Michael schmidt. The context is report. Lets revisit what had happened. Michael cohen had been involved with the paying of hush money to two women that claimed they had sex with the president. He was the president s longtime lawyer and fixer and the feds raided his home and office. The initial expressed support for Michael Cohen. Rudy guliani called him honest. When cohen told the court that trump ordered him to make the payments and as we reported here testified that the president was an unindicted coconspirator, he turned on the president. So Jeff Sessions was out and Matt Whitaker was put in. He was an attorney and an cnn contributor. He said the Mueller Investigation went too far and trumps finances were beyond muellers purview. As acting attorney general, he said to associates that his job was to protect the president. The times report he told associates that his job was to jump on a grenade for the president. So with Michael Cohen cooperating and the investigation building, the t