touchlt gto you. good morning to you, chief. the first thing that comes to minding is it really seems a bit at odds and strange to me. you have the preeminent law enforcement really agency in the world in the fbi. they re searching the area for weeks upon end, bringing all the resources to bear, the manpower and technology. and the person who finds something belonging to brian laundrie happens to be the dad. you know, that s a head scratcher to me, quite frankly. and it really you know, you don t believe in coincidences, this perhaps is another reason not to. i have no information, i d be speculating like anyone else, but it really leaves you with just the wonder of how is it that of all the people who were looking and searching, it happens to be you. and so that s problematic to me. number two, we know that the family had not been cooperative from the outset. certainly if they wanted to cooperate and i get and understand and as an attorney i give the same advice, don t talk to anyon
cnn s response, don t that anymore and don t talk to anyone. two things i was once told at an ory by tom. come on remember that horrible kissing montage? talk about a super spreader. something only a tv person would come up with. i couldn t tell if i was watching cuomo s press briefing or a hot tub episode of the bachelor. and in all of the seasons of hosting family feud richard dawson didn t slobber on as many people as cuomo has. but montage s are straight from the tv play book and i put money on chris for pushing the idea. hell, he told me to do one for this very segment. greg. gregory john gutfeld. oh, yeah, gorgeous. oh, dam. oh, i bet he looks great in jeans. oh, yeah. it s a present for your eyes. oh, no. yes. uh-huh. no, no. yeah. greg: that is disturbing.
was investigated, that did meet with mueller s investigators. walk us through just as a line prosecutor, how this kind of thing works, why, for example, is it a secret plea deal? other plea deals have been released in the course of normal investigation. your analysis? i think it couldn t be any more clear to me. i want paul manafort. there were three people in that meeting, kushner, don jr. and paul manafort. they are trying to get someone on the inside of that meeting to cooperate and roll them up on don jr., kushner, and potentially the president. be it an indictment in d.c., an additional indictment in virginia. which as i understand it, is about 300-plus years, and now they ve flipped his son-in-law. let me go to the secret thing. i mean, it s hard to be afraid of a concealed weapon if you can t see it. so why secret if the goal is pressure? i don t know that they didn t tell paul manafort this was
going on. i suspect they had. why secret? it could be they have pro active cooperation going on. in other words, they flipped him, and it could be the case talking about a wire? talking about a wire. that they wired him up and got him into conversations. paul manafort s on house arrest. so in theery, he could still have phone calls and meetings. whether that happened or not, there s a whole host of things that a prosecutor and fbi agent team would use to use a cooperator proactively. i can almost assure that all the defense lawyers for mr. manafort and anyone else indicted, they re saying, don t talk to anyone. don t talk on the phones. david, i ve dealt with mr. manafort in a reporting capacity. you re no stranger to a lot of players in republican politics. walk us through the mind-set here of an individual with this much pressure coming down on him, his deputy flipping who he brought in originally as an intern in his firm. his son-in-law flipping since
counsel his client and in this position michael cohen is a client, not a lawyer, would say don t talk to the press, don t talk to anyone, let s go to ground for a little bit and see what we re facing. yes, i think moronic is strong but i think any lawyer would counsel that michael not speak to the press. the other piece of news we ve been discussing and jeff zeleny can help us piece this together a news that dropped from the new york times the fact that all and part of this raid involving michael co kren earhe this week was also looking for evidence and related to and how it s related to we don t know yet, but that access hollywood tape that dropped before the month before the presidential election. this is very interesting. what it says to me is that the authorities, the prosecutors, are trying to get a better sense into what the exact role that michael cohen was playing in the trump campaign in the final days leading up to the election. it clearly that of course was a bom