Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181212:06:38:00
He was the president's lawyer. two, the president directed him to do this. michael cohen didn't just wake up one morning and say, i'm going to go find problems that candidate trump has and take care of them on my own. and, three, whether the president knew it was a crime or not, that is not a defense, you know, not knowing the criminal code is not a defense. you know, generally people know right from wrong. he was a candidate. this was on the eve of the election. all of that being said, lawrence, i see this as evidence of prior bad acts, as we would say in the law, meaning that this shows that...