to stormy daniels actually paid him the taxes that he would have had to pay on $130,000 plus a bonus. the $130,000 becomes $420,000 via phony invoices. i have to tell you, don, you need more than a law degree to keep up with the legal woes and troubles of donald trump. i m a harvard trained lawyer and think i m pretty smart. i m going to let you finish. i was justsying here thinking, like, i feel like the days when i would report on the mafia, trying to keep all of this straight. the lange wanl that s surrounding it, which court it goes to, which person is going to flip, who s going to become, you know, flip for the prosecution. defense. on and on. it s like am i talking about the president of the united states, the beperson who promised to hi all the best people. the people who are leading this country. go on. i digress. sorry. no, i m just my sentiments exactly. this criminal enterprise is so massive and every day, there s a
publicity seeking, they may not get the chance. brian, i want to bring you in now. i want it read a portion of the new cover story, new cover story for time magazine. you said the courtroom drama brought all the president s legal and political problems together in a single supernova. it highlighted trump s sor rid history with women. h his willingness to blur the lines between business and politics and growing fallout from the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. worse, the explosion came minutes after trump s one-time campaign chairman paul manafort was convicted on eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud in a case prosecuted by mueller s deputies. and if followed, revolutions that white house counsel don mcgahn has cooperated extensively with mueller s probe, sitting for more than 30 hours of detailed and candid interviews. you say things can get worse, much worse, for the president, legally, politically, or both, what are you saying? this is just the beginni
for tonight. but one of the things i think it s also at a rate that is seen as fair to whoever it is. right. look, south africa is dealing with brutal inequities from apartheid that have not really been reconciled with even decades afterwards. i think what s important, though, in looking at donald trump s tweet is remembering this. the republican party was basically pro-apartheid in the 1980s. donald trump didn t take this from nowhere. ronald reagan called nelson mandela terrorist, put him on the terrorist watch list. dick cheney voted against a resolution calling for releasing him from prison. down the line, william f. buckley, jerry fallwell, pat robertson, basically said we prefer the apartheid government to mandela and the african national congress. trump didn t come out with this from nowhere. this was a longstanding position of the american right and the republican party going back to the time that america was supposedly great back before barack obama. that s where trump g
she says that trump made his defamatory statements with common law malice. how do you see this case playing out? this is a very significant case, don, because a judge has already ruled this case can go forward. we should step back and remember that donald trump and his team tried to get this case dismissed. they argued that a sitting president shouldn t be bothered with a civil lawsuit and this case should be stayed for all purposes until he was out of office but a state court judge in new york rejected that argument and said, no, this case can move forward and discovery can actually commence in this case, so not only sould we expect to see summer zervos and her attorney, gloria allred, seek to get information from other women who said they were actually involved in sexual affairs with donald trump but should see, again, like michael avenatti wants to oppose donald trump, we should expect summer zervos and her legal team are going to want to depose donald trump since they re alleging
a stay will be lifted in a civil case ear you will have the right to depose trump. so why do think you ll be able to depose and what you think you re going to get. stkpwhrrs the entire purpose of the stay was, as argued by michael cohen s attorneys too, see what s going to hap in in the government s investigation. it it s basically over because he skwrusz pled out two days ago. as it relates to the deposition, we ve laid out our rational and i think we re on better footing now, first of michael cohen, of tkaopb don. what the president knew, what the communications burr tween him and michael cohen.