‘It’s been all character assassination’: Breaking down the cross examination of Michael Cohen
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- Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department, Charles Coleman, former Brooklyn prosecutor, Susanne Craig, New York Times Investigative Reporter, and Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to break down the Trump defense teams strategy which has been mostly attacking witness Michael Cohen and not providing any facts that are contrary to what Michael Cohen testified about earlier in the trial.
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Still disgusted with the ease at which reporters call Cohen a liar for matters big and small but then when it comes to Trump they do everything but call him a liar, and it's everyday he's hitting us with mountains of lies. Really sick of it
Msnbc has called Sir TRUMP every name in the book 24/7/365,
@@trtony-xe4cl lies.
@@trtony-xe4cl his own attorney called him an orange turd multiple times.
Yeah, as Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out, the first time the NYT used the term “lie” in connection with Trump’s birther nonsense about Obama was September 2016 🙄.
you can always move to Russia lol.
Cohen may have lied but the paperwork doesn't.
What paperwork...????????
He lies A LOT.
@@meagain8080 Invoices, checks all signed by Trump, etc.
Link 😂😂@@pallhe
But its not a smoking gun and can be easily refuted as not criminal as there was no intent. Also the one fact that i think is not well talked about is this was paid from Trumps personal account and not any business accounts or the campaign. So falsification of business records is going to be tough to prove as they have not proven the records are even business records and not personal records. Second there is nothing showing Trump intentionally falsified those records there is testimony that says he didnt have any intentions or even handle that part in anyway. So marking some checks as legal expenses from a personal account is not criminal. Also cohen credibility is shot as he is the only one who can provide testimony on the intent to falsify those records. I do not see how Trump is guilty at this point.
Is Michael Cohen on trial? I though Trump was.
It's part of the process. Unfortunately the Cohen ship was torpedoed today, and it's sinking fast. What a disaster for the prosecution.
No, he isn't but how he conducts himself as a witness might make a difference in this trial. According to most accounts he did pretty well. There might have been a hiccup here and there but nothing that takes away from the actual evidence.
@@DerrickW30 You got that part right, what a disaster!
A@afry6400 a convicted liar lied his way Thru his testimony, what a surprise!
Yes, Cohen is basically on trial because he’s the only one connecting Trump to knowledge of invoices that cohen cooked!
When the defence attorney who is questioning the prosecution's biggest witness is more full of nervous excitement than the witness himself you know the defence is in trouble.
There's nothing abnormal for Cohen to hate this man along with more than 50% of this country, and we didn't go to prison for lying for him!
It gives him a motive to lie about Donald Trump. He has financial motivations as well as revenge motivations. He even wrote a book called revenge. Bottom line is he's a serial liar and that was made clear today. If there is a fair jury there this is an acquittal. This will likely be a hung jury though since we're in NY.
Hate goes against Jesus' command to LOVE one another; He even when as far to say that we are to LOVE our enemies. Hate only eats away at the one who is doing the hating; it poisons the person's life. It is toxic and will infiltrate every aspect of your lives. Do not entertain it.
Cohen show complete loyalty to Dump, taking out a loan on his home to pay the $130,000, hush money. He was protecting Dump as if the temptation with Daniels had become public that could have presented quite a problem for you know who.
@@deborahs2322 You speak the truth. Thank you!
@@deborahs2322 Hope Your comment is read by LIAR TRUMP!
Blanched is a typical Trump lawyer, ended up losing it and screaming at Cohen.
And it worked. 😃
@@kelperdude thats all Cohen understands is yelling. For a guy that goes behind his own wife to take out a loan against their house to try and do a backdoor extortion scheme , what a sleaze bag. he cant keep a lie straight, he like the Democrats,they keep shittin and stepping in it. Hilarious.
He had his orders from "The Diaper Don:" Get _tough_ or else I'll stiff you too!
@@kelperdude you love spewing BS .
Trump didn’t employ Cohen for his diplomatic skills.
That's causing his downfall. What Trump forgot is that in firing Cohen, he cut down the tree branch he was sitting on.
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He certainly didn't
It's most likely the reason he didn't bring him to the WH. Cohen was his fixer, his goombah. He needed him for that and only that
Anyone who has ever been in a relationship with a narcissist will recognize the hallmarks.. And trump is a malignant narcissist. The worst.
