Means Nothing? | Guest: Sen. Ben Sasse | 2⧸27⧸19
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Michele Cohen is a lying piece of crap scumbag that you can't trust. Michael Cohen is going to testify in front of Congress today and we can predict exactly what the press will say about him.
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program if you listen to
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the press oh we've got him now uh how many times have we heard this today is a big day because
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today michael cohen who is a lying piece of crap scumbag uh who we have been on the record on this
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program you know even during the election saying michael cohen is a lying piece of crap scumbag
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that you can't trust now the media who hated him loves him and he's going to testify and he's got
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some evidence does he we're going to go over what he's going to talk about in about an hour in front
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of congress and how how we can predict exactly what the press is going to say we begin there in
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i have asked the committee to ensure that my family be protected from presidential threats
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and the committee be sensitive to the questions pertaining to ongoing investigations
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i'm here under oath to correct the record to answer the committee's questions truthfully and
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offer the american people what i know about president trump i recognize that some of you
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may have doubt an attack on my credibility yeah every american both republican democrat
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in the press out of the press everyone should have deep questions about this man's credibility
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this guy has been a weasel i think probably since birth he is a bad bad guy you remember if you
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remember one of our problems in fact one of our biggest problems with donald trump and the reason
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why we said you can't trust him is because he used to always say i've got the best people around me
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and they were the worst people in particular cohen was one of them at the top of our list
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bannon was at the top of our list um uh roger stone roger stone was at the top of the list
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you had manafort and we told you all of the things that were going to happen because of
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these people now that these people are gone it's a lot better but it's these people that have
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gotten him into so much hot water and so much trouble they were not trustworthy then they're not
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trustworthy now so what does the testimony of michael cohen even mean nothing nothing unless he has
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evidence which they say he's going to be preventing presenting evidence uh i you know we'll wait and
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see i i've heard a lot of things too and monkeys will fly out of your butt when they actually when
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the media starts to get things right on this case um so what is he going to be talking about today
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yeah and i'm glad you set it up that way because it's important to uh you see that a lot of people who
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were you know big trump defenders in the media were saying michael cohen was a great guy and now
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they're saying he's a terrible guy and the media was all saying michael cohen was a terrible guy and
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now they're saying he's a great guy now they're all over him is the most credible person in the
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entire universe he has never been credible if if if what he goes to prison for is one one thousandth
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of the crimes he's committed in his life i would be stunned me too uh so i mean you cannot take
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anything that he says seriously unless he has significant evidence to back it up but maybe
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we should go through this i mean look everyone's gonna be talking about it and you should know
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what's in it and we have um we have uh jason buttrill in uh with us and and jason is going to be uh
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monitoring in hour number two he's going to be monitoring the testimony so he's listening it's so so
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we don't have to and we're having we're you have this show so you don't have to do it so we we're
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passing the buck uh and we're giving it to jason our head researcher to just to follow and we'll break
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in if there's anything big i'm thrilled personally because you usually have to read like a 500 page
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report right now i just have to listen to it this is easy this is easy uh so what we have here is a 20
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page a document is from michael cohen it is reportedly by all uh by all accounts his prepared
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uh opening statement today in in the testimony so he says he's ashamed he's ashamed of his failings
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he's ashamed of his weakness he's ashamed of his misplaced loyalty he's ashamed of the things i did
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for mr trump i'm ashamed that i chose to take part in concealing mr trump's illicit acts i'm ashamed
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that because i know what mr trump is he's i'm quoting he's a racist he's a con man he's a cheat and
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that's kind of the setup of it i guess you can why don't we go through each claim and maybe you can
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tell me glenn do you think the amer this is going to be effective of the american people how do they
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react to this yep all right uh i'll go to let's start here um he first starts off with the buzzfeed
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report which was about how michael cohen was told specifically from donald trump to lie to congress
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uh cohen refutes that at some level he says mr trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress
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that's not how he operates in conversations we had during the campaign at the same time i was
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actively negotiating in russia for him he would look me in the eye and tell me there's no business
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in russia and then go out and lie to the american people by saying the same thing in his way he was
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telling me to lie well i believe that to be true but i don't think the american people are going to care
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and we've are this has already come out right look we know that he said there was no business in
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russia and he did have the signed letter of intent that's all come out is there anybody i mean when
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people said i'm not electing a pope i'm electing a president yeah what you were really saying was
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look i know this guy is dirty but i don't care the new york real estate business is no right it's shady
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it's dirty so i don't think i think to me it matters okay but it mattered during the election
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american americans made their choice and they chose it's been to go with a guy who they knew was shady
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it's been priced in right so i don't think this is gonna matter okay um there were at least a half
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dozen times uh between the iowa caucus in january 2016 and the end of june where he would ask me
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how is it going in russia again insinuating that he was all over this the entire time and then lied
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about it but again that's kind of kind of what we know about that um another one that's interesting
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is he says you need to know mr trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to congress
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about the timing of the moscow negotiations before i gave it saying it was not his own lie
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but the lawyers actually um i guess uh were part of this he's essentially accusing the lawyers of
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intentionally uh you know lying to congress as well they're approving his statements um he says again
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to be clear mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied
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about it he lied about it because he never expected to win the election he also lied about it because
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he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the moscow real estate project anything new there
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that you think would be nope impactful nope yeah i don't think so either nope um okay you're the one
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who raised your hand the other attorneys did not you raised your hand uh okay he says uh he uh trump
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never expected to win the primary never expected to win the election the campaign for him was always
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a marketing opportunity i agree with that um he he also says that trump would often say the campaign
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was going to be the greatest infomercial in political history i agree with that um but again
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not impactful i don't think on the administration in any way um he says i knew early on that it would
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uh trump would direct me to lie further to further his business interest i'm ashamed to say that when
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it was for a real estate mogul in the private sector i considered it trivial as the president i consider
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it significant and dangerous this is i don't believe that this is the type of thing where you can't
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believe cohen at all they don't believe lying is his first language yeah his first and he has no
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credibility you can't when he has these little moral moments throughout this thing i don't take any of
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that seriously nope i think right now he's decided this is the thing he wants to do which is uh you
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know take down donald trump with some things that may be true some things that may not the bottom
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line is though that's his motivation now and it should be seen through that this is a this is a
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this is a mobster that would say you know when i was killing you know when i was killing uh veto
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the shark and uh tommy tommy knuckles i didn't have a problem with it but soon as i had to kill
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you know their wives well then i really had a problem look killing is killing yeah right killing
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is killing tommy knuckles i like that okay a lot of people have asked me whether mr trump knew about
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the release of hacked democratic national committee emails ahead of time the answer is yes so this is
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another one where okay this has been one of the big accusations is there any evidence to this
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here's what he says in july 2016 days before the democratic convention i was in mr trump's office when
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his secretary announced roger stone was on the phone mr trump put mr stone on the speaker phone
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mr stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and mr assange told
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stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage hillary
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clinton's campaign mr trump responded by stating to the effect wouldn't that be great i believe that
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you believe that happened yeah now whether uh stone actually talked to assange we don't know
