october to january. and we ll learn in a couple of weeks when they put out their nextamnance filing how much more they will have paid for cohen s legal work. maybe they re fed up with paying it, maybe trump has cut him off. that would lead to that could lead to the sort of break where we may be seeing today. and there s this reporting from the times just before we came on the air, the trump family has been paying for the time-consuming and enoously expensive process of reviewing the voluminous materials seized in the raids a to people familiar with the case. recently, however, a dispute has erupted he amount that mr. cohen s lawyers want to charge the trump family enterprises for the review. that hourly rate, again, which the lawyers have said they re ru lar assonnon mentio the disagreement could further isolate mr. cohen from mr. trump, a risky move for the president. this is from a piece tonight in the new york times.
they re torturing the guy. they re trying to frighten him. he handled delicate matters in trump s personal and professional life. here is cohen on the subject of his client prior to the inauguration. i ll do anything to protect mr. trump, the family. fortunately mr. trump has a ke to hat t number of people. little circle of extremely loyal people. and we will do what s necessary to protect him and the office of the presidency. that raid of cohen s home and office a few months back yielded a large trove of documents, in addition to numerous cell phones and computer, which the feds are using to try to figure out if he broke the law during any of his siness activities, including paying out things like hush money to porn star stormy daniels who claimed to have an affair with trump. while cohen described his relationship with trump as offering protection, here s how trump described it.
donald trump would pursue and win a judgement against her for defamation. cohen s alleged bullying would be unleashed on members of the press. at the first republican debate in 2016 hosted by fox news, megyn kelly challenged donald trump. you called women you don t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter only rosie o donnell. cohen took to twitter to strike back. he tweeted, let s gut her, about megyn kelly who trump was critical of during the campaign. she was upset about this, understandably so. it s very simply. if anybody was in his mind going after his boss, he was going to fight back. it s a lawyer that trump would want. a news website also felt cohen s wrath.
fight back. it s a lawyer that trump would want. a news website also felt cohen s wrath. they wrote a story about a deposition that trump s first wife had given in a case. in that deposition, she said that she had been raped by trump. it s a claim she later withdrew. according to the daily beast, when their reporter called cohen for comment, he unleashed a verbal assault on him. i believe the sentiment was, he was going to ruin his life. this is not the way that most attorneys operate. this is why he became a valued member of the trump organization. cohen was not afraid to go nose to nose with politicians he saw as a threat to donald trump. air being schneider man alleged fraud against donald trump s for profit college business.
michael would represent me and represent me on some things. he represents me like with this crazy stormy daniels deal. he represented me and, you know, from what i see, he did absolutely nothing wrong. we also know that cohen was paid by a company with ties to one of russia s wealthiest oligarchs, viktor vekselberg who reportedly met with cohen during the transition and at the inauguration. cohen then worked on a s project to build a trump tower in moscow and his name appears in the steele dossier. here in new york, nelson cunningham, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york who worked under rudy giuliani and along sides james comey among others. he s also the former general counsel under president clinton