can put biden, and you could put comey on, you ca putt, you know, anyone else's name, including michael cohen'sve attacks that are made by donald trump. what does that tell you, michael, about the nature of the donald trump defense over and over again over the years? >> he is the victim all the time. he is always using somebody else as the reason why he is in these troubles. always the victim. always somebody else's fault. i it's side when i was testifying before the house oversight committee, i don't want people to lose truck. that was only one hearing out of seven that i gave testimony to. that donald's always plays the victim, it's always somebody else's fault. he is never to blame for anything. and, fact none of us have seen, over the four year period, when he was president, taking accountability for anything. this playbook is easy to understand. if you look at donald's history, plain and simple. >> riddle me this, make it make sense. how does somebody who is just the victim all the time, like donald trump, yet, simultaneously, wants to claim that he's such a brilliant and seasoned accompli

meet michael cohen crumbled. i schooled him and he's a liar. this is what donald trump tells them to do. >> look, i was going to ask you about this because you've been around for so many of these, meetings and obviously as laetitia james this would not would have -- a lot of people are speculating out there, does donald trump know his fraudulent business practices are legal? he sort of acknowledged a lot of knowledge today, or do you think he actually believes that he some how brings this business in an acceptable way? what does he think? >> i think he knows exactly what he was doing, he does not think about consequences. when you think about the todd, was he thinking legal, not legal, yes he knows what is right or, wrong he just does not care. that is the big difference. what donald always does is he uses the same play. that's why when i was testifying before the house oversight committee, it was so eagle -- they were never be a police peaceful transfer of. power it's also easy for me to understand how they were going to attempt to attack me w

. >> former trump attorney michael cohen on ivanka trump's day on the witness stand, and a day after her censure in the house, my exclusive interview with congresswoman rashida tlaib, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. we now have a result from election night 2023. last night across the country, voters cast their ballots, declaring what they actually think about matters -- as opposed to what they might tell pollsters. there was another test case from president joe biden and the democratic party, and it was, well, a huge resounding success for democrats, really hard to characterize it any other way. now, last night's results, have become something of a pattern and the biden era. that is not always the case. remember, in 2021, that was the first, weird, off-year election after biden was inaugurated in 20 20 to 1. that night, democrats had a rough night. there were two big marquee races that year, one in virginia, or that man, republican glenn youngkin won the race for governor. and then there was a recent jersey, where the incumbent democrat phil

i don't understand what is happening here. >> michael cohen, good to see you, sir. thank you so much for being with us. >> good to see you, jake. >>> coming up next, cnn deeper inside of gaza, bullets flying and buildings leveled. we'll show you the footage just in from our crew. >>> the focus of the fighting in gaza has become hospitals in and around them, which israel insists hamas is using to shield its fighters. a u.s. official with knowledge of the american intelligence tells me that hamas specifically has a command node under the al shifa hospital that hamas used fuel intended for that hospital, and that members of hamas regularly cluster in and around that hospital. and yet, of course, hundreds of patients remain at that hospital and others in gaza. trapped by the fighting. nic robertson is embedded with the israeli defense forces and cnn reported under idf escort at all times, cnn did not submit the script and has remained over the final record. where were you today and what did you see? >> reporter: wie went to a hospital, a children's hospital five miles i

you mention michael cohen, it was the first time that they had seen each other face to face since michael's legal trials. there is fish main, who doesn't really dislikes. and there is the judge, arthur engoron, who seems to be taking no -- from trump and as attorney. something is bothering donald trump. he stormed out of the courtroom the other day. what is it that is getting under his skin about this case specifically? >> it's as he said at the beginning of the segment, ali, this goes to his origin story, to the story of his wealth. he has railed on social media, on his platform truth social about his assets were wildly inflated to the tunes of billions over two years. his network was even higher, he claims, but evidence is kept brought the court undermining the assertions. you see the evaluations brought into evidence, every single property is coming under a microscope, and his former accountants are taking the stand, former executives are taking the stand. every member of his family is taking the stand. that is what makes this case extremely frustrating to trump. as he pointed out, ali

they were sort of laundered through michael cohen's shell company and then written off as legal fees,he indictment so that michael cohen would get extra money because he would have to pay taxes on this money that was really income. so there's a scheme to commit tax fraud, a scheme to commit state and federal election fraud, and it was all facilitated by these false entries according to the prosecution's theory of the case, and to your perry mason point, lawrence, you're absolutely right. or donald trump is asking for is an evidentiary hearing that previews the evidence, the fact of her a jury to decide, and so this case are gonna have to keep their fingers crossed. >> we have a protective order entered into the record in georgia as you suggested would have to happen after those videos were leaked. >> yeah. no surprise. the only surprise here is that this protective order wasn't entered earlier. the horse has already left the barn and other closing the barn door. but better that the barn door get closed now before anything else leaks out because of two threats. one the judge mentioned

