Before he pleaded guilty, Laura Coates A lot of golden
oldies going back here.
The the Robert Mueller investigation in Russia,
Russia, Russia. Laura.
Oh, absolutely. And he also went on to say that
he was not truthful to the special counsel quote because
I was still holding on to the loyalty to President
Trump. I'm back with Paula and Kristen.
This is so significant because the way they were going
to front the issues about his guilty convictions,
his pleas was going to be so important.
Would they try to humanize them?
Would he take ownership and accountability?
How would they front? It would have been a way
that was sympathetic to the jurors to suggest,
hey, this is the end of the rope,
the end of the line.
He had been cast aside.
He was the pariah. And now he's apologizing his family
and the American public in that point I want to
go back to.
And he's also he said that he was pleading not
guilty.
After pleading guilty, he says he then gave truthful testimony
in subsequently with Mario's team.
But here's a line I want to go back to,
he said. He apologized the American public quote for lying
to them,
Paula, for acting in a way that suppressed information that
the citizenry had a right to know in order to
make a determination on the individual who seeking the highest
office in the land. That's a way of getting to
the motive as to why they tried to hide the
payment.
He has a lot to explain,
because of course they had to get out in front
of the criminal pleas for lying.
But we've learned about a lot of other lies,
too, right? The lies he told about Stormy Daniels.
The lies that he told to the FEC omissions in
terms of what he shared with his wife,
now lying to the special counsel,
eventually telling them the truth.
I think what the jury has to reconcile is if
you'll lie to Congress,
if you'll lie to the American people previously,
if you'll lie to the IRS.
Why should I believe right now that you're not lying
to me?
It's not a one off.
It's not a one or two things.
It is a pattern of being dishonest and now prosecutors
need to convince the jury how he has turned it
around while simultaneously launching unrelenting attacks on the defendant.
I think right now this is going to be the
most challenging thing for prosecutors is to bring this home
and account for all the other problems.
It's an important point. And of course it could very
well be that they're saying,
look, I'm done lying. That's why he's now gone on
the offense against Trump.
How the jury interprets it is a good question.