Trump Agrees to Interview With Michael Cohen

Cohen spent more than a decade as Trump's fixer and right-hand man, deeply involved in Trump Organization dealmaking and Trump's private affairs. "I was a permanent fixture in his office, most specifically the far-right red velvet chair," he told CBS News on Wednesday.

Cohen made a $130,000 payment on Trump's behalf to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the presidential election — the transaction at the center of everything that followed.

FBI agents seized Cohen's phones and records. He pleaded guilty to financial and campaign finance crimes and to lying to Congress, and served more than a year in prison.

Cohen testified against Trump in his New York civil and criminal cases, helping produce a conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to the Daniels payment. "I regret doing things for him that I should not have," Cohen said under oath. "To keep the loyalty and to do the things that he asked me to do, I violated my moral compass." He was cross-examined by Todd Blanche, then Trump's defense lawyer.

The New York Times reported the two men quietly met at Trump's Bedminster property — the first time they were known to have spoken in years, according to Raw Story's account of that reporting.

Cohen wrote in his Substack newsletter that he had "felt pressured and coerced" by prosecutors into testifying against Trump.

The Senate confirmed Blanche — the lawyer who cross-examined Cohen — as attorney general, per NPR.

MS NOW reported the podcast plan, citing a White House official. Cohen confirmed it to CBS News hours later.