records to determine whether there was anything covered by the attorney/client privilege so they know what michael cohen can say and can t say. do you think that lanny is taking a few pages out of michael avenatti s book? are we seeing an evolution in tv lawyering here? i don t think so. he hasn t done that much. he s made a few statements. michael avenatti was constantly on every single show he could get on, constantly doing kind of showman types of activities, showing up at judge kimba woods courtroom to make statements even though he didn t have standing there. i don t think that s happening here. i think for whatever reason michael cohen wants it to be known that he is done with trump and open to cooperating and i think he wouldn t do that unless he knows he has information mueller would be interested in and knows he can corroborate it with information in those records.
today michael cohen s lawyers asked a federal judge in new york city to bar michael avenatti from the courtroom in the michael cohen case because michael avenotti publicly released those private bank records of michael cohen s. in their submission to federal judge kimba woods, his lawyers said mr. avenatti s deliberate public dissemination of confident nonpublic information speaks to his character and lack of fitness to appear before this court as well as his craving to create a carnival atmosphere in this case. mr. avenotti s conduct in publishing confidential nonpublic bank records without concern for lawfulness of their disclosure or accuracy was inappropriate and was intended to unfairly prejudice mr. cohen. with his response, attorney michael avenotti, and also with us vanity fair s emily jane fox, now an msnbc contributor. michael avenatti what s your
response to michael cohen s lawyers today seeking to have you, in effect, barred from the courtroom in the michael cohen case? lawrence, good evening. of course they want to bar me from the courtroom in the proceeding because we ve made considerable inroads over the last eight weeks. we ve disclosed some damaging, accurate information relating to michael cohen and his activities. and we re not going anywhere, lawrence. regardless of what happens by way of this motion before the honorable judge kimba woods, who you know and i know, and she s an exceptional judge. regardless of what happens, we re not going anywhere. i m not going anywhere and my client is not going anywhere. we re going to see to it that the truth of what happened here is laid bare for the american people and the evidence is laid bare for the american people. michael cohen and his attorneys don t like us because we speak the truth. they don t like us because we disclose accurate information about the sa flanagans and
the case because michael avenatti publically released those private bank records in their submission to kimba woods, his lawyers said mr. avenatti s deliberate public dissemination of confident nonpublic information speaks to his character and lack of fitness to appear before this court mr. avenatti s conduct in publicing confidential nonpublic bank records was inappropriate and was to intended to unfairly prejudice mr. cohen. with us is michael avenatti and emily jane fox. michael avenatti what s your response to the lawyers seeking to have you barred from the courtroom in the michael cohen case? lawrence, good evening.
happens regularly. so the prosecutors would have to be in on. it the judge, the agents. as a matter of law, can the prosecutor say this is the sentence? no. there are so many safety checks built into the system and that s the point. they re ignoring all of those, so the judge decides the sentence, the prosecutors don t decide and in a white collar case in particular as we say in the op-ed, the idea that you could manufacture a story like this, you d have to have started it pretty much like ten years ago. you would have to have started planting the seeds for this so it doesn t make sense. and to take their theory to its logical conclusion, it means really what they re saying is this happens in every case or many cases so we should basically let drug dealers, violent gang members, rapists, we should let them all out of jail because clearly there s