and here they told it second. cynthia, let me walk you over to the edge of professional courtesy and ask about mr. cohen. we note his name is not on any of the short lists for the supreme court. what kind of lawyer is or was he? oh, mr. cohen is the kind of lawyer that you hire if you want to do dirty back room deals, if you want someone to help to skirt the law with you. that s why donald trump picked him. he could have picked laurence tribe, but he didn t. he picked michael cohen and he did it for a reason. now, he s going to pay. it s the old classic saying, if you lie down with the dogs, you get up with the fleas. wow. i want badly to end on that word, but phil rucker, one more question. kaitlan collins of cnn, never met her, i watch her work every day, as a viewer, she seems like a first rate white house correspondent. what did you make of her being singled out for doing what we all do every day, yelling out in the oval office, many times the
dictated misleading statement in his son s name, or there s a tape and it shows that the president knew that the national inquirer had the rights to this story about an alleged affair, and every time they say they don t know anything about it or the story is false, it s fake news, then time after time, it turns out it s real, and then they just say, move on. so we ll see what happens, if they can enhance the tape, i guess. let s turn to a former fed. all right, cynthia, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. short of hiring a sky writer, as i ve said before, it appears mr. cohen is anxious to work with the feds. two questions for you. how does this tape being out there affect that bid? and secondly, what do you make of the tape? well, i don t think it does mr. cohen any good to have released the tape. what we ve seen over the last couple of months is cohen trying
they say they don t know anything about it or the story is false, it s fake news, then time after time, it turns out it s real, and then they just say, move on. so we ll see what happens, if they can enhance the tape, i guess. let s turn to a former fed. all right, cynthia, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. short of hiring a sky writer, as i ve said before, it appears mr. cohen is anxious to work with the feds. two questions for you. how does this tape being out there affect that bid? and secondly, what do you make of the tape? well, i don t think it does mr. cohen any good to have released the tape. what we ve seen over the last couple of months is cohen trying to get a pardon from trump. he was sort of fishing for a pardon, and that went nowhere.
we ll see how it goes. and that was not reassuring to cohen. and then you have giuliani making these statements, talking about how the tape is going to be exculpatory, it s going to be good for donald trump. and, you know, the hiring of lanny davis, you don t hire lanny davis if you want to be quiet and lay low. you hire lanny davis if you want to be on television and you want to get your side out and you want a fight on cable news. and so, yeah, whether or not that s ultimately good for michael cohen, i don t know. but lanny davis book subtitle is tell it all, tell it first and tell it yourself. and here they told it second. cynthia, let me walk you over to the edge of professional courtesy and ask about mr. cohen. we note his name is not on any of the short lists for the supreme court. what kind of lawyer is or was he? oh, mr. cohen is the kind of lawyer that you hire if you want to do dirty back room deals, if you want someone to help to skirt the law with you. cynthia, let
thought the president no longer cared about his plight and became furious when rudy giuliani contradicted his accounts, according to his associates. in cohen s gravest hour, as one associate described it, trump was leaving him out in the wilderness. the result is open warfare between attorney and former client. with that, let s bring in our lead-off panel for a wednesday night. matt apuzzo, pulitzer prize winning new york times reporter, cynthia objectionny, former federal prosecutor, and the aforementioned phillip rucker, pulitzer prize winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. phil, you report tonight that there are over 100 more recordings that cohen has made that have been seized by the feds but that this one we just heard was the longest and most substantive.