say that we need to finish the investigation. we can t tell whether there is something illegal unless the investigation goes forward. but where there is as much smoke as there is here there is probably a fire. and there is certainly a swamp. and i ve never seen a burning swamp but this might be the one that is. jonathan, what do you make of this? do you think michael cohen was up to no good? or do you think michael cohen is up to the american dream, cashing in on the relationship it sounds like he was reaching out to ford. we know for at&t he made the call. seemed to be selling his services around town. if that s the american droem, the american dream is in a lot of trouble. speaking of the swamp, these guys are creatures from the black lagoon. they define swampish behave. you can t blame atennessee. they have a $108 billion merger on the lynn. and they were paying michael
cashing in on the relationship it sounds like he was reaching out to ford. we know for at&t he made the call. seemed to be selling his services around town. if that s the american droem, the american dream is in a lot of trouble. speaking of the swamp, these guys are creatures from the black lagoon. they define swampish behave. you can t blame atennessee. they have a $108 billion merger on the lynn. and they were paying michael cohen one one hundred thousandth of that merger for influence that might help the merger go threw. so you can understand which they wanted to hire opheim. and you can understand why michael cohen wanted to take that lobbying money. but he didn t register as a lobbyist. there might be other ways he violated campaign finance rules. now that s not the biggest thing in the world. but it gives mueller leverage
services to ford motor company in january of 2017 but was quickly rebuffed. the journal reports that special counsel robert mueller has taken an interest in cohen s pretty much. mr. mueller s team has requested information from ford about the outreach including emails and records and has interviewed ford s head of government affairs. people familiar with the mattered said. and the daily beast is reporting that at&t met with another group of the president s allies around the time it hired michael cohen. the company spoke with the washington lobbying firm avenue strategies in early 2017 which was cofounded and staffed by trump campaign veterans and marketed its insight into and favor with the trump white house. at&t confirmed on friday. ave was off the top of my headed bid corey lewandowski and barry bennett a senior adviser on the campaign. one source familiar says the they discussed a political appropriating that would not entail official lobbies and cost the company in the range of
had a line into the president. i don t think it s reasonable even with the smelly vekselberg connection to assume right now that that money went from those big companies to donald trump. in other words. so becomes relevant to find out where it went. right. i don t know. i don t think that s a proper assumption right now. but jill. right now but you know, i think cohen pocketed that money from the corporations. you he got a performing with his inlaws on his inlaw s report. that was for the slush fund. so the question is. of course thanks for the distinction. the question is less whether the money want to trump direct mri. it might have gone to stormy daniels and other people might have gone to the slush fund. everybody we talked to, jill, has said the mueller investigation has already spoken to them. ford said it novartis said it. at&t said it. the korean company said it.
his inlaws on his inlaw s report. that was for the slush fund. so the question is. of course thanks for the distinction. the question is less whether the money want to trump direct mri. it might have gone to stormy daniels and other people might have gone to the slush fund. everybody we talked to, jill, has said the mueller investigation has already spoken to them. ford said it novartis said it. at&t said it. the korean company said it. so the bottom line mueller knows more than we re talking about. so he must know the question jonathan is getting to that s where is the money where did it go? that would speak to this, right. exactly, what i was saying earlier we have to let the investigation go. because we know where the money came from. we know that cohen was asking for it. he supposedly had been unhappy to have been left behind. but it sounds like he was financially happy to have been left behind where he could just collect money to sell influence.