The Megyn Kelly Show - January 19, 2026


Walz and Frey Under DOJ Scrutiny, Trump Ups Greenland Pressure, Michael Cohen Flips： AM Update 1⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

157.01088

Word Count

4,011

Sentence Count

268

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Minneapolis, below freezing temperatures do little to slow agitators seeking to disrupt federal immigration enforcement as ICE agents continued operations through a weekend marked by repeated confrontations. In video obtained by Freedom News, one agent delivers a blunt message to bystanders: We re here to arrest a child sex offender. And you guys are out here honking.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.
00:00:34.800 It's Monday, January 19th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:39.520 We're here to arrest a child sex offender.
00:00:42.840 And you guys are out here honking.
00:00:44.640 Below freezing temperatures in Minneapolis doing little to stop agitators from interfering with ICE operations.
00:00:50.740 This whole dynamic is deeply concerning because supposedly they would be coming for me and targeting me.
00:01:00.000 The DOJ reportedly investigating whether comments by Democrat Minnesota politicians Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey cross a criminal line.
00:01:09.000 President Trump escalates threats against the eight European countries most resistant to making a deal for the U.S. to take over Greenland.
00:01:16.800 And President Trump's former fixer turned enemy, Michael Cohen, who said he would have to leave the U.S. if Trump won, changes his tune again as he now tries to curry favor with the president.
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00:02:40.120 In Minneapolis, below freezing temperatures doing little to slow agitators seeking to disrupt federal immigration enforcement
00:02:47.360 as ICE agents continued operations through a weekend marked by repeated confrontations.
00:02:53.000 In video obtained by Freedom News, one agent delivering a blunt message to bystanders.
00:02:59.120 We're here to arrest a child sex offender.
00:03:03.220 And you guys are out here honking.
00:03:05.440 Oh, we're not.
00:03:05.880 No, we're pressing.
00:03:07.640 We're not.
00:03:07.900 That vehicle right there is honking and impeding our investigations while we're trying to arrest a child sex offender.
00:03:14.400 That's who you guys are protecting.
00:03:16.700 Insane.
00:03:17.380 DHS tasking ICE with targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in the Twin Cities.
00:03:24.020 ICE director Todd Lyons saying last week these efforts netting more than 2,500 criminal illegal aliens in the region since the beginning of the surge.
00:03:33.120 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Sunday on CBS with a staggering statistic on the criminal backgrounds of the individuals they've arrested.
00:03:41.520 Every single individual has committed a crime, but 70 percent of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes and crimes that they are charged with or have been convicted of that have come from other countries that are here illegally, first of all.
00:03:57.260 And then they have committed a criminal act while they've been here or in their home countries as well.
00:04:01.720 It's not 70 percent.
00:04:03.700 Yes, it is.
00:04:04.820 It absolutely is.
00:04:05.660 70 percent of everyone you guys keep changing your percentage.
00:04:09.140 You pick and choose what numbers you think work.
00:04:11.660 But that is the facts is that 70 percent of the people that we have detained have charges against them or have been convicted of charges and they need to be brought to justice.
00:04:21.760 Agitators coordinating protest activity across the Twin Cities using so-called ICE Watch Rapid Response Networks to spot, report and swarm federal agents.
00:04:31.900 But those alerts are not always accurate.
00:04:33.760 In some cases, these groups zeroing in on the wrong targets, falsely identifying ordinary civilians as undercover ICE agents.
00:04:42.500 Alpha News reporting on one such incident last week, a group of software engineers who say they were mistaken for ICE officers while eating lunch at a Minneapolis diner.
00:04:52.820 According to one of the men, the group is politically mixed, including one who is anti-ICE.
00:04:57.560 The man receiving a message on an anti-ICE signal chat he belongs to called SW Minneapolis Rapid Response, reporting that plain-clothes ICE agents were dining at that very restaurant.
00:05:10.000 What he didn't realize, they meant him.
00:05:12.800 Within 15 minutes, dozens of protesters arriving, surrounding the diner and confronting the group.
00:05:18.420 Here, a portion of the encounter obtained by Alpha News.
00:05:21.420 It's unclear how long the encounter lasted.