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yeah uh he could have easily been puffing up his chest stone is a liar stone's also stone is a guy
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who is cohen stone stone would lie to trump to to raise his position in the organization so
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i don't know if stone is lying or not he may have he may not have but i do believe that donald trump
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is the guy who would have gotten on the phone and with stone and he would have said hey man i just
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talked to julian assange and and i can't give you all the details but something's coming out on
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donald uh on uh on hillary wouldn't that be great and that fits what happened in the timeline it fits
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with him remember the press conference he gave it said hey some things are going to be coming out
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remember that the last few days things gonna be coming out so yeah it looks like that also it fits
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to me remember the only thing at that time that trump trump's team they say not trump but trump's team
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and i believe this with between stone and manafort it may have just been trump's team and trump just
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saying hey just take care of this let's just make sure we're friendly um remember the only thing they
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cared about in the platform was being was going soft on russia's policy for the ukraine you remember
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i do remember that story and so that's all happening in the same week that this is is it
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gonna matter no it didn't matter then it won't matter now uh just to point out that does contradict
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uh stone's uh the case the government's case against roger stone in his text messages he kept
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repeatedly saying that no one from the trump camp was uh listening to him as far as assange's emails
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uh he said he was reaching out to a guy that was unnamed but we all know now that it was steve bannon
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um that was his contact it was never directly with the president according to his text messages and the
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the federal government's indictment but he kept saying i'm reaching out to tell uh steve bannon this
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but he's not listening no one will no one will listen to me on this and again you have to understand
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you have to put roger stone in context he very well could have been lying on all the text messages too
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he lies all the time that's all he does so you can't really it's hard to get it's it's interesting
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because we talked about this as as people surrounding trump during the campaign a lot of
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them are since you know sincerely problematic people that lie all the time in a way that inoculates
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trump here because you can't trust any of the insiders yeah any of them that have accounts against
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donald trump are so untrustworthy and been shown to be so untrustworthy so many times you can't believe
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any of their claims yeah even when they're texting about things that are bad for them or good for
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them there's always an agenda behind it remember it was it was nixon's attorney that said under oath
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like on a day like today when they really didn't have anything and he said under oath i think the
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president has been taping our conversations well soon as that came out then they started looking for
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the tapes right and then that that's why water watergate broke apart was because of of nixon's
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attorney testifying and testifying that he thought the president was making tapes uh but those guys
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didn't have any credibility either they had no credibility well dean had more credibility than
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stone or cohen though oh yeah absolutely but they all went to jail as well so uh all right i want to
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okay so is there any any disagreement where where i've come down on this that i don't think any of
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this makes a difference so far no i i don't think so total distraction yeah no need to worry about it
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at this point um so the next is mr trump is a racist we're going through michael cohen's
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testimony so you don't have to uh so michael cohen says that mr trump is a racist the country has seen
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mr trump court white supremacists and bigots you have heard him call poorer countries s-holes
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uh that would be uh uh s-h-i-t-holes yeah the reason i say that is because i'm fascinated by cnn right now
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who just like a little child that has a free pass to use a naughty word on tv continues to say the full
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word every time like there's okay the first day maybe you have an argument to use the full word
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so people know what it is it's been six months since this accusation came out or more and they
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still on morning television are saying the full word they just like love the idea that they get
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to say this this swear word on tv and it's embarrassing okay next up uh he once asked if i
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could if uh if if i could name a country this is cohen speaking he once asked me if i could name a
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country run by a black person that wasn't an s-hole uh in united states of america this is when
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brock obama was president of the united states as he knows united states of america right i mean i'm
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i wasn't quizzing you to see if you could name one i'm saying this is michael cohen's accusation
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i could have said under nelson mandela uh south africa the point here though is not whether you can
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come up with one the point is that that's the way trump's thinking however again it's cohen's word
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means nothing nothing nothing michael cohen's word means nothing that's the download here uh next
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up he says while we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in chicago he commented
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that only black people could live that way again if he had a tape of that that would be pretty
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freaking significant uh the fact that he doesn't means it means nothing because it's michael cohen
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speaking and michael cohen's word means nothing zero next up uh uh he told me that black people
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would never vote for him because they were too stupid if they have a tape of that uh that would
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be a huge deal uh they he doesn't it's michael cohen's word and michael cohen's word means nothing
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he's also said that if he was ever going to run for president he'd run as a republican because
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republicans no that's not a real note right right yeah that's not true but that is that's out on the
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internet and everything else he's also said that well has he no he hasn't that's a that's a
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hoax i mean so again how do you know what's real or not without a tape well and that's even going
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away right now at least the tape proves it right now i mean right few years with ai and deep fakes
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and such two years it won't make a difference yeah uh okay so that's the racist stuff those are that's
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the extent of the accusations on the racist stuff so i mean really what you have is michael cohen
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recounting three conversations or comments from trump which in which he has absolutely no evidence of
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really seemingly by his own word he does outline evidence of for some of these things none of the
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racist things he has any evidence no it will make a difference only to people like kamala harris do we
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have the audio of kamala harris yesterday being asked do you think that donald trump is a racist
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president trump a racist well look when you talk about his statement on that when you talk about him
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calling african countries s whole countries when you talk about him referring to immigrants as rapists
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and murderers i don't think you can reach any other conclusion you definitely agree that he's a racist i do
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yes yes yes yes you're telling me that haiti isn't a crap hole i mean it's had a lot of problems yeah it's
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a lot of problems i'm not i'm not saying why it's a crap hole or anything else but it's a crap hole and
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and there are really good people trying to help haiti out so it's not a crap hole anymore including
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their new president but i mean if we can't if we can't recognize that there's some real crap hole
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countries uh iran is one uh you know i don't do you want to live there because i don't yeah think
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if you think of it as do you want to move there yeah if you if your answer is no i mean it's not
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that doesn't make you a racist it makes you all right truth teller look they're places that are
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crappy in the world china is crappy not beijing but china not hong kong you're listening to glenn
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welcome to the glenbeck program so glad that you're listening thank you for joining us we're
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going to be talking about the cohen testimony as it begins here in about 35 minutes pat gray is
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joining us now there is uh there is some something that's really interesting this whole system is
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already beginning to fall apart even before it has really even been fully implemented and that is
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now with transgender the the truth is that women and men are built differently that's science
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wow did you hear that on the radio wow yeah i did i did yeah so they're built differently and now who's
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suffering the girls in school the girls who are losing their their uh scholarships to go to college
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they're losing them to guys who now are transitioning to be women because they're faster runners
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and they don't think that's fair what a surprise in connecticut it happened uh with two girls two girls
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two trans girls in one race the top two winners were both transgender i mean so it's really starting
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to affect women's sports and they're not happy about it and when they speak out about it they get beat
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to a pulp because you're not supposed to say anything they just kicked billy jean king out of the i
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don't know the clubhouse martina navratilova no billy jean king billy jean too yeah billy jean king
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this week wow martina latina navratilova last week last week yeah so they are that's a that's
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incredible and here's these are people who stood they were pioneers they were this is like kicking
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martin luther king out of a civil rights group today right and believe me if martin luther king
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were alive they would kick him out it's probably true first of all he was way too religious that guy