@@eauzanana1724 oh ya, like this is the case of all cases lol. Trump going down for a 1000 years to prison for this bahahahahahahahahaah this is it, RUSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
@@LivingtheDream67 if it was Russia Russia Russia traitor tRump would have already been gone like a hop out a window or a cup of tea.!! 😂😂 so you move to Russia where you belong andd will be loved cause it’s not here 🤣🤣
Exactly. He employed him to lie for him and be his fall guy 🤷🏼♂️
Donald Trump's favorite and only game he knows character assassinations !!
What other option did the defense have when the actual evidence is overwhelming?
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Well it must not be that overwhelming because the CNN panel this morning said the prosecution better hurry up and define the actual crime.,
@@mikedavis6711,CNN isn't ruling in the case 😅😅
@@mikedavis6711When you see the transcripts, CNN is bias. Just like they have been in the past. They add & omit.
No link to TRump has been proven in 3 weeks. Hope Hicks testified he didn't know about the payments until 2018. Your derangement is blinding you
Benedict Donald said he was going to testify, that means he will, since he's so honest...
He's the biggest coward that ever lived. Makes me want Chinese food. Orange chicken.
lol
Excellent point. What say you, all you MAGA lurkers??
Not holding my breath.
Maybe he might stop from falling asleep if he were to testify!
LOL, character assassination! It’s like the pot calling the kettle back! Remember when Trump used his black sharpie to draw a bulge on the NOAA hurricane map and when asked, he denied it. He marked up the map because he said that the hurricane would hit Alabama, he didn’t want people to see he didn’t know where Alabama was on the map LOL!
You are such a lying worm.
You will see that in redirect the prosecutor Will clear up the accusations by the defense today.
The prosecutors witheld the texts from Cohen he got blind-sided with today. LOL you are living in fantasy world
If the defense doesn’t call Keith Schiller to rebut Cohen on the call then the jury should assume he’s telling the truth. It is pretty simple.
Agreed
lower than a dog actually
Redemption is real, you know. It is a powerful life story. If you have never done anything that was in error, you can throw stones.
Exactly. All these plump pontificators.
We're deciding whether we want the Chief Cheato to be our president.
Agreed
Bot program. Blank channel no content. Hodgepodge Lodge. 😂 And you can never throw stones, because then you break your perfect record of being perfect.
@@preriowy bots replying to bots. Clean up your act
, TH-cam. You have the money to do it.
the orange one rump sells bibles yet won't put his hand on one and swear to tell the truth in this trial ... hmmmm
I have two MAGA Bibles and they Rock.
@@MarkSmith-pb2ly😂there's a sucker born every minute. 😂😂😂
The courtroom Bible would instantly burst into flames if the Orange Turd touched it!!!
Blanche has only one drum to bang so he will bang that drum. They have no case.
A defense doesn’t need a case. The prosecution does, and yes you’re right…they have none.
The defense isn't even putting on a case! No witnesses, no documents, no testimony, no alternate theory of the crime! LOL What a joke...
@@anthonysilvestri4946 - and with all the defense is not doing, the prosecutions case is still falling apart. LOL
@@kelperdude Far from it - they have 12 checks signed by the Orange Turd and Peckers testimony corroborating everything 🙂
@@WinstonSmith24 wrong they have the opportunity to present additional arguments.
The jury sees that Cohen has respect for the court. And yeah it was character assassination and maybe some of it stuck, but in the end the documentation and the signed checks are what is going to determine the outcome of this case.
And again who is on trial? It is Defendant Trump not Michael Cohen.
He's the key witness though with little credibility.
@@TheTruthFollows He has more credibility than Trump. So did Stormy Daniels.
How moronic.
@@TheTruthFollows If Trump had an ounce of credibility he would stand up like a man and testify.
cohen is working for the defense. 😃
Apparently one can't talk about multiple things in one call. Trump's lawyers are very funny.
More like desperate LOL
Not in a minute and a half and a third party has to go round up Trump to talk to him
@@yaimavol How do you know Trump wasn't already there? I see it happening this way. Cohen complains to Keith via text. Keith is with Trump at the time and in typical Trump fashion Trump isn't interested in Cohen's problems but wants information about the Storm Daniels payment. Keith requests Cohen to call on Trump's behalf. Cohen tries to begin the conversation by discussing the harassment but is immediately cut off and forced to discuss the Stormy Daniel's payment instead. All done within a minute and a half. Easy.
@@tresto2071 That contradicts his testimony but all they have to do is call Keith in.
You know you're not immune when your own attorney starts huffin' and a-puffin' about the witness' skid marks!
The only thing the defense has left is character assassination.
