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Background a little more later but here is some of what he said today in his Opening Argument. He said Cohens Job, Michael Cohen who was an attorney and worked closely at one point with the President Trump, Cohens Job before as president was to take care of problems for the defendant. Pecker would act as eyes and ears for the campaign. Tell me your assessment of that through the Opening Argument and also of what may or may not have been legal or illegal about either one of those points . Neither of those things are State Crimes and thats not what alleged in the indictment. This is an indictmen...

Done . Judge merchan closely watching the prosecutor as he is delivering his opening statement. So thats powerful evidence for the prosecution. When youre getting inside someones mind, you may not have an example. Youre not going to donald trump on tape saying, i want to do this so we can steal the election. But you can look at conduct like this. Well, why would he have these people over . Why would you have a thank you dinner after he won the election . If not, to acknowledge that they helped him when the election and theres a lot of evidence here flying during the Opening Argument about paym...

How do i have the receipts is all part of these things the jury needs to have things said to them multiple times. I mean, the idea, repetition is why sermons work, right . Why a great speeches work. You want to have it drilled into the actual minds of the jurors that this happened again and again, again, which is why you show the pattern of behavior as well. This is not a oneoff, it is a pattern and it happened. So the lawyer has been called to the bench because the district attorney, the prosecutor, objected to to statements from trumps lawyers, from Todd Blanche about Michael Cohen lying. Ju...

The tune of 420,000. Hes trying to argue that it wasnt paying Michael Cohen back for the uh, hundred and 30,000 that this was not just a reimbursement that he was paying Michael Cohen for legal fees. Thats been their argument because it was marked as a legal retainer and that of course, rudy giuliani and self said at the time that Michael Cohen wasnt doing legal work for trump. The other thing thats interesting about what trumps attorney is trying to do in these in this Opening Argument is you he said hes going to call Trump President Trump because he said he held that title. He deserves that ...

While you try to make your Opening Argument as close as you can to your to your closing argument. Its almost like a summation. The first thing i would do here is i would listen intently obviously to the Prosecutors Opening and then try to pull something out of it. And my first line would be like your heard was she just said, well, let me tell you this and then attack you want to try to make a connection with those jurors. You want them to like you i believe Todd Blanche is The One whos doing the opening. You want to make some kind of a connection with them and youre just wanted to attack, atta...