CHRISTIAN. LET'S BEGIN WITH ANDREA MITCHELL. BRING US INSIDE THE COURTROOM. YOU SAW THE FINAL ARGUMENTS OF THIS CASE, THE FINAL WITNESS, I SHOULD SAY. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO HAVE HER CROSS-EXAMINE HIM? WHAT WAS THE JURY DOING DURING THIS? >> IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY TO BE IN THIS COURTROOM TO WATCH DONALD TRUMP WALK IN AND HIS ENTOURAGE WITH HIM. THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS WITH HIM, MEMBERS OF CONGRESSMAN, HIS WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN, THE HEALTHY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT, WITH NO MEDICAL INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM, ALL OF THAT WALKING IN. THEN SUSAN JUST FILLETED ROBERT COSTELLO. YOU HAD TO ASK YOURSELF, WHY DID THEY PUT ON ROBERT COSTELLO AS A DEFENSE WITNESS? YOU KNOW IT WAS TO SAY THAT SUPPOSEDLY MICHAEL COHEN SAID TO HIM THAT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THAT WAS WHEN MICHAEL WAS STILL VERY MUCH IN THE CORNER OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS VERY CLEAR FROM ALL OF THESE EMAILS THAT SUSAN PRESENTED, ONE AFTER ANOTHER FROM HIM, ALL OF THESE EMAILS PRESSURING MICHAEL COHEN TO STAY ON THE PAGE, CONSTANTLY PRESSURING HIM, WE KNOW YOU CAN SLEEP WELL TONIGHT, YOU CAN REST WELL TONIGHT, YOU HAVE FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES. THEN WHEN HE RESISTED HIRING COSTELLO, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF RUDY GIULIANI, WHICH MADE MICHAEL COHEN IMMEDIATELY NERVOUS THAT HE WAS GOING TO PASS ALL OF HIS INFORMATION ON TO RUDY GIULIANI AND TO DONALD TRUMP, AND HE DIDN'T HIRE HIM. THAT'S WHAT THE TESTIMONY OF THE PROSECUTION WAS. HE CLAIMED HE HAD BEEN RETAINED, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO RETAINER AGREEMENT. THEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN ASKING HIM, EMAILS THAT SAID THINGS LIKE, IS HE NUTS, IS HE NUTS THAT HE IS GOING TO ANGER THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN ON THE PLANET? THIS WAS THE EMAIL FROM ROBERT COSTELLO TO HIS LAW PARTNER. THERE WERE REPEATED EMAILS THAT CONSTANTLY PROVE THEY WERE TRYING TO PRESSURE MICHAEL COHEN TO BASICALLY NOT FLIP, TO STAY ON THE PAGE, TELLING HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THESE EMAILS. THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DENY IN ANY OF THE EMAILS. IT WAS EXTRAORDINARY AS SHE CONSTANTLY HAD HIM BASICALLY TESTIFYING FOR THE PROSECUTION. SHE ALSO ASKED HIM ABOUT THE FACT HE TESTIFIED ON CAPITOL HILL AT JUDICIARY. THAT'S A VERY TOUGH REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. HE TESTIFIED LAST WEEK AND HAD VILIFIED MICHAEL COHEN AND ASKED HIM, WEREN'T YOU TRYING TO INTIMIDATE HIM WHILE HE WAS A WITNESS IN THIS CASE? HE SAID, NO, I WAS NOT. SHE SAID, THE PROSECUTION RESTS. IT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLAPSE, I WOULD SAY, OF THE DEFENSE HAVING PRESENTED ROBERT COSTELLO, WHO AS YOU KNOW WAS CHASTISED BY THE JUDGE YESTERDAY IN AN UNBELIEVABLE MOMENT OF CLEARING THE COURTROOM AND CHEWING HIM OFF. HE WAS BETTER BEHAVED TODAY BUT STILL A LITTLE SNIPPY, ARROGANT YOU