joining me now is michael cohen. the former personal attorney for donald trump. he is the principal of the crisis management firm, crisis x, and the new york times off of the, new york times bestselling author of the book revenge, had donald trump weaponized the department of justice against his critics and disloyal, 8 am. are we also hosts the podcasts, mea culpa, with and -- the political beat down. it's good to see. you want to talk to you because you have testified. you have really been the main witness in this trial. how are you doing? >> i'm hanging in there. as judge engoron said, he's received hundreds of voicemails and threats and, you know, letters. emails and so on. that's just a small amount of the hate that i have received from maga supporters of donald trump over the course of the past couple of weeks. first, when i was initially supposed to testify, and then, of course, when they ultimately did testify. i would like to see that gag order include witnesses in here. witnesses should be protected to the same extent that law clerks and staff and the ju

but when it comes to substance, michael cohen did not really have that much to add.ut in the new york criminal case based on the alleged chaos to stormy daniels. he has plenty of substance there. in this case, you pointed it out, he did not actually directly receive orders in a way that would have really harmed the trump defense. far more devastating for the trump defense here is the lesser known testimony of an expert, for example, on wednesday, who testified that the trump defendant, i think somewhere on the range of 160 million as a result of their false statements. >> what about the testimony suzanne craig and i talked about this yesterday of the banquet as well, talking about the damages from there? is that something that's also going to be incredibly important in this case that we have not necessarily talked about? >> yes, and i would argue in a way, it is more important than, say, eric trump and don trump jr. because the a.g. knows what they're going to get from those witnesses. they're gonna be constant. they're not looking to help. there is nobody on the a.g

if you have met michael cohen you would've said michael cohen and you have already said that it was then sitting next to me who is my clerk. so, i don't think it is going to work, certainly not in terms of the gag order, in the courtroom, it may in the public sphere where he is really targeting his defense. >> let's talk, david, just about the scope of what we are talking about here. an expert witness for the state, and experienced investment banker, says trump's misrepresentations cost banks 100 and $68 million. how crucial is that point to the a.g.'s case? ? >> it's quite crucial, one of the big questions that hangs over this case is who are the victims? trump gave, allegedly, gave false information or misleading information to banks, the bank stand loaned him money, probably at a better rate. they gave him a better deal on the loan than they would have. and so they made, the important thing here, the banks got paid back, these banks are made money, they made millions of dollars of these loans, it is not like trump lied about the loans and then defaulted on the loans he got because of

, somebody who he has every interest in demolishing the reputation of because michael cohen was his right hand for so long. you see allen weisselberg, there's a lot of attention paid to the chief financial officer of the trump organization who served time at reicher's jail just last year for six months, who walked away with a $2 million severance back just in april here. there is jeffrey mchugh, another one of the defendants here, keeping loyalists close to him, and not flipping on him. that translates to the politics, come moore when we hear the election interference case. loyalists to donald trump, folks who have turned and also those who remain close to donald trump, being able to stare and look at these individuals in the eye is not only a real estate tycoon overlooking his current and future business operation but on the political front, a president of the united states, a potential future president of the united states, overlooking those who he could seek to do business with, not only through the trump organization but extensions of it were he to get back into washington,

being said michael cohen doesn't say these three young -- they are not young -- donald trump's kids hadheir hands on this as intimately as he did, but nonetheless it's very difficult to say -- and it's more difficult when you have a judge as opposed to a jury who is going to see through some of it. >> i want to put up on the screen so we can both see this a social media post that donald trump made last night. i can't read that. it says -- it says this rigged trial brought by the racist new york state ag let is that age and trump hating judge should not have been brought -- it's not even english, coherent here, but he says a lot of mean things about a lot of people, including the attorney general, the judge, michael cohen who is a witness here and then he goes on to talk about other aspects of this trial. how close to the line or how far over the line does thgt for trump? >> i think it got over the line so many times that it's gone so far well beyond. it's appalling, it's putrid, ugly, disgusting. you can fight your fight and you should fight your fight, whether it's a criminal or civil

