seven hours. i was struck by the way how by and all of bravado with it was a deflated man, hootd the republicans, namely jim word rorn they tried to engage him and enrage him and getting him off talksing pounts toward the end of the day, united states you haddy sensely the junior most democrats to go and question cohen, as some people might have turned the hearing off when they came back from that extended debate to go vote.
things you can call them because when you go to prison that means a snitch. i m just saying. so the president called you a rat. we re better than that! we really are. and i m hoping that all of us can get back to this democracy that we want and that we should be passing on to our children so that they can do better than what we did. so you wonder whether people believe you? i don t know. i don t know whether they believe you. but the fact is that you ve come, you have your head down and this has got to be one of the hardest things that you could do. let me tell you the picture that really, really pained me, you were leaving the prison, you were leaving the courthouse and i guess it s your daughter had braces or something on, man, that thing hurt me.
part of the reason the public is obsessed with michael cohen, they all recognize a certain every man quality in his strengths and many, many weaknesses, the kind of schleper who got seduced and then betrayed and is seeking either retribution or all of it is shakespearean. to see it play out the way it played out yesterday is kind of gripping. the ways that cohen talked about trump are ways that people can relate to. to your point about republicans, there s no question the republicans behaved contemptibly in many cases in terms of how they tried to make their case against cohen, but the political thing that is most significant is the degree to which they made no effort not just to not find the truth, they made no efforts to do that, but they made no effort to try to discredit the
the reason still with me, we have couple ul ad man danny deutch, john heilemann and eugene robinson. garrett haake who covered the hearings yesterday and scholar at new york university school of law and bob bauer, o served up the question about president obama. when i acted yesterday please were talking about the possibility that this was the first step toward impeachment hearings. did anything in yesterday s hearings make the possibility, the spectra of impeachment pore
cuts you loose and you can t speak back and the other guy and his henchmen and giuliani on a daily basis or destroying you. talk about an unfair fight. it changed yesterday. for the first time. and he couldn t speak. he couldn t speak. and talk about an unfair fight. talk about a strong man and a weak man. one other personal anecdote, it important to know, michael at some point was obsessing at one point. he s never had a drink ever. he s never taken a sleeping pill. he has never taken an ant anti-depressa anti-depressant. i would be curled up in a corner main lining zoloft.