Defense attorney Emil Bove Bove continued his attempts from yesterday to cast doubt on the integrity of the secret recording that Michael Cohen made of a conversation with Donald Trump on September 6, 2016, in which the two appeared to discusses the hush money payment to Karen McDougal.
Bove highlighted that Cohen conducted a factory reset of his phone on October 15, 2016.
"That sequencing ... raises some questions about that file right?" Bove asked.
"You have to then look at where that file came from," Daus responded.
"It raises some questions that require further analysis?" Bove asked.
"That is fair," Daus said.
It's unclear if the factory reset materially impacted the recording in any way since Cohen had backed up his device, Daus said.
Bove also repeated a line of questions from yesterday about the abrupt end to the recording of the Cohen-Trump conversation.
"You don't know how long the conservation continued?" Bove asked.
"No I don't," Daus said.
Yesterday, Daus suggested that Cohen's phone received a call that may have prompted the recording to end, but Bove suggested today that the extraction lacked any metadata to suggest an incoming call was received.