the investigation. is that right? that s correct. and you have a citation? page seven, volume two. thank you. one of these witnesses was michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer, who ultimately pled guilty to campaign violations based on secret hush money payments to two women the president knew and also to lying to congress about the hope for a $1 billion trump tower deal. after the fbi searched cohen s home, the president called him up personally, he said to check in, and told him to, quote, hang in there and stay strong. is that right? do you remember finding that? if it s in the report as stated, yes, it is right. yes. also in the report, actually, are a series of calls made by other friends of the president. one reached out to say he was with the boss in mar-a-lago, and the president said he loves you. his name is redacted. another redacted friend called to say the boss loves you. and a third redacted friend called to say everyone knows the boss has your back.
That. he could plow up to a certain point, but to get beyond beyond don mcgahn or john kelly, he couldn t figure that out, but he s gotten better. we ve seen some of that at the end of his presidency. i think you have to take him at his word. you know, interesting that you were on the millar investigation, i think people have to think of it as radically as it s being reported. there wouldn t be a jeff sessions i mean, no one would last five minutes if they displeased him. jim comey is fired to not letting flynn go. frontline would never be charged. it s such a departure from trump 1.0, and i think there would be areas that would be a lot worse. i think this is one that demands our focus in this moment.
Cases. trump also went to james comey and pushed him to pledge absolute loyalty to trump and to find a way to let flynn go. ultimately he use the power of the presidency to pardon all these convicted criminals. unlike his blatant abuse of the rule of law and the relationship between the president and doj, there is no evidence that president biden has involved himself in the investigation into his own son, an investigation that s been overseen by trump s appointed attorney. and i appreciate the testimony of our witnesses. there is no evidence that he has received any kind of official favoritism in this prosecution for being joe biden son. on the contrary, they are more than 10 million americans who have filed taxes but failed to pay them, the exact crime he is pleading guilty to. the vast majority of these cases are they obtain convictions
Be playing by a set of rules that no one else is playing by anymore, i think that creates a very dangerous and volatile situation, and you may find yourself in a position where you re going so far out of your way to avoid the appearance of targeting a politician like donald trump, that you re actually not administering equal administration of justice, because that would require that if somebody named donald trump commits a crime, he s going to fascinating the same wheels of justice that someone named john doe would face if they committed a crime. and frank, make no mistake, the reason donald trump called a support staffer who still works at the white house is because no one has ever held him accountable for anything. the day after mueller testifies, he calls zelenskyy and says, i need you to get some dirt. you know, the after he s elected and inaugurated, he calls in comey and says, see to it to let flynn go. i mean, the reason that he continues to tamper with witnesses, lie, threa
Manner about unauthorized contacts between the ex-president and mr. clark. i mean there was clearly a process, and, you know, you heard this from jim comey, he wrote about it and talked about it. he tried to have a process so the president wasn t always calling the fbi director to tell him to let flynn go. the failure of any process to protect institutions from being politicized seems to be a pattern that keeps repeating itself. i wonder what you make of sort of the now detailed, anecdotal evidence of trump having his man at the highest levels at the justice department and, you know, do you wonder what would have happened if he had succeeded in getting rid of rosen and leaving clark inside? remember what had happened under attorney general barr. barr was complicit and helped the president move the big lie before the election and after the election until he couldn t take it anymore in the final days. so, again, i m really delighted that we have such public servants who saved us from t