>> I HAD AN AMAZING TIME AND IT IS GREAT TO BE BACK.
>> YOU LOOK ATTENDED, RESTED AND
READY, MY FRIEND.
THANKS AT HOME FOR JOINING THUS
MONDAY.
MONDAY. HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE.
IT HAS BEEN A ROLLICKING DAY AND
A ROLLICKING FEW DAYS OF NEWS.
PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO
ALL THE SCANDAL STUFF.
THE STILL UNSPOOLING SCANDAL
AROUND THIS PRESIDENT.
THE ONE THAT APPEARS TO BE
GETTING HIM A LITTLE MORE WOUND
ONE EACH PASSING DAY IF HIS
COMMENTS ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY.
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTED
THAT THE SERVING WHITE HOUSE
COUNSEL DON McGAHN HAS DONE MORE
THAN 30 HOURS OF VOLUNTARY
INTERVIEWS WITH THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER AND HIS
TEAM OF PROSECUTORS.
SHORTLY THERE AFTER WE GOT NEW
REPORTING FROM THE "TIMES" ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT’S PERSONAL LAWYER
BEING SQOZED, FOR LOOK OF A
BETTER TERM.
BETTER TERM. THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" IS
FIRST ON THE STORY AS THEY HAVE
BONE THE CRIMINAL INTRIGUE
SURROUNDING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
LONG TIME LAWYER MICHAEL COHEN
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
BUT FOLLOWING THE INITIAL
REPORTING A COUPLE WEEKS AGO
THAT THE POTENTIAL CHARGES
MICHAEL COHEN MIGHT BE FACING,
NOW "THE NEW YORK TIMES" AS OF
YESTERDAY AND THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS AS OF TODAY, WHO HAVE BOTH
MATCH THAT HAD STORY.
SO THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" AND
THE AP AND "THE NEW YORK TIMES,"
ALL NOW REPORTING THAT MICHAEL
COHEN’S LEGAL VULNERABILITY MAY
BE AT LEAST IN PART REHATED TO
TENS OF MILLIONS POTENTIALLY
FRAUD LEND BANK LOANS, AND ALSO
CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS
RELATED TO HIS PAYOFFS.
TO AT LEAST A COUPLE.
DESPITE ALL THAT GOOD REPORTING
ON MICHAEL COHEN, WE HAVE THREE
BIG NEWS OUTLETS ALL NAFG SAME
BASIC SUBSTANCE ABOUT WHAT
MICHAEL COHEN MIGHT BE CHARGED
WITH.
WITH. DESPITE ALL THAT GOOD REPORTING
I REMAIN CONVINCE THAT THE ONLY
WAY WE’LL EVER BE SURE MICHAEL
COHEN IS BEING CRIMINALLY
CHARGED IS THAT EVENTUALLY WE’RE
GOING TO SEE MICHAEL COHEN BEING
ARRESTED AND WE’LL BE ABLE TO
READ THE INDICTMENT.
WHICH LISTS CRIMINAL INDICTMENT
AGAINST HIM.
AGAINST HIM. UNTIL WE CAN READ THE DOCUMENT.
UNTIL WE GET CONFIRMATION FROM
PROSECUTORS, I SORT OF FEEL LIKE
I WON’T BELIEVE ANY OF IT.
THERE’S SO MUCH SPEND BEING SPUN
ON THE ELEMENTS OF THIS ENTIRE
SCANDAL SURROUNDING THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. THE MICHAEL COHEN PART OF IT IS
I THINK THE WORST IN TERMS OF
THE RATIO BETWEEN REAL
INFORMATION THAT WE CAN PUBLICLY
CHECK AND THE NOISE AND SPIN
THAT MIGHT HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH REAL FACTS.
THERE’S JUST A LOT OF BLA BLA
BLA ABOUT MICHAEL COHEN AND VERY
LITTLE PUBLICLY CHECKABLE
INFORMATION THAT WE CAN BALANCE
IT AGAINST.
IT AGAINST. TO THAT END, I THINK THERE’S ONE
BIG RED FLAG IN THE REASON
FACTUAL RECORD ABOUT WHAT IS
GOING ON WITH MICHAEL COHEN THAT
WE SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF.
HOW THAT MIGHT RELATE TO THE
LEGAL JEOPARDY OF THE PRESIDENT.
THERE’S BEEN SO MUCH INK SPILL,
SO MUCH HOT AIR BLOWN OVER THE
LAST COUPLE DAYS, AND FRANKLY
WEEKS WHEN IT COMES TO COHEN.
THERE’S SO MUCH NOISE ABOUT IT.
THEY’RE BOTH POTENTIALLY
INTERESTING, RIGHT?
INTERESTING, RIGHT? LAWYERS GETTING LAWYERS IS ONE
THING.
THING. LAWYERS BECOMING CORROBORATING
WITNESSES IS AN EVEN BIGGER
THING.
THING. I THINK THERE ARE STEPS WE
SHOULD TAKE TO AVOID BEING SPUN
OR MISLED ON BOTH THOSE STORIES.
SO WE’LL GET TO SOME OF THAT
AHEAD TONIGHT.
AHEAD TONIGHT. I FEEL LIKE, WHEN YOU SEE A
STORY ABOUT McGAHN OR COHEN
COMING DOWN THE PIKE, UNLESS IT
HAS PUBLICLY VERIFIABLE