this is michael cohen. he testified that no, donald trump never said to me, i need you to falsify these, but ko hen said he made it known that this was the mo, this was the goal, make him look as wealthily yi as possible. use that to our advantage. >> don jr. on the stand yesterday. eric trump maybe today. ivanka trump is appealing. >> the three trump children were named as defendants, along with donald trump himself. ivanka has been dismissed out of the case because the claims are too old. the allegation is that they were executive vice presidents and in on this. don jr. has been on the stand. he took the stand late yesterday. he will resume his testimony in a few hours. what i found important is he did not try to say these numbers were accurate. instead he tried to distance himself. he was asked did you put together these financial statements. he said yesterday, i did not. the accountants worked on it. that's what we pay them for. there's also a question of will ivanka have to testify. she's appealing tha

i actually texted with michael cohen. he said there are about 20 executives, but at the end, donald trump makes all the decisions. i just want to add one other thing big picture when we're talking about strategy, the legal strategy, the political strategy. donald trump not only has this case, he has four criminal cases he is facing elsewhere. but he has his eye on one thing, and that's next november and winning and being the next president, even though there are state cases where he cannot theoretically pardon himself. we have seen him over and over try to discredit the justice department, the rule of law, the judicial system. so at the end of the day, is this painful for him? absolutely. does he want to pay $250 million? absolutely not. does he want his business in new york dismantled? of course not. but the big prize is next november in his mind. >> it's all about power. and, you know, there's more power in the presidency than even there is being a real estate mogul in new york. but, again, i keep coming back to the tho

i was there for michael cohen's testimony and i was there with someone who -- it's interesting that todd blanche who leads the federal criminal cases have been in the courtroom for these cases. and it's also interesting that is political team showed up today. there was some truth social post that were sent out today, and i would assume that its people from his campaign. >> you, topics national counsel jack smith has waited on trump's bid to dismiss the federal election interference case. and i want to share a little bit of what they wrote. quote, the defendant stands alone in american history for his alleged crimes. no other president has engaged in conspiracy and obstruction to overturn valid election results and illegitimately retain power. this is an stunning accusation about a former president, right? if anybody says, oh gosh, who cares about the hush money case. or, even this fraud case in new york, who cares about big the apartment was, who really lost money in the value of real estate -- this right here is a whole other ball of wax. >> i mean, i would add, he's also been found to

to bring in a witness who testified recently in this fraud trial, that's former trump attorney michael cohenhe is the host of mea culpa and political beat down, the podcasts. he's also author of the book revenge, how donald trump weaponize the u.s. department of justice against his critics. so michael, what do you think about all of these little omissions that trump made while he was in court today testifying about his finances? >> yeah, it's really fantastic that alina halle came running down the stairs for her few minutes of news time to tell everybody that, of, course donald was brilliant, that the best witness out there, and that they schooled me. why they brought me back into the conversation today, i'm not 100% sure. but they decided to say that she schooled me. what they should be doing is not schooling me, they should be schooling donald in terms of how to respond and how to act appropriately in a court of law. that's what they really should be schooling about. >> to that very point, you said just this morning, that you expected this to turn into a circus. and you are right in a cert

michael cohen you are not above the law and letitia james you are not above the law.and the world is not being fooled. >> todd: one thing not being talked about enough when you listen to people on the other networks your team and the president looks to me like they're baiting both the a.g. and this judge to say really stupid, stupid things that on appeal, if you end up losing, are going to get this case reversed. is that the strategy? >> i can't answer that question. i will say i don't think you have to bait these people. i just don't think they're making intellectually wise decisions. and there's a record. and the record already speaks for itself. >> carley: really quickly before we move on because i want to talk to you about something else. what's going to happen in court today and when does this all wrap up? >> today today is a really important day. we are going to move for a directed verdict saying that they have rested yesterday. you didn't prove the elements of the cases. certain -- this case should be dismissed. it should never have been brought. now, would thi

let's bring in michael cohen, trump's former personal lawyer. he's the host of the mea culpa and political beatdown podcast and the author of revenge. good to see you, michael. i want to get you to respond to that. don jr. claiming he had no involvement whatsoever in the statements of financial condition and just relied on the accountants. eric trump being a little more squirrely on that. your thoughts. >> so, one of the things that don jr. stated, i read in the paper, is that he was really just a broker. now, i'm not even really sure what that means. yeah, he may have his brokerage license here in new york, but that's not what his job entailed. then you have eric trump's earlier testimony where he stated, get a load of this one, joy, that he poured concrete. now, i can tell you emphatically that eric trump has never poured concrete in his life. he probably couldn't even figure out how to make quick set using just the quick set and water in a bucket. i mean, it is so fundamentally flawed that it's comical. i mean, and i could understand lisa reub

