michael cohen is a very dangerous threat to the president of the united states of america he is. and it s very clear the white house has been trying to bury michael cohen through a series of leaks over the past sort of few months. and i know michael a little bit and i know people that know him, and the people that are familiar with his thinking are very clear that he is acting in what he has decided to be, a patriot. he is acting, in his mind, to help the public understand exactly what happened in 2016, come hell or high water. do you believe that the trump tower moscow deal, or anything else that michael cohen was personally involved in during the course of the campaign, is directly related to russia interfering in the election to help trump, any coordination, conspiracy, collusion between the russian government and the trump campaign to work together to help trump get elected with foreign assistance? there is a small line in the story, both the one with you
i was actually really surprised that they actually confirmed that he made the phone call to peskov. if you recall, he has long held that i just went to kremlin.gov basically and sent an e-mail. i never had any contact with peskov who is fairly high-ranking kremlin official. so it s really curious to me that the special counsel s office has nailed that down. what does that suggest to you about their access to intelligence information and sources? either they have signals intelligence or michael has just given up the goods. either they ve got him or he s simply cooperating. i can t tell at this point which one it is. michael cohen did not previously have a formal cooperation agreement with the government, and he now does. what s the difference? we know he was cooperating before. now he is cooperating under an agreement. it s been suggested to us that maybe the difference is that under cooperation agreement you don t have a choice to hold anything back. you actually have to tell the
extensive sources on this subject, do you feel like if michael cohen is a wide open book to prosecutors, there is nothing that he can hold back, are there areas in which his potential testimony is quite dangerous? oh, god, absolutely. the things that that man knows, the amount notes he kept, the recordings? michael cohen is a very dangerous threat to the president of the united states of america. he is. and it s very clear that the white houses that been trying to bury michael cohen through series over leaks over the past sort of few months and i know michael a little bit. and i know people that know him, and the people that are familiar with his thinking are very clear that he is acting in what he has decided to be a patriot. he is acting in his mind to help the public understand exactly what happened in 2016, come hell or high water. do you believe that the trump
nailed that down. what does that suggest to you about their access to intelligence information and sources? they have signals intelligence or michael is just giving up the goods. either they ve got him and he s or he s simply cooperating. i can t tell at this point which one it is. michael cohen did not free l previously have a formal cooperation agreement with the government, he now does. what s the difference? we know he was cooperating before, now he s cooperating under an agreement. it s been suggested to us that maybe the difference is that under cooperation agreement, you don t have a choice to hold anything back. you actually have to tell them everything. back to like stealing gum balls when you were 8. given your reporting and your extensive sources on this subject, do you feel like if michael cohen is now a wide open book to prosecutors, there s nothing he can hold back? are there areas in which his potential testimony is quite dangerous? oh, god absolutely. things t
also very positive. i would probably disagree with michael a little bit. i don t think that the american people enjoy state of the unions or that they are even the main stakeholders or constituents for that. at least in the white house that i worked in and president bush was in some ways just 180 degrees different than the current president, but it was always an opportunity for different agencies, different political power centers within the administration to battle out, you know, who was going to get their language and their initiatives prioritized. so i think that will still happen a little bit in this white house, but stephen miller s very able. and i think, you know, he ll put together a great speech. i think you ll hear some of the same themes that he talked about in davos, but what he really should talk about is jobs, jobs,