00:05:42.160 President Trump's so far holding off on making good on his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to send in the military to control agitators and protect federal agents.
00:05:52.920 On Friday, Mr. Trump telling reporters, quote,
00:05:55.060 I don't think there's any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I'd use it.
00:05:59.360 And indeed, a U.S. official telling Fox News,
00:06:02.440 1,500 troops from the Army's 11th Airborne Division have been given prepare-to-deploy orders.
00:06:09.180 Amid the highly coordinated unrest, Governor Tim Walz Saturday mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard.
00:06:16.040 Not to deploy, but to stand by and prepare to assist local law enforcement,
00:06:21.400 with state officials stressing, the Guard remains off the streets and simply, quote,
00:06:26.820 is ready to help support public safety.
00:06:30.020 The Minnesota National Guard X account posting a picture of two guardsmen with the caption, quote,
00:06:35.240 If our members are activated, they will be wearing reflective vests, as pictured here,
00:06:40.340 to help distinguish them from other agencies in similar uniforms.
00:06:45.300 In other words, please try not to assault the ones in the reflective vests if you can help it.
00:06:51.400 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye, Sunday on CBS News, doubling down on his anti-ice rhetoric
00:06:56.500 amid the threat of further federal forces surging into Minneapolis.
00:07:01.020 You said occupying force. Don't you think that's a bit much?
00:07:05.800 I mean, look, you can go through whatever rhetorical flourish you want,
00:07:10.040 but when you have 3,000 ICE agents and border control come to the city,
00:07:17.060 when you've got this supposed threat of 1,500 military coming to the city,
00:07:23.880 yeah, that's very much what it feels like.
00:07:25.760 When you outnumber local police officers five and six to one, that is the vibe.
00:07:33.040 And so the bottom line is, if the goal were safety, this is not how you get there.
00:07:38.780 If the goal is safety, I can give you a very antidote to some of the violence that we're seeing.
00:07:42.860 It's have them leave.
00:07:44.320 Acting ICE director Todd Lyons yesterday on Fox,
00:07:47.440 suggesting one quick and easy way for Mayor Frye to get ICE out of Minneapolis.
00:07:51.760 The one thing we say all the time is, you know, these sanctuary jurisdictions,
00:07:56.000 you would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street
00:07:59.620 focused on the criminal illegal alien mission if they would just turn people over to us.
00:08:05.640 That's the key.
00:08:06.260 These local law enforcement agencies have already deemed these individuals a public safety threat
00:08:10.380 and arrested them.
00:08:11.320 Why not work with federal partners, turn them over to us,
00:08:14.560 and let us get them out of our communities?
00:08:16.320 The DOJ now investigating Democratic Minnesota officials,
00:08:21.840 including Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frye,
00:08:24.920 to determine whether their public statements crossed from policy disagreement
00:08:28.840 into unlawful interference with federal immigration enforcement.
00:08:33.240 A grand jury reportedly authorizing subpoenas last week, according to CNN,
00:08:37.820 after several weeks of escalating clashes between federal agents and local agitators in Minneapolis.
00:08:43.740 A U.S. official telling CBS News the inquiry is predicated on a federal statute
00:08:48.740 making it illegal for two or more people to conspire to prevent federal officers
00:08:54.500 from carrying out their official duties through force, intimidation, or threats.
00:09:00.340 Over the last several weeks, as the Trump administration surges agents into the Twin Cities
00:09:04.580 to round up violent criminal illegal aliens,
00:09:07.620 federal agents repeatedly met with dramatic, obstructive,
00:09:10.660 and at times violent resistance from local agitators.
00:09:14.780 Governor Walz and Mayor Frye employing inflammatory rhetoric,
00:09:18.120 especially in the wake of the fatal shooting of trained agitator Renee Good,
00:09:22.220 who accelerated her vehicle toward an ICE agent whom she hit with her car as she fled the scene.
00:09:28.380 That incident sparking larger protests,
00:09:30.800 which both leaders publicly defend and encourage as protected speech.
00:09:35.180 Subpoenas allow federal investigators to compel records and testimony
00:09:38.660 as part of a criminal inquiry.
00:09:41.260 While the exact scope of the subpoenas is not yet clear,
00:09:44.880 here are some examples of Walz and Frye's provocative comments.
