compare him to the other people in the situation, the other point i want to make sure doesn t get lost, the lawyers i think will appreciate this, they kept comparing to cases where there was a single count of back t taxes that celebrities didn t pay. michael cohen is facing many counts felonies that he pled to lying to these different institutions. he s in the position where but for the search we wouldn t be able to put the lie to him, and but for lanny davis and rudy giuliani, he wouldn t have had this tape go out there that corroborated him enough that these deals were going on paying off women for favors. and that just killed him. and he had a significant choice, and i think lanny signed up because he was convinced this guy would now see the light and tell the truth. and he could be the most he could be the most explosive thing that s happened. it s out of washington. it s in new york.
which at the time i thought was kind of an interesting question and didn t pay too much mind to it until, of course, a couple years later when we realized that his reference was quite specific. in 1992, in the midst of his presidential run, clinton was blindsided by his past. bill clinton took his case to the people today saying the woman who claims a love affair is a liar. unlike hart, clinton dug in and refused to budge. he ll do anything. he will lie with his finger in the face of the american media when he knows he s lying. and he will lie under oath. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. and he will do or say whatever he has to do to get around that other obstacle and get to the governing part. but few politicians could match clinton s prowess with a media bent on the hunt. and the body count of ruined political careers mounted well into the new millenium.
pending for some time. it looks to me, feels to me that, and this may be completely the opposite of the way the president would think, but it feels to me that the more the cases get tried and the more that it gets public, that manafort essentially didn t pay taxes, and benefitted in this extravagant way financially, and remember, the september case is going to be all about the political side as well. so it is the heat is going to continue to turn up. i think personally i think it gets harder and harder for the president to pardon him. jeff, do you agree with that, that it gets harder? again, this is a president who often, that may be the conventional wisdom, and a sensible way of looking at it. it doesn t mean it s the way the president views it. you know, conventionally, you know, no president would even consider pardoning someone who was so close to him. and remember how seedy the behavior was here. i mean, basically, what this case was about was lying about how much money you
or not they ll retry, and the d.c. case. the president has that power. he hasn t exercised that power yet, and these cases have been pending for some time. it looks to me, feels to me that, and this may be completely the opposite of the way the president would think, but it feels to me that the more the cases get tried and the more that it gets public, that manafort essentially didn t pay taxes, and benefitted in this extravagant way financially, and remember, the september case is going to be all about the political side as well. so it is the heat is going to continue to turn up. i think personally i think it gets harder and harder for the president to pardon him. jeff, do you agree with that, that it gets harder? again, this is a president who often, that may be the conventional wisdom, and a sensible way of looking at it. it doesn t mean it s the way the president views it. you know, conventionally, you know, no president would even consider pardoning someone who was so close
which at the time i thought was kind of an interesting question and didn t pay too much mind to it until, of course, a couple years later when we realized that his reference was quite specific. in 1992, in the midst of his presidential run, clinton was blindsided by his past. bill clinton took his case to the people today saying the woman who claims a love affair is a liar. unlike hart, clinton dug in and refused to budge. he ll do anything. he will lie with his finger in the face of the american media when he knows he s lying. and he will lie under oath. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. and he will do or say whatever he has to do to get around that other obstacle and get to the governing part. but few politicians could match clinton s prowess with a media bent on the hunt. and the body count of ruined political careers mounted well