. >> joining us now is trump's former lawyer, michael cohen. he recently testified against trump in the civil fraud trial, the first time in five years they were actually face to face. he's the author of the book revenge and the host of the podcast, mia cullpa. thanks for joining us. i want to start with what we heard from antony scaramucci last hour. we played it at the start of the show. he prevented that trump would be calm, cool, collected stay within the normal bounds of things on the witness stand. what do you think? you spent more time with him over a lengthy period of time than anything. >> i don't think the same way as anthony does. at the beginning, he's going to try. he's going to try very hard to stay within the lane, because he already knows that he's -- he and the judge don't clearly see eye-to-eye, so he'll try to stay in the lane, but as the prosecutors continue to drill down on him with information and with allegations that he overinflated his net worth by billions, that's goingt to irritate him. because his net worth, his stat

michael cohen was on with me last hour, and he made the point that donald trump's brand value, alina lawyer was claiming that it's many times what some people think. but cohn was making the point that when you take trump's name off of the properties, the other things to which he attached the trump name, ice, underwear, steaks, touch, up all those kinds of stuff, none of it worked. the university of failed. everything that how trump name that wasn't a property filled and hence the brand value is not like coca-cola. it is actually just not with that much enhanced trump is worse less than he claims to be. >> right, in a lot of the things that his name on it did fail. but i think there was a time when the trump name and a building would command a premium especially among foreign buyers. i think we definitely went through a period of that. it's really interesting that when i heard alina -- say that, because she is really harking back to a time when potentially that brand was worth more i would argue now that the trump brand has been incredibly damaged by what we have been through in the l

michael cohen folded, lied and crumbled. your star witness, along with all the d.a.s and corrupt a.g.s need to pay attention to what happens when you let us take the stand. when you let my client speak the truth and the judge can tell me to sit down and he can try and shorten my client's testimony but it is loud and clear they've got nothing, they've got nothing but their politics. she's got nothing but her soros backing, we discovered recently, and i am sick and tired of seeing it. pay attention, america. pay attention. because when you are in court one of these days and you don't have a lawyer that has a microphone and you don't have a lawyer that can go on tv and you've got judges gagging them, what are you going to do? we need to fix this country and stop what is happening in this courtroom. president trump is worth a lot more and before she rushed to judgment she should have thought about attacking somebody with over 50 years of real estate expertise who changed single handedly the skyline of new york city. she picked t

and trump's former fixer, michael cohen, testified against him in the fraud trial in new york today.ight now, half of trump's lawyers are trying to keep him out of prison and the other half are trying to keep themselves out of prison. [ laughter ] for many years, michael cohen was possibly trump's closest confidant. but like all his closest confidants, not anymore. >> jimmy: yes, right. he's right. he is a liar. he lied for you. [ laughter ] he was your lawyer who mortgaged his own house to pay off the porn star you asked to spank your fat pink ass with a "forbes" magazine. [ cheers and applause ] the details are important. fraudney dangerfield also took a break from witness tampering to post a review of mitt romney's new book that came out today. "mitt romney, a total loser that only a mother could love, just wrote a book which is, much like him, boring, horrible, and totally predictable." if i was mitt romney, i would put that on the book jacket. [ laughter ] i would make it the blurb. i love it when he criticizes a book he definitely didn't read. [ laughter ] today, the mildly ant

that's donald trump's take on the testimony of michael cohen. a big day.ormer president takes the stand in new york city. we'll have more on that for you later. let's go back right away to our correspondent on the ground in southern israel, mike tobin. thanks for standing by there. we know you have a lot going on. we come back to you. hi, mike. >> martha, i was telling you the air strikes intensified overnight. the ground offensive has intensified with gaza city itself being surrounded. we're nearly a month since a massacre of october 7th. and israeli man, a muslim that lost his wife to hamas gunmen shares his experience. >> on october 7, my wife was driving me to work. >> hamas attackers did not car that his wife was wearing a hijab. a muslim woman driving her husband to work. gunmen on motorcycles opened fire. murdered in cold blood. >> i tried to defend my wife after the first attacker started shooting. but god had other plans. her body had been sppierced by bullets. i look at her head. i knew she was going to die in a matter of seconds. >> the rampage

i think that they are going to start quickly going into the actual facts of the case here, and michael cohen, if you credit his testimony, don't forget, he specifically said we knew what trump wanted. trump would say, oh, this came back at $1 billion, no i am worth $4 billion and go become to make the numbers fit that. if you credit michael cohen, it is hard for him to walk away from these numbers. >> there are some interesting things to play out. and we will read this together, because one of the colleagues has some details of the first questions coming at donald trump. the first question that the state asked donald trump on the stand is to confirm that he was, he was the director, president and chairman of the organization from 1981 to 2017 leading to a series of questions working to establish how the trust at the crux of the trial was set up. he was also asked why he appointed alan weisselberg as trustee of the trust. well, he was somebody who had been with the company for a long time, and i had trust with. and he was very good with who he had trusted. and so, did you trust him in ye, did

