limitation that he puts on donald trump so the statements about joe fani willis and jack smith this defendant, and we can now say defendant, not forme president this defendant knows what is coming and he is conditioning the market becaus he knows what is going t happen and he knows he s going to have to figure out is defenses he s going to have to say don t believe them and that s why you re saying that. it is harder in state cour than in federal court to have gag order, but in both court why is that in federal court let s start with this version of the question. why is it easier in federa court? in federal court there ar two bases. one is that almost every federal court has what i called a free press fair trial rule so automatically, there is a gag order. there are certain things, an it s not about violence, it is about saying things about th case what they want to do is make sure that one party or the
but the question came up in ou coverage earlier about why the southern district of new york, after the trump administration was gone and after merrick garland and the ne administration was in charge o the southern district of new york, why they didn t go forward with this kind o prosecution against donald trump when he had been named a individual one in the michae cohen case, where michael cohe went to prison through tha federal case i had suggested that som former u.s. attorneys in the southern district have sai that the policy there is fou witnesses like michael cohen t tell the u.s. attorneys ever single line they have ever crossed in their lives everything since isaac. and that michael cohen wasn willing to do that, an therefore the southern distric did not want to rely on him in a case like this is that why the southern
but they do have some real professionals there, wil actually be quite happy to enter into an agreement with the prosecution that say donald trump cannot take any o these documents home if we showed donald trum documents in preparation o testimony and consideration of evidence, we lawyers have to maintain possession of those documents. donald trump cannot have them. because they do not trus donald trump with thos documents than any more than anybody else would yeah, i would agree that. the credibility that the counsel has, which unfortunately the client doe not, much like at times michae cohen does not, because they are not controlled outside o the courtroom, and they do think that hurt the case and hurt themselves. so it is refreshing that you know you have a professional attorneys who have been around the block many times we ar going to make sure that this i done it correctly. unfortunately, if you ve learned both with michael cohe and the former president, yo can only do so much as
are based on the payoff scheme that michael cohen was a part, of paying off stormy daniels there is nothing else in those counts except that scheme. did you expect any other criminal elements in thi indictment, other than the stormy daniels payoff scheme but no, since michael testified publicly to tens o millions of people, and starte that by saying he did donald trump s dirty deeds, he lied he did a lot of things he ashamed of, he was sorry and didn t expect forgiveness. now for his wife and his family, he was going to tell the truth and the first thing that i discovered the night we gave him what you would note in the congress, lawrence, as a murde board, which is to put a witness through some very toug questions. i asked him, where are the checks that you are written by the trump organization i didn t know the sittin president wrote checks
or certainly, a threat to your life and limb if you are i prison to be called a rat. so, michael cohen was attacked every night. and a lot of time, by talkin heads who had no idea what the were talking about, speculatin and then attacking michael i feel obligated and alway have, lawrence, as you know me to protect my client reputation in the media. if the client is being smeared and family and home and hearth but, need to be defended b lawyers. in the media if they re bein attacked, michael cohen ha been defending himself fro these attacks, which he does not deny, for the ten year that he worked for donal trump. he said that in front of ten of millions of people, i lie for donald trump now, i want to turn my life or out. and the attacks on him never finish the sentence. he did almost all the things h pled guilty to, on behalf of for the benefit of donal trump. he did not have the allege affairs. he did not pay the money t hush up, because he was runnin for president ended when the amer