Day 17 in the Trump Hush Money Trial
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | And good evening, thanks for joining us. We were expecting fireworks in the first day of cross-examination of Michael Cohen, the one-time fixer for the former president turned witness in his criminal hush money trial and we got it. |
| 0:34.2 | No sooner had the defense begun after mourning the prosecution front-ending all possible attacks |
| 0:38.2 | on Cohen's character. |
| 0:39.8 | The defense attorney Todd Blanche repeated a colorful show |
| 0:43.0 | who say insult that Cohen had used to describe Blanche online. |
| 0:46.0 | That prompted a sidebar with the judge who asked Blanche, |
| 0:49.2 | Blanche, why are you making this about yourself? |
| 0:51.8 | The attorney said he, that he wasn't, that he had a quote, |
| 0:54.5 | right to show the witness's bias. |
| 0:57.0 | The judge sustained the objection. |
| 0:58.4 | The trial got back underway, but it wasn't long |
| 1:00.8 | before Blanch returned to Cohen's propensity to mouth off on social media. |
| 1:04.7 | Blanche asked Cohen, quote, and on that same tick-tock, so again on April 23rd, you referred to |
| 1:09.4 | President Trump when he left the courtroom, you said that he goes right into that little cage which is where he |
| 1:13.9 | belongs in a and I'm going to clean up the language here effing cage like an animal do you |
| 1:18.6 | recall saying that Blanch asked Kone responded quote, I recall saying that. |
| 1:23.7 | That sort of set the tone for the rest of the hearing, where the former president's attorney, |
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