thing that made sense for it, which is drop this case this civil case involving karen mcdougal. that doesn t do anything to slow down the federal criminal investigation which has already been provoked by all of this, but at least they got out of the way of the civil case that could put them into revealing things publically in the civil case that they re going to have to reveal in the criminal case. donald trump and michael cohen continue to make the same mistake on their sides of it, they haven t dropped their civil case against stormy daniels, which they should have done a long time ago. the big thing that s happening is you have a series of federal and state crimes happening in parallel. michael cohen is facing what i list as 10 different areas of state crimes. and state crimes are unaffected by federal presidential pardons. and president trump cannot fire state prosecutors. when i hear the story about the trump lawyer, goldberg, i think it s obvious. any lawyer will tell michael
the republican chairman of the judiciary committee is demanding that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein turn over memos written by former fbi director james comey which the justice department say remain confidential material in the investigation. jerry nadler says if house republicans refuse any accommodation short of the department of justice handing over custody of these documents, which it cannot do, i fear the majority will have manufactured an excuse to hold the deputy attorney general in contempt of congress, if they succeed in tarnishing the deputy attorney general perhaps they will have given president trump the pretext he has sought to replace rod rosenstein with someone willing to do his biddingen and end the special counsel s investigation. mika, your reaction to what you
it s remarkable that the search warrant they had to go through attorney/client, and get what they had. i would say given the news reports, just about the campaign finance, it was so clear that michael cohen was left under the bus, was thrown under the bus for a campaign finance violation we know this investigation was going on before that admission. also there s a lot of reporting about michael cohen s background, over a decade and all the work he was doing behind the scenes opinion it wouldn t be surprising if it was much more than campaign finance violations that prosecutors had solid probable cause for. john hileman go ahead. in the period of time that michael cohen has worked for the donald trump and the trump organization, it s the period of time that the trump organization was on its global expansion spree. we ve read a lot about the fact that michael cohen was the one who engineered the letter of intent to put up a trump tower in moscow as late as october of 2015, when don
trump s first divorce. that was the case in which donald trump s first wife, and mother of his first three children, accused him of raping her during their marriage. michael cohen was the ignorant lawyer who said, when the trump marital rape story was revisited during the presidential campaign, that it is legally impossible for a husband to rape his wife. jay goldberg, who handled that case, an accomplished lit ga or the, knows better and successfully steered donald trump through what had already become a very messy scandalous divorce before jay goldberg became donald trump s lawyer. the wall street journal reports that the white house confirmed that president trump did indeed pick up the phone and call jay goldberg seeking legal advice on friday.
investigation. that s fair. but why did he kick out my boss and the attorney general? what do you think of that? i think that s part and parcel of this whole book tour, which again i can say the treatment of james comey by donald trump seems to me obvious effort to obstruct justice, stephen colbert is right, why do you fire the guy investigating you for collusion, unless you want to get rid of the investigation. at the same time, it seems that james comey is unwilling to have any self-analysis, awareness, really understand what he did in the situation. he paints himself as a hero, where savannah is right, if you feel the president is making inappropriate statements, you should say it. if you feel like he s intimidating you, you should say it. if you think he s trying to