Hi, this is Rachel from Northern New Jersey.

On my first day of maternity leave, solo, now that my husband has gone back to work.

This podcast was recorded at 206 PM on Wednesday, December 12th.

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Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast.

President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison

and we are here to give you the update on that.

I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter.

I'm Tamer Keat, I cover the White House.

And I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department.

So today Ryan, you're up in New York because you were there at the courthouse when Michael Cohen

was being sentenced.

What was the scene like?

What happened?

Well first of all, I got there about almost three hours before this hearing was supposed

to begin.

There was already a line that was forming in the courthouse.

The courtroom itself was packed.

You had journalists on one side and then a lot of Cohen's family was there.

You had his father, who was a Holocaust survivor, man by the name of Maurice Cohen.

He was there in a gray suit sitting in a wheelchair.

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