-- of new york, who had the michael cohen case.initially looked at this and decided not to go forward with a criminal case. then the manhattan district attorney's office moved heaven and either to the point of going up to the supreme court not once, but twice to get trump's financial records. and when they finally obtained them, it turned out that it wasn't the motor lode -- motor lode that they were expecting. but, the ish james, who is the state the attorney general who brought this case, liz,she has access to in the civil context this monstrous statute that you just described where they can accuse you of a persistent pattern of fraud notwithstanding that there are no fraud victims, and they don't have to prove intent to desteve. elizabeth: that's -- deceive. that's really something. i mean, we get it. we've been following and reading as much as we can about the case. i mean, prosecutors are asking why the value of trump's ab aberdeen property, for example, increased by the i think the report sate 245 million but in 2014-20 the a

i would add one other thing, you had michael cohen testify last week.e going to have the trump sons testify this week, maybe a trump daughter, but they may be the splashiest witnesses, but the most substantive witnesses are experts like we're hearing from today. people are getting into the nitty-gritty of valuation. the trump kids, i don't think they're going to testify in a bombshell manner. we're not going to hear anything we don't already know, and they're mostly going to be hostile witnesses against the attorney general. so don't be surprised if they may make a lot of headlines, but quietly the work is being done by experts that we're hearing from today or giving the hard numbers on valuation. hard numbers you're not going to get from michael cohen or the trump kids. >> all right, ken, let's move south. what do we know about what's happening in florida? >> so a couple of things to tell you about, chris. judge aileen cannon, that trump-appointed judge who's presiding over the case down there issued a ruling today favorable to donald trump and kind of

i'm michael cohen as victoria. i work at the correspondence zachary taylor and millard fillmore here american university and zachary taylor and. millard fillmore are probably not the first presidents people would think of or historical figures people would think of when they look at connections between the past and the present. they are not often in the news but a blog that we've been doing on our project. we actually have been dealing a lot with some parallel lives and contrasts between the 1840s and 1850s and today. so i'm going talk a little about that. before i do that though, i want to point that wasn't really intentional. we we ran a blog at the project, as i said, but every two months we publish an article and the original idea was quite different from what it became. it emerged from sort of two similar ideas. one is the principle of the center where we're based. it's the center congressional and presidential studies here at asu. and that center is committed to drawing connections between scholarly research

michael cohen in prison. may see himself as the first political prisoner.kable things that never has got erin the attention probably it deserved in the trump era, which is that when michael cohen refused to sign a document that he wouldn't put out a book about trump he was basically thrown back behind bars by the justice department and put back behind -- incarcerated for not going along with committing to not speaking out against trump. so if you look at trump's enemies list and you look at what trump has said, most of them were investigated. they tried to prosecute mccabe. they -- you know, they took all of these other investigative things that allowed them to look into the lives of these individuals. and you know, at the end of the day it's hard to overcome that perception and say okay, i guess the justice department was just following the facts when the person who was in charge of the justice department, who wanted to order the justice department to do this stuff, was donald trump. and then on top of this, on top of all these people being investigated we

peter binard, author of the binart notebook on substack, and michael a. cohenw at the center for strategic stuies at tufts university. thank you for being here. michael, i want to start with you first. i found your piece very interesting and i want to read a little bit of it today. you talk about in your view, those who are calling for a cease-fire being incorrect in what they're looking for. you write in 1864, as general william tukumsa led siege to atlanta, he penned a letter to the residents of the city that he would soon burn to the grund. you cannot qualify war in harsher terms than i will. war is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. those ring particularly true today. i'm going to leave it there, come back and read another part later. explain to me why you believe that the calls for a cease-fire are incorrect. >> israel, like any other country in the world, cannot have a government government responsible for the atrocities of october 7th. even today there are still hamas, hamas is firing rockets into israel. two people were injured in tel aviv. a cease-fire

and michael cohen being a lawyer said it was a premeditated plan year after year. on top of that, you have also got don jr. who was certified all of the statement. he was basically following what has become a standard practice in law now for the cfo to enshen sh shally and he says seven strings, and what do you do after that. you have my dad's apartment, and it is 30,000 square feet, but it is only 11,000 square. the judge will see through it. >> now, with respect to the other butler involvedp and then that person received $2 million from the trump organization when he left. if you are looking at the $2 million that is what the fine was, and his taxes were and the interest was in terms of his penalty for the criminal case. i mean, that, the government is going to argue was hush money. it is to keep him quiet. this is no different than what nixon did with the burglars back then, and the hush money was $1 million and now it is $2 million and in 50 years, you expect some inflation. >> this is the son, and the defense that you are seeing develop with the sons' testimon

