesterday. But no, i did say that. And is actually magnified today, that the whats missing with all of this of these sort of gotcha moments and all of the sensational detail or any elements of a crime. Remember, cohens sole purpose here for the prosecution was to order the words they need to tell the judge that at least one person said that they had evidence of the elements of the crime. He had not done that. Might say that trump wanted to bury a scandal before the election, that he wanted to keep an nda client, none of that is particularly unusual and its certainly not a crime. They needed him to say that trump intentionally misrepresented these payments with the intention of concealing another crime of which many of us are still debating what that crime is. He has not done that. And so i think that most judges at this point will grant a motion for a directed verdict. I am floored that the prosecution says this is it. I mean, first of all, theyre talking about on the content that is held over not far from there in a jail report him who the person who supposedly was helped cutting this checks, theyre not calling him and he said he wanted to adjust to the jury falsely that an agreement prevented them from calling him. They cant they can call him but instead they will end with cohen even though they havent made out the elements of the crime.