00:09:49.380 To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
00:09:52.300 We do not want you here.
00:09:53.900 The desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is,
00:09:59.380 that is a patriotic duty at this point in time.
00:10:02.160 I've seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting and is intolerable.
00:10:07.080 If it were your city, it would be unacceptable there too.
00:10:10.460 And if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood,
00:10:13.400 take out that phone and hit record.
00:10:15.720 Governor Walz has encouraged residents to film ICE officers while reminding them to,
00:10:20.600 quote, remain peaceful,
00:10:22.180 all while ramping up the rhetoric and a clear hate campaign against ICE.
00:10:26.680 He has called ICE the modern-day Gestapo.
00:10:29.500 He says they are pursuing a campaign of organized brutality that has
00:10:33.660 nothing to do with immigration enforcement,
00:10:36.060 that they are guilty of atrocities,
00:10:38.460 that President Trump wants more violence on the streets of Minneapolis.
00:10:42.140 Does that amount to a campaign to stop ICE through threats or intimidation?
00:10:47.300 CNN's generally solid legal analyst, Ellie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, does not think so.
00:10:53.240 Absolutely not.
00:10:54.080 This is core, protected, First Amendment political speech.
00:10:57.940 And you can even tell, watching that clip of Todd Blanche,
00:11:00.200 that he doesn't believe it because he hedged himself very lawyerly.
00:11:03.140 He said, well, it's close to obstruction.
00:11:05.820 If you have public officials, as we do here, making political speech,
00:11:09.120 even if it's explosive, inflammatory, aggressive,
00:11:12.140 and then that causes people to protest or to call 911,
00:11:16.040 that is simply not obstruction of justice.
00:11:18.360 If they bring an indictment for obstruction, I promise you they will lose.
00:11:22.280 Mayor Frye yesterday on CBS reacting to reports of the investigation.
00:11:26.380 We have not received any official anything at this point,
00:11:31.400 and so I can't comment on what I don't know about.
00:11:35.240 That being said, this whole dynamic is deeply concerning
00:11:39.700 because supposedly they would be coming for me and targeting me
00:11:45.220 for something that is core and critical to my job as mayor,
00:11:49.920 and that is speaking for my residents and my constituents,
00:11:52.700 that we are at a place right now where the Department of Justice
00:11:56.360 or the federal government could be coming after senators and governors and mayors
00:12:02.260 simply for speaking for their respective constituencies
00:12:05.920 and disagreeing with this federal administration.
00:12:08.200 I mean, this kind of thing happens in other countries.
00:12:10.060 This cannot happen in America.
00:12:11.780 It is unclear if Governor Walz has received a subpoena yet.
00:12:15.660 Mr. Walz on Friday posting a statement on X,
00:12:17.800 quote, two days ago it was Alyssa Slotkin.
00:12:20.280 Last week it was Jerome Powell.
00:12:22.020 Before that, Mark Kelly.
00:12:23.580 Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
00:12:28.320 The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good
00:12:31.620 is the federal agent who shot her.
00:12:34.400 Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche yesterday on Fox
00:12:36.860 stressing that elected officials are not shielded from laws
00:12:40.120 against impeding federal law enforcement efforts.
00:12:42.940 You saw the governor and the mayor actively encouraging,
00:12:47.480 encouraging criminals to go out on the street and impede ICE.
00:12:51.400 That is not allowed under our law.
00:12:53.260 When a federal officer is out doing their job,
00:12:55.400 they have to be allowed to do their jobs.
00:12:57.640 And the fact that we had to stand up and tell a mayor,
00:13:01.160 that we had to stand up and tell a governor
00:13:02.960 to stop encouraging the folks that are out there running around
00:13:07.320 trying to stop ICE, to stop encouraging them,
00:13:09.500 when what they really should be doing
00:13:10.880 is helping their fellow federal officers
00:13:13.700 is something that's horrible.
00:13:15.920 But listen, no matter who you are,
00:13:17.560 whether you're a governor, a mayor,
00:13:19.240 or somebody out there on the streets assaulting ICE,
00:13:22.000 you cannot, under federal law,
00:13:24.720 you cannot impede a federal officer doing their job.