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yes reverend before his name yeah yeah yeah that's unbelievable yeah i mean and he talked a lot
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about personal responsibility i mean he talked a lot about being uh not colorblind it's wrong now to
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be colorblind yeah wait a minute i thought that was the point you thought wrong and gender is about
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identity and feelings feelings it's something races morris albert sings about that's not what you're
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supposed to base gender on right i remember that come on remember watching because we were talking
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about this what what's the difference here between gender like we're describing something right there
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are organs on a person and that's what we're describing and they seem to be describing something
00:25:36.100
else and we were watching uh this is when pat we were on pat and stew and we watched a clip about
00:25:40.060
ellen talking about it and she said uh gender is a feeling you have in your brain or in your heart
00:25:48.500
that's right and it's like well that that oh i mean just talking about your feelings may have value
00:25:53.960
but i don't think it has value in this conversation if that is true fine then we need to use science
00:26:01.720
and talk about the body not your feeling when you're competing with sports you're only hurting
00:26:08.780
the girls you're hurting the girls and and this is proof positive um that socialism will never take
00:26:17.940
hold you'll have to kill millions of people because socialism as i'm going to explain in my cpac
00:26:23.800
speech has nothing to do with fairness or justice has nothing to do with it okay that's not its goal
00:26:31.360
that's the goal of the free market system that's the goal of a constitutional republic is justice as
00:26:38.020
close as we can get to justice here's what's happening americans are fair americans are open
00:26:46.040
americans are do not want to judge their neighbor and somebody who lives differently than them for the
00:26:52.940
most part there are bigots on both sides okay but for the most part people are like look man you want
00:26:59.240
to call yourself a chick call yourself a chick whatever if you want to live like a woman fine
00:27:04.100
do it i don't have a problem with that however when it starts to affect me and my life then i have a
00:27:14.540
problem as you should right and as it is now starting to trickle down into all of these kids that said no
00:27:24.480
i'm for fairness well yes so are conservatives so are constitutional libertarians we are for being
00:27:35.000
fair and open and decent but once it starts to hinder your life and your rights you don't have no one
00:27:45.040
person has a right to trample on the rights of another and yeah by competing if we're going to put
00:27:50.820
men and women in the same sport fine then it makes no difference but we separated it because americans knew
00:27:58.760
scientifically men and women are built differently they just are and you have to reject all science
00:28:07.240
to think differently and so we separated them so it would be fair so the girls could win what are the
00:28:14.280
girls saying now in connecticut they yes they're losing out on scholarships there it's just unfair and
00:28:19.900
they say they know what the outcome is before the race is even won yes before they before they even
00:28:26.340
start they know those people are going to win because they're built as a man and so they're
00:28:33.680
going to win and they said every race it's the same why are we even racing yeah and and these are the
00:28:40.400
kids who have been taught their whole lives that they should be inclusive and they want to be they
00:28:44.740
should be diverse and they want to be and then they get to this and they're finding out that now there's
00:28:51.440
some problems with all of that yeah we want to be inclusive and we want to be diverse and all those
00:28:55.480
things are great but there's also fact there's also science and region reason and logic and it's
00:29:02.740
not logical for these you know these are identifying as women but they got a man unit in their pants
00:29:08.420
that makes it different it does a test that makes it different that that the man unit besides the
00:29:14.180
testosterone doesn't matter it's the muscle mass and the bone yeah but it's because they have a man
00:29:20.420
unit in their pants they have a different muscle structure correct and this is why we don't have
00:29:23.940
kids making these decisions they eat paste right like this is not yeah and tide pods thank you
00:29:28.900
it's like you know i got news for you it's it's not kids making this decision those are adults that
00:29:34.620
have been making these decisions right but the kids have been grown up yes are growing up under
00:29:38.700
those conditions where that is now just the truth they've bought into all that they bought into it
00:29:43.040
but now it's affecting them yeah i mean so i you know go kind of goes back to what i believe is the uh
00:29:48.620
the light in the life of of one pat gray and the pat gray unleashed program which is liberals eating their
00:29:53.300
own and you watch this kind of go on it's fun it is fun at some level uh but i mean like you know
00:29:58.660
we talked about this a while ago i mean ru paul got in trouble for saying the word tranny yes ru paul
00:30:05.360
jeez we played the clip of pat and also i don't think we have it around anymore but of him a progressive
00:30:09.780
guy going off on this and saying can you i mean this is a guy who who blazed paths uh he's a guy who's
00:30:16.680
on logo which is like the you know the gay cable network for you know gay programming he was had a
00:30:22.880
big show on that network he is a guy that everybody knew as a cross dresser and someone who embraced
00:30:29.040
these progressive values now he's becoming a victim because he used the word tranny which is not even
00:30:34.020
okay for him to use it goes so far so fast because there's no principles here it's all a moving target
00:30:40.540
it's all emotion and it's all emotion let me ask you this anybody notice who one of the speakers is
00:30:47.040
at cpac glenn beck well no van jones oh yeah what yeah van oh i didn't know that jones which is an
00:30:57.160
amazing world glenn beck and van jones on a stage at cpac that's fascinating wow the world changes
00:31:03.780
uh so wow here's here's the thing what's he talking about the i'm sure he's talking about justice yeah
00:31:09.960
yeah and working together and here's the thing he's an outcast of the left of the left yeah he's
00:31:16.620
an outcast the guy was a communist he's an outcast the guy who i said 10 years ago is the most radical
00:31:28.560
guy in the administration is not radical enough and is speaking at cpac holy crap so incredible it's
00:31:39.800
incredible so incredible and with the transgender thing you know all across the nation everybody's
00:31:45.360
trying to figure out how to deal with it in texas there's a rule that you you've got to compete uh
00:31:51.440
under the gender that's on your birth certificate so that caused a problem because a girl who wanted to
00:31:58.840
compete with boys and she's on the testosterone hormone treatment so she's stronger and more agile and
00:32:08.060
and dominating in women's wrestling but she had to she wanted to compete against the boys that
00:32:13.700
wouldn't let her in in connecticut it's different it's it's the gender with which you'd identify and
00:32:19.620
you get to compete in texas are they doing the hormones because of a transition or is it because
00:32:24.260
of a medical transition because of the transition so they can't because you wouldn't normally be able
00:32:28.520
to use let's say steroids right right and they make the exception for the transition person and
00:32:32.860
that's again where the issue stands right you shouldn't be able to yeah again it's a chemistry
00:32:37.740
issue here if they're taking these things really for any reason i mean i think you'd feel bad if it
00:32:41.580
was for like that's why you get kicked out of major league baseball for taking testosterone
00:32:44.920
it makes you stronger and faster yeah it's armstrong really that was part of his situation it's really
00:32:51.140
truly amazing how the effects are so clear and and are going to pile up faster and faster
00:32:58.840
once you start rejecting science once you reject science i mean that's why that's you know that's
00:33:06.360
the meaning behind my last book it's science and it's dismantling absolutely everything in our society
00:33:14.600
you once you start to dismantle science you can't go to the moon anymore because two plus two equals five
00:33:24.280
sometimes yeah well what you can't do anything our whole world is based upon science and empirical
00:33:36.660
evidence now nothing is nothing is and isn't it fascinating that they used to throw that around
00:33:43.680
at us that we're the science deniers and now it's the democrats who are denying science on whether a
00:33:49.480
fetus is a human being and whether a baby is a human baby is a human being and it's not what's in
00:33:56.900
your pants that decides it's how you feel in your head that decides your gender what no it isn't no it
00:34:03.900
isn't now to be american if you want to say you're a woman and you're a man because that's the way you feel
00:34:15.420
and you have a gender issue okay go ahead and i might even call you ma'am because i don't need to
00:34:24.180
hurt your feeling i don't need to prove anything to you or whatever i i don't you know it depends on
00:34:29.680
how deep this goes and if i how much i have to you know um honor your delusion i'm not going to go down
00:34:38.600
that road but to be polite i'm living next to a to a guy who dresses like a woman i'm going to tell my
00:34:43.980
kids yeah he's got some gender issues uh you know what but he's our neighbor we love him just be
00:34:50.120
polite you know say good morning ma'am or whatever okay let's just be cool with each other americans
00:34:57.920
want to live that way they just don't want it forced down their throat and that means they don't want
00:35:06.260
somebody saying you're gay no you can't love another person of your gender you can't do that
00:35:13.720
you can't do that they don't want that either they just want oh you're gay oh you're living with
00:35:19.780
another person of your gender okay kids that's homosexuality we think it's wrong they think it's
00:35:25.320
right okay move on with your life that's what america wants and for some reason um there are others
00:35:33.860
well i don't need to say for some reason for reasons of power and control and manipulation
00:35:40.000
they must have us all think alike they must have us toe the line whatever that line is today
00:35:48.300
it'll be different tomorrow but we must all learn you toe the line that's the end of america that's
00:35:55.420
the end of the american experiment that's a that's the end of everything we are as a species
00:36:01.060
that's what this battle is about and we are at the end of this battle now it's going to go on if
00:36:09.640
they win it's going to go on until they are thwarted a hundred years from now maybe longer than that
00:36:16.880
because of technology but that battle will continue one way or another but we are about to be put in a
00:36:26.260
cage i mean i don't know if you realize 5g that decision is being made right now they are building
00:36:35.500
uh a a a rat trap china is building a rat trap we are at the we're at the height of the cold war with
00:36:44.720
the missiles and we don't even know it nobody's even talking about it in the next six to 18 months
00:36:52.640
places like germany and uh britain and australia they're all deciding whether or not yeah we can
00:37:01.380
have huawei technology for our 5g if that technology is put in china rules all information they have
00:37:10.840
access to every every single gas line that runs around the world they win every war before a bullet
00:37:18.800
is ever fought and what are we talking about we're talking about cohen get your priorities together
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hurry up we got a lot to get to this hour uh we've got uh testimony happening right now with the
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oversight committee why this is happening while our president is in major negotiations why well
00:41:42.140
because this is not a legal proceeding this is a political proceeding michael cohen a completely
00:41:47.980
uh discredited witness now suddenly has a lot of credibility with the democrats and we're going
00:41:55.600
to hear his testimony uh as we go first let me start here this is the glenbeck program jason says
00:42:05.460
there's already fireworks he's listening to it so we don't have to uh already fireworks in this
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already fireworks congressman meadows is like just lit it up the uh congressman cummings oh yeah yeah
00:42:16.120
yeah cummings he's uh he's talking about um how they didn't have enough time to respond they were
00:42:20.380
like cnn and politico had this before we did his testimony so they're trying to get it delayed right
00:42:25.060
now this is crazy uh anyway car shield the guy the guy has no credibility he really doesn't all
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to carshield.com okay so what are they voting for now they're voting to to postpone or not
00:44:08.860
rather to get to continue with his testimony and it's going purely partisan lines right now all the
00:44:14.140
all the democrats just voted and they said yes he should and now the republicans are voting saying
00:44:17.900
no he should not do his testimony they want time more time to look through his testimony and rip it
00:44:22.240
apart that's what they said okay now though they had the was his testimony the opening statement yeah
00:44:28.300
that's his opening it's 20 pages long just get on with this nonsense i mean can we get it over with
00:44:34.060
i just want this i want the report to come out i want this to go away how long do we have to deal
00:44:38.840