That is a routine tRump tactic. Throwing mud to hide your own guilt is an old tactic.
The prosecutions witnesses already destroyed their own character
Non existent😹
@@nomoreblahblahthat's your wish but it's not the reality!
@@iainherridge6253 You're living in delusion land
You need to have a serious talk with your co-worker Melber. He has completely lost credibility as a “senior legal analyst” today. His emotional diatribe with Andrea today was embarrassing, misleading and conveyed anything BUT what the ACTUAL TRANSCRIPT from today’s hearing shows.
Ben Meisel obliterated Melber today on his hateful stunt towards Cohen.
I see it similarly.
Yup, Ari has lost me as a viewer permanently. His arrogance has been on display for sometime; and it's always a character trait that causes trouble. I hope they give Ari's timeslot to "The Weekend" panel or back to Medhi H. Ari needs a long time out in my opinion.
Explain to me again, who is on trial here?
Jury will convict.
God, I hope so, if there’s any justice in this world.
I second that
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I think there's other president's deserve jail time 😮
Don't care, just so he's not next president
This New York jury is NOT going to "FALL FOR THE BANANA IN THE TAIL PIPE"!
Comment about this issue that Cohen didn't talk about the 14-year old prank caller before. I've been an expert witness on many occasions as a commercial r.e. appraiser, and if a cross-examining attorney asked me why I'd never talked about something irrelevant to the case at hand--let's say a note about talking to a broker about their kid's baseball game--I don't think that would impeach my testimony about what the same broker told me about the sale of a shopping center.
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Agreed - well said
I keep thinking of the Gotti Trial where Sammy the Bull Gravano, a murderer, turned state's evidence and that what was needed to convict Gotti. Dealing with unsavory witnesses is one of the things every prosecutor learns to deal with.
I've viewed Donny as a cheap copy of John Gotti for a long time now. Cohen is his Sammy the Bull! I like your thinking. Yes Cohen lied, for the boss. It's the paper trail.
Gimme a break: Blanche got one hit after 500 misses!
And that one hit didn't change any of the evidence proving Trump was complicit in this crime, for which he was the only beneficiary.
Is there any criminal court in America where trump hasn’t been the defendant?
Amen to that 😂😂😂
That's the issue this is trumps first criminal trial all of the 4000 court cases was lawsuits or civil,
All the other criminal trials was the trump organisation was the one charge or trump employee's but not trump himself
That was stupid🤣
...what?
Ask stormy!
All of Cohen's statements are substantiated by documentation, which in a sane world would necessarily cancel any psychological doubts a juror might have. Additionally, the evidence converges to point to intent and guilt from multiple angles which makes doubt based on a single feeling towards one of the witnesses invalid and not "reasonable".
We're in trouble then. This country is anything but sane.
This literally isn't true. You just believe everything you're told.
Everything in this sham trial proves Trump is innocent. Grow a brain.
Ari Melber showed his bias today, no wonder his numbers are so low. Thanks Nicole for presenting the facts in an unbiased way.
Agreed
Isn’t this a documents case?
Yes. Which makes the whole character assassination thing pointless. No matter how many other things Cohen might have lied about, he didn't lie about making those payments to Stormy Daniels, and those are still Trump's signatures on those checks.
The jury debate would be a great sequel
Mr Cohens testimony to jury did well
The Jury walking in front of the Psycho with their heads down looking at the floor! He's going Down! 😂
🎉🎉🎉yeppers 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Maybe Blanche hasn't been paid as expected and became emotionally involved today! Just be glad when this defendant is held accountable and Michael Cohen can go home and enjoy his life. Blanche seems weak minded when listening to the media 3rd person.
A nail...Can pop a tire ...But it CANNOT ruin the entire Vehicle....Let Justice roll forward.
Even if you admit that Cohen lied about the October 24 call, so what??? There is enough evidence supporting the prosecutor;s view of the case.
What "evidence"???? Just admit it, this case was a farce aimed at keeping Trump off the campaign trail. Bragg lost and Trump won. Now worry about trying to persuade Americans to vote for Biden. He's a disaster
Cohen has not admitted to lying about the Oct 24th phone call
Where? Name that evidence.
all it takes is ONE juror to let him walk, errrrr waddle away.
Then there should be a repealed frfr.
Gaetz said "Standing back and standing by, Mr. president." ???
Should be a campaign ad for Biden.
yrump saying that during the debate; cut to Jan 6; cut to Gaetz saying it today. Cut to all of the goons standing together (there will be more of them). Maybe use AI to put weapons in their hands? Maybe not.I couldn't help myself.
