That s the problem with michael cohen as a witness. if what cohen said yesterday is true, then virtually everything he said for the prior year was a lie. and that makes him a very difficult fact witness to get a jury to believe. now, that doesn t mean that he can t be corroborated by other witnesses. but standing alone, this doesn t make out a particularly strong case. having said that, if people don t think this is not a serious development, they haven t been paying attention. you have the president s lawyer implicating him in a federal crime. even if that lawyer is michael cohen. that s a serious matter. now, how the president responds to that is going to be very key because the justice department by putting these charges into these that the allegations are true and the narrative is
Never been decided. i see no quotation from mr. mueller. i see attribution anonymously but there are two opinions of the office of legal counsel. many years ago the supreme court has never ruled. i think there is a traditional view that you don t indict sitting presidents but that s an insettled question. sandra: obviously, mr. davis, there is a question of whether or not he committed a federal crime. that doesn t exist today. excuse me, i m sorry to interrupt you but there is no question. and there is no question that money given beyond limits for the purpose as it was said yesterday by the prosecutor sandra: go back to what happened in that courtroom and tell us exactly what is your client saying that trump directed him to do. what specifically. let s say what is the government saying that michael cohen agreed with and restated
Robert mueller, to make sure the truth about donald trump gets out. listen to what he said earlier. i said that he had matters that would be of interest to this special counsel relating to pre-knowledge of computer hacking by donald trump. which, if true, if true, would constitute knowledge of a crime committed by a foreign government in hacking our computers, which was part of the indictment of 12 russians that the special counsel has already published. davis is on record saying his client does not want to be dirty by a presidential pardon. i would hazard a guess a presidential pardon is not something he has to worry about. eric: the president has a different reaction to paul manafort. the manafort verdicts yesterday even though the jury was hung on 10 counts clearly a
Stating what they believe is the fact. this isn t some immaculate crime committed by cohen alone. it refers not only to people like david pecker, the chairman of the national enquirer but other people who could now find themselves in a very uncomfortable position. eric: you are talking about a potential conspiracy among others if he is to be believed? that s right. that s a big if. the normal course of things the department of justice will pursue the other collateral or central players. they normally don t stop at the one guy who takes a plea. eric: what about the fact the president has tweeted he made up these stories and the michael cohen you sketched out would seem to be a very unreliable witness potentially if the defense attorneys got him up on the witness stand and grilled him and gave him the 10th degree? it s like a bad movie. always the guy reading the
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