with this i mean the 20 pages are filled with a bunch of accusations that uh if true could be
00:44:46.360
significant however they are not significant because michael cohen's the one saying them there's evidence
00:44:51.960
for some of them and those i think are worth reviewing but we went through about half of them
00:44:56.520
before maybe we can go through the rest if you want yeah we going we're going through michael
00:45:00.200
cohen's testimony so you don't have to right so bring this up jason's going to listen to it um
00:45:05.100
but bring it up just a little bit and if there's something significant where he starts to talk and
00:45:10.200
and he's into one of these significant places then we'll we'll bring it up okay so uh he has made
00:45:16.420
he's going to make today several allegations um uh against donald trump yeah we went through some
00:45:23.460
of them that he made racist comments with no backing no evidence at all of them uh things about
00:45:28.800
uh whether he talked to russia he claims there's a phone call that happened as jason pointed out in
00:45:33.260
hour one it disagrees with the case against roger stone uh that this call ever occurred but he's
00:45:39.720
claiming it again with no evidence the fbi says that didn't happen but cohen is saying it it it did
00:45:46.120
it did uh he goes on to talk about mr trump being a cheat this is what he says as previously stated he's
00:45:52.100
giving three years of president trump's financial statements from 2011 to 2013 which he gave to
00:45:57.080
bank uh to inquire about a loan to buy the buffalo bills and and to forbes these are exhibits he
00:46:02.940
actually turned in in my experience it was mr trump inflating his total assets when it served his
00:46:08.640
purposes such as trying to be listed among the wealthiest people in forbes and deflating his
00:46:13.240
assets to reduce his real estate taxes this is there was a big new york times investigation about
00:46:18.180
this i think it was last year um you know if he did do that especially in some official way to
00:46:25.620
lower his real estate taxes that would be obviously a serious issue um most of the accusations in the
00:46:32.260
times piece were very old you know going back to the 80s yeah um so i don't know they didn't have
00:46:37.440
anything they didn't have anything new that's that's why and that's why they're saying you know
00:46:42.340
release the tax the tax papers so they have something new to go off of to see how he manipulates
00:46:48.820
things if indeed he does uh also he is giving them two newspaper articles side by side that are
00:46:56.380
examples of mr trump inflating and deflating his assets again he's got newspaper he's got two of
00:47:01.160
them and he's placed them side by side again i would ask you does any of this make a difference so far
00:47:05.540
nope um again most people have made their mind up on donald trump and they're not going to move
00:47:10.280
either way here's another one uh that we've heard hang on just a sec i want to say this on income tax
00:47:15.240
especially nobody's going to be surprised if a real estate mogul from new york city manipulates
00:47:22.860
his tax return to not pay taxes should he no is it illegal yes should he maybe you know get the full
00:47:31.200
burden of the law and have to pay for that yes and a fine probably however this is getting al capone
00:47:38.080
for income tax evasion exactly remember this is supposed to be an investigation about whether russia
00:47:42.120
influenced the election this is this is nothing new and and nothing major uh mr trump directed me
00:47:48.900
michael cohen to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an
00:47:53.780
art hampton's event the objective was to ensure that his portrait which was going to be auctioned
00:47:57.900
last would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon the portrait was purchased by the fake
00:48:02.680
bidder for sixty thousand dollars mr trump then directed the trump foundation which is supposed to be a
00:48:07.580
charitable organization to repay the fake bidder despite keeping the art for himself now the part
00:48:14.420
of that that's there's part of that's just embarrassing if you're paying you're trying to
00:48:17.560
get a bidder to bid up your own painting the other part of that though is more serious which is taking
00:48:21.800
charitable funds and directing them for something that you purchase for yourself that's not something
00:48:26.580
you're really allowed to do it was a charitable event you pay sometimes you pay way too much money
00:48:32.700
at a charitable event because it's your way of of giving if he has that um you know in the bylaws of
00:48:41.620
the trump charity that he can you know he can go out and and bid on things uh and you know and give
00:48:49.660
that money to charity that's a charity gift now you're getting something in exchange but it's a stupid
00:48:55.540
oil painting of you i you know i think it's i think it's slimy and it probably shouldn't be probably can't be done
00:49:08.080
but again i don't think that's worth impeachment no and i think again like i don't think anyone took the
00:49:15.760
trump foundation seriously as a charity i mean it was a if nothing else a pr you know it was a way to get trump
00:49:22.140
p good pr when he was a businessman it's got still got nothing to do with these larger picture that
00:49:26.280
we're really concerned about as a country though it may it may wind up getting him a fine i mean so
00:49:30.960
far you're telling telling america um on the things that you say you have evidence on you're telling
00:49:37.660
america pretty much what america already knows about donald trump he is he's an ego guy driven by ego
00:49:46.100
he he's slippery with all of the facts he you know fudges things here and there yeah he hires dirt
00:49:53.580
bags like cohen yeah we know it we're monitoring the uh the testimony as well jason and uh is there
00:49:59.260
anything going on that we're missing at this point anything interesting no not really uh uh congressman
00:50:04.960
cummings is doing his basically his opening statement he uh he said that um the first thing he came out
00:50:10.220
with was he talks about the payoffs to the women that's the first thing he let off with he also said
00:50:14.480
look the credibility issue is a valid question but he said the reason why we're justifying this
00:50:19.180
is because the additional documents that cohen is going to release today that's why he's saying
00:50:23.320
that's where they're at now all right uh going on his testimony with mike from michael cohen against
00:50:27.380
donald trump trying to figure out if anything here is going to change any minds uh it says i should
00:50:31.660
come to no surprise that one of my more common responsibilities was that mr trump directed me to
00:50:36.260
call business owners many of whom were small businesses that were owed money for their services and
00:50:40.620
told them no payment or a reduced payment would be coming when i advised mr trump
00:50:44.440
of my success he reveled in it um and yet i continued to work for him quoting michael cohen
00:50:50.020
now we have heard this from several people from that have worked for donald trump or done business
00:50:55.340
with donald trump in the past this was a business tactic of trump trump would call have cohen or
00:51:00.860
somebody else call up a business and say yeah i owe you a hundred thousand dollars but you know what
00:51:04.400
x y and z i'm not doing i'm giving you 50 and people would have to either fight back against trump
00:51:10.340
and say no you're paying me my entire amount or they would have to take it and it was not a it was
00:51:16.500
not a thing where he was um it was his hard-nosed business tactic right like he thought he could get
00:51:21.320
a better price that's a scumbag business tech whether it's a honorable thing or not it's not
00:51:26.080
it's not i don't but listen again when i said when i said in new york you know look at the guy who can get
00:51:33.400
things done here is donald trump you want a building built you want the freedom tower built
00:51:38.280
give it to donald trump he'll have it built in six weeks you don't want to know what he had to do to
00:51:43.620
get it built i mean that that's true today you you admire him for um uh you know finding every single
00:51:53.960
loophole and exploiting it to the max it's not the way i want to live my life it's why that's what he is
00:52:00.020
that's what he does it's why a lot of people like the emergency declaration and why a lot of people
00:52:03.680
don't like the emergency declaration right it's the same thing and by the way he wrote about all
00:52:07.520
this in his book i mean this is all stuff he's acknowledged yeah as far as generalized tactics
00:52:12.620
so far nothing changes anything i michael cohen will say i am giving the committee today a copy of
00:52:18.620
the 130 000 wire transfer from me to mrs clifford that's the that's stormy daniels attorney during the
00:52:25.480
closing days of the presidential campaign that was demanded by daniels to maintain her silence about
00:52:30.580
her affair with mrs mr trump um she does go on to say i uh trump asked me michael cohen to pay off an
00:52:36.960
adult film star with whom he had an affair and to lie to his wife about it which i did lying to the
00:52:42.080
first lady is one of my biggest regrets she's a kind good person i respect her greatly and she did
00:52:46.540
not deserve that whether you believe michael cohen actually has having a moral moment or not
00:52:53.220
i mean again if if all of that is true does that make a difference
00:52:57.760
i mean i don't know i don't think so i you can't trust michael cohen at all yeah but legally even if
00:53:04.320
he wrote the checks and all of that is true well if he if again there is an issue with campaign
00:53:09.580
finance that could be a problem here uh they will certainly go after it and try to make it into a
00:53:13.560
problem i think if he used his own money wasn't it was it i can't remember now right was it that he
00:53:18.380
used his own money was a problem or that he didn't use his own money was a problem well cohen is
00:53:22.660
providing two checks one from donald trump's personal account and one from um the trump
00:53:28.220
organization so at least it kind of doesn't matter they kind of came from anywhere the question is
00:53:33.620
is his intent to hide the payments uh for a campaign use again i think it's a stretch with
00:53:40.500
the law can you can you can you bust somebody on that yes uh do you have to probably not people get
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away with things like this all the time in the campaign finance world it's not as as much as i
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think it should be illegal if you're paying people off to keep quiet uh while you're running for a
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campaign i i think that's i think that's bad news but i don't think that's against the law
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if you're using campaign money to do it you i don't think you can right right well because that
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would be uh uh the problem is if he didn't if he used campaign money and didn't disclose it is the
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biggest problem right uh which of course he obviously the whole point of this was not to
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disclose it so he didn't do that we know the question is where did this money come from there's
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no by the way signs that it came from the campaign right but that you know still there are very strange
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which by the way we're 20 minutes into his testimony and uh cummins is still talking this
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quickly give me an update jason on what we missed and then we'll take a little bit of the hearing i
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think jim jordan is speaking so we want to take some of that it's uh it's it's pretty entertaining
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actually he's saying that this is going to go down in history as your first called witness
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uh is a liar to congress so he's he's really coming strong on uh this is this is purely partisan uh
00:56:45.260
nonsense and yeah there's no reason why a a liar should be the first person you called in your
00:56:50.820
committee he's saying the whole thing's orchestrated by lanny davis who's a known
00:56:54.880
clinton ally and has been for for a very long time uh so that's where this is is can we pick up a little
00:57:00.380
bit of the hearings here uh with jim jordan star witness in a hearing and there's a reason this is the
00:57:06.740
first because no other committee would do it think about this with mr cohen here this committee
00:57:13.740
we got lots of lawyers on this committee this committee is actually encouraging a witness to
00:57:19.340
violate attorney client privilege mr chairman when we legitimize dishonesty we delegitimize this
00:57:26.540
institution we're supposed to pursue the truth but you have stacked the deck against the truth
00:57:32.460
we're only allowed to ask certain questions even with that amendment you just told us about well
00:57:36.760
russia's now on the table you initially told us we can't ask questions about the special council
00:57:41.100
can't ask questions about the southern district of new york can't ask questions about russia nope
00:57:45.820
nope only subjects we can talk about are ones you think are going to be harmful to the president of
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the united states and the answers to those questions are going to come from a guy who can't be trusted
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here's what the u.s attorney said about mr cohen while mr cohen enjoyed a privileged life his desire
00:58:06.980
for ever greater wealth and influence precipitated an extensive course of criminal conduct mr cohen
00:58:14.100
committed four four distinct federal crimes over a period of several years he was motivated to do so by
00:58:21.520
personal greed and repeatedly repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends
00:58:28.300
but the democrats don't care they don't care they just want to use you mr cohen you're their patsy
00:58:34.700
today they got to find somebody somewhere to say something so they can try to remove the president
00:58:42.260
from office because tom steyer told him to tom steyer last week organized the town hall guess where
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chairman nadler's district in manhattan two nights ago tom steyer organized the town hall
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guess where chairman cummings district in baltimore the best they can find the best they can find to
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start this process michael cohen fraudster cheat convicted felon and in two months a federal inmate
00:59:13.960
well actually they didn't find him lady davis found him i'll say one thing about the democrats
00:59:19.320
they stick to the playbook remember remember how all this started the clinton campaign hired perkins cohen
00:59:28.540
law firm who hired glenn simpson who hired a foreigner christopher steel who put together the fake dossier
00:59:35.500
that the fbi used to go get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign but when that whole scheme failed
00:59:43.120
and the american people said we're going to make donald trump president they said we got to do
00:59:48.200
something else so now clinton loyalist clinton operative lanny davis has persuaded the chairman
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of the oversight committee to give a convicted felon a forum to tell stories and lie about the president
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of the united states so they can all start here's the thing and and jordan has credibility with me
01:00:10.660
i don't know where he stood before on cohen but he's generally a good guy and generally uh cares about
01:00:18.380
the truth and uh the system but i i will tell you this the republicans don't have any leg to stand on
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either they loved cohen when he was defending the pro the president and he had no credibility then
01:00:31.700
either yeah i like jim jordan but uh lanny davis did not discover michael cohen michael cohen was in
01:00:37.040
the organization for a very long time that's why we know who he is and he was on television being sent
01:00:41.000
on television to defend the president for a very long time and a lot of people like that and he was
01:00:45.520
a liar then he's a liar now um there's just there's just not a lot uh to say it's now 26 minutes into his
01:00:54.280
testimony he hasn't spoken a word this is exactly what you'd expect from from this jason what are we
01:01:00.920
getting here we got about a minute before we have to go uh to break and we're gonna come back with
01:01:03.900
more of the testimony so uh jordan was just he said he yielded his time over just prematurely but he
01:01:08.920
was like oh wait a minute and then cummings was like no no yield your time and he's like but i have
01:01:12.440
a motion and he's like no not gonna let not hear your motion you're done and then jordan's like oh
01:01:16.300
that's how you're gonna operate okay i mean this is getting fiery it's just like this is this is the
01:01:21.420
show all right this is a it's a big show for both sides to get out their arguments and say that
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they're you know trying really hard and tough and like look jordan's correct here cohen is uh has
01:01:33.980
zero credibility zero i mean he has it's really less than zero the guy has been lying basically
01:01:41.900
at every time you've ever seen him speak has been a lie so to bring him in and act as if he's credible
01:01:47.940
now is completely disingenuous from the democrats and it was also disingenuous from the republicans
01:01:52.740
when they were treating him credibly back in the day you know what's amazing to me is we have
01:01:57.080
actual issues going on presidents in north korea in vietnam talking about north korea i mean
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that's going on we are special forces this week it was found out are now training for uh operations
01:02:11.720
against china and russia and de-emphasizing the middle east and terror this started because of china
01:02:20.900
and russia and there's nobody talking about that this is not about actually finding any truth
01:02:27.440
and anything that is going to help the american people this is a political and you said it right
01:02:33.060
show all the world has become a stage and we're just watching a show while the real moves are being made
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by russia and china and the financial and tech centers what are we doing what are we doing america wake up
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you're listening to glenn beck you know i'd like to do i'd like to put all of these people
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all of them into a liberty safe and then forget the combination i think i think we could if we could
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just we have to figure out a way to make one big enough and then i don't know we put piles of this
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this free money you can spend and no cameras and then they'll all be lured in to like this giant
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politician trap and then we close the liberty safe on them and then we're just like through the air
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holes just lower in food occasionally uh i never thought of air holes yeah i'll consider it anyway
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liberty liberty liberty safe you're gonna put air holes in and then lower it down into what
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the ocean that's no i said it was gonna lower down food into it as i said i don't i don't think that's
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more of the testimony with michael cohen and all of his super truth coming up on the other side of
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ben sass coming up in the glenbeck program in just a few minutes uh we are listening to michael cohen
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uh deliver his opening statement he's currently talking about who he is um a loving father
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my first instinct has always been to help those in need yeah his first instinct comes because of his
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mom and dad i let you down they were survivors of the holocaust as the many people that know me best
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would say i am the person that they call at 3 a.m if they needed help i proudly remember being the
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sheriff's commission whose command at un celular will have a free statement on the m after storage
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so their parents have been in regular storage and to head to help stay active in their homes
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because their parents knew that i would drop everything and care for them as if they
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Yet last fall I pled guilty in federal court to felonies for the benefit of at the direction
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of and in coordination with individual number one.
01:05:24.220
For the record, individual number one is President Donald J. Trump.
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This is painful to admit that I was motivated by ambition at times.
01:05:41.420
It is even more painful to admit that many times I ignored my conscience and acted loyal to a man when I should not have.
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Sitting here today, it seems unbelievable that I was so mesmerized by Donald Trump that I was willing to do things for him that I knew were absolutely wrong.
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Accordingly, let me now tell you about Mr. Trump.
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Working very closely with him for more than 10 years as his Executive Vice President and Special Counsel.
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And then as personal attorney when he became President.
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When I first met Mr. Trump, he was a successful entrepreneur.
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When you were in his presence, you felt like you were involved in something greater than yourself.
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I wound up touting the Trump narrative for over a decade.
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At first, I worked mostly on real estate developments and other business transactions.
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Shortly thereafter, Mr. Trump brought me into his personal life.
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The reason why we are monitoring this, by the way, is not because we believe him.
01:07:23.300
I didn't believe him when everybody on the Trump campaign told us to believe him.
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You know, you usually don't open up with a liar and a discredited figure.
01:07:45.620
You start with something that you really have and you're excited to share.
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Everything that we know of, he has very little evidence except, well, I saw it firsthand.
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He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.
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Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great.
01:08:08.660
He had no desire or intention to lead this nation, only to market himself and to build his wealth and power.
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Mr. Trump would often say, this campaign was going to be the greatest infomercial in political history.
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The campaign, for him, was always a marketing opportunity.
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I knew early on in my work for Mr. Trump that he would direct me to lie, to further his business interests.
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This is the problem with our society right now.
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Without any evidence, this guy is getting out and saying all of these things.
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And for me, these are the things I was saying about the Trump campaign.
01:09:08.240
He doesn't expect to win, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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So his testimony appeals to the worst part of me that says, yes, see, see, he's saying what you thought.
01:09:25.040
We are either not watching or we're watching based on how it makes us feel.
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They're saying, oh, yeah, he said this racist thing in a car with Michael Cohen.
01:09:36.660
I believe it because that's what I believe about him.
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However, there are things that we already knew occurred, like the payments to Stormy Daniels.
01:09:54.200
He does have evidence of some of that stuff, but it does not seem to be that he has evidence of anything new.
01:09:59.540
He has claims that I have not heard before, but those claims are not backed up by any evidence.
01:10:10.620
But all of the stuff that you're listening to, whether you are cheering for it or you are jeering, don't do either.
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Because there is a swear word in his testimony here.
01:10:33.520
He's talking about the crap hole countries in which he says the full word in the testimony.
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I don't know if he's going to say it for sure here, but I don't want our stations to get it.
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And while we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago,
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he commented that only black people could live that way.
01:10:54.520
And he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.
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I don't believe his, uh, I feel really bad about what I've done stuff.
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Three years of Mr. Trump's personal financial statements from 2011, 2012, and 2013.
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He's only, he's only changed sides because he ran his race, you know, with Donald Trump
01:11:29.680
as far as he could run, he got into trouble, he's now trying to save his butt, and this
01:11:39.520
It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes,
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such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets
01:11:57.460
I'm sharing with you two newspaper articles, side by side, that are examples of Mr. Trump
01:12:04.460
inflating and deflating his assets, as I said, to suit his financial interests.
01:12:10.560
So, in other words, he'll make himself look good to some people for some times, and then
01:12:16.920
if it's in his, if it's a benefit of him, he'll say the opposite?
01:12:23.580
I mean, if it's taxes, though, is the benefit that could be an issue.
01:12:26.560
Yeah, if it's taxes, then show me the tax records.
01:12:30.680
He's backing it up with two newspaper articles.
01:12:33.000
He did say, also, that he has several years of financial statements that he gave to Deutsche
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Bank, so that is something that I'm sure that will be of interest of the Democrats here.
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Deutsche Bank is a lot of shady stuff going on there.
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A lot of shady, money laundering bank with the Russians.
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Mr. Trump directed the Trump Foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization,
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to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself.