his former attorney turned foe michael cohen among those who testified that the former president hadle loan terms and tax benefits. last week his two aduu benefits. last week his two adult sons and co—defendants eric and donald jr testified who took over management of the trump organization after he became us president in they deny wrongdoing and say they relied on others to verify the documents. trouble is expected to say the same. the documents. trouble is expected to say the same.— to say the same. the assets are much more _ to say the same. the assets are much more valuable _ to say the same. the assets are much more valuable as - to say the same. the assets are| much more valuable as opposed to less valuable than are in the statements. they can't be fraud when you've told institutions to do the their own work. these cases —— like the case is a fraud and scan. he accuses letitia james and the judge either he accuses letitia james and thejudge either anger he accuses letitia james and the judge either anger and, both democrats, being part of a broader political witch—hunt. james w

them tore carefully prepared, and trump's lawyers, we saw how they went off michael cohen and jean carrolltrump's lawyers will be no holds bard. >> there's no question if they could pay for the legal fees for the witnesses, too, which could create a conflict and even raise questions in the eyes of the j jury. >> on that point, several of these witnesses still work from mar-a-lago and get legal support. >> some of the people are receiving help with lawyers. that's something we know the prosecutors had actually been watching very diligently. it came up in one of the indictments, he called someone who game his codefendant to offer a lawyer. that person still has a lawyer that was being paid for through trump circles. one of the interesting things about this is how productive we learned how trump was, when he heard this maid, who cleans his bedroom suite, had been one of the people investigators were speaking to, he went ballistic. that's what one source told us. there was another person in this group of workers, an i.t. worker who did get a cooperation deal with attorneys, left the trump lega

>> well, that is to the michael cohen testimony, and he was a long term employee, and he never said, looked me the eye to say this, and this is the intent to me, and i need to be worth more. would you like to pin something directly on donald trump if you are the a.g.'s office, sure. but you don't have to here, because there are various defendant, and donald trump is a defendant in his own capacity, and so, too, is the trump organization, and the various llcs and the trump has ruled on one of the causes before the trial started, and the a.g.'s office has persistent fraud, and this is in the back pocket, and now they are fighting over the other counts and the damages amount. >> and we will get the update as things are moving along, and faced first few questions, and we will report what those first few questions are. elie honig, thank you. >> and reported this morning a secret agent on detail for president biden's granddaughter naomi has fired their guns against a crime in a neighborhood, and what are you learning? >> this is appearing to be a break-in, and there is no threat to protect

his former attorney turned foe, michael cohen, among those who testified that the former president hadle loan terms and tax benefits. and last week, his two adult sons and co—defendants, eric and donald junior, testified. they took over the management of the trump organisation after he became us president in 2017. they deny any wrongdoing and say that they relied on others to verify the documents. trump is expected to say the same. the assets are much more valuable, as opposed to less valuable that are in the statements. it can't be fraud when you've told institutions to do their own work. this case is a fraud and it's a scam. he's repeatedly accused the new york attorney general, letitia james, and thejudge arthur engoron, both democrats, of being part of a broader political witch hunt. james, who trump has called venomous and racist, sued the former president under a new york law that gives her office the power to investigate and prosecute corporate fraud. trump is the frontrunner in the republican race for the 2024 presidential elections. it's a scam, its political interference. it'

. >> trump and his lawyers claim trump was speaking about trump's former attorney, michael cohen, andbout the clerk. the judge had previously fined him $5,000 for a social media post attacking the clerk. on friday, judge engoron expanded a gag order against trump and, back in 2022, he finds trump $110,000 for being in contempt of court, writing that trump, quote, willfully disobeyed in order to provide documents by a certain time. >> how contentious is this between the judge and the defendant compared to other cases? >> it is much more contentious than other cases because, usually, a client would be working with the lawyers to not irritate the judge. >> but if donald trump is an outlier as a defendant, so too is arthur engoron is a jurist. as a college student at columbia he drove a taxi. quote, i love the freedom, the instant cash, getting to meet people, learning how to drive like a maniac without being caught, even sit in court according to the new york post. after some time as a musician he went to nyu law school, then, he writes, his career path has been, quote, a park avenue lit

