We pay the lawyer a legal expense and we have a legal expense is a legal

expense. It's marked down in the quote,

legal expense is perfectly marked down.

Except Michael Cohen says it's not actually so perfect the prosecution star witness in

Trump's Hushman trial he finally took the stand today.

Welcome to a special edition of Laura Coes Live alongside Abby Philip right here in New York and you know for years

Michael Cohen he was Donald Trump's attack dog but today the person who made it a

point to keep Trump's enemies in line turning against his former boss in court and of course

under oath.

Trump himself, realizing the importance of the moment, showing up with a huge entourage of

political allies, including possible VP pick

J.D. Vance for a president remaining quite restrained though of course of

Cohen's testimony but on the other end of the courtroom

the jury was listening they were taking notes and the prosecution is hoping that each one of those jurors are looking past Cohen's, it's called obvious baggage, and trying to connect the dots to see if the prosecution has built the case in the last 16 days.

That is, of course, trying Donald Trump directly to the alleged criminal scheme for those

34 false business records.

So ultimately, how did they use Michael Cohen to do that?

Well, they had him speak to Trump's political motivations

to silence Stormy Daniels, his approval of the scheme,

and this is key, his final sign off of Cohen's

reimbursement. So Cohen testified that once Trump learned Stormed

Daniel's was shopping her story, he didn't care how it would impact his wife. His only

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