Cohen says he spent dozens of hours practicing testimony with prosecutors in Trump trial

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Former lawyer Michael Cohen says he spent dozens of hours with prosecutors preparing and practicing his testimony in former President Trump's New York criminal trial.

Cohen made the statement during cross examination from Trump's defense team on Monday. He said he met with prosecutors in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's team as many as 20 times in the lead-up to being called to the stand. He says each of the meeting lasted more than 1-2 hours. He said prosecutors used the meetings to ask him many of the same questions they asked when he was on the stand last week.

Cohen is the star witness for prosecutors and was the final witness they called to the stand.

Trump faces 43 counts of falsifying business records in relation to alleged hush money payments he made to pornography actress Stormy Daniels. Daniels herself also testified earlier on in the trial