michael cohen and everybody said we had nothing to do with the financial condition because she gets toit in the courtroom in front of the cameras and make a political name for herself. everybody knew she must be stated, less than 2% drop out of the race. she's got major political aspirations and her going after my father, marching his kittens the courthouse is her way of doing it and she fundraisers on it the entire time. >> in 2020 all of it was crazy, third presidential campaign, do you believe, i know you want to do you believe your dad is in a better position now than the other two times at this time despite everything described to get to the white house? >> yes, no question and i hear it everyday from people on planes and everything, biden is a monumental failure, the democratic policies are working, we are going into world war iii, inflation is a disaster, economy is a disaster, everything is more expensive, on a break of recession, we are going to go into a recession, people's homes are paying eight, nine, 10% on home mortgages causing them four times as much to pay the mortgage

he attacked michael cohen who was a witness in this case and using all kinds of colorful language, andon't mean to make light of it there. so what do you think the judge -- how do you think the judge will react to this? >> i've got to tell you, john, it's a fantastic way to win the judge over. since he's the one deciding this since there's no jury, obviously, i'm being sarcastic. it's obviously a bad strategy given that the judge is deciding the fate of donald trump's businesses. so i think at the end of the day, regardless of the judge's reaction, it's going to be a problem for donald trump, but i imagine the judge will keep ratcheting up the fine. we saw 5,000, $10,000 fines and obviously that may be pocket change to donald trump. i think the judge will continue to ratchet up the punishment until trump understands that ultimately this is not going to be productive for him. ? trump obviously doesn't care. trump knows this could get him fined again. at what point does it have against him? he's been found liable in this case, what more bad can happen to him and would this translate, do

. >> host: michael cohen you say this president is the reason the american dream is coming back. know how much you pay attention to poll or believe in polls, but this is a headline from a front-page story today in the "new york times." even biden voters are gloomy about the economy, despite the data. taking a look at biden 2020 supporters in swing states. the number of those who say that the economy is excellent or good, if they make up $50,000, only 30% say the economy is excellent orco good. these are biden voters. if they make over $100,000, biden voters, only 42% say they con is excellent or good. 57% say it is for only fair and it breaks on down the line. can't people just 11% of biden voters saying the economy is excellent or good. 62% of biden voters, 65 and older saying the economy is good. if the polls are correct what art even biden voters seen it? >> caller: the polls are not correct. i don't go by polls. i go by people that are talked to, people that it taught you everyday. i don't listen to polls. i listen people. these bowls they can run the polls all they want but

williams: trump's former personal lawyer, michael cohen, will give public testimony before the house'll be televised live. jamie raskin: in his opening statement, which we got last night, he said the president was a racist, a con-man and a cheat. and my reaction was, tell us something we don't know. (laughing) so, you know, i'm basically looking at him like a renegade refugee from a organized crime family and he's gonna tell us sort of the internal dynamics of the trump operation. (people chattering) jamie raskin: the big story in my mind is that we have a president who has turned the government of the united states of america into a money-making operation for himself, for his family, for his business, and for his friends. and so, we wanna try to get the best, most fine-grained portrait we can of what's taking place within the trump operation. and then we've got to start to ask the question about whether this is a president who is an actual threat to the character of our republic. oh my god, look at all those people! woman: they all want to get a seat. (people chattering) (cameras sn

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michael cohen admitted last week never told him to inflate value on financial statements, therefore thisuld be dismissed. leave my children alone. you are a disgrace to the legal profession. things will get underway later today in lower manhattan. >> carley: certainly are and things getting underway in the house, the israel only aid package, there will be a vote coming down. >> cheryl: this is first test for newly minted house speaker mike johnson. first major test today. house will vote on israel-only aid package, not the $105 million funding request from the white house. proposing money going to israel, paid for by cutting the package to the irs. the package does not include money for ukraine. here is speaker johnson. >> appropriations bills, we will marry with border security. it is a top priority. we can't take care of other countries and conflicts if we can't seal our own border. >> cheryl: representative chip roy says it is in agreement with support for israel. >> we are standing shoulder to shoulder with israel and ready to send over sole legislation that is paid for. i think our

. >> trump and his lawyers claim trump was speaking about trump's former attorney michael cohen, and about the clerk. the judge had previously fined him $5,000 for a social media post attacking the clerk. on friday, the judge expanded a gag order against trump. back in 2022 he find trump $110,000 for being in contempt of court, writing that trump, quote, willfully disobeyed that order to provide documents by a certain time. >> how contentious is this between the judge and defendant compared to other cases? >> it is much more contentious than other cases, because usually a client would be working with the lawyers to not irritate the judge. >> but if donald trump is an outlier as a defendant, so too is arthur engoron as a jurist. i think college student at columbia, he drove a taxi, quote, i love the freedom, the instant, cash getting to meet, people learning how to drive like a maniac without being caught, he wants that in court according to the new york post. after some time as a musician, he went to nyu law school. then he writes, his career path has been, quote, a part of you litig