Come on and seal the deal Donny, testify...
Excellent point. What say you, all you MAGA lurkers??
@@The123fiona Just that despite any info, evidence or anything else, they will defend Trump as if he has the character of a saint...
None of this matters. The jury will find the ' nothing person' guilty. He should be doing time like individual #2
When the jury walks in and they are all wearing an orange jumpsuit Trump will know what the verdict is.😄
@@livelife4471 And everyone will be wearing a big smile.😄😉
The documentation is overwhelming and goes to the heart of the case.
Absolutely! Cohen's testimony is only a small part of the evidence against the defendant.
Whatever Cohen's credibility, the jigsaw puzzle is coming together, piece by piece.
What documents. There is no evidence because there is no crime 😂😂😂😂😂
@@jimbo43ohara51😂😂😂😂😂😂where is the crime?
Charles Coleman… brilliant mind! And above all a decent person!
Again it doesn't matter if michael has lied about small little things that dont really matter, i.e the phone call, if when all the evidence in documents, cheques, texts ,
Other people that still care for trump when have backed up what michael is saying
Who?
Cohen served his time. I highly doubt he wants to do a return visit. And he's not on trial. Let. It. Go. Already.
They have no defense. Trump signed the checks. Their only hope is to convince the jury that Cohen dreamed up the whole thing all on his own and that all of the other witnesses were lying as well as Cohen and that none of the checks or e-mails or texts or tape recordings were real, but things the jury only imagined they saw.
He perjured himself again, so he clearly didn't learn his lesson. It's clear he is pathological at this point
He got a reduced sentence, lol what do you mean he served his time? He is “cooperating” for a reduction.
Cohen lied to get Trump....he will go back to jail for lying again. Lol
Funny how all the reporters expect an "A Few Good Men" moment from Michael Cohen....."You can't handle the truth!"😂😂😂😂😂
Michael Cohen came into this court prepared in that you couldn't damage his character it had already been damaged over time that it never took away from the case of the prosecution
Keep clam and carry on,Michael
When a person is lying there is no 'keeping calm". Only anxiety and fear of being caught in it.
On the call, he if anyone knows you have to talk fast when sharing with Trump or he will fall asleep, Cohen knows😊
Doesn't matter when he knew. He signed the checks you talking heads
Why hasn’t Kieth Schiller been called to confirm or deny
Exactly...
Because the defense knew that Donnie was lying about Stormy.🤔
Better yet...why hasn't weismann been hauled out of jail and put under oath...
This assessment seems reasonable. Some damage to Cohen's credibility but the prosecution still has a strong case.
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Not according to the CNN panel today. Did you watch it? It's looking very bad for the prosecution.
@@brob1334 34 counts of campaign finance violations and falsification of business documents in furtherance of a crime
They haven't decided. It's make it up as they go along.
@@anthonysilvestri4946In other words....nothing.
Stinky can assassinate anyone with just one quick sniff downwind
The state of left wing politics lol... calling people "stinky"...
@@sergeant_saltystinky came from those closest to rump.
@MichaelBanks-sn5xv I've literally shaken his hand lol.. summer 2016. dude smells like cologne like every other billionaire in a suit
When someone lies to me, it makes it hard to trust them 😭
Which is exactly why I don't trust Donald Trump. Not a bit!
When I watch Trump flapping his gums and his lawyer is behind him , you can almost see the thoughts of the lawyer thinking about the decisions and actions he made to get here and what a bad idea it was and having images of his life flushing down the toilet
Trump barks even when the stone misses him. 😂
I don't get the call issue. Was Cohen suppose to say on cross what the whole convo was...or say what was relevant to the case? Was he supposed to dictate the convo word for word and every subject touched? I'm sure this will be addressed in the redirect.
Why is it assumed that a single phone call can't experience a shift of topics within the same call?
The media talking about character lol
There was no damage to M C there are facts in this case there are a paper trail a case is more about just one fact I set jury before and I can tell cases are about a entire body of work
Has trumps attorney defended or refuted the facts once yet???
@@markkrajnik Exactly - the defense is a joke...
msnbc disagrees with you.
play the ball not the man
Poor Todd Blanche. To go from a respectable law firm to defending the indefensible. To move all the way to Florida to please the most despicable person to walk the earth ….
