what is meant. reporter: ed mcdonald would know. he spent 12 years going after mobsters in new york. mcdonald played himself in the movie goodfellows striking a witness protection deal. i don t know anything. come on. don t give me the babe in the woods. i ve listened to the wiretaps. reporter: it s that distension between the president given cohen a direct order such as encouraging him to lie while testifying before congress or cohen assuming he was doing what the boss wanted that could define if trump committed a crime or not. this is what michael cohen was getting at when he was saying, well, i understood what i was supposed to do. you were a better servant to donald trump if he didn t have to tell you, cheat this person, lie to that one and betray this one. it was all automatic. that made him a good coppo in the trump mob family.
contempt, fined, or imprisoned. a controversy erupted after ken starr gave an interview to journalist steven brill. brill s article implied that secret grand jury testimony had been leaked. the problem with ken is that he thinks everybody else is as honorable as he is, and he s like a babe in the woods. i answered his questions, i think, truthfully. there were numerous accusations that, um, i had personally leaked grand jury information. ken starr has a different view of what was said, and i believe it was a put-up job. i was very careful in that interview. the federal rules of criminal procedure and our professional ethics are absolutely clear. what happens in the grand jury is sacrosanct. but the media had a new story. independent counsel ken starr is under attack today. a new magazine reports he admits leaking information to reporters covering the lewinsky sex scandal. is it time to investigate the
contempt, fined, or imprisoned. a controversy erupted after ken starr gave an interview to journalist steven brill. brill s article implied that secret grand jury testimony had been leaked. the problem with ken is that he thinks everybody else is as honorable as he is, and he s like a babe in the woods. i answered his questions, i think, truthfully. there were numerous accusations that, um, i had personally leaked grand jury information. ken starr has a different view of what was said, and i believe it was a put-up job. i was very careful in that interview. the federal rules of criminal procedure and our professional ethics are absolutely clear. what happens in the grand jury is sacrosanct. but the media had a new story. independent counsel ken starr is under attack today. a new magazine reports he admits leaking information to reporters covering the lewinsky sex scandal. is it time to investigate the
agenda, i think he was honestly angry that general flynn s supporters were pulling this line of bologna that somehow he was entrapped. he s just a babe in the woods, a three-star general who has no idea that you can t lie to the fbi. and the crime occurred in the white house. which is a sacred space and it was by a three-star general in whom we ought to have the highest standards. and so i can understand why he was angry. should have not said treason. treason is not anywhere in the ballpark. the bar is very high. i m just asking questions, man. but just to be a lawyer the only crime defined in the constitution. punishable by death. anybody criticizing the government in britain was accused of treason. to commit war against the united states or provide aid and comfort to the enemy. turkey, russia, they may be countries we have complex relationships with, but we re not at war with them. i m glad the judge zoned in that it is disgraceful that flynn was acting as an
haven t seen anything like what has been alleged. it is not a matter of interpretation. i haven t seen anything that supports this notion of her being any kind of conduit of russia. the argument is she was a babe in the woods who was wrapped in something bigger than herself in. i don t know if babe in the woods is fair. she is an ambitious young woman who had a career in russia as a gun rights advocate, and was known as an advocate there and had some fame over there. then came to the u.s. and developed relationships with gun rights people here and was a student. i mean, she graduated in may with a 4.0. accused as not registering as she should have. the question would be not registering to do what? what the government accused her for is going to dinner and events. i m not sure that requires registration. if it did, half the foreign nationals in washington would be in jail. she s accused of trying to infiltrate organizations in the u.s. infiltrate is a loaded term. what does