reach for watergate parallels because it s the only case we have in our history that is so clearly like this, but there was that moment when because of your investigation, but also because of the simultaneous investigation by the house of representatives, which did not wait for you to complete your work before starting their impeachment process, they started the impeachment process not knowing what the evidence was and through the process and through their subpoena power, they discovered what became known as the smoking gun in a nixon tape. and what we heard on that tape was president nixon basically directing the criminal activity. what we have here from michael cohen is, and i m not even i m not sure this is without tape, but we have a similar situation and so far without tape. but we know michael cohen tape recorded phone calls. michael cohen might have this as a tape recorded phone call. the president saying this to him. but even if he doesn t, it is essentially the same thing. i
president while he s president interfering not only with an investigation but of directly conspiring to obstruct justice. and this should be enough for even the and remember, he lied that he told cohen to lie to the senate. even the republican senate is going to have to say we ve been had, we can t have him lying to us. and in the end of watergate it was the republicans who went to nixon and said, you have to resign or we will convict you in the senate. and that s going to happen here. we re getting closer and closer. john heilemann, as usual, it s very hard for me to think of what rudy giuliani will say about this. but this time he s going to have to tell you that is not smoke coming out of that gun. yeah. i can t imagine what rudy will say. just looking through this article, just to put a very fine point on it, the thing that caught my eye right after the thing you read, lawrence, it says this revelation is not the first evidence to suggest the
and so jill, to the sentencing of michael cohen. we all noticed that the special prosecutor was much more satisfied with michael cohen s cooperation with his office than the local u.s. attorney in manhattan was satisfied with his cooperation with his office. this could be why. this is michael cohen giving the special prosecutor his own account of something they apparently already had through electronic communication of the president of the united states directing michael cohen while he s president, right from the oval office, to lie to congress. this truly is a nixonian moment. this is absolutely one of those moments where you go when is enough sufficient? this is when it is because this is exactly the watergate model of nixon saying you can always say i don t remember, i don t recall even though you do. that s subornation of perjury pure and simple. it is a direct act of the
feel, in many ways, we always reach for watergate parallels because it s the only case we have in our history that is so clearly like this, but there was that moment when because of your investigation, but also because of the simultaneous investigation by the house of representatives, which did not wait for you to complete your work before starting their impeachment process, they started the impeachment process not knowing what the evidence was and through the process and through their subpoena power, they discovered what became known as the smoking gun in a nixon tape. and what we heard on that tape was president nixon basically directing the criminal activity. what we have here from michael cohen is, and i m not even i m not sure this is without tape, but we have a similar situation and so far without tape. but we know michael cohen tape recorded phone calls. michael cohen might have this as a tape recorded phone call. the president saying this to him. but even if he doesn t, it is
breaking news report. and so jill, to the sentencing of michael cohen. we all noticed that the special prosecutor was much more satisfied with michael cohen s cooperation with his office than the local u.s. attorney in manhattan was satisfied with his cooperation with his office. this could be why. this is michael cohen giving the special prosecutor his own account of something they apparently already had through electronic communication of the president of the united states directing michael cohen while he s president, right from the oval office, to lie to congress. this truly is a nixonian moment. this is absolutely one of those moments where you go when is enough sufficient? this is when it is because this is exactly the watergate model of nixon saying you can always say i don t remember, i don t recall even though you do.