CNN’s Cooper: Trump’s Attorneys ‘Cornered’ Michael Cohen in ‘What Appeared To Be a Lie’ During Cross-Examination

EXCERPT:

COOPER: “And Michael Cohen‘s — throughout the day, Michael Cohen, when cornered, when he found himself in a corner, he does have a pattern of suddenly not understanding the question that's being asked or seemingly kind of, I mean, one could say buying time to try to figure out how he wants to answer. But he definitely suddenly starts to have Todd Blanche repeat questions, says, 'I don‘t quite understand what you mean, I‘m confused by the question.' But this time, Michael Cohen was cornered in what appeared here to be a lie, I think to many in the room, and had to adjust suddenly his memory that he had just testified to on Tuesday. Elie, I mean, you pointed out just right before the commercial break, you know, if jurors don‘t believe Michael Cohen, how significant that might be. He was — I mean, it is hard to — I wonder how prosecutors are going to redirect on this, because Todd Blanche also pointed out — got Michael Cohen to admit that he had not seen these text messages in the prep by prosecutors, so he apparently had no memory of those text messages, and the implication is that he concocted — you know, he was shown that there was a phone call to Keith Schiller at this time by prosecutors in the prep, and the implications, certainly by Todd Blanche, is that he concocted this story of what that 90-second phone call was, not realizing that there were text messages right ahead that directly related it and right after that directly related it."