Under cross-examination, Michael Cohen conceded he wants to see Trump found guilty.

"Have you regularly commented on your podcast that you want President Trump to be convicted in this case?" Blanche asked.

"Yes, probably," Cohen said. "I don't specifically know if I used those words but, yes, I would like to see that."

Blanched pressed for a definitive answer.

"I would like to see accountability. That's not for me. That's for the jury and this court," Cohen said.

Blanche pressed, asking, "Do you want President Trump to get convicted in this case?"

Cohen ultimately responded: "Sure."

Defense attorney Todd Blanche homed in on Michael Cohen's use of TikTok, referring to ABC News' initial coverage in his questioning.

He accused Cohen of using it as an outlet to "make money."

Cohen responded that he uses it to "build an audience."

"What's the goal of doing that?" Blanche asked,

"Build an audience, create a community," Cohen responded. "To really vent because I'm having a difficult time sleeping. So I found an outlet."

"You are also hoping to make money on that?" Blanche asked.

"I do make money on that, but it's not significant," Cohen said.

"One of the reasons you do it is to make money?" Blanche later asked.

"Yes," Cohen said.

Cohen also conceded that he mentions Trump on most if not all of his TikTok streams.

Defense attorney Todd Blanche tried to get Cohen to admit that the Manhattan district attorney's office advised him to stop making media appearances in March 2023 because he was "unwittingly helping President Trump by going on TV."

Cohen repeatedly testified that he could not recall such a conversation, prompting Blanche to question how Cohen could vividly recall conversations with Donald Trump in 2016.

Cohen subsequently conceded that the DA's office advised him approximately five times not to talk about the case.

Blanche, highlighting how often Cohen has publicly spoken about the case, including on television appearances and podcasts, asked, "It's more than 200, correct?"

"Yes," Cohen responded.

"Would you agree that you have talked about President Trump in every single one?" Blanched asked.

"I would say he's mentioned in every single one," Cohen said.

Defense attorney Todd Blanche asked Michael Cohen if he leaked information about the DA's investigation into the Stormy Daniels payment, or discussed the case in detail during television appearances in February 2021, despite promising his lawyer he would no longer comment on the case.

"You were going on TV talking about the investigation?" Blanche asked.

"I go on TV often so I am not sure what the topic was," Cohen said.

"Would it surprise you to learn that you were on TV talking about the investigation in February 2021?" Blanche asked.

"No, it does not surprise me," Cohen said.

The jury is seeing a slightly more defensive and combative witness than the Michael Cohen they saw on direct examination.

Seven days after Michael Cohen finalized the nondisclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels, the Wall Street Journal published a story about Stormy Daniels and AMI's $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal.

Cohen testified that he knew about it in advance, and when he found out he responded by "contacting Keith Davidson.," Daniels' attorney.

Cohen said he also talked with Trump aide Hope Hicks and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker "so that we could all coalesce around this issue." In a series of calls and emails Cohen said he suggested a response, blaming the "liberal media" and the Clinton campaign.

Cohen said he reacted angrily to Davidson when the Journal story came out, suspecting Davidson leaked the story.

"I wanted to ensure Mr. Trump was safe," Cohen told jurors.

Cohen said that he conveyed to Davidson that Trump was "really angry."

The night the Journal story came out, Cohen said he spoke to Trump just after 9 p.m. for about six minutes. The jury saw a record of the call.

"This was a real serious, again, problem, especially being so close to the election," Cohen recalled saying. He tried to reassure Trump that he, David Pecker and Dylan Howard at the National Enquirer and Keith Davidson were "doing everything in our power to protect Mr. Trump."

But Cohen told jurors he was concerned about the story "because there was a negative story that once again could impact the campaign as a result of women."