mr. cohen has no explanation. the phone either cut off or stopped recording. so we don t know why it suddenly got clipped off, but we do know that donald trump uses the word cash . and then check . at the very, very end after donald hears excuse me after mr. trump hears mr. cohen say, no, no, no, no, then we hear mr. trump say check after. all right. after mr. cohen says, no, no, no, no. but mr. giuliani said it was my client, michael cohen, who used the word cash. that was false. in speaking with rudy giuliani today, he does not make the case, at least to me, that cohen said he wanted to pay with cash and trump said, no, use a check. he says that his point is that the president wanted cohen to pay by check, not cash, because he wanted this dealt with on the up and up. so i would say walking back, but i have by the way, we have statements sorry about putting my hand in front of your face. put up for the audience some of giuliani s statements, which
and cohen was asked how he would respond if his legal team tried to come after him. he cohen said i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone s defense strategy. i am no a villain of the story and i will not allow others to depict me that way. what do you make of this interview, the final breaking of the relationship between president trump and michael cohen? is that i mean, he is making it very clear his loyalty is with his family. his loyalty is with his country. not with the president. not something you hear often in trump world. not at all. something we haven t heard cohen say. we had that mashup of him reaffirming his loyalty to trump no matter what. this is the first time we ve heard cohen speak since the raid on his home office and hotel room in april. he strongly is attacking these points of components that trump has been strong on. he s saying very clearly, you know, his loyalty is to his family and crystal clear. this comes after he s been
michael cohen had anything to do with its decision not to pursue a story about a love child. we have from multiple sources that michael cohen was directly involved and had conversations about this. michael cohen did not respond or take kindly when we called him. but we will see i think over time just how much evidence there is behind him being directly involved including because as you know the fbi raids of his office and his hotel room earlier this week were specifically looking for communications related to these kind of transactions to kill stories. as i understand there are two former ami employees who told you about this at the publisher. talk to me about this important connection and what did cohen say. has he responded? we narrated efforts to get a comment from him in the piece. he has not responded to that
hotel room earlier this week were specifically looking for communications related to these kind of transactions to kill stories. as i understand there are two former ami employees who told you they believe michael cohen was connected to this payment and in close contact with executives at the publisher. talk to me about this important connection and what did cohen say. has he responded? we narrate our efforts to get a comment from him in the piece. he has not responded to that claim. the so-called hush payments, do you think we re going to see more of these coming out connected to the president? you know, i m not going to speculate beyond what we ve reported, but we certainly now have seen three instances of what appears to be and legal experts say, in fact, is now a pattern of efforts to bury stories. and certainly it is consistent with other matters i ve reported on where you see a certain echelon of powerful and influential person who is able
litigation with donald trump. he s been sued by donald trump. he only threatened to sue me. so tim you ve seen donald trump in litigation. those are the days when he stumbled into unwinnable litigation, trying to sue you for liable, which you easily won. but today is a different story and he has different issues to protect. it seems to me as i watch this thing, the way for donald trump to make michael avenatti disappear is to have cohen say, there is no confidentiality agreement and just completely cave on the suit that michael has brought trying to void the confidentiality agreement. it s gone anyway. she s on 60 minute, it s gone. the tooth paste is out of the tube. drop this and the case is over. they ve gone so far down the rabbit hole on. michael is right. they planted a number of legal