just the beginning. the washington post reports cohen reached out to multiple companies bragging about what he could offer, quote, he showed photos of himself with trump and mentioned how frequently they spoke, even asking people to share news articles describing him as the president s fixer. i m crushing it, he said. cohen s defense it wasn t me well, at least it wasn t all me. his attorney says some of the transactions listed in the original financial document posted online by stormy daniels attorney were wrongfully attributed to michael cohen, the president s fixer. some of them were to other michael cohens. one is in israel, another is from canada. so cohen is off the hook, right? not quite. the moneys that went to the other michael cohens amounted to about $20,000. the total monies listed were more than $4 million. cohen s attorney isn t disputing two of the biggest payments, the $1.2 million from novartis and
unspool. what do you think as someone who is a former federal prosecutor thinking about the psychology, which at this point that s the most important thing, right? what does michael cohen do? and he is scared to death. because prosecutors are going after him like he is a gangster with a law degree. i think it s possible that he s being triple-teamed. one by mueller, who is interested in collusion. did he go to prague? did he not go to prague? the federal new york prosecutors are interested in bank fraud and possibly illegal campaign contributions. and maybe even the new york state attorney general taxi medallions. come on. 16 cell phones were recovered in this search warrant. that s a hell of a detail, isn t it? and all three sets of these prosecutors can share information. and again, it s not looking really good for michael cohen. i would point out actually that part of the when the feds went in and gathered all these records from cohen s well, the hotel where he has been
16 cell phones were recovered in this search warrant. that s a hell of a detail, isn t it? and all three sets of these prosecutors can share information. and again, it s not looking really good for michael cohen. i would point out actually that part of the when the feds went in and gathered all these records from cohen s well, the hotel where he has been staying and from his office, some of the records that they collected were related to ami. i mean, there have been allegations that ami actually inclu colluded with michael cohen in silencing karen mcdougal. there was evidence that mcdougal was in contact with ami as it was working to catch and kill her story there are questions here not just about michael cohen but also ami that may be under criminal investigation. that s a great point. whether ami, do they function as a first amendment protected media entity, which would be my strong bias to view them that
and that of cohen s lawyers. you know, all i can think of, frankly, is that, you know, maybe this relates to the fact that the president saw slippage on the hill in terms of support, on the republican side for this protect mueller legislation. he seems to be pushing michael cohen away. i m not sure why, but i just couldn t help but get that feeling. ken, even his the government used the interview in their filings today. saying, i know that president trump reportedly said on cable television this morning that cohen performs a tiny, tiny fraction of his overall legal work. these statements by two of cohen s they re saying most of the documents will probably not contain something that s privileged. so, you know, he undercut his own case.
i m not sure why, but i just couldn t help but get that feeling. ken, the government used the interview in their filings today saying i know that president trump reportedly said on cable television this morning that cohen provides a tiny, tiny fraction of his overall legal work. these statements by two of cohen s they re saying most of the documents will probably not contain something that s privileged. so, you know, he undercut his own case. i think that s somewhat correct, don. at the end of the day it s hard to say what effect those statements will have the on the case. and the reason for that is that at the end of the day we don t know the full scope of the government s investigation.