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And it should come as no surprise that one of my more common responsibilities was that
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Mr. Trump directed me to call business owners, many of whom are small businesses that were
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owed money for their services, and told them that no payment or a reduced payment would be
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When I asked Mr. Trump, or when I told Mr. Trump of my success, he actually reveled in
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He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie about it to
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And lying to the First Lady is one of my biggest regrets, because she is a kind, good person,
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Tommy Knuckles could be giving this same testimony, and I'd look.
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All of this stuff may or may not have happened.
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I mean, you want to talk about the, you know, shadow of a doubt.
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It's either he has evidence, or you shouldn't even hear the words he's saying.
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To avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign.
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And I did that, too, without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether
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it was the right thing to do, or how would it impact me?
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It is only Wednesday, and this week already, Democrats voted against protecting newborns who were born alive
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so the doctor or their parents could kill the child.
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Now those same people who want us to be able to kill baby bring us a con man, convicted felon,
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and perjurer to try to tell us this person can be trusted.
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Oh, Glenn, that's too big for a Wednesday morning.
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Monday night in the Senate was a shameful disgrace.
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I mean, I remain optimistic about the pro-life movement in the long term.
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But one of the basic ones is there's a lot more imaging technology in the world.
01:17:44.920
And what we find is as people see more 3D images of what's happening in utero,
01:17:50.940
The pro-baby position and the pro-compassion position, the pro-science position,
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But America's soul on display, at least through its supposedly greatest deliberative body,
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So, Ben, what does this say to—I think, and I don't know where the cutoff is with God,
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but I believe in an American covenant that was started with George Washington,
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And I think some of that has been withdrawn slowly.
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But when we can't say, hey, we're not going to kill newborns, and everybody knows that's infanticide,
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I think that's—I think God withdraws from that.
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What does that say about the Democratic presidential candidates?
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I mean, what's going to happen to the Democratic Party when they embrace the worst possible position
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Yeah, I mean, so let's distinguish between one really big point and then a smaller political point.
01:18:51.960
But the first and bigger point, bigger than politics, is it shouldn't be right versus left
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When we believe—the American experiment is premised on the idea that everybody's an image-bearer,
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that God created people with dignity and with rights.
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Government is not the author or source of your rights.
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It's a tool to secure rights that we've already been given by God.
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And you have to affirm universal dignity to understand what America's about.
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Now, the much narrower political point is there's so much broken tribalism in our country that
01:19:28.640
we're not having a conversation that pretends the 320 million of us are in anything together.
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And so you had 44 Democrats and 100 people in the U.S. Senate vote against a resolution Monday night
01:19:42.800
I'm as pro-life as they come, and unapologetically so.
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But our bill Monday night wasn't actually about abortion.
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It didn't have anything to do with abortion access.
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It's about babies that have already been born alive.
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And we had, I think, six Democrats—I was floor manager Monday afternoon in route to the vote.
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And I think we had six Democrats make speeches, and four of them were just filled with blatant lies
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talking about health of the mother in the second trimester and debates that are messier
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Their stuff had nothing to do with the bill whatsoever.
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They were making up stuff that isn't anywhere in the text of the bill at all.
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And I think they think they can get away with lying like that simply because they know that
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America's tribal enough that people only listen inside their own silos, and they're not going
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to be called to account because they're talking to people who already agreed with them.
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We're supposed to believe some stuff in common.
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Ben, I can't thank you enough for making this stand and pushing and standing tall on this
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We are behind you, and we support you on this effort and many of the other efforts.
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You are a guy who possibly can bring us back together.
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And as strange as this may sound, abortion in the end may be one of those things that
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talking about Twitter accounts and what's he saying exactly?
01:26:09.060
You said all these bad things about the president there in that last 30 minutes,
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I can see you working for him for 10 days, maybe 10 weeks, maybe even 10 months.
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Mr. Cohen, how long did you work in the White House?
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I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States of America.
01:26:54.020
I can tell you a story of Mr. Trump reaming out Reince Priebus because I had not taken
01:27:01.020
a job where Mr. Trump wanted me to, which is working with Don McGahn at the White House
01:27:09.700
What I said at the time, and I brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why I should
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not go in because there would be no attorney-client privilege, and in order to handle some of the
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matters that I talked about in my opening, that it would be best suited for me not to
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Because I didn't take the job because of attorney-client privilege on all the things
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And now you're behaving just like everyone else who's got fired or didn't get the job
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they wanted, like Andy McCabe, like James Comey, same kind of selfish motivation after
01:27:52.820
That's what I see here today, and I think that's what the American people-
01:27:55.040
Mr. Jordan, all I wanted was what I got, to be personal attorney to the president, to enjoy
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the senior year of my son in high school and waiting for my daughter, who's graduating
01:28:29.140
As you likely know, I served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee at the
01:28:32.140
time of the Russian hacks, and when Russia weaponized the messages that it had stolen.
01:28:39.520
My questions are not about the harm done to any individual by WikiLeaks and the Russians.
01:28:45.040
The possible and likely harm to the United States of America and our democracy.
01:28:49.600
I'm going to accuse you of not doing something bad because you didn't get a gig you wanted.
01:28:54.560
But, of course, I also lost my gig because of this exact same thing.
01:28:58.820
Of the Russia WikiLeaks release of the DNC's e-mails.
01:29:09.180
He had advanced notice that there was going to be a dump of e-mails.
01:29:14.020
But at no time did I hear the specificity of what those e-mails were going to be.
01:29:19.480
But you do testify today that he had advanced knowledge of their imminent release.
01:29:27.500
He never had contact with the president and barely could get contact with Bannon.
01:29:32.640
Did Mr. Trump likely share this information with his daughter Ivanka?
01:29:36.840
I think it's really important that you understand what Cohen is saying.
01:29:42.080
And he is going against what the FBI said happened.
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The FBI said Cohen, he couldn't, he was frustrated.
01:29:54.600
So he never told them about the WikiLeaks thing.
01:30:02.420
Now, Cohen is saying that he heard a phone call from Stone explaining, hey, WikiLeaks is going to do this thing.
01:30:11.840
So are we expected to believe the FBI or Cohen or Stone?
01:30:19.940
He could have been, he could have been communicating with the president through other means, right?
01:30:23.620
A different phone number that the, that the FBI didn't get a hold of.
01:30:26.700
You know, I'm sure what the FBI looked at was his, his cell phone and his text.
01:30:30.760
Possible that that doesn't explain Stone's frustration.
01:30:34.080
Unless, unless he's, you know, lying, which he always is.
01:30:36.780
Again, I wouldn't say that I think that there's any evidence for Cohen here.
01:30:39.760
This is Cohen's word and I should always dismiss Cohen's word on its own.
01:30:42.860
I will tell you between Stone, Cohen and the FBI, I'm going with the FBI.
01:30:47.900
So, um, uh, you have to believe one of the three or don't believe any of them.
01:30:53.280
And if that's the case, then turn this thing, the whole thing off.
01:30:56.260
Cause it doesn't matter if this is the kind of, of evidence that you have.
01:31:02.240
Now, the other thing is he talks about this Trump tower, which she's going at.
01:31:06.020
He's always said, I didn't know anything about the meeting of Trump tower, but there's a new thing where he says, oh, I,
01:31:12.420
I did know about it, but I didn't know I knew about it until much later.
01:31:19.580
So he said the reason why he knew about the Trump tower meeting is because he recalled that at one point he was sitting in the Oval Office and Don Jr.
01:31:29.760
Cause he said, remembers that was odd and said, the meeting is on.
01:31:37.040
Notice there was no mention of which meeting or the content of anything.
01:31:43.080
My understanding is in 2017, Donald Trump only had one meeting.
01:31:48.600
So I think, so here he is now, he's currently giving a testimony about conversations about Russia.
01:31:56.040
I understand, but you have a tremendous amount of experience.
01:31:59.120
Mr. Trump is all about winning and he will do what is necessary.
01:32:04.240
And in your opinion and experience, would he have the potential to cooperate or collude with a foreign power to win the presidency at all costs?
01:32:24.020
About colluding and coordinating with the Russians at any point during the campaign.
01:32:31.020
So as I stated in my testimony, I wouldn't use the word colluding.
01:32:38.660
Was there something odd about the back and forth praise with President Putin?
01:32:49.480
But I'm not really sure that I can answer that question.
01:33:03.300
There's just so many dots that all seem to lead to the same direction.
01:33:09.840
The campaign and the entire Trump organization appeared to be filthy with Russian contact.
01:33:30.200
And then we have Roger Stone informing the president just before the Democratic National Convention
01:33:36.120
that these that WikiLeaks was going to drop documents in the public arena
01:33:42.540
that we knew at that point were hacked and stolen by Russia from the Democratic National Committee.
01:33:53.380
My question is, given all those connections, is it likely that Donald Trump was fully aware
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and had every intent of working with Russia to help make sure that he could win the presidency at office?
01:34:14.720
...by the House Select and the Senate Select Intelligence Committees,
01:34:18.800
and so I would rather not answer that specific question other than just to tell you
01:34:25.300
that Mr. Trump's desire to win would have him work with anyone.
