if donald trump said you are not talking to the media, he wouldn t talk to the media. donald trump brought rudy giuliani on at least in part because he liked how rudy giuliani performed on television. wait. do you think the president wants this out there? no. absolutely not. they are going to have to walk this back. there s no you cannot have what rudy giuliani said about the at&t merger there. in the same way that they tried to walk back the michael cohen reimbursements, remember, giuliani put out a clarification, saying, this is my understanding of it. this wasn t the president s understanding. they will have to do something like that. he misspoke. he meant the president the administration, not the president. the point is, strike one, maybe you are looking for your pitch. strike two, okay, we will see. strike three, it s strike six for giuliani, at some point you are not a good hitter. i think that we may have reached that point with giuliani.
is considering their options. how are they going to handle this information? are they going to use it to their advantage? there s a merger deadline, june 21 is when either side can decide to walk away. they might decide it s not worth it. they might decide their case is strong enough to some pure antitrust ground and in the political and public relations sphere they might have won with the idea this was politically motivated. the other thing i have to go. maybe he is fronting something he thinks the feds know. who knows? i m just saying. putting it out there. mueller knew about the payments six months ago. i have to run. more on our breaking news. rudy giuliani reportedly says president trump block the proposed at&t and time warner merger, throwing the case in turmoil. the white house refusing to apologize for the vicious so-called joke at the expense of a true american hero, john mccain. so much for a slow friday discover card. hey, i m curious about your social security
themselves and rudy giuliani since he first made that revelation that the president had reimbursed michael cohen for the payment, saying they don t coordinate with him and rudy giuliani saying he doesn t coordinate with the white house. we have heard from the white house on this specifically. the deputy press secretary said last fall the president and attorney general jeff sessions had not discussed it at all. no white house official had been authorized to speak with the justice department about this potential merger. we have that. we have jeff sessions who testified on capitol hill last fall saying he couldn t comment on this when certain lawmakers asked him about whether or not the president had attempted to influence it. it raises a lit kn s questions . we know at&t did pay michael cohen hoping to get some kind of influence with the white house back whenever president trump did take office. it raises the question here, they likely did not think michael cohen had a large amount of in
president is interfering in the justice department? who knows what to make of that? remember, it was the president a week or so ago who said that rudy giuliani needed a little time to get his facts straight when he misspoke or at least according to the president misspoke about the circumstances of the michael cohen payoff to stormy daniels. it s hard to know whether rudy giuliani is making an informed statement about how actually the at&t decision was made or he is just shooting off his mouth. i noted that hadas, who you were talking to earlier, pointed to the sworn affidavit from the head of the justice department antitrust division that there was no contact by the president or anybody at white house to the justice department about the decision they made. you know, clearly this contradicts that. how much weight to give giuliani i think is unknowable at this point. so listen, michael cohen was
going to fight this on pure antitrust grounds. they felt they had a strong must have case that they could prove this would not harm consumers, not be anti-competitive. we re in a phase where the judge is sitting in his chambers and deciding this trial. he is writing his opinion. i m sure that he is watching the news. he is seeing this happen. what could happen is he is probably going to issue his decision without thinking about the politics. if there is an appeal, i could definitely see at&t saying, okay, on the appeal, we re going to bring up this political bias. i want to get michael in. you are the legal person. give me your analysis here. the doj is supposed to act independently from the president. that s right. i think going back to the last point is this. the lawyer for time warner and at&t seeks as she said to bring a defense of selective prosecution. the judge in the case said essentially, you haven t presented enough evidence for me to grant that request. i think that he h