the drug giant ceo sending an e-mail to all staff saying, "yesterday was not a good day for novartis given the news about their relationship with cohen." but if yesterday was bad for novartis today could be worse. take a look at this new reporting. it turns out this is according to stat news that specializes in health care coverage, that the $100,000 monthly retainer fee that novartis was paying to cohen's llc was to help it "better understand u.s. health care policy matters and it was four times more," i'm going to repeat that, quadruple what it paid any other qualified external lobbyist. also according to stat news, novartis has spent $12 million on lobbying since trump took office. compare that to the 1.2 million that went entirely to michael cohen. about 10% of everything this giant company says they've spent on lobbying. then you have the amount at&t handed over to cohen. michael avenatti in his initial