have to worry about the sentencing guidelines. so i hear you on that. let me bounce this to you, garber, because where s the there there? there is no case. i get the sentencing guidelines, but we don t even have charges. so what is there to flip on, and what would he have to flip with? yeah. so here s the problem. i ve represented a lot of folks under investigation, and the problem is before you even get to the sentencing guidelines, there s the investigation. i mean think of michael cohen. think of being him and having your office raided, reading about yourself every day in the newspaper, having your career taken away from you, everything, and potentially losing your livelihood, everything, everything, everything. and that, that notion alone, focuses the mind. all right. and many of us in the media, we talk to michael cohen. i certainly do. this has been difficult for him, but we still don t know what the case is about, so we really don t know where the sympathies should lie.
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17 angry democrats. they take value in the number 17. a potential sign. i hope he didn t use that number for them. he doesn t always use the number 17. i don t see that as being intentional. but who knows these days? but he has their interest. so what are they doing now? well, they join in support of him and attacks of others. you saw what happened with jim acosta. if we go back to this video, when it gets to where jim was, you ll see there were a lot of those q people who were in front of him. they re even stalking stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti. why? why go after michael avenatti? because he s identified as one of trump s opponents. and they are now out to defend the presidential from their imagined array of opposition. and not a word from the white house about this. actually, that s not true. sarah sanders did say this today. unfortunately, it s now standard to abandon common sense
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and what we see are passions on the rise. trump gets this very well. he plays to it for better and worse. i think that doing what works for him and his base, stoking discontent, abusing the truth, stoking conspiracy theories, may come at a cost. his lies have become so trek. okay? when we look at these kinds of things. the washington post has the truth detector that they do on it. the fact checker says he now lies at a rate of more than 7 1/2 times a day to you. and that works. it s reduced the impact on you and the ability of the media to track the same types of data and make the case to you that it matters. this tweet about the the tweet about the 17 angry men and the mueller conflicts, if it smacks of alex jones junk that s because a lot of it is. remember, the president is privy to information that s way better than what i have and what you
don t be that ugly, don t be that hostile, don t
the fact is that we don t need a direction from the president to the intelligence chiefs to be on guard against russian interference with our elections, number one. number two, as far as what the president says on any given day, frankly he says a lot of things. he is, i think, campaigning against impeachment rather than saying anything that is designed to affect the outcome of the case. so i kind of brush that off. but to go back to your first point, that we don t need the president for the intelligence community. that s a little counterintuitive. we expect the leadership from the president to be of paramount importance when we re dealing with threats like this, which to the democracy is basically existential. so for him to not be on the same page seems to be highly counterproductive. it s counterproductive, but it is not at all necessarily critical. these intelligence agencies, particularly in an administration where statements
get made all the time, i think are pretty much doi
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rosenstein look, jeff sessions he recused himself. had to have recused himself because there s a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and there s a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. wrong, wrong, wrong. as far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation that s why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president, which technically a special counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he