“A moment years-in-the-making”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace discusses Michael Cohen’s court appearance in the ex-president’s civil fraud trial, reports that former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been granted immunity in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election case, the latest dropout in the House Republicans’ disastrous search for a speaker, an update from the ground in Israel, a new book urging accountability for January 6th from officer Harry Dunn, and more. Joined by: Tim O’Brien, Glenn Kirschner, Susanne Craig, David Jolly, Ali Vitali, Hala Gorani, Greg Bluestein, Tim Heaphy, Carol Leonnig, and Harry Dunn.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone it's now 4 o'clock in New York there's no shortage of news
0:10.0	today in the legal troubles facing the disgrace twice in Page 4 times
0:14.0	indicted ex-President and current GOP front runner, including a third Trump
0:18.8	lawyer and fourth Trump associate earlier today pleading guilty in the Fulton County
0:23.9	criminal election interference case. But we begin with a moment and a
0:28.2	clash years in the making at a Manhattan courthouse earlier today. The
0:32.4	disgraced ex-president finally coming
0:34.5	face to face with Michael Cohen. The former fixer who once said that he'd take a
0:38.8	bullet for Donald Trump now, the star witness in that civil fraud trial that threatens to bring down the
0:45.0	Trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court
0:50.0	today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about Donald Trump versus Michael
0:56.0	Cohen or Michael Cohen versus Donald Trump.
0:58.8	This is about accountability, plain and simple, and we leave it up to Judge and go on in order to make all the
1:04.2	determinations on that. So I thank you all for coming. A few hours later and
1:10.1	what he called a quote heck of a reunion Michael Cohen took the stand in this
1:14.4	250 million dollar civil suit brought by New York attorney General Tis James.
1:18.7	Early in his testimony Cohen pointed the finger directly at the man he calls Donald.
1:24.8	He was asked about the crimes that he pleaded guilty to and when it came to lying to Congress
1:29.0	about Trump's effort to build a Trump Tower Moscow, Cohen said this, quote, I did that at the direction and benefit of Mr. Trump, end quote.
1:38.0	Cohen then went on to confirm a central allegation of prosecutors.
1:42.6	NBC News reporting this.
1:44.7	Cohen said Trump would come up with his own net worth
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