The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 305 - Michael Cohen Throws Spaghetti At The Wall

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00:00:37.740 Disloyal dirtbag and convicted felonious lawyer Michael Cohen appeared on Capitol Hill today

00:00:43.980 to dance for the pleasure of Democrats desperate to cover up the actual crimes they committed

00:00:48.840 in their effort to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president and later to overturn the election.

00:00:53.300 We will analyze the pathetic but very entertaining showing.

00:00:57.880 Then, a Democrat presidential candidate makes slavery reparations a central tenet of his campaign,

00:01:03.640 and a baby is born seven years after her father died.

00:01:07.160 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.380 That last story reminds me of this famous line from The Odyssey where Telemachus says about his father,

00:01:23.380 he says,

00:01:24.020 it's a wise man who knows his own father.

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00:03:13.360 Michael Cohen, dirtbag lawyer,

00:03:15.760 convicted and admitted liar,

00:03:18.140 went to Capitol Hill today to testify to Congress,

00:03:21.300 which he previously had lied to.

00:03:23.020 The GOP came out with a little ad before this happened.

00:03:26.880 You'll remember, Michael Cohen used to say,

00:03:28.820 I love Trump.

00:03:29.680 I'll take a bullet for Trump.

00:03:30.900 I'll never turn on Trump.

00:03:32.200 Now, he goes to Capitol Hill to say that Trump is a liar

00:03:35.100 and a racist and a cheater 0.53

00:03:37.620 and every sorts of terrible thing.

00:03:40.920 So, in advance of this ridiculous testimony

00:03:43.760 that has zero credibility,

00:03:45.820 the GOP released an advertisement

00:03:48.060 that just contrasted what Michael Cohen is saying

00:03:51.140 with his past statements.

00:03:53.500 Now, I want to tell you about the real Donald Trump.

00:03:56.520 He's really, he's a unifier.

00:03:59.000 The words the media should be using

00:04:01.100 to describe Mr. Trump are generous.

00:04:04.260 He's going to do everything that he promised.

00:04:07.180 He's going to bring success

00:04:08.840 and he's going to make America great.

00:04:11.000 Compassionate, principled.

00:04:13.600 Donald Trump speaks from the heart.

00:04:15.880 Empathetic, kind.

00:04:17.600 He's going to stay true to who he is.

00:04:20.300 He's going to be an amazing president.

00:04:23.020 Humble, honest, and genuine.

00:04:25.860 Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic

00:04:28.360 and I've never come across a situation

00:04:31.640 where Mr. Trump has said something

00:04:33.020 that's not accurate.

00:04:34.660 All Donald Trump wants to do

00:04:35.980 is make this country great again.

00:04:38.100 It says, have fun in prison there at the end.

00:04:40.600 I'm just sort of smelling those Michael Cohen tears,

00:04:43.680 that dirty, disloyal rat.

00:04:46.160 But this is a great ad.

00:04:47.820 People are mocking this ad right now

00:04:49.740 because Michael Cohen was the personal lawyer

00:04:53.140 to Donald Trump.

00:04:53.900 They're saying, man, if this guy's such a dirtbag liar,

00:04:57.040 if he's obviously flipped so significantly,

00:04:59.880 why did Trump hire him?

00:05:01.220 It doesn't show a lot of good judgment.

00:05:02.800 Why did the RNC put him on their board?

00:05:05.060 Make, I think he was deputy finance chairman.

00:05:07.600 Why did they do that?

00:05:09.540 This ad actually requires humility

00:05:12.200 and it demonstrates humility on the part of the GOP.

00:05:14.960 It's an ad that admits that Donald Trump hired Fredo

00:05:20.360 to play Michael, Tom Hagen rather,

00:05:23.580 to play the smart, put-together lawyer.

00:05:26.580 He ends up hiring this buffoon.

00:05:28.780 It admits that the RNC hired a schmuck

00:05:31.740 to be its deputy finance chairman.

00:05:33.940 It's worth it.

00:05:35.040 It's worth admitting all of that.

00:05:37.380 This is in the old school,

00:05:39.780 before Donald Trump,

00:05:40.980 before reality TV,

00:05:42.700 before social media really took over politics

00:05:45.360 to the degree that they have.

00:05:46.720 In the old school,

00:05:48.460 you would never admit that kind of mistake.

00:05:50.640 You would never admit poor judgment.

00:05:52.480 You would never admit that this guy,

00:05:55.100 you shouldn't have hired him in the first place.

00:05:56.600 You would just try to make the changing facts

00:05:59.520 fit your narrative.

