mueller s team and sdny is being brought to bear on this case. and that s why i think the possibility of firing rosenstein soon is high, the possibility of pardons is high and the possibility of all of this coming to a head is high. i totally agree with al, giuliani is setting up a narrative here where he will be the guy with some credibility. all-ygiuliani can give trump cover to fire rosenstein. here s a guy that worked in the justice department. i can hear trump now saying, this guy knows the department and he knows rosenstein was doing something that was inappropriate or something that was wrong. he knows it better than i do. identi i ve got to listen to rudy giuliani s advice. i think this new york times story, anyone who covers donald trump and his orbit, they all trash the press constantly, but all talk to the press all the time. this story is a plant, i m sure. not demeaning the new york times in reporting it, but this
twitter a number of times. and i will say, he is not behaving like a typical lawyer and husband behaviclient is not a typical person who has filed a lawsuit. so typically you want some money. you have a set of demands and want some money and that s it. you can understand what the person is doing under those terms. at this point, it s not really the case that stormy daniels needs anymore opportunity to tell her story. she doesn t really seem like she s scared to tell her story. she s telling her story to all sorts of people all over the place all the time. so what is this about at this point? here you have a litigation, a litigation that they have a pretty good shot of winning, and they don t really seem to want anything. avenatti said on twitter, he s not willing to settle unless the truth comes out. and he s putting trump in a very difficult spot. if they do want something, they ve got a lot of leverage because they re embarrassing trump, they re a thorn in his side. they got the pres
obvious, that he ll have to take the fifth. so regnatta, do you think this judge, when all is said and done, this judge is going to allow the civil case the civil suit to proceed in parallel with the criminal investigation, or do you think the judge is likely to grant a stay of some period of time and then keep renewing that stay until the criminal matter is resolved? well, it seems like the judge recognized that there were some very severe criminal jeopardy for cohen and in fact, i think he cited the fact that mr. avenatti conceded as much. so i think he s going sty tay t case. he may decide some legal issues related to the defamation claim and nothing else. there s an incredible story in the new york times that just talks about michael cohen and i want to get to michael cohen. the stormy daniels thing is kuf the way in which that seemed to have triggered the michael cohen story and now we are in the middle of this michael cohen story. over the course of this weak
that mean for the stormy daniels case and what does it mean more importantly for michael cohen and donald trump? so michael cohen is trying to stay. in other words, freeze the stormy daniels case. and the reason why is that if he was asked to testify in the stormy daniels case, he might implicate him in a criminal case. so he would have to take the fifth. and in a regular lawsuit, taking the fifth could be used against you. he could be in this really tough position, where he either has to take the fifth and lose the civil case, or waive his constitutional right and then be in greater legal jeopardy in the criminal case. so, he s asking a judge to do that, but he was trying to have his cake and eat it too by not actually putting in an affidavit saying that he was going to take the fifth. his attorney suggested that he would, but he didn t want to come out and say it, because he didn t want all of us talking about it on television. the judge didn t like that. he is giving him more time
account, that he had a conversation at some point. we know he had recently spoken to putin, because he got a congratulatory phone call to him. we don t know if there were previous phone calls when he was a private citizen. but the president seems to be claiming to jim comey that in one of his conversations with vladimir putin there was this discussion that took place. we now have television evidence that shows vladimir putin talking in a news conference about the fact that russia has the best hookers in the world. tell me how you interpret that, this episode, and wether or not you think this is possibly a case where donald trump had taken something he had seen on television and made it his own experience. well, as we see often with the president s tweets and comments that he makes in the press, he s very influenced by what he hears. often, you can line up f fox & friends with the twitter feed in the morning. so i m not sure how much weight to really put into it. a good example of ho