Jury Hears Cohen Say He Wants To See Trump “Rot” In Prison

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

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Donald Trump attorney Todd Blanche raised his voice and flailed his arms at Michael Cohen, accusing the prosecution’s star witness of making up a phone conversation with Trump just before he sent $130,000 to Stormy Daniels’ attorney in October 2016. Blanche confronted Cohen with text messages he sent with Keith Schiller – whom Cohen had said put Trump on the phone – which were unrelated to anything having to do with Trump or Daniels. It was the most dramatic moment of the cross-examination of the key witness in the hush money case, and the clearest example yet of the defense’s effort to cast doubt on Cohen’s memory of phone calls and other significant interactions with Trump in 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.
0:05.0	Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.
0:12.0	Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.
0:15.0	Boom!
0:16.0	Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.
0:27.0	Fueling mischief with petty flu. Well, thank you very much. I think it was a very interesting day, a fascinating day.
0:49.0	And I just want to thank all the lawyers involved because they've been really working hard.
0:54.0	Well if the goal today was to please the client, well consider him pleased.
1:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of Laura Coates live on day 18 of Donald Trump's criminal trial.
1:05.0	A trial has had a lot of numbers to keep up with, right? I mean 34.
1:09.0	The number of felony counts against Trump for falsifying business records.
1:13.2	130,000, the amount of dollars Stormy Daniels was actually paid to keep quiet.
1:18.4	But the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is, well, 96, the 96 seconds of a critical October 2016 phone
1:26.8	call that is now in question. On Monday Cohen testified that he made that
1:31.9	October call to Trump's bodyguard, a man by
1:34.3	the name of Keith Schiller, to try to talk to Trump. The whole point of that call
1:38.1	to tell Trump that he was planning to pay off Stormy Daniels.
1:42.8	Now from Tuesday's transcript, here was the question.
1:46.0	Why did you need to speak with Mr. Trump
1:48.1	at that point in the evening of October 25th?
1:51.2	Cohen then responded to discuss the Stormy Daniels matter and the
1:54.9	resolution of it. Now that testimony is important the prosecution's
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