00:06:00.920 And it would really hamper

00:06:03.560 how you could respond to events.

00:06:05.520 In this new school,

00:06:07.280 it's the break China school of thought.

00:06:09.860 It's the China, 0.98

00:06:11.040 I mean China like the porcelain. 0.95

00:06:13.140 It's the break China school of thought. 0.91

00:06:14.860 It says,

00:06:15.120 yep, yeah, we shouldn't have hired him.

00:06:16.220 He's a schmuck.

00:06:16.680 He's a bad guy.

00:06:17.280 Look what he said, though.

00:06:17.940 Look at this.

00:06:18.520 You're reacting in real time.

00:06:19.920 It gives you far greater dexterity.

00:06:21.880 It gives you far greater leverage in politics.

00:06:25.340 Yeah, Cohen flipped.

00:06:27.420 Cohen flipped.

00:06:28.140 That doesn't mean that he's honest now,

00:06:29.520 by the way.

00:06:30.780 That's what the left is trying to say.

00:06:32.160 They're saying,

00:06:32.520 Cohen used to be really loyal to Trump

00:06:34.240 and he said all these things that were lies,

00:06:35.960 but now he's being honest.

00:06:38.600 We don't know that.

00:06:39.780 We have no reason to believe that.

00:06:41.000 All we know is he's disloyal.

00:06:43.180 This is why,

00:06:44.160 we was kind of going back and forth with Ben over this.

00:06:47.040 Ben said,

00:06:47.440 you can't call him a rat and a liar.

00:06:50.540 A rat means,

00:06:51.560 you know,

00:06:51.920 you're snitching on your old employer.

00:06:54.700 But if you're snitching

00:06:55.880 and you're angry with him for telling the truth

00:06:57.500 and you can't be angry with him for lying.

00:06:58.960 No,

00:06:59.280 what is meant by a rat

00:07:00.660 is that he's disloyal.

00:07:03.380 Now,

00:07:03.620 maybe he's telling some truth.

00:07:05.040 Maybe he's telling some lies.

00:07:06.760 Nobody can lie all the time

00:07:07.900 or tell the truth all the time,

00:07:09.020 for that matter.

00:07:09.920 People are more complicated than that.

00:07:13.020 Certainly,

00:07:13.480 these kind of guys are more complicated than that.

00:07:15.920 So,

00:07:16.180 yeah,

00:07:16.540 he's disloyal

00:07:17.280 and

00:07:17.780 apparently he's incompetent

00:07:19.960 and

00:07:20.420 he's a liar. 0.93

00:07:21.740 Okay.

00:07:22.640 So,

00:07:23.140 what is this today?

00:07:24.560 This hearing today

00:07:25.400 is pure political theater.

00:07:27.080 It's political theater

00:07:27.980 to distract,

00:07:28.660 distract rather,

00:07:29.640 from two things.

00:07:30.580 This Hanoi summit

00:07:31.580 with Kim Jong-un,

00:07:33.140 the second summit

00:07:33.900 with North Korea

00:07:34.760 to try to denuclearize

00:07:36.340 the peninsula.

00:07:37.500 And

00:07:38.020 it's to distract

00:07:39.660 from the fact

00:07:40.160 that Democrats

00:07:40.700 have come up empty

00:07:41.460 on Russia.

00:07:43.840 They've come up empty.

00:07:45.020 Senate intelligence investigation

00:07:46.380 turned up nothing.

00:07:47.280 That's according to Republicans

00:07:48.240 and Democrats.

00:07:49.740 So far,

00:07:50.460 Bob Mueller

00:07:50.900 has turned up nothing.

00:07:52.260 800-page Manafort report

00:07:53.820 turned up nothing.

00:07:55.220 No collusion

00:07:56.280 between Trump and Russia.

00:07:58.760 So,

00:07:59.340 they have to distract

00:08:00.320 by dragging Michael Cohen

00:08:01.800 before Congress.

00:08:03.060 Jim Jordan

00:08:03.560 makes this point

00:08:04.160 very clear.

00:08:05.460 I move to table.

00:08:06.940 Mr. Chairman.

00:08:08.580 Is there a second?

00:08:09.780 Mr. Chairman.

00:08:10.760 Mr. Chairman,

00:08:11.460 I was asking to be recognized

00:08:12.400 before the motion.

00:08:13.680 The vote is so entabling

00:08:14.860 the motion.

00:08:15.540 You know who had this material

00:08:17.100 before all the members

00:08:18.380 of the committee?

00:08:18.780 Excuse me.