00:13:28.400 And that's what we're looking at.
00:13:30.340 And I'm not going to talk about the investigation,
00:13:32.160 but American people can see what the mayor's been saying.
00:13:35.900 They can see what the governor's been saying.
00:13:37.720 And it's obvious that that has to stop.
00:13:41.220 Coming up, President Trump threatening
00:13:43.140 the eight European countries
00:13:44.600 most ardently resisting his campaign
00:13:46.920 to acquire Greenland with a new round of tariffs.
00:13:50.000 And former Trump fixer turned sworn enemy
00:13:53.580 of Donald Trump, Michael Cohen,
00:13:55.760 appears to be switching sides again in a stunning reversal.
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00:14:54.120 President Trump on Saturday ratcheting up the pressure
00:14:58.640 on eight European countries
00:15:00.180 in his push to acquire Greenland,
00:15:02.000 a longstanding goal he argues is critical
00:15:04.400 to U.S. national security and Arctic dominance.
00:15:08.160 Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the U.K.,
00:15:10.740 the Netherlands and Finland
00:15:12.020 dispatching small military contingents
00:15:14.180 to Greenland late last week.
00:15:16.100 Moves the countries say were planned in advance
00:15:18.240 following talks between U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials
00:15:21.460 about the future of the semi-autonomous territory
00:15:24.060 that ended without any resolution.
00:15:27.000 In a lengthy Truth Social post over the weekend,
00:15:29.240 Mr. Trump writing, quote,
00:15:30.560 we have subsidized Denmark
00:15:32.180 and all of the countries of the EU
00:15:34.300 and others for many years
00:15:36.080 by not charging them tariffs
00:15:37.380 or any other forms of remuneration.
00:15:40.180 Now, after centuries,
00:15:41.400 it is time for Denmark to give back.
00:15:43.800 World peace is at stake.
00:15:45.400 China and Russia want Greenland
00:15:46.940 and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it.
00:15:49.820 Mr. Trump then announcing that beginning February 1st,
00:15:52.880 the eight nations will be subjected to a new 10% tariff,
00:15:56.120 with the rate set to increase to 25% on June 1st,
00:15:59.360 quote,
00:15:59.880 until such time as a deal is reached
00:16:01.680 for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.
00:16:04.680 President Trump calling the eight countries' military exercise
00:16:07.640 a, quote,
00:16:08.440 very dangerous game,
00:16:10.160 a description the eight nations rejected
00:16:12.360 in a joint statement,
00:16:13.720 writing that they, quote,
00:16:15.060 pose no threat to anyone.
00:16:16.920 The statement continuing, quote,
00:16:18.200 we stand in full solidarity
00:16:19.740 with the Kingdom of Denmark
00:16:20.900 and the people of Greenland,
00:16:22.540 warning the tariff threats
00:16:23.740 undermine transatlantic relations.
00:16:26.560 Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
00:16:28.040 yesterday on NBC arguing
00:16:29.740 Europe is not equipped
00:16:31.220 to manage long-term threats to Greenland.
00:16:33.940 If we look for years,
00:16:35.740 for over a century,
00:16:37.920 American presidents have wanted
00:16:39.460 to acquire Greenland.
00:16:40.740 And what we can see
00:16:41.840 is that Greenland is the essential
00:16:44.580 to the U.S. national security.
00:16:46.180 We're building the Golden Dome,
00:16:48.180 the missile system.
00:16:50.280 And look,
00:16:50.900 President Trump is looking,
00:16:52.820 is being strategic.
00:16:53.920 He's looking beyond this year.
00:16:55.360 He's looking beyond next year
00:16:56.680 to what could happen
00:16:57.860 for a battle in the Arctic.
00:17:00.300 We are not going to outsource
00:17:02.380 our national security.
00:17:03.820 We are not going to outsource
00:17:06.320 our hemispheric security
00:17:07.700 to other countries.
00:17:09.420 In Trump 1.0,
00:17:10.660 President Trump told the Europeans,
00:17:12.260 do not build Nord Stream 2.
00:17:15.340 Do not rely on Russian oil.
00:17:17.260 And guess what, Kristen?
00:17:18.340 Guess what is funding
00:17:19.660 Russia's efforts against Ukraine?
