Welcome to the news hour. Former President Donald Trump's one-time lawyer Michael

Cohen spent his third day on the stand today in a Manhattan courthouse.

Cohen is now the key witness in the case against his former boss and he again faced hours of

scrutiny over the many lies and misstatements that he's made. William Bringham

was again in court today and joins us now so William Mr. Trump's legal team had Michael Cohen on the

stand the entire day. What were they trying to accomplish with their time with

him?

Trump's lead lawyer, Toddanche in a somewhat circuitous and occasionally zigzagging line of questions

tried to keep up the attack that they started earlier this week, which is to elicit testimony that proves their point that Michael Cohen

cannot be trusted that he is a fundamentally untruthful, dishonest, and unscrupulous

witness on this case. And Blanch went through multiple examples today in the past where

Michael Cohen was talking to Congress or talking to federal agents or testifying in

other courts of law and he raised his hand to say

I swear to tell the truth and he did not.

We heard multiple scrutinized examples of that.

Blanch also elicited some testimony about some other dubious practices of Michael

Cohen's like surreptitiously recording other people's phone calls.

Blanch also tried to poke holes in Cohen's earlier testimony where he testified

to very specific recollections of phone calls that happened six or seven or eight years

ago and he listed testimony

saying Michael Cohen you get dozens of phone calls a day thousands over the course

of the year how is it possible that you could remember the details of a phone call from seven years ago?

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