Tonight the combative cross examination is Donald Trump's defense team gets its chance to grill his former fixer Michael Cohen

the defense going after Michael Cohen's credibility accusing him of being motivated by revenge and

confronting him about his own social media attacks on Mr. Trump. The tense

questions coming after Cohen detailed a 2017 White House meeting where Mr Trump allegedly agreed to reimburse

him for the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, the jury seeing the checks.

Also the pressure Cohen says he felt from the former president not to flip on him.

And how Cohen says his family finally convinced him to turn on his old boss.

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the gloves came off today in the criminal trial of

Donald Trump as the defense got its chance to question former Trump lawyer and

fixer Michael Cohen. Trump attorney Todd Blanch confronting Cohen with his history of lies,

peppering him with questions designed to expose potential holes in his credibility,

painting him as a disgruntled former employee bent on revenge.

Cohen is a key witness against the former president who has testified that Mr. Trump

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