Michael Cohen Endures Intense Afternoon of Cross-examination
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is facing |
| 0:02.0 | This is CNN breaking news |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Dick Tapper. |
| 0:07.0 | We are following breaking news out of Donald Trump's hushman a cover-up trial in New York City. |
| 0:11.0 | We're right this minute Michael Cohen is facing an |
| 0:13.3 | incredibly aggressive cross-examination. So far Trump attorney Todd Blanch has |
| 0:17.4 | gotten Cohen to confirm that he wants to see Trump convicted in this case, that |
| 0:21.5 | he makes money off of his anti-Trump social media |
| 0:24.5 | posts and even sells merchandise showing Trump in jail. Earlier today, |
| 0:29.0 | prosecutors had Cohen explained why he felt there was a pressure campaign to keep him from |
| 0:34.0 | turning against Trump and how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a |
| 0:39.6 | cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having Cohen admit to multiple lies |
| 0:46.0 | he is previously told including his plea of not guilty, his plea of guilty to the tax |
| 0:52.0 | charges that sent him to prison. |
| 0:53.9 | Cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied to the American people about the payments |
| 0:58.3 | to the two women, saying he apologized, quote, for lying to them, for acting in a way that suppressed information |
| 1:03.9 | that the citizenry had a right to know in order to make the determination of the |
| 1:07.8 | individual who was seeking the highest office in the land. This is back in |
| 1:11.2 | October 2016. |
| 1:12.2 | Senets Paul Reed is outside the courthouse for us in New land. This is back in October 2016. See now Paul Reed is outside the courthouse for us in New York and Paul. |
| 1:15.0 | This has been a quick moving intense back and forth between Michael Cohen and Todd Blanch |
| 1:22.1 | Trump's attorney. |
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