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Starts now. Welcome, everyone. Its a special twohour edition of the beat. Im ari melber. This is the second day of convicted former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying. Inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss and by the afternoon the defense started their crossexamination. Weve been reporting on that. Heres how its been going. Another pivotal day in Donald Trumps criminal trial in new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the stand for a second day of testimony. Its a whole new game this aft...

Around in american culture and it's become maybe more acute i recent decades and more virulent, but it's long-standing part of american cultural production. tied up in racial fears an paranoia >> yeah, we should also note here, there is a sort of cultural aspect, a media aspect, there is, of course, the material aspect, which is just the prevalence of guns i america. this chart, to me, it' something i keep coming back to, which is the spike tha happened, you know, during covid, right that's the gun sales and enormous increase in jus the amount of guns in people's hands, that went along wit cov...

Hour that he remains a skeptic. >> the investigation can't be done by the w.h.o. or an international group but it also can't be done by americans involved with funding the lab. i don't know that the administration can investigate this since they shut down the previous administration's investigation. i'm worried they are trying to cover up the government's involvement. our government's involvement in funding this research. >> dana: let's bring in arkansas senator tom cotton. i want to talk about the media aspect of this and especially going back to last year and pull something else what you wer...

Not to single them out, but just all media aspect of this. as the president has said this as the drumbeat all along, the part the media will play in what he calls the witch hunt. how that factor in? >> guy: it goes to one of the other refrains referred from the president over and over again. "they're all out to get me, they all hate me." in many cases, that's true. there's been a revival of robust investigative journalism because of this president come after eight year nap. they really are hostile towards his president, and he gives that hostility read back to them. here is zaid sort of egging...

Heck out of the show. >> i know people will find this shocking, the idea that two lawyers either working on a settlement or have settled cases end up talking together to figure out how to deal with the media aspect of it. meaning lawyers, like in any other industry, end up working together even if they're on other sides of the issue. >> these don't strike you as uncommon? >> the only reason it's uncommon is because we are talking about going on tv. she was paid $130. that's not nothing. meaning a settlement was reached. the idea that these two attorneys had been having conversations about how ...