Trump's priorities in covering up Stormy story were revealed by Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen said Melania Trump came up with the idea to call her husband's "Access Hollywood" comments "locker room talk."

Rachel Maddow shares passages from Michael Cohen's testimony in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial in which he makes clear that Trump's greatest concern was the damage the Stormy Daniels story could do to his presidential campaign, not his marriage.

Michael Cohen took the stand at former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Monday. He testified that Trump told him it was Melania who came up with the infamous “locker room talk” defense. Cohen said he became very concerned about the impact of the Access Hollywood tape on the 2016 election.

Melania Trump came up with the idea to spin the notorious “Access Hollywood” tape as “locker room talk,” Donald Trump once claimed, according to his former fixer Michael Cohen's testimony on Monday.

"How long do you think I'm going to be on the market for?" Cohen testified Trump said after he was asked Melania's thoughts on Stormy Daniels.

Michael Cohen testified that Melania Trump was the brains behind Donald Trump's "locker room talk" excuse for the "Access Hollywood" tape.

Michael Cohen says his wife came up with Trump's 'locker room talk' excuse for the leaked Access Hollywood footage. Cohen says he was on vacation in London with his family when dealing with the fallout from the leaked footage of him talking about groping women. Trump's then-spouse wife, Melania, was supportive, Cohen says.

Trump's ex-attorney testified about Melania's advice on how to handle the release of the TV show's tape before the 2016 election.