communications team in the white house. but i had to believe it was an effort to get in front of the bad facts they knew were coming out in the wake of this raid on mike cohen s home, office and hotel room. they know that there are going to be some bad things that come out there and they wanted to perhaps get ahead of it from a pr standpoint. it didn t work out. yes, absolutely, they may be sort of giving an olive branch to michael cohen to expull pay the hip at least from the campaign finance aspect of it. who knows what other trouble he may be in in the southern district of new york in terms of other issues but at least on that issue, maybe it s something that they could do to sort of take the heat off of him. in the hopes he won t flip. did you see the movie city hall with al pacino? he s a guy who dealt with the somewhat shady warks from brooklyn. i know the guy s name. but the fact is they beak said he was a singer in the movie. that guy looks like a singer. in the end, they r