they could. today it was revealed after three months of paying michael cohen $100,000 a month, there was no business reason to do so but they were afraid to stop paying him because they were afraid of the reaction of the president of the united states. so they went on to pay michael cohen an additional $900,000 because they were afraid, in effect, of retribution from the president of the united states. zb zb yeah, some red flags here. first the shifting stories. they issued a couple of statements. and then the fear of retribution. it may be something they assumed themselves without any warnings from someone else. so i want to be careful not to make allegations at this stage. but as a prosecutor investigating this, is this some sort of pay to play scheme? in some of the cases my former
i imagine robert mueller will use them with a grain of salt because of the shifting stories that we ve seen here. but it s really legally perilous for a lawyer to get out there and make these statements on behalf of his client. and, ashley parker, your paper included a story on saturday and i heard it today from sources close to white house counsel don mcgahn and new russia lawyer emmet flood that those two lawyers who have a lot of responsibilities, flood in the russia investigation and don mcgahn as white house counsel, have not green lit whatever this strategy is that rudy and the president seem to be carrying out. is that do you have anything new on that today? so, that was certainly true initially. not did they just not green light, but they had no idea what was coming. there was a sense that in at least one of the clean up efforts, i believe it was on friday, rudy giuliani sort of put out a statement trying to walk back some of the stuff he said previously, that there was
get reimbursed and there was it was not a dough nine, an in-kind donation to the campaign. on the other hand, trump did not reimburse the money prior to the election, so he had no disclosure obligations. that could potentially get them both off the hooks. there are holes in that strategy, but the problem is that s not what giuliani has said. his shifting stories make it more complicated. in the aftermath of the fox & friends interview that michael cohen was quite outs. that this coo could be an ever to try to take more of the hoot off of cohen in other to hem him
there was no reason he had to go on fox news on that day to do this. so you would think if they re choosing to send him out on fox news, that he would have read some papers about it. what is behind i mean, do we know what s behind the shifting stories? right. and on top of that let s remember rudy guiliani isn t wasn t brought on board to be part of the stormy daniels case. i mean, all of that dealing with michael cohen, the payment, so forth, that s run out of new york. rudy guiliani was brought on to represent the president in the robert mueller investigation which makes it even more puzzling that he would go on and just bring up these details that only added confusion. it does seem like there are shifting stories. the president came out today and said the story hasn t changed at all, but best case scenario is it just created a lot of confusion because the president had said aboard air force one he didn t know about the payment michael cohen made to stormy
rudy guiliani didn t just start when he gave that fox news interview. also, i mean, there s no there was no reason he had to go on fox news on that day to do this. so you would think if they re choosing to send him out on fox news, that he would have read some papers about it. what is behind i mean, do we know what s behind the shifting stories? right. and on top of that let s remember rudy giuliani isn t wasn t brought on board to be part of the stormy daniels case. i mean, all of that dealing with michael cohen, the payment, so forth, that s run out of new york. rudy giuliani was brought on to represent the president in the robert mueller investigation which makes it even more puzzling that he would go on and just bring up these details that only added confusion. it does seem like there are shifting stories. the president came out today and said the story hasn t changed at