Cohen Testifies About Payments to McDougal, Daniels
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:29.2 | This is |
| 0:33.2 | breaking news and welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we continue to follow the |
| 0:38.4 | breaking news out of Manhattan where the man at the center of the |
| 0:41.3 | hushbunny payments scandal is testifying right now in |
| 0:45.0 | Donald Trump's criminal trial. |
| 0:46.5 | Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay $130,000 to adult film star and |
| 0:52.4 | director Stormy Daniels who came forward about an alleged |
| 0:58.0 | episode with Donald Trump in the days before the 2016 election. Cohen testified testified not only did Trump know about the |
| 1:05.4 | 130,000 dollar payment but Trump directly approved it and said that he would pay |
| 1:10.6 | Cohen back. |
| 1:12.9 | And the prosecution is using Cohen's testimony |
| 1:15.8 | to present both an offensive and a defensive case |
| 1:19.5 | offensively by establishing that Cohen |
| 1:22.1 | was the man behind the payments, |
| 1:23.8 | not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 Playmate of the Year, |
| 1:28.3 | Karen McDougal, and defensively by trying to establish that Cohen frequently lied on behalf of Donald Trump, |
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