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he was the man that for 12 years as
donald trump's attorney was known by
many pseudonyms trump's missed fix it
his conciliary his ultra-loyal
right-hand man
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michael cohen lovingly described his
then boss as an icon who was humble
principled and kind
some liking their relationship to that
of a father and son
until it came to an abrupt end michael
cohen the fixer
flipped i pled guilty in federal court
to felonies for the benefit of at the
direction of
and in coordination with individual
number one and for the record
individual number one is president
donald j trump
when cohen testified in front of the
congress house oversight committee
he'd already been convicted of a flurry
of fbi charges
on campaign financing and tax evasion as
well as perjury in a congressional
testimony
having been intimately involved in many
of donald trump's dealings for over a
decade
he was the man who made trump's problems
go away
but his cooperation with federal
investigations whether it was
into hush money payments to trump's
alleged lovers stormy daniels
and other women the trump tower moscow
project a deal cohen claimed trump was
negotiating with russia
while running for president in 2016 all
the hacking of hillary clinton's
presidential campaign
all added up to make him one big problem
for the president
so what now trump having long since cut
adrift his one-time protege
cohen was released from prison in may
early to serve the rest of his time
under house arrest
and with the release of cohen's new
tell-all memoir the relationship is in
the deep freeze
in the book hoenn describes trump among
other things as a racist
a con man a cheat and a mobster
in turn trump has branded cohen a rat
and a liar who is fake
and weak but with america just under two
weeks out from the polls
what more can the man tell us could
there be any more skeletons to come out
of the presidential closet
michael cohen joins me now from his home
where he's under house arrest
michael good evening good evening to you
and good evening to uh
all of those on the other side of the
pond what is the worst thing you covered
up
for donald trump or did for him as his
lawyer that you are
most ashamed of uh i think it
probably has to stem with the stormy
daniels scenario
in the fact that he tasked me to not
only
handle this matter for him but to lie to
his wife as well
uh which i did our first lady melania
and that's probably something that i i
think i regret the most
that hush money that you you paid to her
that
is alleged and also led to you being
where you are now
under house arrest having been in prison
do you think it cut through with the
american public
it cut through in what respect it didn't
stop them voting for him
as president did it no no it did not
but again all of the hush money payments
came out
for the most part at the very very end
right before the election
and you know you asked your
correspondent there in washington
whether or not there's anything that the
president
can do to win this election
or anything that joe biden can do to
lose the election and the answer to that
in my opinion is an emphatic no they
everybody already knows who they're
voting for
for the most part i mean short of joe
biden having a heart attack
on stage nothing is going to stop joe
biden
from winning and you know i i was very
clear
during the 2016 election i knew that
trump was going to win
and i was able to see that based upon
analytics that we were looking at
as well as the response by people just
in the street
how many crimes how many crimes did you
commit for the president
well that's not something that i intend
on discussing
um first and foremost i didn't commit
any crimes
uh paying somebody for silence in an nda
is not a crime why why what perjury's a
crime and why are you in jail
well well i perjured myself at the
direction of and for
the benefit of donald j trump i was
staying on message
and i never expected that something that
has never been litigated before
in the united states would have landed
me in prison but i'm so certain that i'm
going
that donald trump is going to lose the
election i've done something i've never
done before
and that's i've actually placed a bet on
um
joe biden winning with a company by the
name of guesser
and i went ahead and i did that and i
just want to let you know that
all the money that i win from this i'm
donating to the aclu
who along with my attorney dania perry
were instrumental
in the second time that i was released
where the judge acknowledged
that attorney general bill barr had
remanded me back to prison
based upon retaliation where are the
proceeds of your book going
are they going to charity as well the
proceeds of my book are not uh they're
going
for a multitude of things including
paying off the
incredible fines and penalties as a
result
of the irs error that was made on my
taxes but the point is
people's hearts will not be bleeding for
you because you paint a picture of
donald trump in your book as a sexual
predator
a racist a blackmailer akin to a mob
boss
you even describe a time when he was
turned on by the sight of your 15 year
old daughter describing her as a piece
of ass
he fist bumped you after that you did
all of that
your family didn't want you to work for
him and yet you continued
yes and i'm not proud of anything that i
did nor am i asking anybody for their
forgiveness
i'm not looking for your forgiveness
what i'm looking for is the forgiveness
and making amends with my wife
my daughter my son and my country i i
have to do this my way
and whether or not that uh i i continued
to work for him i was part of a cult the
trump organization is a cult
cool and not only was i part of it one
second one second
no that's where you're wrong you see you
like so many others are completely
misinformed
i this is not a rags to riches story of
me working for trump
i just i retired when i was 39 years old
i was what's called the center
millionaire at the time i was worth
close to 100 million dollars it's not
easy
ma'am ma'am i could not go to
work for donald trump and live off of
the salary that he was paying
i was completely intoxicated with donald
trump's celebrity power
it's somebody who i have basically read
about
since the late 80s and i was i was
in the cult not just in the cult i was a
high-ranking member of the cult
and i couldn't be taken out and that was
the big problem
why should we believe a single word you
have to say
you're the worst kind of lawyer because
you've been disloyal about your own
client
having gone around doing his dirty work
for him and now you're trying to say
you were hypnotized by donald trump who
do you think is going to believe that
well actually i hate to say it but the
american people for the most part
have kindness and the redemption story
is accurate and many people do forgive
me
so whether you choose to or not is
completely irrelevant to me
as i said i need to make them mention my
wife my children and this country yeah
your wife and children don't understand
i
begged you to walk away from donald
trump you swore blind loyalty to trump
then you slate him in a book and now
you're taking the paycheck from part of
the democrat campaign
don't you just represent michael cohen
the worst of what american political
culture
has become you'll go to whoever gives
you the biggest check
well that's absolutely not accurate but
i don't know how to
answer that for you i think the question
is
completely um it's obnoxious as a
question
no i find the question is actually
obnoxious in the fact that you really
haven't read the book
and you don't know anything about me but
no you haven't but
what what you have sorry you don't get
to accuse the bbc of fake news here
i have read the book i know what my
question is and if you're offended by it
that's one thing but please answer it
because it's accurate
well it's not accurate and what you
didn't read are things like the petrillo
sentencing memo
you don't know the story and what you're
doing is you're taking out
snippets in order to try to make some
sort of a
splash announcement but you're
inaccurate and again i'm not
asking for your forgiveness i'm not
asking for anyone's forgiveness other
than my wife
and my children you're asking me to buy
your book and fund your life you're
interested
if you're interested if you're
interested in reading the book and
you're interested in understanding
what's what i refer to in the book is
trump derangement syndrome
then by the book and if you're not
you're wrong why should anybody believe
what you have to say you talk here i'll
quote your vote
here's what donald trump says you don't
have trump for 10 years of your life
you're sure right no for longer than 10
years i did but i don't any longer
and in order to make amends i need to
tell the truth
and that's exactly what's in the book
disloyal whether you choose to believe
it or not
listen i was never in prague this whole
thing started
with companies like the bbc with
companies like the new york times with
companies like the post
or the wall street journal or the
washington post all claiming that i had
gone to
to prague and paid 10 million dollars to
a group of russian compromise
i've never been to prague in my life
i've never been to that part of the
world
so before you accuse me of having to
apologize for
lying to congress over the number of
times that i spoke to trump
about a failed real estate project that
i was directed
and i did at his request right i think
you really have to get your facts
straight because you're just
in complete error i'm quoting your book
and my research was based on your book
michael cohen thank you very much
for your time yep