agents and prosecutors for the most part i m not sailing there are saying there are no exceptions, people who are punl servants who dedicate their lives to service like this don t do their work through a political lens. that doesn t mean they don t have political beliefs, but they are not out to get donald trump because of his politics. they are doing an investigation and following the facts and they will go wherever that takes them. and it doesn t matter who it is that you re investigating. it matters what crimes you re looking at and is there evidence of them. alan dershowitz, one of the claims in one of these tweets is that he says he had a very nasty and contentious business relationship with robert mueller. there has been other reporting that says that this may be around mueller s purported membership at the trump national golf club and a dispute over fees. why is the president elevating this like this? well, first of all, has nothing to do with cohen because cohen is not
and right now this much is clear. cohen has already released one potentially problematic tape involving the president. and he says he has more. we know of something like 183 unique conversations on tape. one of those is with the president of the united states. that s the three-minute one involving, involving the mcdougal payment, ami/mcdougal payment. there are 12 others, maybe 11 or 12 others out of the 183 in which the president is discussed at any length. cohen apparently has a story to tell as well. according to a knowledgeable source, he s prepared to tell robert mueller that the president knew in advance about that 2016 trump tower meeting between his son and a russian lawyer. ken vogel, my sources are telling me that if this is cohen telling the truth and obviously you can imagine that it breaks
second, you re not correct when you said, quote, cohen has already released one tape. if cohen had released that tape, he d be disbarred obviously because it was ruled by the you mean rudy giuliani wasn t correct? okay, i m following. you have to get the facts straight. let me be clear. so, cohen didn t certainly doesn t acknowledge he released the tape because he d be disbarred if he did. the tape leaked as i understand it and only then did rudy giuliani after the content of the tape leaked did he say that he waived that tape. but if cohen, in fact, leaked the tape, he d have a real problem because the judge has ruled the judge who was appointed the former judge has ruled that it was privileged. as far as the smoking gun of collusion, it s a wonderful smoking gun. the problem is there is no such crime as collusion. even if the president colluded with the russians, and even if he knowingly went to the meeting no evidence of this hoping to get material that had already b
very opposite from what michael cohen is saying now about trump s advance knowledge or at least sort of contemporary knowledge of this alleged of this alleged meeting or of this meeting. right. alan dershowitz, you have written the case against impeaching trump ahead of, of course, knowing exactly what robert mueller is going to find. who do you believe here? if cohen is telling the truth and that he knows and can provide evidence of the idea that the president did know about this trump tower meeting ahead of time and proceeded to, you know, write a statement on air force one that was given to the public that expressly said the opposite, how is that not problematic? well, three things. first of all, i wrote the book, case against impeaching trump, because i wanted to layout the criteria for impeachment. and in my view they require the commission of a crime. controversial, people disagree. but obviously if there were evidence of a crime, there would be a case for impeachment.
down a little bit along partisan lines who thinks cohen was lying to them and who thinks cohen is lying now, but at the very least we know that he was asked in these congressional situations whether or not the president knew about the trump tower meeting beforehand. right, and our understanding is that he said no, which was the party line at the time. so for him now to be coming out and saying that he has this bit of evidence, that just so happens to be really the closest thing to a smoking gun that you could have for building the case that he had advance both the collusion case that the president had advance knowledge of an offer by a foreign power to provide something of benefit, potentially in violation of campaign finance laws, to his campaign. and then additionally, the obstruction charge this would be the closest thing to the smoking gun there because the president, as we now know, helped don junior compose and put out this statement that said something