“I violated my moral compass”

“11 invoices, 11 vouchers, and 12 checks“

Deadline: White House - “I was following directions”

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Susanne Craig, Vaughn Hillyard, Andrew Weissmann, Donny Deutsch, Yasmin Vossoughian, Harry Litman, Tim O’Brien, Russ Buettner, and Claire McCaskill.

“I was following directions”

Hi everyone welcome to Monday it's four o'clock in New York at every single level, legal, political, human.

An extraordinary showdown today in court still happening.

The ex president coming face to face with the man who used to do his dirty work who now has turned into the key

witness in the first ever criminal trial of an American ex-president Michael

Cohen Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer is still on the witness stand

in there all day nearing the end of just his first day of testimony.

Michael Cohen revealing detail after excruciating detail about what it was like to work for Donald Trump

and make sure that the boss always looked good in the public eye. Work that Trump

would praise him for when he did that Cohen testified that it would make him feel, quote,

Cohen was a guard dog protecting his boss at all costs.

Transformer Pit Bull today corroborated all of the interactions this jury has already heard

That includes the all-important meeting at Trump Tower in 2015.

That's the one with David Packer of the National Inquirer

and Donald Trump, where the catch and kill scheme

Michael Cohen testified to conversations about keeping the story of Donald Trump's affair with

He testified to how he arranged with Packer the $150,000 payment

The jury then heard the only conversation Cohen had

Drawing on years of experience as communications chief for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, Nicolle Wallace provides political insight and clarity on where the decision-makers stand on complex issues. Join her for analysis and discussion with the key newsmakers every weekday.

0:00.0	Hi everyone welcome to Monday it's four o'clock in New York at every single level, legal, political, human.
0:15.1	An extraordinary showdown today in court still happening.
0:18.4	The ex president coming face to face with the man who used to do his dirty work who now has turned into the key
0:24.3	witness in the first ever criminal trial of an American ex-president Michael
0:29.6	Cohen Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer is still on the witness stand
0:34.6	in there all day nearing the end of just his first day of testimony.
0:38.4	Michael Cohen revealing detail after excruciating detail about what it was like to work for Donald Trump
0:44.4	and make sure that the boss always looked good in the public eye. Work that Trump
0:49.0	would praise him for when he did that Cohen testified that it would make him feel, quote,
0:55.0	like I was on top of the world.
0:57.0	Cohen was a guard dog protecting his boss at all costs.
1:01.0	Transformer Pit Bull today corroborated all of the interactions this jury has already heard
1:07.0	about over the past few weeks.
1:09.0	That includes the all-important meeting at Trump Tower in 2015.
1:12.9	That's the one with David Packer of the National Inquirer
1:16.1	and Donald Trump, where the catch and kill scheme
1:18.6	was originally hatched.
1:20.3	Michael Cohen testified to conversations about keeping the story of Donald Trump's affair with
1:25.6	Playboy model Karen McDougal quiet.
1:28.3	He testified to how he arranged with Packer the $150,000 payment
1:33.4	McDougal to bury the story.
1:35.9	The jury then heard the only conversation Cohen had
	...

“I was following directions”

Deadline: White House

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