so what does this all mean for michael cohen, you think? well, the tape is in character. it s in character for michael cohen. it s in character for donald trump who s run his business empire like an organized crime organization. now, some of this may be parody, that they re trying to be the tough guys. i was surprised, though, because i know michael cohen and i ve spoken to him a lot. and i ve never seen that side of him. but it s obvious it is him on tape. it s him, and they have made their reputations based on intimidation, and it s not just a new york city thing. this goes beyond the rough and tumble of new york city politics. and i think the importance of the tapes are not that one. it s what else do they have? what else are on the tapes particularly if he s talking to the president? because i have a feeling that if there are conversations back and forth about the business, we re going to hear things that the president absolutely doesn t want to get out.
he got that wrong. so there are tapes, right, like this. there were tapes supposedly when they raided his office. so what does this all mean for michael cohen, you think? well, the tape is in character. it s in character for michael cohen. it s in character for donald trump who s run his business empire like an organized crime organization. now, some of this may be parody, that they re trying to be the tough guys. i was surprised, though, because i know michael cohen and i ve spoken to him a lot. but it s him and they ve made their reputations, and it s not just a new york city thing. this goes beyond the rough and tumble of new york city politics. and i think the importance of the tapes are not that one. it s what else do they have? what else are on the tapes particularly if he s talking to the president?
these are people that are just part of what is an organized crime organization. and this lawyer was part of that organization. i would say she was probably the organization that showed up in new york to take care of this matter for the russian government. the other piece of this of course that the american people want to know is if there was this sort of conspiracy, then how far did russia go? what were they able to accomplish? i want to play for you all mike pompeo who is the cia director saying some interesting things that ended up being by his own agency. this is mike pompeo on thursday. yes, the intelligence community s assessment is that the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election. so nbc news then put out a piece and we have a piece essentially that s been refuted. the cia quickly put out a statement clarifying pompeo s
at trump tower with documents. so there s no question about it this magnitsky act is an extremely important hot button. it s not just about adoption. it really has to do with the russian government being an organized crime organization where magnitsky s boss, bill brower, found out that the russian government had ripped off the government to the tune of $250 million by putting in a phony tax claim that they should never have had. broer blew the whistle on that, magnitsky was involved as a lawyer doing the same thing, and he was the only one that did not get out of russia at the time. yes. so he was thrown into jail, tortured for a year. it involved not only the russian government but it involved the lawyers that were involved. it involved the courts in russia.