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Jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and the prosecution has rested its case and now its Donald Trumps term his defense team has called a witness, Robert Costello and attorney. What one point advised Michael Cohen that stella has claimed in that cohens lied about him under oath during this trial. This comes after a shocking revelation on the stand earlier today, threatened to rock the prosecutions entire case under intense questioning. And by the defense, trumps former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, the star witness for the prosecution, admitted ...

Provided investigators new information on, quote, irregularitieses iirregularitiep family business. should president trump be concerned about any of this? >> there will be testimony which will be a circus this week, before the house oversight committee. we'll see mr. he cohen, he'll be asked a variety ofs questions from democrats and republicans on the committee. i think we're going to be disappointed. i say that because the answer that mr. cohen or his attorney will give throughout that hearing is i can't give you an answer to that question, congressman, because i've been advised not to do so...

This time they revealed stormy daniels had also been silenced just before the election, by michael cohen. she signed a nondisclosure agreement about the exact same time that the trump campaign was dealing with the fallout from that "access hollywood" tape. >> so michael cohen sets up a shell company, central consultants llc and only purpose is to pay stormy daniels so she will not tell her story, not go public. >> he cohen said without telling donald trump he paid $130,000 to stormy daniels so she would not speak about this story. >> daniels alleged that the parent company of "in touch" magazi...

I think that language my family comes first is being concerned about the financial strain this is going to have on him if he continues to fight. >> meaning if he doesn't cooperate and this is a long drawn out process, he's signaling mr. president as much as i like you and have worked for you all these years, i have to do something to protect my family here. and kim, let me ask you this. in front of cohen telling to get his voice out there. they believe winning over the court of public opinion is important. can michael cohen really win. you see him so tied to this. t. >> sure. the statement tha...

And cohen was asked how he would respond if his legal team tried to come after him. he cohen said i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i am no a villain of the story and i will not allow others to depict me that way. what do you make of this interview, the final breaking of the relationship between president trump and michael cohen? is that -- i mean, he is making it very clear his loyalty is with his family. his loyalty is with his country. not with the president. not something you hear often in trump world. >> not at all. something we haven't heard cohen say. we...