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Have seen that with corsi. we have seen that with paparazzi. papadopoulos; what is it that they want cohen to say. and then i think fulfills the narrative of the white house that cohen is not exactly a discerning individual himself. bret: in fact the president has said he is a bold liar. he has tweeted that this guy lies all the time. and jukebox. anyone who puts a quarter in he will play the tune. so here you have got this guy who has a bad reputation for saying anything that will help him. but not saying enough to please the special counsel. now, what is really clear here on the cohen aspect too late for paul manafort going to be ground into a pure pump miss. they are dangling out what s called a 5 k 1.1 letter. which is basically a ....
The moscow project. this was about the campaign and political senner guy there. what is meant by those three words i don t know. as a criminal defense attorney that s the first bret: u.s. attorney from the southern of new york says we want substantial jail time because we don t think he came to the table with everything. they get into the campaign finance question that cohen played a central role in two similar schemes to purchase the rights to stories, each from women who claim to have had an affair with individual one this is donald trump so as to suppress the stories and thereby prevent them from influencing the election. with respect to both cohen acted with the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election. cohen coordinated his actions with one or more members of the campaign, including through meetings and phone calls about the ....
They say will you meet us? we will give you dirt on hillary clinton. it just basically fizzles out in 15 minutes. michael cohen says we have synergy that we re offering politically and he doesn t even follow up on it. each of these suspicious moments they don t amount to anything. bret: in the mountain of paperwork what s the most troubling thing in these documents if you are the trump administration? for monday manafort, i would definitely be looking at that last part of the filing where they talk about direct contact or approved made by manafort to the white house. that could be a serious obstruction claim. for cohen i would be concerned about the fact you don t have a 5 k 1.1 letter. in other words, you are going nowhere for five years, maybe four. unless you get that letter. bret: explain that. they say cohen declined ....
Meet. bret: the other thing is laying the groundwork, it seems, for some kind of obstruction case. and that is cohen describes the circumstances of repairing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries. in other words, getting that out to inside the white house. yeah. i think the thing to watch here, at least from my perspective is that obstruction has largely been focused on the firing of comey, which i have never believed was a serious obstruction case because i don t believe you could make out all the elements of obstruction there. but, here you see emerging a separate basis for obstruction. that the special counsel may be working on. this idea of federal election law violation, the payment to these women, and whether the president obstructed efforts or attempted to mislead on those points. so, we may be seeing a sort of metastasized obstruction case here which is spreading to other areas. bret: right. last thing here, this is ....
Project which itself is not a crime. president trump has been open about the fact that he was continuing as the businessman backup plan if he didn t make the successful run for the white house. but there are some aspects to this that we should be pretty worrisome for the white house. one of the things that i felt was interesting, if you take these four areas where cohen is found to have cooperated, two of them you could put under collusion allegation categories and two you could put under obstruction type of allegations. so, they are about even there. but, at one point they talk about how cohen had a contact in russia who said he had high ranking connections. and that he promised, quote: campaign political cinergy between the two governments. what s interesting about those three words campaign political, synergy. the special counsel adds the word campaign. making it clear to me at least, this was not about ....