Former Donald Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to testify in the ex-president's New York hush money trial Monday.
In a Sunday morning CNN interview, former prosecutor Joey Jackson predicted that the best case scenario for Cohen — who's likely the final key witness — is that he'll able to establish the alleged conspiracy that Trump falsified business documents to cover up hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to boost his chance in the 2016 election; and that he's able "to establish Trump's guilt."
In order to do that, former FBI counsel and MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC host Jen Psaki that Cohen will have to "contain his cool" on the stand.
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"He needs to not be thin-skinned," Weissmann continued. "He does have some areas he really does have to worry about in terms of answering questions. You mentioned one, which is, his having lied — he says he lied to a federal judge when he pleaded guilty [in 2016] and he has to own that. And that, by the way is not something he did because of Donald Trump.
"That was something he chose to do. He's also going to have to answer why he tape-recorded some conversations, but not other conversations. That's an effective line of cross-examination," he added.
"And he just needs to be, frankly, like Stormy Daniels, which is smart, careful, and unflappable. She got better on cross-examination. She was humanized, and you saw just how effective she was. But she was unflappable, and that's not a characteristic people usually associate with Michael Cohen."
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