the e.c. defendant and trump want to arbitrate this case. but they got to actually ask for it first. and technically speaking, they haven t asked for arbitration yet. so avenatti is now allowed yet to ask for discovery. so it is a technical denial of the motion, not on the merits, they will absolutely rebring this motion once the e.c. defendants asked for arbitration and i promise you, they will ask for arbitration. you have the president s team saying this is an order without merit and michael avenatti disputing. that when is this likely to happen? what kind of timetable are we looking at for this to go forward. i expect it be clairvoyant. relatively quickly. however it may be one of my favorite foot notes in a long time. this judge and i believe we might have a graphic of it, but this judge has in a foot note in the order said to the parties, essentially, and i m paraphrasing, don t quote me, the parties, you are not the
most important thing on my docket. just essentially saying dial it down. i m not going to treat you special. you may be the the president may be involved or something everyone else cares about, in my court you re no more important than any of my other cases and now that is not exactly what he said in the foot note and there you see it. you have the graphic right there. and it is one of my favorite foot notes in a long time. this judge has indicated just from this order he will follow the rules and read the law and he s going to treat these litigants like any other in his courtroom. so we re focussed on two things. one is the legal documentation and from this judge and the motion that was filed. let me get your perspective on what is happening here. we heard from david swartz, the attorney for michael cohen and coming out and saying the president didn t know about the agreement. the president didn t know about the payment, the $130,000 payment. what do you make of the timing of th
releasing information that would be inappropriate. the republicans didn t do that. so it is also ten pages, a foot note, extraordinary well documented, i would compare it to master s thesis while the republican memo is the kid didn t read the book, he s on two red bulls in the morning trying to write a report. so i ll let it stand on its own if it gets to see the light of day. i ll get back to the partisan aspect of that question in a moment. has the do. o.j. advised some parts of the memo be redacted. not to my knowledge. we haven t had the meeting yet today so i ll find out shortly. do you see that this is this is a partisan memo. but my question is do two wrongs make a right and what are the what does the american public trust. if the criticism is that this
omitted important pieces of information to get a warrant to spy on a fellow citizen. that is what they did. and you know what else they didn t tell them. they didn t tell them they had terminated their relationship with crist fear stee with ste because he was leaking to the press. do you think judges do you think the judges some of the renewals took place after all of this was made public. do you think the judges stick their head in the stand and don t read papers. but no one including you or me knew that christopher steele was fired by the fbi for sharing with the media until recently. and yet three different fisa applications were renewed without that knowledge being given to the judge. don t you think that is a problem? is that a problem. because i don t know what i don t. that is the problem. well we re in favor of releasing everything. and here is one of the things that we ve been criticized saying they didn t have foot note and sources.
york times the next daybreaking out not one but two giant semicolons. halts north vietnam raed joins hanoi peace moves. i think they ran out of steam by that headline. the shock of a president not seeking a seshl term? in any other election year, a sitting president dropping out of the race would have been the headline. whole books would have been written about that one sentence at the end of that speech, instead, that becomes this interesting foot note, a thing that happened one day, and what was an absolutely wild election in 1968. four days after lbj dropped out, martin luther king was assassinated. riots happened all over the country. the guy that was supposed to win the democratic primary was assassinated in california, bobby kennedy.