he s got this really difficult existential problem. if he talks and tells the truth, he gets himself in trouble. if he talks and lies, he gets himself in trouble. there s nothing he can say at this point anymore to get himself out of it. here s what s coming. today at the hearing, judge wood said i m going to appoint a special master, former federal judge. independent person will go through the files. she also said i don t want to waste a lot of time here. i m looking at a four-week plan. time is not friendly to trump. time is friendly to prosecutes. still to come under intense questioning by lawmakers about his mounting scandals, scott pruitt admits he flat out lies about one of them. that story after the break. experience lexus safety system plus standard in the 2018 lexus es and es hybrid. lease the 2018 es 350 for $399/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
1200 cherry blossom branches. the whole visit was deemed a great success by president trump. naturally he would want to show his gratitude to his wife by getting her a special birthday present. would you believe he got her an interview on fox news? that s thing 2 in 60 seconds.
the interview on television just like of else as trump paced the halls of the white house residence in his bathrobe. why do you think, senator, he doesn t do any interviews with anyone other than these small selected outlets? well, i think one reason is he doesn t remember what he said from up with day to the next as we know. the new york times has documented more than 2,000 lies. and one thing i learned early on, as a member of the senate and before that the house and before that local government is this, don t say one thing to one person and one thing to another. that s what this guy does. and that can t keep track of it. so i think he s too afraid to go on a program where people will actually hold him accountable. we saw what he said in the past about people who take the fifth amendment. he said that they were part of the mob. now, his sometime attorney, michael cohen, takes the fifth.
as ush, trump becomes the worst client possible. what the lawyers need to do, trump doesn t need to take the fifth. they need to put him in the hannibal lecter mask and not let him out anymore. they tried to do that. you saw the reporting saying they didn t want him to do this interview. they have kept him under wraps. the last mainstream interview he did was lester hold almost a year ago. he got back from his play date with macron and was like i m trump again and felt really good about himself. we were talking about the back, so much of this is really about how mike cohen perceives what s happening to him. if he feels the deep sting of the bus, that s going to make him more likely to turn on trump. but the other as we were talking about, the other thick here is that maybe the fbi, maybe sdny doesn t need michael cohen to flip if they ve got all of his documents. the thing i keep coming back to, they ve got months of e-mail.
today. yeah, let me read from that. they come in and say they re arguing look, there s not really al attorney/client relationship here we have to be too worried about which is why it s fine for us to go through these papers. the president goes on air and says that s right. it s not much of a relationship. they say president trump said on television this morning michael cohen performs a tiny fraction of legal work. i m glad the sdny has television sets in their offices. i like the reportedly. allegedly. so you know, remember when this started cohen s lawyers claimed to the judge that they had thousands if not millions of printed documents seized by the fbi. at this point, we ll have three crumpled up pieces of paper and some cigar rings. none of that plays well for the trump lawyers, the trump organization lawyers and cohen s lawyer who s want to protect as much of this as possible from the eyes of investigators. p.s., a win for them today.