00:17:22.720 European purchases of Russian oil.
00:17:25.420 So America has to be in control here.
00:17:29.520 Morten Halperin,
00:17:30.440 foreign policy expert
00:17:31.460 and senior national security official
00:17:33.180 in the Johnson, Nixon,
00:17:34.580 and Clinton administrations,
00:17:36.500 and also Mark Halperin's dad,
00:17:38.980 appeared on MK Media Show
00:17:40.460 Next Up with Mark Halperin
00:17:41.920 last week.
00:17:43.100 The elder Halperin
00:17:44.180 explaining about Greenland
00:17:45.600 that the U.S.
00:17:46.620 has always thrown its weight around
00:17:48.240 with NATO countries,
00:17:49.740 making clear that
00:17:50.760 when we need something,
00:17:52.000 we expect to get it
00:17:53.180 in exchange for our outsized role
00:17:55.360 and responsibilities in NATO.
00:17:57.540 At the end of the day,
00:17:58.640 our alternative
00:17:59.260 is not to use military force.
00:18:01.220 Our alternative
00:18:02.060 is to leave NATO.
00:18:03.460 And our position has always been,
00:18:05.460 we will tell you what we need
00:18:06.900 to remain in the alliance.
00:18:08.660 And you will tell us
00:18:09.960 whether you're prepared
00:18:10.760 to do that.
00:18:12.040 And if you're not,
00:18:13.120 we won't be able
00:18:13.720 to stay in the alliance.
00:18:14.980 That's perfectly reasonable.
00:18:16.820 President Trump set to attend
00:18:18.120 the World Economic Forum
00:18:19.660 in Davos later this week,
00:18:21.240 where he is likely
00:18:21.900 to come face-to-face
00:18:22.920 with several of the
00:18:23.980 European leaders involved,
00:18:25.720 setting the stage
00:18:26.380 for direct confrontations
00:18:27.840 over Greenland.
00:18:30.720 President Trump's former fixer
00:18:32.400 turned nemesis,
00:18:33.520 Michael Cohen,
00:18:34.320 once again changing his story
00:18:36.140 when it comes to his former boss.
00:18:38.600 Cohen now claiming
00:18:39.360 he was coerced
00:18:40.360 by New York State Attorney General
00:18:42.060 Letitia James
00:18:42.960 and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
00:18:44.780 into testifying
00:18:46.080 against Mr. Trump.
00:18:47.840 This in a sub-stack post
00:18:49.260 late Friday night.
00:18:50.840 Cohen's relationship
00:18:51.540 with President Trump
00:18:52.360 dating back to the early 2000s
00:18:53.960 when he began working
00:18:54.920 for the Trump Organization.
00:18:56.660 Cohen worked as a fixer
00:18:57.840 for Mr. Trump,
00:18:58.760 handling any issues
00:18:59.720 that came up
00:19:00.380 that might reflect poorly
00:19:01.680 on his number one client.
00:19:04.220 The relationship collapsing
00:19:05.440 in 2018
00:19:06.160 when Cohen entered
00:19:07.300 guilty pleas
00:19:08.040 in federal court
00:19:08.900 over his role
00:19:09.900 in the 2016 documents case
00:19:11.980 involving payments
00:19:13.260 to adult film actress
00:19:14.720 Stormy Daniels.
00:19:16.380 Cohen's legal trouble
00:19:17.160 expanding well beyond
00:19:18.380 those payments,
00:19:19.220 ultimately including
00:19:20.020 tax evasion,
00:19:20.980 bank fraud,
00:19:21.600 campaign finance violations,
00:19:22.900 and a separate guilty plea
00:19:24.160 for lying to Congress.
00:19:25.780 He was sentenced
00:19:26.340 to three years in prison
00:19:27.800 beginning in May of 2019,
00:19:29.840 though he was released
00:19:30.620 on house arrest
00:19:31.440 in 2020 due to COVID.
00:19:33.840 Prior to reporting to prison,
00:19:35.240 Cohen appearing
00:19:35.980 before the House
00:19:36.720 Oversight Committee
00:19:37.440 to publicly rebuke
00:19:38.940 President Trump.
