welcome back to velshi and ruhle. rudy giuliani s old law firm is distancing itself on comments he made about making payments for clients. giuliani responded to allegations of hush money payments by cohen this way, that was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way i would do out of his law firm funds. michael would take care of things like this like i take care of things like this for my clients. the official explanation from the law firm after recognizing this work is all consuming and lasting longer than initially anticipated, rudy has determined it s best for him to resign from the firm. joining us live, jennifer rogers, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york.
by by his lawyer out of his law firm funds. michael would take cake of things like this like i take care of things like this for my clients. so after giuliani s resignation we received this response. we cannot speak with mr. giuliani speaking for ourselves we would not condone payments of the nature to have been made without the knowledge and direction of a client. yesterday a firm spokes person told nbsz news the times had mischaracterized their remarks which they say was an answer to the earl yes questions of the week. so on the same day the vice president mike pence said it s time to wrap up the special counsel probe, white house chief
firm final. they said it was in everybody s best interest. giuliani s firm was not happy with some of his comments, especially this one here about how he might have handled the hush money payment to stormy daniels. i m going to read this to you. that money was paid by his lawyer like i would do, with law firm funds. that works, right? now you know that actually lawyers don t do that. i wondered when giuliani said that. who is he doing that for, and which law firm is going to authorize their lawyers to pay out hush money payments from the firm s money? and i think the other part of this is that cohen did it without telling trump, without telling his client, which is another thing that lawyers say is just totally ethically out of
full-time in washington. and now that law firm is taking issue with giuliani s recent defense of michael cohen s payment to stormy daniels. help us explain this. sure. let s go back do how giuliani down played the payments on fox news originally. that was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way i would do out of his law firm funds or whatever funds, doesn t matter. like i take care of things like this for my clients. i don t burden them with every single thing that comes along. these are busy people. now apparently giuliani s law firm disagrees with that approach as you pointed out. officially resigned apparently the negotiating with mueller thing takes longer than he expected an his law firm put out a statement in which they said they can t speak for mr. giuliani with respect to the remarks and we would not condone
news and said donald trump paid back michael cohen for that $130,000 payment and you might also remember he defended michael cohen s payment saying there s nothing to see here, lawyers do these kind of things all the time. here he is. that was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way i would do, out of his law firm funds or whatever funds, doesn t matter. like i take care of things like this for my clients. i don t burden them with every single thing that comes along. these are busy people. that law firm, greenberg traurig is add dreadsing those comments. here s what they said we cannot speak to mr. giuliani, speaking for ourselves, we would not condone payments of the nature alleged without the knowledge and direction of a client. i should note that giuliani said he meant to go on temporary leave from his role at this law firm but he has now decided to