Defense Grills Cohen
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is |
| 0:36.0 | this is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. Court has just wrapped up for the day in Donald Trump's hush money cover-up trial. |
| 0:42.0 | It is a day you should remember |
| 0:43.6 | because if, if Donald Trump, the former president, is acquitted, the history books may well |
| 0:49.4 | point to Michael Cohen's testimony today as the biggest reason. |
| 0:53.4 | Cohen's cross-examination will resume next week. |
| 0:56.4 | We're told after he endured hours of brutal questioning on the stand today. |
| 1:01.6 | Trump's defense attorney Todd Blanche laid out Cohen's past lies under oath, |
| 1:06.0 | and then introduced evidence claiming that Cohen has also lied in this trial under |
| 1:10.9 | oath. |
| 1:11.9 | Cohen previously testified on Tuesday I believe about a key |
| 1:14.8 | October 2016 phone call he says he had with Donald Trump about the |
| 1:19.2 | hush money reimbursement but Todd Blanch today revealed text messages and a call log from that day that |
| 1:27.0 | threatened to destroy Cohen's credibility about that testimony from two days ago. |
| 1:31.4 | The defense suggested that Cohen's October 2016 phone |
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