next john dean, the white house counsel who brought down richard nixon. and tomorrow morning he will speak with stephanopoulos. and now he is getting attacked by the president. you know michael. he has been on your show. we know. he s a good person. let me just tell you that, michael is in business. he s really a business man. a fairly big businesses, i understand. i can tell you, he s a good guy. this was someone who surreptitiously recorded. terrible. is now known as a criminal liar but someone in your inner circle. yeah. well it happens. look, it happens. i hire usually good people n. retrospect, i made a mistake. it was a mistake. so tomorrow a key democrat on the house intelligence committee jackie speier will join us here on the program. meanwhile, michael cohen sentencing gave the light night comedians a lot of material to look at. watch this. if you are watching from
this song and dance where they re closer than close and they had the inside track and then all of a sudden when they re accused of things and things are going to go down, oh, you know, i barely did this. and i think people are on to this. this is nothing new. and i think that these political operatives i think george stephanopoulos had an interview and called them dirty tricks and what not. i mean, i don t think anyone really takes too seriously these stone and corsi as somebody that are going to be fantastically credible people in the world of politics. but certainly having roger stone on with stephanopoulos saying to him, oh, you know, this is just this is just politics. no. what they re saying is it s not just dirty politics, it s to some people s minds, could be treason. yes. this is not politics as usual. and i think that s why george stephanopoulos stepped in and said, nope, these are pretty much dirty tricks, what you re
tape. he can t do that. but let me be very serious with you about michael cohen. it took me a while to decide to represent him. it took me a while after he spoke to mr. stephanopoulos on the air to see that his positions are diametrically opposite from mr. trump. he was diametrically opposite in telling mr. stephanopoulos he believes in the fbi and respects it, opposite from trump. he thinks the trump tower meeting was dumb. opposite from trump. he agrees with the intelligence community s assessment that russia meddled in our election. opposite from donald trump. this man has come to a moment in his life, and i won t talk about what he did in the past for donald trump other than being a loyal defender as an attorney. but i will tell you my own personal view. this man has turned a corner in his life, has hit a reset button, and he s now dedicated to telling the truth. and the reason why giuliani is attacking him so viciously,
trump, and then at the same time, you were recording him because you wanted to protect yourself. why didn t you just not do those things? so i m going to do something in a very sober i ve smiled a bit and laughed at mr. giuliani because it s laughable that he s trying to twist what s on the tape. he can t do that. but let me be very serious with you about michael cohen. it took me a while to decide to represent him. it took me a while after he spoke to mr. stephanopoulos on the air to see that his positions are diametrically opposite from mr. trump. he was diametrically opposite in telling mr. stephanopoulos he believes in the fbi and respects it, opposite from trump. he thinks the trump tower meeting was dumb. opposite from trump. he agrees with the intelligence community s assessment that russia meddled in our election. opposite from donald trump. this man has come to a moment in his life, and i won t talk about what he did in the past for donald trump other than being a loyal de
trump has done things or not, we ll see. but i think the fact that out of all of the people that he could have reached out to, reaching out to me in and of itself was sending a signal to president trump. and probably the prosecutors that he was not one that would not deal with someone who has been fighting donald trump for decades on social justice issues. so what does this do? i m trying to get a sense of this. we have everybody that knows you knows where you stand on political issues and where you are. and that s generally not in the same place that donald trump is. but michael cohen reached out to you. he reached out to george steph nop list. not a lot of people. but interesting choices. what do you think was behind this outreach? i think that part of it is sending a signal that he is not the guy that is going to be just be lock step with trump. stephanopoulos was a leading operative. since he s known me and remained a leader of a civil rights organization that opposed a lot of