00:19:39.960 Never in a million years
00:19:41.580 did I imagine
00:19:42.500 when I accepted a job
00:19:44.400 in 2007
00:19:45.700 to work for Donald Trump
00:19:47.720 that he would one day
00:19:49.100 run for the presidency
00:19:50.200 to launch a campaign
00:19:51.980 on a platform
00:19:53.060 of hate and intolerance
00:19:54.980 and actively win.
00:19:57.280 I regret the day
00:19:58.180 I said yes to Mr. Trump.
00:20:00.020 I regret all the help
00:20:01.380 and support
00:20:02.080 I gave him along the way.
00:20:03.760 I am ashamed
00:20:05.120 of my own failings
00:20:06.540 and publicly accepted
00:20:08.540 responsibility for them
00:20:10.120 by pleading guilty
00:20:11.740 in the Southern District
00:20:13.280 of New York.
00:20:14.560 I am ashamed
00:20:15.160 of my weakness
00:20:15.960 and my misplaced loyalty
00:20:17.480 of the things I did
00:20:19.100 for Mr. Trump
00:20:19.980 in an effort
00:20:21.180 to protect and promote him.
00:20:23.660 I am ashamed
00:20:24.420 that I chose
00:20:25.160 to take part
00:20:26.040 in concealing
00:20:27.420 Mr. Trump's
00:20:28.280 illicit acts
00:20:29.200 rather than listening
00:20:30.680 to my own conscience.
00:20:31.940 I am ashamed
00:20:33.540 because I know
00:20:34.740 what Mr. Trump is.
00:20:36.380 He is a racist,
00:20:37.960 he is a con man,
00:20:39.600 and he is a cheat.
00:20:41.480 Cohen's attacks
00:20:42.140 on Mr. Trump
00:20:42.880 continued throughout
00:20:43.740 the lawfare
00:20:44.420 against Donald Trump,
00:20:45.880 with Cohen appearing
00:20:46.660 in the New York State
00:20:47.940 criminal case
00:20:48.820 against Donald Trump
00:20:50.080 as well as
00:20:50.700 the Tish James
00:20:51.680 civil fraud case
00:20:52.940 against him.
00:20:54.220 In the James case,
00:20:55.220 Cohen testifying
00:20:55.940 that President Trump
00:20:56.760 inflated asset values
00:20:58.280 to secure better loans
00:20:59.560 from banks
00:21:00.140 and that he reduced
00:21:01.580 asset values
00:21:02.500 to reduce his taxes.
00:21:04.460 James calling Cohen
00:21:05.300 as her star witness,
00:21:07.080 securing a civil fraud
00:21:08.200 judgment against
00:21:09.080 President Trump
00:21:09.800 in February 2024
00:21:11.120 to the tune
00:21:12.140 of $454 million,
00:21:14.940 including interest.
00:21:16.540 In August 2025,
00:21:18.060 an appeals court
00:21:18.760 tossing the fine,
00:21:20.280 Mr. Trump still seeking
00:21:21.340 to have the judgment
00:21:22.080 tossed in its entirety.
00:21:24.340 Cohen also cooperating
00:21:25.600 with D.A. Alvin Bragg's
00:21:27.200 criminal business records case,
00:21:29.040 involving the Stormy Daniels
00:21:31.020 payments against Donald Trump.
00:21:32.980 That case in 2024,
00:21:34.360 landing a 34-count felony
00:21:36.460 conviction against Trump.
00:21:38.480 In November,
00:21:39.180 a federal appeals court
00:21:40.380 ordering the lower court
00:21:41.360 to reconsider the request
00:21:42.720 from Mr. Trump
00:21:43.880 to move that case
00:21:44.720 to federal court.
00:21:45.920 That issue remains ongoing.
00:21:48.000 When not collaborating
00:21:49.320 with Tish James
00:21:50.440 and Alvin Bragg,
00:21:52.020 Cohen running to
00:21:52.700 every media outlet
00:21:54.400 that he could
00:21:55.140 to trash talk
00:21:56.240 his former client.
00:21:57.800 Cohen also pending
00:21:58.620 not one but two books,
00:22:00.400 a 2020 memoir
00:22:01.320 titled Disloyal
00:22:02.780 and 2022's Revenge,
00:22:05.280 how Donald Trump
00:22:06.100 weaponized the U.S.