01:34:33.620
And one other thing that I had said in my statement is that when it came to the Trump Tower Moscow project,
01:34:42.940
it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and we never expected to win the election.
01:34:53.500
All right, I need to take a quick break because they're going to switch to a Republican,
01:34:57.320
and real quick, we'll get back to it in a minute.
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and as they go up, that will compound, and you might not be able to afford the house that you're living in,
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and trying to sell it in bad times is going to be bad.
01:36:15.260
Here's our 10-second station ID, and then back to the hearings.
01:36:18.320
All right, from Tennessee, we go now to Congressman Green.
01:36:36.680
A couple of topics say that I can ask Mr. Cohen about the president's compliance with financial disclosures and campaign finance laws.
01:36:43.780
But didn't Mr. Cohen on two occasions break campaign finance law with his own donations?
01:36:49.640
So, again, the majority party's star witness on the president's compliance is a guy who broke compliance laws himself.
01:36:58.340
Mr. Chairman, you graciously allow us to ask questions of Mr. Cohen on the president's dealings with the IRS and tax law.
01:37:06.280
Your star witness here broke the law with regards to the IRS at least five times.
01:37:11.940
He pled guilty on cheating on his taxes, lying to the IRS.
01:37:16.740
Next up, with the permission of the chairman, I get to ask Mr. Cohen about his perspective on the president's business dealings.
01:37:27.040
The witness lied to multiple financial institutions to get loans to pay off other loans just to keep himself afloat,
01:37:35.600
and he's going to be the expert on business practices.
01:37:40.080
Obviously, Mr. Chairman, the witness might produce documents that he suggests incriminates the president,
01:37:47.380
All of those lies were done on fraudulent documents, documents that he forged.
01:37:55.120
Nothing he says or produces has any credibility.
01:37:59.060
Apparently, he even lied about delivering his own child, which his wife had to correct the record of.
01:38:04.540
Ladies and gentlemen, how on earth is this witness credible?
01:38:09.360
With all the lies and deception, the self-serving fraud, it begs the question.
01:38:13.620
I have to tell you, if I were Michael Cohen, me, I'm not saying him, me, my reputation, my word means so much to me,
01:38:28.300
I think I would leave that room because he knows all of that stuff is true that he just said.
01:38:33.660
I would have a hard time not putting a gun in my mouth.
01:38:37.540
I would realize the gravity of what I have done.
01:38:41.000
I have destroyed the only thing that is truly mine, and that is my name, my reputation.
01:38:48.400
There's not a person in the world that should believe me.
01:38:53.260
You'd have to believe that you were in very dark moments, for sure.
01:38:57.040
I wouldn't make, personally, me, I would not make it through that.
01:38:59.920
If this moral transformation is real, and he said this, Cohen has said that he's been in very dark places,
01:39:06.760
whether that's true or not from him, I just don't think you can trust him.
01:39:12.140
And I don't see, and everybody treats it differently, so I don't want to judge a man's heart.
01:39:22.680
Again, everybody reacts differently, so I don't want to judge the man's heart.
01:39:31.280
Mr. Chairman, I'd like to yield the remaining of my time to the ranking member.
01:39:36.780
Mr. Cohen, how many times did you talk to the special counsel's office?
01:39:41.220
Did they talk to you at all in preparation for today's hearing between the seven times you talked to him prior to your sentencing?
01:39:49.480
Have you had any conversations with the special counsel's office between sentencing and today?
01:39:56.820
That's in the sentencing memorandums that were in front of the court back in December.
01:40:01.100
What I'm asking is how many times have you talked to the special counsel's office since then up to today's appearance here in Congress?
01:40:18.860
And Mr. Cohen, in your 10 years of working for Donald Trump, did he control everything that went on in the Trump organization?
01:40:28.860
And did you have to get his permission in advance and report back after every meeting of any importance?
01:40:39.140
There was nothing that happened at the Trump organization, from whether it was a response, as the Daily Beast story that you referred to, ranking member, that did not go through Mr. Trump with his approval and sign-off, as in the case of the payments.
01:41:03.340
How many times did the President, Michael, ask you or direct you to try to reach settlements with women in 2015 and 2016?
01:41:17.380
I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm sorry, ma'am. I don't have the answer to that. I'd have to go back and try to recollect. It's certainly the two that we know about.
01:41:27.060
And why do you think the President did not provide the accurate information in his 2017 financial disclosure form?
01:41:39.860
What was he trying to hide? He corrected other forms, but he didn't correct this one.
01:41:44.480
The payment on the reimbursement of the funds that I extended on his behalf.
01:41:56.520
Well, going back into the story, as I stated, when we, Alan Weisselberg and I left the office and we went to his office,
01:42:03.600
in order to make the determination on how the money was going to be wired to the IOLA, the interest on a lawyer's account for Keith Davidson in California.
01:42:15.000
I had asked Alan to use his money. Didn't want to use mine.
01:42:20.080
And he said he couldn't. And we then decided how else we can do it.
01:42:25.780
And he asked me whether or not I know anybody who wants to have a party at one of his clubs that could pay me instead,
01:42:32.500
or somebody who may have wanted to become a member of one of the golf clubs.
01:42:38.740
And I also don't have anybody that was interested in that.
01:42:42.340
And it got to the point where it was down to the wire.
01:42:45.140
It was either we, somebody wired the funds and purchased the life rights to the story from Miss Clifford.
01:42:54.400
So look at that, listen to this, look at how this guy, how much he had to go through to get a hundred and what is it?
01:43:03.700
A hundred fifty thousand dollars. How, how many hoops he had to look, but he can't recall in two years, how many times,
01:43:12.840
how many times he had to jump through those hoops.
01:43:15.360
He certainly wanted to make you think it's more than two.
01:43:17.380
Correct. Correct. It may, the answer is probably zero. It may be 10.
01:43:22.100
Well, it's definitely two. It's definitely two. And you don't answer that the way he did. You just don't.
01:43:29.880
You could say, madam, I don't know. It's more than two, but I don't know.
01:43:37.840
Well, that doesn't help anything. That just is, you're creating the illusion.
01:43:43.100
Yeah, illusion that it could be 17. Right. But it's no evidence that it's 17.
01:43:46.700
Dylan Howard and others where they would contact me or Mr. Trump or someone and state that there's a story that's percolating out there that you may be interested in.
01:43:58.960
And then what you do is you contact that individual and you purchase the rights to that story from them.
01:44:05.460
All right. Okay. We're going to take a quick break here coming up in a second.
01:44:11.080
By the way, that question came from Miss Maloney, which rhymes with baloney.
01:44:17.520
See, you're not going to get that on CNN. No, you're not going to get that on CNN.
01:44:21.640
MSNBC ignoring it. They won't even have the balls to say that.
01:44:26.000
Here's baloney Maloney. Oh, my gosh. With her question.
01:44:29.540
Wow. You pushed the buttons of Washington today. Thank you. Thank you.
01:44:43.860
I want to talk to you a little bit about X Chair.
01:44:46.060
I'm going to CPAC, BNR DC Studios on Friday during the show.
01:44:50.440
I have heard rumors that there is a brand new X Chair waiting for me.
01:44:56.620
Actually, I don't know if I'm going to make it on Friday.
01:44:58.300
I have to give the Friday CPAC speech an hour beforehand.
01:45:03.980
They may be sending something up at Radio Row at CPAC, but we're supposed to go back to the DC Studios.
01:45:09.580
But I guess the vice president is going to be arriving around the same time.
01:45:17.820
No, they're saying that not only traffic, but I was there last time I was there.
01:45:22.640
I think the vice president came and it just goes in lockdown. Nobody's leaving.
01:45:26.340
Yeah, so get an X Chair. It is so comfortable. It is so great.
01:45:31.240
You get a free foot rest. You save $100. Check it out for yourself.
01:45:42.060
And you can see Glenn in D.C. on the show tomorrow, or on Friday at least, if you go to BlazeTV.com slash BECK.
01:46:15.720
And you just, you fail to see the important, you have Ms. Norton.
01:46:32.620
And it, uh, shut down the, the newspaper servers.
01:46:36.400
It set a record for a lot of hits in a, a lot of short time.
01:46:41.080
And that was a tape that was out for the people to, uh, hear and see.
01:46:48.200
And people went on the internet, which is a series of tubes that creates information and
01:46:53.360
collects it, like a bank tube, and it goes from one side of, one side of your computer
01:46:59.480
to the other, and then over to your neighbor's computer, and then continues to go down your
01:47:03.840
street until it leaves your street and goes into the center of town at that time.
01:47:07.400
Uh, is, uh, then able to be passed along to other areas of the country through the tubes
01:47:13.600
carried by small hamsters who walk the information to the computer that you're designing.
01:47:23.580
That the gentlewoman is, is please instructed to shut up.
01:47:30.780
I mean, you have this big moment in front of national TV, this, you know, Michael Cohen,
01:47:34.840
you have a very short amount of time, and she's legitimately praising the web stats of
01:47:40.200
Well, because she, because Cohen needed to say, Hope Hicks asked me to call the networks
01:47:58.300
The Access Hollywood study in terms of impact on the election.
