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This week, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified before multiple congressional committees,

including a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee.

During his testimony, Cohen tied Trump to criminal activity and presented evidence of the hush money payments that formed the basis of his campaign finance convictions.

What should we make of Michael Cohen's testimony?

And what does this mean for the Trump administration and the criminal investigations of Trump and his associates?

Let's get on topic.

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Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal

analyst. And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, WG on radio host, who will join us regularly on this

podcast.

So, Baddy, this has been quite a week.

It's, you know, it is a week that contained so many new revelations and a lot of the week on the legal front in particular focus on the testimony of Michael Cohen which overshadowed a lot of crazy news, including, obviously, we've heard since then of the,

of the order by Trump of ordering that Jared Kushner be given top secret clearance.

There's all sorts of stuff.

How does that become background noise to everything that's happening?

How does the meeting with North North Korea although I think that's

obviously a lot going on there that people are paying attention to but the

hearings on that we got to see on on Wednesday it was it was crazy and

even the moment where was it was it meadow or mado that brought the black woman to say look

president Trump can't possibly be racist this one she can't tell you she

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