00:08:19.440 CNN had it before we did.

00:08:21.420 CNN had the exhibits

00:08:22.460 before we did.

00:08:23.680 I just want to be recognized.

00:08:24.600 Yeah, well,

00:08:25.560 the vote is on

00:08:26.920 tabling the motion

00:08:27.880 to postpone.

00:08:29.520 CNN

00:08:30.020 had the material

00:08:31.740 before the committee did.

00:08:33.680 That's what,

00:08:34.140 and Jim Jordan

00:08:34.700 gets that right in there

00:08:35.740 at the beginning

00:08:36.300 to make it clear.

00:08:37.380 This is not some

00:08:38.480 normal,

00:08:39.740 balanced hearing.

00:08:40.640 This is not to get

00:08:41.280 any pressing

00:08:41.880 or urgent information.

00:08:44.000 This was political theater

00:08:45.520 set up by the Democrats,

00:08:47.640 set up with their

00:08:48.520 rat

00:08:49.100 Judas

00:08:51.000 Michael Cohen

00:08:52.120 and set up

00:08:53.200 with the help

00:08:53.960 of the propaganda

00:08:55.280 arm of the Democrat

00:08:56.320 Party,

00:08:56.780 which is called CNN.

00:08:58.680 CNN had advance notice

00:09:00.160 of all of these documents.

00:09:02.560 Knowing all of that,

00:09:03.400 you've got a major

00:09:03.920 credibility problem.

00:09:05.620 For the first time ever,

00:09:06.860 a man who is convicted

00:09:07.860 of lying to Congress

00:09:08.820 is now testifying

00:09:09.760 before Congress.

00:09:10.980 Does that make a lot of sense?

00:09:12.740 Doesn't seem to make

00:09:13.520 a lot of sense.

00:09:14.100 And they're saying,

00:09:14.700 but he's not lying now.

00:09:17.440 It's like they're a victim

00:09:19.680 of fraud

00:09:20.420 who cuts a con man

00:09:21.440 another check.

00:09:22.600 It's like,

00:09:23.260 it's like an abused

00:09:25.020 spouse

00:09:26.040 who says,

00:09:27.180 no, no,

00:09:27.580 he's changed.

00:09:28.360 He's changed.

00:09:28.740 He hasn't changed.

00:09:29.500 They don't change.

00:09:30.360 Even Michael Cohen

00:09:31.240 admits this credibility problem.

00:09:32.660 A free agent

00:09:34.740 that was reporting

00:09:35.800 back to the president

00:09:36.580 what he had done.

00:09:37.680 Correct.

00:09:38.220 He frequently reached out

00:09:40.180 to Mr. Trump

00:09:41.120 and Mr. Trump

00:09:42.480 was very happy

00:09:43.880 to take his calls.

00:09:45.340 It was free service.

00:09:47.440 Hmm.

00:09:48.500 Roger Soane

00:09:49.280 says he never spoke

00:09:50.500 with Mr. Trump

00:09:51.500 about WikiLeaks.

00:09:52.520 How can we corroborate

00:09:54.080 what you are saying?

00:09:55.560 I don't know.

00:09:58.900 Oh, that's pretty rough.

00:10:00.640 So in all of those testimonies,

00:10:02.800 yeah, and Stone,

00:10:03.860 Roger Stone

00:10:04.780 was talking

00:10:05.780 WikiLeaks,

00:10:07.080 which is really

00:10:08.160 a front for the Russians 0.65

00:10:09.200 and then he called Trump

00:10:11.040 and Trump took the call

00:10:12.180 and yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:13.100 And so Debbie Wasserman Schultz,

00:10:14.520 she's so excited.

00:10:15.580 Oh, yes.

00:10:16.740 And how can we corroborate

00:10:18.200 what you're saying,

00:10:19.020 Mr. Cohen?

00:10:20.220 Oh, I don't know.

00:10:22.160 I don't think they expected

00:10:23.360 that answer.

00:10:24.420 That he can't corroborate

00:10:25.460 any of this.

00:10:26.240 And you see it throughout

00:10:27.140 the whole testimony.

00:10:29.160 The whole testimony,

00:10:30.280 he makes these outrageous claims

00:10:31.980 and really,

00:10:33.040 they're just insults.

00:10:34.260 They're not even,

00:10:35.180 that one was a particular claim

00:10:37.520 that he can't defend.

00:10:38.920 But mostly,

00:10:39.820 it's just insults.

00:10:42.260 Besmirching his character.

00:10:43.080 He's a racist.

00:10:43.740 He's a thisist.

