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“The clock is ticking”

Deadline: White House

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace is joined by Vaughn Hillyard, Lachlan Cartwright, Andrew Weissmann, George Conway, Charlie Sykes, Kim Atkins Stohr, Marc Elias, Paul Rieckhoff, and Marc Pitzke – also featuring a first look at Nicolle’s conversation with Whoopi Goldberg.

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0:18.4

Hi everyone. Welcome to Wednesday. It's four o'clock in New York a critical chapter in the first ever criminal trial of an American ex president is coming to a close Questions now swirl about what happens next in the Trump election interference hush money

0:24.3

criminal trial. For team Trump the clock is ticking after defense attorney Todd

0:28.4

Blanche failed to land any significant blows to Michael Cohen's credibility.

0:33.3

Something they're desperate to do after Trump's former attorney put Trump in the room where

0:37.7

it happened, squarely in the center of the scheme to both catch and kill negative

0:42.0

stories that could have hurt Trump's presidential campaign

0:44.8

had they come out before the election.

0:47.0

Cohen also told the jury that Trump himself signed off on the plan to hide the reimbursements as legal expenses.

0:54.9

The defense's, excuse me, the defense's failure to poke holes in Cohen's credibility was not

0:59.7

for lack of trying.

1:01.1

Todd Blanche started this way. These are literally the first words out of his mouth to Mr.

1:05.4

Cohen. He says, quote, Mr. Cohen, my name is Todd Blanche. You and I have never spoken or met,

1:10.9

have we? To which Cohen replied,

1:12.8

we have not. Todd Blanch.

1:14.8

But you know who I am, don't you?

1:16.6

Cohen answers, I do.

1:18.0

Blanch asked, as a matter of fact, on April 23rd,

1:21.2

so after the trial started in this case, you went on

1:24.7

Tic-Tock and called me a quote crying little brimes with hit, didn't you?

1:30.3

Cohen replies. Sounds like something I would say.

1:33.6

That earned Blanch in objection from prosecutors,

1:36.4

but he went on to then detail comments Cohen had made about Donald Trump.

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