delay in the stormy daniels case. the last place that cohen wants to be is in a civil courtroom when he has the possibility of a criminal case going on. so those two kind of go together. i mean, look, mueller is still mueller is still the special counsel c-o-u-n-s-e-l. yeah. we still don t know what he has up his sleeve. he has the ability to pull intelligence from all corners of the federal government and intelligence agencies. that s where the jourt of major attention is still focused. hopefully we get some resolution and we re all sort of wiser for it. it s been a long year for us. speaking of wiser for it, that, ladies and gentlemen, is a two-time pulitzer recipient. matt apewza, vivian salama, thank you.
nervous right now about what that means for him. this is a president who in his past life relied very heavily on nondisclosure agreements in terms of the way he did business in general. so suddenly all of these kmupgs communications, these so-called private communications are vulnerable. four threats to the president and presidency, mueller, cohen, comey, stormy. any one of those names chief among equals? i would have to rank them. i wouldn t put stormy up near the top. although the wrinkle to that is for cohen, it becomes a problem, because if you are facing the possibility of a criminal investigation, the last place you want to be is in civil court. so, i can t imagine cohen, we saw that he dropped that his liable lawsuits against buzzfeed. you know, we see that he wants a
mcdougal, who were both, by the way, paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with donald trump, says he has been cooperating with those new york prosecutors. it s been reported that many of the president s the allies fear that case may ultimately be more damaging to him, the new york case, than even the mueller investigation writ large, and that some even believe that cohen might start cooperating with the feds. earlier on this network tonight, harvard law professor, alan dershowitz, told us that that could be why trump recruited rudolph giuliani as counsel in the russia case. where i think the problems may lie are in the southern district of new york, where rudy giuliani used to be the united states attorney. i think this does send a powerful message to michael cohen. the message is, hey, stay strong. we have a really good lawyer in our team, on our team, to focus on the southern district of new
something that plays well to jeff sessions in this whole entire episode. mr. apuzzo, where does mr. cohen, as we head into a weekend, where does he stand legally and what s the anxiety level among intimates of the president, as far as how much trouble he may be in, but perhaps worse, how much trouble he could represent for the president? sure. you know, we could we could get a sense of the seriousness here from the court hearings and from the filings. the search warrant on cohen s offices, his safe deposit box, his computers, his phones, they re looking for evidence of fraud, campaign finance violations, and they re relatively far along in their investigation. so i think it s pretty clear to say, this is a serious investigation. obviously, there are people around the president, around mr. cohen, who expect that this will ultimately lead to some sort of
foreign policy was on it, and they ve been pretty consistent in this idea that they can you know, at first it felt like more brinksmanship with north korea, and they felt like ultimately that would bring kim jong-un to the table. right now he s walking toward the table. you know, it s still mid-story. we don t know how it s going to end, but i think there are people in the trump foreign policy world that would, you know, would like a little bit of credit for moving things in the direction that they ve moved. good answer. thanks for staying up late with us on a friday night. our thanks. because every so often we like to compare where we are to normal and because we re preparing to cover a somber event tomorrow, we thought this friday night would be a perfect opportunity for a conversation with our friend presidential historian and author michael beschloss. so, michael, i have asked some form of this to you a number of times. i have a list here. mueller, cohen, comey, and stormy. j