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Deadline: White House

"Raising some eyebrows"

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

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

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses with Michael Cohen his latest meeting with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg – his first since a grand jury in the case was convened in the case of hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, how Republicans continued their display of disrespect after the State of the Union with their politically-motivated investigation into Hunter Biden, how alarm bells are going off for reproductive rights activists in all 50 states and more. Joined by: Michael Cohen, David Jolly, Neal Katyal, Eddie Glaude, Antonia Hylton, Cornell Belcher, Matt Dowd, Max Rose, Cecile Richards, Katty Kay, Fred Guttenberg, Rep. Jared Moskowitz

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Borkark in New York. We're meeting today between a prosecutor and a witness.

0:11.7

There's one heck of a story to tell. It's raising eyebrows. Michael Cohen, the insider

0:16.6

turned critic on the former attorney for Donald Trump met with Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg

0:22.7

for the 15th time today. Bragg, you'll recall, recently convened a grand jury as part of

0:28.4

his probe into hush money payments made by Trump through Cohen to stormy Daniels. It is the second

0:35.2

such meeting between the DA's office and Michael Cohen since this grand jury was convened. Cohen

0:40.4

is also the only person to have ever faced charges and connection to the payments to Daniels,

0:46.7

even though Trump was directly implicated in the case by the federal government. Back in 2018,

0:52.2

a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen, federal prosecutors said that Trump, quote, acted or Cohen,

0:58.9

sorry, quote, acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one.

1:04.4

Individual one is none other than the disgrace twice impeached ex-president himself. The meeting

1:10.0

today is also taking place at a time when discussions of Trump's criminal culpability are being

1:15.6

roiled by allegations from veteran paramedics, veteran prosecutor Mark Parmerans, who yesterday said

1:22.1

that the question of criminal culpability over hush money payments is just one of many significant

1:28.6

unanswered questions about the multiple state, local, and federal investigations into the ex-president.

1:34.8

Watch that. I am myself at a loss to understand what happened at the conclusion of the hush money

1:44.8

investigation or for that matter why there was no federal investigation of Trump's business

1:51.6

finances, his tax returns, his financial statements. When the New York Times came out with its long

2:00.5

series on Trump's taxes in October 2020, I asked the question and I said, well, gee, you know,

2:07.6

this is going to prompt a federal investigation. I don't know why it didn't.

2:12.6

So nobody else does either. But now, Michael Cohen says that the Manhattan D.A. is moving

2:19.2

full steam ahead on its criminal probe into Trump's conduct. Here's what he said this morning.

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