May 16, 2024, 12:08 p.m. ET


Maggie HabermanReporting from inside the courthouse

Blanche is now asking Cohen about texts in which he discussed the possibility of being White House chief of staff. The texts themselves could be seen as someone merely kibbitzing, though they also undercut something Cohen has testified to previously.

[Yes. Blanche caught him again.]

May 16, 2024, 12:10 p.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

Though none of the texts were definitive, there were a lot of them, and they do clearly show that Cohen was at least interested in the idea. When Reince Priebus was finally named chief of staff, Cohen told his daughter he was disappointed, Blanche shows. Cohen admits here that he was disappointed.