Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Inaugural address, which my old boss had colorful language to describe. George w. Bush called it some crazy bleep. I was thinking about the line about carnage and i was thinking that the real carnage and it was all in motion when he came that day. The real carnage is the people closest to donald trump. The lives that are being destroyed for crimes theyve committed. I mean, you know, its not a night to feel sympathy for Michael Cohen, but the events that are sending him to jail potentially are events put in motion by the things donald trump demanded of the people close to him. It may end up ensnaring his family. But just this idea of wreckage. A source close to Michael Cohen tonight told me that everything donald trump touches is tainted by his toxic brew of lack of ethics and lack of any adherence to the law. I also thought of something that someone who advises this president said to me earlier i
and having read that, it always made me wonder were the feds going to dangle that in front of cohen, if she co-signed agreements or checks. if they were going to perhaps say you wouldn t want to see your wife go in the federal slammer. did she have any culpability, any involvement that you know of? i ll only correct you in the fact that he has a daughter and a son. okay. forgive me. that s it. the rest i think you re spot on. i think that s a very important point. this is very close-knit marriage. they are people who are very involved in their businesses. as the new york times reported over the weekend, she s someone who co-signed loan documents. from all i know in my year of very close reporting on michael cohen, he would do anything to save his family from any trouble, any pain, any hardship. and so if his wife were in fact in any kind of trouble, that would be a reason for him to take action and to stand up and do something.