‘He’s playing with the most powerful man in the world’

Jurors in Donald Trump's hush-money trial were shown a series of damning emails showing Rudy Giuliani-linked lawyer Robert Costello pressuring Michael Cohen to remain loyal to the former president while the one-time 'fixer' is under federal investigation was standing.

In April 2018, Cohen's office and home were raided by the FBI and his cellphones and documents were seized in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

After the raid, Costello suggested that Cohen should retain him as counsel, in what Cohen previously testified was part of a "pressure campaign" to keep him ...