john dean, i m so glad you re here because you ve gone through this before. a snippet of the tape. i ve spoken to alan wieselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding yes. and it s all the stuff. because you never know where that company, you never know where he s going to be you never know if he ll get hit by a truck. correct. i m all over that. i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing what financing? we ll have to pay pay with cash? no, no, no, no, no. check? so john, michael cohen had said at one point he wanted to be the john dean of the story. what s your reaction to this tape tonight? well, it s interesting, i m somebody who has listened to an awful lot of tapes back in the nixon era and more recently thousands of them for nixon s conversations, every conversation he did on
here because you ve gone through this before. a snippet of the tape. i ve spoken to alan wieselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding yes. and it s all the stuff. because you never know where that company, you never know where he s going to be you never know if he ll get hit by a truck. correct. i m all over that. i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing what financing? we ll have to pay pay with cash? no, no, no, no, no. check? so john, michael cohen had said at one point he wanted to
being america s mayor. i grew up in rural texas. but he was my mayor. the problem is now the first line of his obituary is not going to be someone who brought the nation through a national tragedy and strengthened our institutions. it s going to be someone who led the charge to destroy those institutions. before 9/11, his rating wasn t that good here in new york. 9/11 helped him with that. they don t talk about partisan politics. but if you look at what they re doing as a matter of principle, attacking our system of justice, it s something that we should all stop and really focus on. it s incredible. so john, why would giuliani give these interviews apparently with the blessing of the president? what is the strategy here? i can t believe it s a strategy, don. it really, i think it s just totally ad-hoc.
partisan politics. but if you look at what they re doing as a matter of principle, attacking our system of justice, it s something that we should all stop and really focus on. it s incredible. so john, why would giuliani give these interviews apparently with the blessing of the president. what is the strategy here? i can t believe it s a strategy, don. it really, i think it s just totally ad-hoc. it s rudy showing off his newfound power and he s really pushing the envelope when he s doing it. the whole scene in the news room today made me flash back on ron ziegler, who was nixon s press secretary during watergate. ziegler had a real thing about not going into the press room and losing the confidence through dishonest statements to the press. and when he didn t feel he could brief, he didn t go out. he went out he sent one of when he realized he had all of his facts wrong, he declared
american citizen. it s the whole thing, and the point you made about the special counsel motivation. that alone makes it important government research or government information, so it s all, we re going to learn a lot once this ig report comes out and then there s brennan and chapper senator so john has been out in the press criticizing president trump along with mr. clapper, yesterday brennan tweeted this, before trump your hipocracy knows no bounds, jim clapper is a man of integrity, honesty health ices and morality you are not. jim clapper served his country for over a half century including vietnam you did not and by your words and behavior you diminished the office of the presidency. here we have the former head of the cia, the former head of intelligence you ve got clapper and brennan trashing the president meanwhile they may very well have been in on the fix to try to knock down donald trump and keep hillary clinton in charge. does brennan and clapper