Jeannie, obviously you are up in New York,
where all of this has been going down for several
weeks.
So much has already been unveiled in this case so
far.
We already heard last week's salacious testimony from Stormy Daniels,
But is Michael Cohen the last piece of the puzzle
that comes together to create potentially a massive headache for
Trump and his campaign?
Yeah, this is what the prosecutors are hoping.
This is, you know, the big sort of moment in
this trial.
He's at the easy part of this at this point
because he's going to have to face,
I think, what's going to be a blistering cross examination.
And we'll have to see how he holds up under
that.
You know, Michael Cohen had a really,
really difficult time in front of the Senate,
so he had a bit time,
time to practice with this.
By all accounts, this should be a
little more tame, but it's going to be tough.
And this is the heart of the executions case.
And you know, Donald Trump's team is going to go
hard on,
on Michael Cohen. And what I think has been,
you know, noteworthy today is that Donald Trump and Michael
Cohen have both behaved themselves so far,
if you will. And that's what both of their sides
wanted them to do,
not get emotional, not have any outbursts.
And so far, both of them have done that.
I'm reading this fascinating Trump Trial Blog live blog on
The Terminal Rick,
and it is entertaining. It was certainly salacious during Stormy
Daniels testimony,
and maybe this will become the same he's describing,
hearing about the Access Hollywood tape while on vacation and
all the drama that followed.
But does any of this
actually change anyone's mind politically?
I realize it's important to the legal case that's being
made,
but this is a political program,
and if you're a Trump supporter,
you know about Michael Cohen already.
If you were a Joe Biden supporter,
you probably feel the same way,
right?
Yeah, it's hard to tell how much voters are really
paying much attention to the details of each of these.
I mean, we obsess over this,
a lot of coverage, the media,
it's extravaganza. But so far we haven't seen a lot
of movement in any of the surveys that we've seen
through the course of this.
We've now had about three or four weeks of good
sample and nothing really is moving it.
And so I think it's really what you were saying
is like how does this
determine the outcome of the trial because there is some
clear indication
that voters who have concerns about Trump say that they're
more likely not to vote for him if he's convicted
of a crime and is certainly in that case.
So that that that clearly this is the probably biggest
headline
star in the in the
in the case next to Stormy Daniels herself.
And, and I think the distinction he's already made today
was
in his testimony that this wasn't about Melania.
Trump didn't seem to care about Melania finding this stuff
out.
It was all about making sure he could get elected
and getting through the election.
And I think that's because really,
this is an election finance case.
It's got really less to do with the salacious details
of having an affair with a porn star or a
Playboy model,
and a lot more to do with hiding the money
and keeping it from
the public view, which would have become public if they'd
adhere to strict campaign finance laws.
So I think we're now starting to see
the the, the case turn to that issue more than
just the sort of salacious details of the relationship.