rating. i think his core supporters, some family values have priced this all in. they re sticking with the president. let me ask about the ecohen client, sean hannity, new yorker is now reporting that the president and hannity sometimes speak multiple times of day, very often every night around 10:00 p.m. after he finishes the show. what does that tell you? a new version of pillow talk between the two of them they are close, and i think the president watching fox news, and the great piece in new york basically said they gossip, talk about who is up and who is down in the media industry, which by the way, the president was a part of and clearly very interested in.
watergate parallel is when alexander butterfield, a relatively unknown official, went before the senate watergate committee and said there are tapes. there are tapes of conversations in the white house. that just changed everything. yet it seems there s never been a raid like this one in history. one that targeted a president s personal lawyer. i have to believe that a search like this, which is so intrusive on a lawyer, on the president s lawyer, would only be allowed if there were serious crimes. each financial transaction could be its own crime. jennifer rogers is a former federal prosecutor. she said investigators will be looking hard at seized evidence to see if cohen broke any laws. i think they re also looking at associated bank fraud and potentially money laundering crimes where these payments were funneled through shell companies, a home equity loan to
informed me about his prior relationship with mr. davidson. i thought his statement was fascinating. because what his statement said was mr. cohen contacted him and said there is a matter involving you. and the lawyer for the other party has reached out to me and i know him. that s what we know has happened. when you think about that or when the public thinks about that, they have to think about it in the context of everything else we know. this isn t jane doe and john smith, in which case, you know, you give people the benefit of the doubt, you don t jump to conclusions. this is michael cohen and keith davidson. this may have been the first time broidy hired cohen as counsel, but they d both been in trump s orbit for some time. as we understand it they met through the campaign and they appeared to have forged this
donald trump s fixer michael cohen grew up in long island, new york. he left home to attend american university in washington, d.c., and then coolly law school in michigan. he married mary shusterman. cohen was a successful lawyer with a thriving business before he met him. michael cohen never wanted to be a hot shot lawyer. he was very into celebrity culture. he was very into politics. trump biographer michael d antonio says cohen was also a prosperous businessman. he owned a taxi business which he owned a bunch of medallions which up until ten years ago were worth a great deal. according to some reports,
what the heck happened? what happened was lawyers for cohen had just told the court that fox news host shawn hannity was a cohen client. meaning some of the communication between the two could be privileged. michael cohen s attorneys tried every which way not to release this name. and the judge said, no, i m ordering you to release the name and he stood up and he said the name sean hannity. when they said sean hannity it was name in the courtroom, there was a gasp. and i gasped, too, not because i thought it was illegal. because it s certainly not. but it s just so weird. how are you, mr. president? i m very good. and surprising in part because sean hannity reports on the president all the time. until this day he d never revealed he had relationship with president trump s personal attorney. michael cohen never