There was another person on the hot seat today, this time an eye-rolling, side-eye-giving

witness who annoyed the judge so much.

The judge cleared the courtroom to dress him down. I'm talking about Robert Costello,

a former advisor to Michael Cohen

and took the stand for the defense today

and described in April 2018 meeting

that he had with Cohen about the Stormy Daniels payments.

Now from the transcript and I'm quoting your question, what did he say about that specific

topic?

Casello answers, Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments,

that he did this on his own, and he repeated that numerous times.

Now that disputes, as you're're aware Cohen's assertion that he

paid off Stormy Daniels at the direction of Trump and that Trump was aware of

the alleged scheme to disguise reimbursements to Cohen.

Now, the DA has provided documents and checks and invoices

to try to support their 34-account case.

But the DA has still relied quite heavily, even though it was pre-corroborated on Cohen's testimony,

and it connects all of these different dots. Now, throughout the entire trial, the jury has heard

a lot of nasty things about Michael Cohen from various witnesses.

Here is just a sampling on your screen, and today they got one more bit of unflattering information

to consider.

Because on the stand today, Cohen himself admitted

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