To join us with reaction to Michael Cohens testimony but, first, jug head is in a jam. Thats to the focus of tonights angle. Laura The Big Moment In Court today was supposed to be the playing of a taped conversation that Michael Cohen recorded between trump and himself back in 2016, yeah. 8 years ago where they could be heard talking about how they would buy the rights to karen macdougalls story. And on the tape cohen can be heard explaining to the then president ial candidate his plans to form an llc through which he would finance the purchase of the rights to that womans story. We know what happened, okay, get rid of this. Its so false what they are saying, such bull [bleep] laura its all bull today as well. None of the hype amounted to anything. None of it proved anything. Lets break it down for you. Remember, in this case the state has to prove that the trump organizations internal bookkeeping records were not only falsified, okay, but they also were falsified to the extent that tr
and in july, michael cohen s lawyer released the tape cohen secretly recorded where we hear him discuss, we hear it for our own selves with our own ears, we hear him discuss the karen mcdougal payment with then candidate trump. i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that information regarding our friend david, you know, so that i m going to do that right away. i ve actually. give it to me. i ve spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. never happened. michael cohen is a liar. that never happened. in the next few months, trump called cohen a liar, a flipper, weak, someone who made up stories, but had very little to do with him. very little. he worked for him for ten years, more. and last night just before
won the republican nomination and ami was interested in the story again. once donald trump won the republican nomination. right, correct. you re saying ami suddenly came back to you with interesting stories? well, to keith, yes, for us for the story, yes. why do you think it was that it was after donald trump was the republican nominee that they came back? they wanted to squash the story. you re saying they wanted to protect donald trump? i m assuming so, yeah. and in july, michael cohen s lawyer released the tape cohen secretly recorded where we hear him discuss, we hear it for our own selves with our own ears, we hear him discuss the karen mcdougal payment with then candidate trump. i need to open up a company
says, even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client. totally unheard of and perhaps illegal. end quote. cohen had recorded a conversation with mr. trump two months before the election talking about former playboy model karen mcdoogle. she alleges she had a month-long affair with donald trump around the time his wife gave birth to their son barron. trump denies the affair and in the tape cohen and trump discuss buying the rights to mcdoogle s story. davis abced the tweet with his own. obviously there s an ongoing investigation and we are sensitive to that but suffice it to say when the recording is heard it will not hurt michael cohen. any attempt to spin cannot change it what is on the tape. for the first time in fbi history, the agency has made public it s highly classified application for a fisa warrant,
colleagues at the new york times broke this news on friday. news of a secret tape recorded by michael cohen that s now in the hands of prosecutors. on the tape cohen and then candidate trump are talking about reimbursing a magazine publisher for paying off a former playboy playmate that had an affair with trump. yes, that happened. the enquirer is embroiled in this, but that s just part of the story. after this, maggie haberman sat down with me for an interview, her phone buzzed the whole time. i asked her to step back and assess, has anything changed in the 18 months of the trump presidency? the only thing i would say that changed in the trump white house is how trump approached the job. in that last year, 2017, when he was aware of being in over his