I'm still trying to figure out how Trump got Henry Rollins to be his lawyer. :p
1:20 So he got two phone calls mixed up from 8 years ago…or forgot that the first two sentences were about something else…big deal. I don’t think it’s quite the drama some of the media want to make it out to be! The brain naturally clears out the unimportant stuff from our memory. Why would you remember a 14-yr old prank calling you… What you do remember are the life changing events. As Cohen has.
This is all a big nothing burger.
Lied about a phone call? What would be the purpose? Trump has been lying his entire life and who remembers calls from years ago? And what attorney, businessman/woman, politician don't lie?
It's not just a blow to Cohen's credibility about a specific phone call. It's a blow to his credibility about everything. His entire testimony should be ignored by the jury.
Hung jury. One guy already said he’s an attorney this is this is a disgrace.
Trump needs to be on the stand and let the prosecution grill him for 8 hours just like they are doing to Choen. Trump would not last 15 minutes and would confuse. Vote Blue 2024.
I didn't hear a crime what is trump being charged
This is why I don’t have cable tv. I do click on msnbc occasionally to see if they are still as bad as I remember and yes they are.
Medias touch is soooo much better! No big bosses running the narrative.
Didn't Cohen say he had texted Schiller about the phone calls first and when he called him he gave him the number. There was nothing about him telling Schiller about it on the phone.
To all trump supporters: Your standards are low.
And when Trump said, "I love the uneducated." He wasn't complimenting your intelligence.
If this was the 1700s trump would have been in prison or worser.
A billionaire in the 1700's would be president.
Worser in a bigly way.....
@@kelperdude he would have been long dead before being anyone of value in the 1700's, and if a so called billionaire has to beg people for money to pay his legal bills, that sort of says he's got no liquid assets with everything tied up in loans and mortgages with all the figures fudged one way or the other to make him appear wealthy
Actually no, back then most were Godly men who actually revered the constitution. That's all out the window with the left, the only thing that matters is winning by any means necessary and I do mean any means.
@@geoffgunn9673 - he'd have been president. 😃
Glad to know you guys are so focused on Michael Cohen and not telling the American people why Trump is on trial what was his crime?
It’s been enlightening truth
I will only be a dictator on day one.
- Trump
I will only be a cannibalistic serial killer on day one.
- The ‘late, great’ Hannibal Lecter
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Poor Democrats squirming for anything. Trump up +10 in every swing state ,sure makes them furious. 😂
Nope!
It’s a minute thing. Mainstream media has turned into the national enquirer
A minute and a half call? Really? Wake up MSNBC!
So what if Cohen is a liar; there's mountains of evidence about what did and it's illegal. That's all that matters.
Listen to yourself.
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Cohen showed up with the receipts. End of story.
@@TygerBleuToo 💯
No crime what is the crime
There is no crime !!!!!
BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT
The fact that he recorded a private conversation between a lawyer and his client is downright despicable and should be thrown out of court. Clown show
Exactly. ..that was foul in my view. Why not resign from his employer instead?
I wish Blanche would have brought up that Cohen is a liar.Why keep that a secret? Blanche should have stated jusy how unacceptable it was to be a liar. Thank god Trump never lies.
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Vote Libertarian NOT RFK or Trump
It's a two party system in the U.S., so any vote not for Biden is a automatic vote for Trump.
@@davidmccarthy6061
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Republicans and Democrats are all the same 💩
SO when is it a lie because you add another subject to a call following a series of text messages. Not even a hit to a common person.
What evidence!!!
Trump 24
Rikers or Leavenworth?
@@MERLE1593
Gitmo pour toi!
It's the overall case with documents, not one conversation on a particular date.
I doubt it he's just being honest about the entire situation and re grets but at least he's being honest
Poor Andrew Weissman. It's sad what he has become.
Cohen doesn’t know how to block a spam caller?
Does anyone else wonder how Trump hired the yellow bird from Angry Birds as his lawyer?
It amazes me that MSNBC hasn't covered any of Cohens former lawyers' testimony to Congress.
CNN had a completely different take on this ummmm whos telling thruth ?????????
1995: If the detective in this case ever said the 'N word', my client is innocent.
2024: If Mr. Cohen ever lied about anything, my client is innocent.
Same Energy.
PRISON FOR DONNIE
Todd Blanche's narrow focus on one questionable telephone call is an admission that he is grasping at straws. If that is his best swing he has no chance of getting to first. A sad but fitting end to his law career. When you join the trump team the final stop is always under the bus.
Wow Christopher Walken gave a great analysis. LOL
This is the dumbest trial I’ve ever followed