“I violated my moral compass”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Politics, Nbc News, Msnbc, Nicolle Wallace, Washington Dc, Government, Donald Trump, The White House, Daily News

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace is joined by Susanne Craig, Vaughn Hillyard, Andrew Weissmann, Kristy Greenberg, David Kelley, Yasmin Vossoughian, Harry Litman, Melissa Murray, Lachlan Cartwright, and Ian Bassin.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. We have a packed house. It's four o'clock in New York after putting
0:12.0	Donald Trump in the room where it happened
0:14.2	where that allegedly criminal scheme to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential
0:19.9	election was hatched.
0:22.1	The ex-president's former fixer, Michael Cohen, today closed the loop and
0:26.3	the story that often sounds like it is straight out of a bad mafia movie. Cohen describing
0:31.4	Donald Trump operating like a mob boss who became president of the United States.
0:36.0	Using a back channel to try to keep Cohen quiet and loyal, Cohen also describing going to prison and ultimately breaking with Donald Trump, a man he served for more than a decade.
0:47.0	Happening right now, Michael Cohen is facing cross-examination.
0:51.0	He's answering questions from Trump attorney Todd Blanch. It is sometimes
0:55.4	very testy. It's sometimes very flat. We'll get into all of it. And it comes after
1:01.1	Michael Cohen recounted to the jury everything in his life that led up to this moment.
1:06.8	Cohen describing meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office and being reassured that he would get paid for paying off Stormy Daniels.
1:14.2	Getting reimbursed for the hush money payments going through it, check by check by check by check by check
1:20.4	by check by check by check by check by check and by check and invoice and
1:23.7	invoice every last one of them.
1:26.3	It is important because each one of these documents amounts to one of the felony
1:30.5	charges against Donald Trump.
1:33.2	Cohen also described the 2018 raid by the FBI saying he was quote
1:37.8	concerned despondent and angry.
1:41.0	After that Trump told him this quote don't worry I'm the president of the United States
1:45.6	There's nothing here everything's going to be okay stay tough. You are going to be okay
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