. >> reporter: trump and his lawyers claim trump was speaking about trump's former attorney michael cohen and not about the clerk. the judge had previously fined him $5,000 for a social media post attacking the clerk. on friday, the judge expanded a gag order against trump and back in 2022 he fined trump $110,000 for being in contempt of court, writing that trump, quote, willfully disobeyed an order to provide documents by a certain time. >> how contentious is this between the judge and the defendant compared to other cases? >> it's much more contentious than other cases because usually a client would be working with the lawyers to not irritate the judge. >> reporter: but if donald trump's an outlier as a defendant, so too is the judge as a jurist. as a college student at columbia, he drove a taxi. quote, i love the freedom, the instant cash, getting to meet people, learning how to drive like a maniac without being caught, he once said in court, according to the "new york post." after some time as a musician, he went to nyu law school. then, he writes, his career path has been, quote, a p

in fact, he appears to be saying exactly what michael cohen said to me after he testified in this trial. >> trump speaks like a mob boss. what he does is he says, you know, i'm actually not worth $5 billion, i'm worth six. why don't you guys go and figure it out. >> and you knew what that meant. what he said was, hey, michael, my net worth is 6 billion, go figure it out. >> he directed us in order to do it. the only way, of course, to do it is to increase the value of the assets in that statement of financial condition. >> amazing. trump seems to be saying all that is what happened. the big question tonight, of course, is what did trump do in that courtroom today? what did he accomplish and for whom? i mean, keep in mind, trump is not new to a witness stand stand. trump testified in court at least eight trials since 1986, and even in this courtroom, of course, trump has spent a lot of time in there. this was his eighth day attending this trial so far. so he's watched the judge, he's watched the prosecutors. god knows he watched the clerk. it is not clear whether his statements hurt him

i think one of the things that will come back, i want to harken back to michael cohen's testimony.ere he was questioned and it became evident he'd given testimony in front of congress, so there was some debate about was there a contradiction there, and he said i wasn't explicitly ordered by donald trump to, you know, puff up the numbers on the financial statement. it was implicit. and at that point in the courtroom, you know, it was like an a ha moment for donald trump and his lawyer. they put their hands up like, you know, wow, the case is over. >> they filed for summary judgment. >> he called it a perry mason moment outside the court, and they asked that the case be thrown out, at which point the judge said there's an entire courtroom of evidence here and we're going to move along. that was kind of their moment and i think we're going to hear some of there's no evidence that he explicitly told anybody. he doesn't email. there's not been any feeling -- michael cohen's testimony is really just a building block in all of this. i wouldn't want to put outsized emphasis on it because t

he said that james only shows up for high profile witnesses for like members of his family and michael cohen she uses these public appearances for political gain. the continued attacks on his father are embarrassing our country on the world stage. >> they're trying to disqualify my father for 2024. he's leading in all the polls. it's sad that this is the united states of america. right now make no mistake about it, maybe through your very lenses, the entire world is watching this and they're laughing about what's going on. >> former president trump posted on truth social, very simply "election interference." ivanka trump is no longer a defendant but will be a witness. a state court denied her request to avoid taking the stand. ivanka is set to testify wednesday. she will be the final witness before the state rests. >> martha: thanks, nate. on top of that story downtown at the courthouse. dr. ophir falk is the foreign minister for prime minister. he joins us live from tel aviv. we'll also take a look at hamas history with terror. jennifer griffin is next. teran , homeowner, and the family boo

michael cohen drop dressing up as superman.paign strategy is don't trip and lock him up. and democrat judges are all in. jamaican born obama donor who calls herself a judge is slapping trump with a gag order because biden's prosecutor doesn't like being called deranged. you think donald trump is going to respect a gag order? he doesn't see a gag order as a threat, he sees it as a challenge. and the judge is this close to throwing trump in jail for talking. you can go to jail now for talking if you're running against joe biden. every time trump is arrested or mug shot, he raises millions an his poll numbers shoot up. democrats are realizing he is more dangerous from jail. and now, eric holder is telling democrats just like biden told iran, don't, don't, don't, don' lock him up. eric holder is begging democrat to restrain themselves from doing the one thing they wanted to do more than anything and i mean anything for the last couple of years. >> i think there are a number o things you can put monetary fines on him as the judge di