01:48:03.000
I was concerned about it, but more importantly, Mr. Trump was concerned about it.
01:48:09.840
What was the president's concern about these matters becoming public in October?
01:48:19.860
I don't think anybody would dispute this belief that after the wildfire that encompassed the
01:48:30.200
Billy Bush tape that a second follow-up to it would have been pleasant?
01:48:36.620
And he was concerned with the effect that it had had on the campaign, on how women were seeing him, and ultimately whether or not he would have a shot in the general election.
01:48:58.580
The $130,000 number was not a number that was actually negotiated.
01:49:03.040
It was told to me by Keith Davidson that this is a number that Ms. Clifford wanted.
01:49:08.940
Well, you finally completed that deal, as it were, on October the 25th, days before the election.
01:49:26.260
Wasn't sure if she was really going to go public.
01:49:29.900
It was, again, some communications back and forth between myself and Keith Davidson.
01:49:34.800
And, ultimately, it came to either do it or don't.
01:49:40.600
At which time, again, I had gone into Mr. Trump's office.
01:49:43.760
If I could, can I go back to the Access Hollywood tape that was on the Internet?
01:49:53.540
And when it was fueled up, it would have to go to a diesel pump that's just different from the unleaded pumps.
01:49:59.400
Now there's three varieties, of course, of unleaded.
01:50:02.800
Yes, can I ask the committee member to tell us why that's important at all?
01:50:08.820
Now, if you have a membership card to the gas station, you can give them points.
01:50:12.520
And those points will then refer to lower gas prices in the future.
01:50:15.880
But filling a diesel tank with regular unleaded would be a real problem.
01:50:22.980
To actually shed some light, how long have you known Ms. Patton?
01:50:26.440
I'm responsible for Lynn Patton joining the Trump Organization and the job that she currently holds.
01:50:32.120
Well, I'm glad you acknowledged that because you made some very demeaning comments about the president that Ms. Patton doesn't agree with.
01:50:42.840
In fact, it has to do with your claim of racism.
01:50:46.560
She says that as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist.
01:50:59.740
How do you reconcile the two of those, Mr. President?
01:51:01.520
As neither should I, as the son of a Holocaust survivor.
01:51:04.580
Mr. Cohen, I guess what I'm saying is I've talked to the president over 300 times.
01:51:13.480
I've not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private.
01:51:24.300
Do you have tape recordings of those conversations?
01:51:42.480
I think it's approximately about 100, from what I recall.
01:51:52.720
Ask Ms. Patton how many people who are black are executives at the Trump Organization.
01:52:06.420
No one ever accused him of being a good lawyer.
01:52:13.220
Did you collect $1.2 million or so from Novartis?
01:52:25.280
Because they came to me based upon my knowledge of the enigma, Donald Trump, what he thinks.
01:52:34.880
Did they pay you $1.2 million to give them advice?
01:52:39.180
A multi-billion dollar conglomerate came to me looking for information, not something that's unusual here in D.C., looking for information, and they believed that I had a value.
01:52:53.540
And that value was the insight that I was capable of offering them.
01:53:01.540
For $1.2 million, how many times did you meet with them?
01:53:04.620
I provided them with both in-person as well as telephone access whenever they needed.
01:53:25.580
Sir, I also would like to bring to your attention the contract.
01:53:43.480
The purpose was because the former CEO of that bank had absconded with over, it was between
01:53:50.620
$4 to $6 billion, and some of the money was here in the United States, and they sought
01:53:55.220
my assistance in terms of finding, locating that money, and helping them to recollect it.
01:54:00.700
So are you saying that all the reports that you were paid, in some estimates, over $4 million
01:54:06.760
to have access and understanding of the Trump administration, you're saying that all of that
01:54:13.100
was just paid to you just because you're a nice guy?
01:54:16.840
I am a nice guy, but more importantly, each and every contract...
01:54:19.140
I would beg to differ, then the record reflects that you're not a nice guy.
01:54:22.560
Each and every contract contained the clause in my contracts that said, I will not lobby,
01:54:31.620
In fact, in fact, Novartis sent me their contract, which stated specifically that they wanted me
01:54:39.040
to lobby, that they wanted me to provide access to government, including the president.
01:54:43.860
That information, that paragraph was crossed out by me.
01:54:47.040
We've seen this movie before we know how it works.
01:54:54.600
So Novartis representatives say that it was like they were hiring a non-registered lobbyist,
01:55:03.940
I don't know what they said, sir, but that the contract speaks for itself.
01:55:06.640
Have you ever contacted anybody in the administration?
01:55:11.760
...to advocate on behalf of any aspect of any of your contracts?
01:55:37.720
You notice every time he runs out of time, he, and you have to answer the question,
01:55:45.040
I don't know what, I don't know what he's talking about.
01:55:55.100
They've been lied to by the President's children.
01:55:58.740
They have been lied to by the President's legal representatives.
01:56:03.380
And it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers
01:56:11.620
who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting...
01:56:17.100
We talk about this every day, and there's a lot of people that I've just never even seen
01:56:30.120
...must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure, and when he submits them
01:56:41.180
If I may, this has done absolutely nothing but divide the nation into camps deeper.
01:56:50.920
If you believe Donald Trump, you're deeper into his corner.
01:56:56.860
If you don't believe Donald Trump, you're deeper with the Democrats.
01:57:01.460
Um, however, if you are neither, if you're just like, I just want the truth, this is
01:57:13.920
This is a soap opera that no one would believe.
01:57:23.820
Are you the type that doesn't want to get to the truth about the web stats of the, of
01:57:32.300
And I, and I want to bring up the Hollywood, uh, Hollywood, access Hollywood, uh, web stats.
01:57:44.540
I think the 70% of this nation needs to just grab the 30% of the nation.
01:57:55.620
Let me tell you about gold line intelligence officials, their annual threat assessment
01:58:00.340
recently issued a warning on increased threats to national security resulting from tighter
01:58:08.540
Let me just ask Jason here real quick, Jason, tell me what's going on between India and Pakistan
01:58:16.660
There was a terrorist attack in Indian control Kashmir.
01:58:19.060
And then India, um, responded back with bombing, uh, camps within Pakistan, Pakistan.
01:58:33.600
I don't know about you, but I think the world is, I think it's, I think it's returning to
01:58:41.460
Did you hear about the Hollywood access web stats?
01:58:49.880
Uh, gold and silver is specifically owned by people and central banks who are gobbling
01:58:58.360
Uh, it's, it's owned because people know when things go insane, currencies default countries
01:59:06.540
collapse, and you better have something of value learned from Venezuela.
01:59:14.660
Gold or silver is where the world usually returns.
01:59:17.500
May I suggest strongly suggest that you call gold line.
01:59:23.000
1-866-GOLD-LINE, 1-866-GOLD-LINE, no matter what is happening.
01:59:29.700
Think of this circus that is going on right now.
01:59:33.600
When we have the president in Vietnam meeting over nukes with North Korea, when, when the
01:59:42.360
world is completely changing Pakistan and India under fire, what is the nation focused on?
01:59:50.460
What are our, our representatives focused on a circus?
01:59:58.780
Now 1-866-GOLD-LINE, 1-866-GOLD-LINE or goldline.com.
02:00:20.460
So the, right now they're going after Cohen, uh, the Republicans are, and they're driving
02:00:33.760
towards something and they've brought this up several times.
02:00:36.480
I'm, I'm, I'm assuming that they have something.
02:00:39.600
Um, but Cohen is being asked to deny that anyone is paying for Lanny Davis or his attorney.
02:00:48.220
He said, any, uh, Lenny, uh, Lenny Davis is just doing this for free.
02:00:52.780
I said, that's odd, um, that Tom Steyer did not fund any of this.
02:00:58.780
And then they were asking him a minute ago, uh, did you prepare and coordinate it all with
02:01:04.340
anyone in the democratic party or, you know, on this, uh, on this committee?
02:01:09.060
Um, and, um, he hemmed into hawed and said, he didn't know what you meant, uh, took him
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He finally said, yes, well, I, I did talk to the committee chairperson and a couple of
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others with the committee, but that was just to coordinate, uh, uh, things, um, well, you
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Uh, so did, did you want to testify before Congress or did he urge you to testify here?
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I was asked to come here and I am here, sir, voluntarily because it's my decision.
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Uh, because he, he, he says that he did ask you to come here and that he convinced you
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and also that he, uh, did the same with, uh, Chairman Cummings as well.
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So your, your testimony here is that you approached Lanny Davis, uh, to represent you and to come
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Actually, Chairman Cummings, which is part of the conversations that we engaged in with his
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He didn't, he didn't, uh, he is hedging on, he approached me or I approached him.
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Now this, this, this, this Cohen thing seems appealing to Cohen to do when he can write down
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When he's got to be asked all these questions about some things that are even unrelated,
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He is going to end up going to prison for a lot longer.
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Because of this, he, I, I bet you that in, in very short period of time, we find out that
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he has made more statements of perjury, uh, in, in his testimony today.
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And, uh, he goes to jail for even longer periods of time.
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And, you know, he may be in recovery, but he's still a dirt bag.