You say that with the walls closing in around him,
his next move is to find a scapegoat.
>> Yes.
>> Go on. >> Okay, I believe that.
>> Because you were a scapegoat.
>> Absolutely.
>> That's Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, making a case
that Trump is looking for someone to throw under the bus to make a scapegoat.
To essentially avoid any blame for the fact that he himself took home top secret
and classified documents from the White House and then refused to hand them over.
And that's why he got raided.
Now, who is he looking to blame?
Why don't we hear from Michael Cohen and see what his theory is?
>> I believe the next scapegoat is gonna be Rudy Colludy Giuliani.
Everybody likes a bargain but Donald Trump really likes a bargain and
I believe that Rudy is like a bogo.
Buy one, get one half off, they're gonna throw him under the bus for Mar a Lago.
And at the same time they're gonna throw him under the bus for Georgia,
for the District Attorney Fani Wilson's case in Georgia,
they're just gonna keep pointing the finger.
It's Rudy, it's Rudy quite frankly had nothing to do with it.
It's Rudy, just ask Rudy.
It's Rudy, it's Rudy, just ask Rudy, Rudy Colludy Giuliani.
>> [LAUGH] It's hard not to like the way Michael Cohen talks with that New York
accent.
>> Yeah, I do I appreciate the accent.
However, in the first clip that we showed you the cold open,
he talks about how he was made the scapegoat and and
how now Rudy Giuliani will be the scapegoat.
I just wanna make clear that random people don't get chosen out of nowhere
to be Trump's scapegoats, Trump's lackeys end up becoming his scapegoats.
So I just wanna mention that because I feel like there's this, whoa, is me,
I was such a victim mentality here and you weren't a victim homeboy,
you know that right?
And neither is Rudy Giuliani.
Now what they're talking about here because there's so
many different investigations going on.
There's the January 6th investigation,
then there's the investigation into the classified documents that Trump took home.
They're talking about the classified documents, and so Michael Cohen believes
that Rudy Giuliani might be thrown under the bus in regard to that issue.
I don't really know how, I think that there's another person that they've
already begun throwing under the bus and we'll get to that in just a moment.
But Cenk, what are your thoughts?
>> Yeah, so
of course they need 1000 excuses because the guy did something criminally stupid.
Both criminal and how stupid it is and a stupid action that is literally criminal.
The nuclear secrets is the last thing you take home, not the first thing you take
home, there's no reason to take them home at all unless you wanna sell them, period.
The brain dead zombies, no, no, memento, no,
he was working late after not being president anymore.
No, no, there's only one reason you take him home, to steal them and
to sell them, okay?
And so there's a couple of people who could throw under the bus.
One is the person who handed it to him, which is likely the chief of staff,
which we're gonna get to in a second, okay?
The other is that schmuck, who's right next to you,
who keeps getting his, you know kicked in the nads and going on,
another road like things melting off his face and doing cameos on the side.
Hey, hey Rudy, you schmuck,
now you take the fall like Michael Cohen did, like everybody does, okay?
And either he'll turn on Trump or
it's possible he'll spend a lot of time in jail.
But look, prosecutors have been awful, right?
In Manhattan, they're letting his chief financial officer,
the guy who ran his books, they're basically letting him off the hook,
he's gonna get a tiny little prison sentence.
It doesn't look like he turned on Trump at all.
The Manhattan attorney general is the worst prosecutor in the country.
Should be recalled immediately for being a complete another loser.
But here in Fulton County, they're doing a better job.
So they better put Rudy in jail for doing fake electors and
just literally destroying our democracy.
>> So Alan Weisberg is gonna get a prison sentence?
>> A tiny one.
>> But still, wow a prison sentence.
>> No, it's nothing.
>> I didn't see that coming.
>> Most of it is time served, it's horse crap.
The Manhattan attorney general is the dumbest,
worst prosecutor in the country by a lot, okay?
Well, just calling him dumb and the worst, I don't think.
>> You're right, it's not fair, he's not dumb, it's probably.
>> Something else is going on, there's something else going on, exactly.
>> [CROSSTALK] Nobody's that dumb, nobody's that incompetent.
>> It started off as a criminal investigation and
then all of a sudden he stopped with the criminal investigation.
Two of the prosecutors working on that case decided to quit because they're like,
why are you stopping with this criminal investigation?
There's enough evidence there, we should pursue it.
And all of a sudden, now we're seeing articles and
it's not gonna happen, but he might reopen.
>> Shit, yeah.
>> He might reopen.
[CROSSTALK] Why would stop and then reopen later?
That makes no sense. Anyway.
>> That's a total corrupt loser.
Okay, anyway, so in terms of the documents here,
you know how easy it is to turn them over?
They're like, well, I mean, they could have just asked them,
they asked them over and over and over and over again, the Mar a Lago documents and
then, okay, so why don't you just turn them over.
It's really complicated, no, it's not the FBI came in, took them.
You could have just taken them and given them to the FBI, why didn't you do it?
Because you had them hidden, because you wanted to sell them and
now you're gonna throw Rudy under the bus for it.
>> Now look, we've talked about the timeline before but
I'm gonna go over it again because it's important to understand how
all of these powerful men get so many chances, right?
They broke the law, it's clear they broke the law and
in this case the DOJ reaches out and it's like,
can you please just give us back the documents that we know you have, please?
And so two months prior to the raid,
there was a subpoena for those classified documents.
And Trump's attorney responded with, we've already given you all the documents,
we have nothing left.
And then there's an FBI informant, who's close to Trump apparently,
who informed the FBI of the fact that, no there's still plenty of documents here.
Many of which are marked as classified and so the raid ends up happening, okay?