00:22:07.380 Department of Justice
00:22:08.180 against his critics.
00:22:10.000 Cohen also hosts
00:22:11.040 two shows,
00:22:12.380 Political Beatdown
00:22:13.480 and Mea Culpa.
00:22:15.280 His entire public persona
00:22:17.400 centering around
00:22:18.360 his death match
00:22:19.320 with President Trump.
00:22:20.880 At least,
00:22:21.640 it was until Friday night.
00:22:24.260 Cohen now suddenly
00:22:25.500 portraying events
00:22:26.360 very differently.
00:22:27.940 Writing,
00:22:28.140 quote,
00:22:28.920 There are moments
00:22:29.760 when silence
00:22:30.660 becomes complicity.
00:22:32.360 When letting the record
00:22:33.140 stand without context
00:22:34.540 feels less like restraint
00:22:36.320 and more like consent.
00:22:38.360 This is one of those moments.
00:22:40.580 This guy.
00:22:42.440 Cohen now attempting
00:22:43.260 to recast his role
00:22:44.460 in the prosecutions
00:22:45.300 of President Trump,
00:22:46.540 arguing that
00:22:47.080 his cooperation
00:22:48.160 was the result
00:22:49.660 of pressure
00:22:50.500 and coercion.
00:22:52.660 Cohen acknowledging
00:22:53.280 his cooperation
00:22:53.960 was driven
00:22:54.600 out of a desire
00:22:55.800 to lessen
00:22:56.300 his own prison sentence,
00:22:57.920 but going on
00:22:58.480 to accuse
00:22:59.000 James and Bragg
00:23:00.040 of only being
00:23:01.100 interested in testimony,
00:23:02.400 quote,
00:23:02.960 that would enable them
00:23:04.120 to convict
00:23:04.800 President Trump.
00:23:06.420 Cohen writes
00:23:06.860 of James and Bragg,
00:23:07.740 quote,
00:23:08.300 Both used their platforms
00:23:09.480 to elevate their profiles
00:23:10.860 to claim the mantle
00:23:12.040 of the officials
00:23:12.720 who took down Trump.
00:23:14.560 In doing so,
00:23:15.260 they blurred the line
00:23:16.140 between justice
00:23:16.840 and politics,
00:23:17.840 and in that blur,
00:23:18.900 the credibility
00:23:19.400 of both suffered.
00:23:20.720 We know.
00:23:22.620 The rest of us
00:23:23.500 have been saying this
00:23:24.600 for years.
00:23:26.020 You were on the other side,
00:23:27.340 sir.
00:23:28.300 The progressive
00:23:28.940 Midas Touch Network
00:23:30.400 quickly moving
00:23:31.260 to drop
00:23:32.060 Michael Cohen's podcasts
00:23:33.360 from its company
00:23:34.480 after his latest 180.
00:23:36.720 In a follow-up post
00:23:37.720 acknowledging
00:23:38.280 the loss of his platform,
00:23:40.020 Cohen's motivations
00:23:40.740 coming into sharper focus
00:23:41.940 as he writes,
00:23:42.680 quote,
00:23:43.240 Some have claimed
00:23:44.220 that my Friday post
00:23:45.440 was motivated
00:23:46.120 by a desire
00:23:46.980 for a pardon.
00:23:48.700 Let me be honest.
00:23:49.540 Of course,
00:23:50.800 I would welcome
00:23:51.880 the erasure
00:23:52.480 of a felony conviction.
00:23:54.320 Who wouldn't?
00:23:55.480 But the request
00:23:56.340 I have before the White House
00:23:57.660 is far larger
00:23:59.000 than me.
00:24:01.080 The ever-benevolent
00:24:02.920 Cohen
00:24:03.240 then going on
00:24:04.180 to describe
00:24:04.720 an executive order
00:24:05.700 he and Jesse Jackson Jr.
00:24:08.460 are pushing
00:24:09.000 to grant clemency
00:24:10.400 to non-violent felons
00:24:12.560 who have served out
00:24:14.000 their sentences.
00:24:15.380 Good luck
00:24:15.900 with that, sir.
00:24:19.540 And that'll do it
00:24:20.440 for your AM update.
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