And the raid doesn't just happen on its own.
The FBI or any law enforcement can't just unilaterally decide side without a warrant
to go into anyone's home, much less the former President's home in MAr A Lago.
So federal judge signs off on that warrant because there is probable cause meaning
there is reason to believe that Donald Trump is breaking the law and guess what?
They do the raid and
they take with them nearly two dozen boxes of White house documents.
Many of which are marked as classified, many of which are so
top secret that they can only be read in a government facility in a safe,
secure environment.
So that is the timeline, okay?
Trump had many opportunities to just comply and
give back the documents that he illegally took home with him from the White House.
Now, Giuliani is an interesting theory, right?
Someone that Trump might throw under the bus when it comes to this particular
investigation.
But there's already some rumors about another individual who I think would
actually play as a better scapegoat for Trump here.
And that's a former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, okay?
So this is a New York Times report and this is what they found based on
some sources close to Trump who gave them the inside info.
According to two people with knowledge of the situation, Trump and
his Chief of staff, Mark Meadows, the man who oversaw presidential records in
the chaotic closing days of the administration.
Failed to organize an effort to collect, box and
deliver materials to the National archives.
Instead, they often focused on settling political grievances and
personal grudges, they said.
And then in the weeks leading up to Trump's departure from the White House,
officials discussed what to do about material that he had at various points
taken up to the residents.
And that needed to be properly stored and returned.
By then the staff secretary, Derek Lyons, known for
trying to keep systems in place had left the administration.
Meadows said he would address such issues according to
a senior administration official.
So it has begun, this is how it starts,
this is how they begin to throw Mark Meadows under the bus and you know what?
He deserves It.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
>> Yeah, hey, what are you idiots gonna realize he's never gonna come rescue you.
So why don't you just tell people what you know about how incredibly corrupt he is.
No, you're gonna go to prison for him?
All right, you do whatever you want, they're all a bunch of criminals and
it was 100% right.
You don't stumble into being Trump's fall guy.
You're the fall guy cuz you were one of his captains and
you helped him to commit all those criminal acts.
And if you wanna go to jail for it, hey, it's just like the mob,
that's your goddamn business, I guess, if you're that stupid.
I want to correct one quick thing I said, I think I said Attorney General of course
Manhattan District Attorney and his name is Alvin Bragg.
And he's the loser who refused to investigate and indict Donald Trump.
You should know and shame the people who refuse to hold Trump accountable and
Alvin Brag is at the top of that list.
>> And to be clear that investigation which was initially a criminal
investigation looked into financial fraud that Trump allegedly committed.
So that is an entirely different investigation from the classified
documents from the January 6th investigation.
Donald Trump such an innocent guy, such a good, kind,
spirit who's never done anything wrong and
he just happened to stumble into multiple major investigations, weird.
>> Yeah, look I'll say one last thing Rogan and
his dumbass guest today we're talking about,
just this a set up from from the FBI, they're going after Trump again.
You know why they keep going after Trump and barely,
barely they barely laid a glove on the guy, right?
They're doing nothing, they're the weakest people in the world and
they make them seem like, they're going those wow, those dark brand and
all those guys are going after Trump again.
Why? Cuz he keeps breaking law after law after
law after law, because they never actually went after him the first time or
the second time or the 18th time.
They always pulled an Alvin Bragg and was, like ,oh, he's the president,
the Republicans will yell at me.
So, hey, do you remember when Trump was prosecuted?
Yeah, I don't either, cuz they never indicted the son of a bit for all of his
crimes, a half a dozen super clear crimes he has admitted on the record.
Never ever prosecuted and then that's why he keeps breaking law after law.
He's like, nuclear secrets, who wants some?
Who wants some?
And then they're like, they're going after Trump again as if he's the victim.
>> No, if you don't know the details of an investigation and
you don't know what Trump has been accused of.
You don't know what the timeline is with these classified documents where he was
given so many chances to just return them with no charges, no investigation.
>> [CROSSTALK] So easy, just return them their boxes, just give it back.
>> If you don't know those details, then how about you just shut up, right?
I don't sit here and talk about political issues or any other issue in the news that
I haven't read up on and I don't know every little detail of.
>> Yeah.
>> I just don't get it, the need to like, I read a few headlines here and
what do you think?
Do you think this is an FBI set up?
Obviously you didn't read a damn thing.
>> Yeah, [CROSSTALK] if you're speculating on whether it was an FBI setup,
you're a total idiot, okay, because there's actual evidence.
If it was a setup, we see it all the time and we talk about, hey, wait a minute,
that doesn't add up.
And we look at the actual evidence, the exhibits etc,
there's a warrant that the judge signed off on and then law behold,
they did find 11 documents in Donald Trump's goddamn basement.
He admits that they found the docs, I can go on and on and on.
But it's never gonna get through the thick heads of Republicans.
You know why?
Cuz they like criminals, they just like criminals that are on their side.
Look at what Giuliani said, he said, if Trump gets elected,
the first thing he'll do is raid every one of Biden's houses.
He didn't say because Biden did anything illegal, he's saying how dare you
investigate us for breaking the law, we're right wing men, we're above the law.
We run this country, we're allowed to be criminals all we want.
And the republican voters cheer standing ovation, break the law,
break the law, cuz they feel like we own this place.
>> That's right. >> We're not breaking the law,
it's already ours, everything, we're not stealing.
We could just rape and pillage and steal and betray the country.
But we're not because we're enriching ourselves and we are the country.
That's how they think.
If no one ever holds them accountable,
they're gonna think that till the end of time.
So for God's sake, somebody arrest the sons of bitches already.