00:10:44.380 He's a thatist.

00:10:45.060 And you say,

00:10:45.300 okay, how can we corroborate?

00:10:46.440 He's like,

00:10:46.580 I don't know.

00:10:46.920 Michael Cohen,

00:10:50.500 back when he was Trump's flack,

00:10:53.200 couldn't corroborate those,

00:10:54.360 right?

00:10:54.500 He said,

00:10:54.760 Donald Trump has the best memory

00:10:56.000 of anyone I've ever met.

00:10:56.920 He's the most dignified man.

00:10:57.940 He has the most integrity.

00:10:58.880 He's the greatest guy

00:10:59.500 that ever walked the earth.

00:11:01.200 Now, he couldn't corroborate

00:11:02.480 that either.

00:11:03.620 And now,

00:11:04.480 because he's the same guy,

00:11:05.700 because he's the same

00:11:06.380 lying dirtbag he's always been,

00:11:08.460 he can't corroborate this.

00:11:09.640 He's just saying

00:11:10.480 what people want to hear.

00:11:12.140 He's just dancing

00:11:13.440 for the Democrats now.

00:11:15.320 He used to dance for Trump.

00:11:16.520 Now, he dances for the Democrats

00:11:17.880 to try to limit his time in prison,

00:11:20.660 to try to get a little public sympathy.

00:11:23.660 So, let's go through these assertions,

00:11:25.900 these claims that Michael Cohen

00:11:27.740 is making in his testimony,

00:11:29.240 because what the Democrats

00:11:30.480 are relying on

00:11:31.360 is that it's just going to be

00:11:32.360 this cloud of fraud,

00:11:35.160 deception, collusion,

00:11:37.620 and nobody's going to look

00:11:38.760 into the specifics.

00:11:39.580 Let's look into the specifics.

00:11:40.800 Let's knock everyone down.

00:11:42.120 First specific,

00:11:43.400 first claim from Michael Cohen.

00:11:45.320 Donald Trump

00:11:46.440 never really wanted

00:11:48.380 to be president.

00:11:50.160 He never expected

00:11:51.100 to be president.

00:11:51.940 He didn't want it.

00:11:52.980 This is one of the main

00:11:54.360 Democrat attack lines on Trump.

00:11:56.360 He was only ever after

00:11:57.620 his own personal advancement,

00:12:00.980 making more money,

00:12:02.140 building more hotels,

00:12:03.520 getting his name out there,

00:12:04.700 branding.

00:12:05.360 That's all he was interested in.

00:12:07.220 He never wanted to be president,

00:12:08.260 never thought he was going

00:12:08.840 to be president.

00:12:09.680 Heck, he might have been upset

00:12:11.080 when he won the presidency,

00:12:12.220 because it hampered

00:12:12.960 his own business career.

00:12:14.140 Michael Cohen opens

00:12:16.240 his testimony with this line.

00:12:18.480 Never in a million years

00:12:19.920 did I imagine

00:12:20.820 when I accepted a job

00:12:22.740 in 2007

00:12:24.040 to work for Donald Trump

00:12:26.060 that he would one day

00:12:28.140 run for the presidency

00:12:29.220 to launch a campaign

00:12:31.920 on a platform

00:12:32.920 of hate and intolerance.

00:12:35.200 Okay, hate,

00:12:35.700 and then he goes on.

00:12:36.560 He's hateful.

00:12:37.140 He's bigoted.

00:12:37.680 He's this.

00:12:38.060 He's that.

00:12:38.400 Never did I imagine

00:12:40.300 when I took a job

00:12:41.320 for Trump in 2007

00:12:42.580 that Trump would run

00:12:43.880 for president.

00:12:45.880 Well,

00:12:47.380 Donald Trump

00:12:48.440 showed interest

00:12:49.660 in running for president

00:12:50.540 in the 1980s.

00:12:52.420 He went up to New Hampshire

00:12:53.800 in the 1980s

00:12:54.960 to potentially run

00:12:56.480 for president.

00:12:57.360 He then

00:12:57.900 actually started

00:12:59.280 to run for president

00:13:00.080 in 1999

00:13:00.920 for the 2000 election.

00:13:03.820 Eight years

00:13:04.820 before Michael Cohen

00:13:05.680 started working for Trump.

00:13:06.720 So either Michael Cohen

00:13:07.780 is the stupidest, 0.84

00:13:08.860 most oblivious man on earth

00:13:10.120 or he's lying.

00:13:11.560 It's actually not

00:13:12.380 an either or.

00:13:12.940 I guess it could be both.

00:13:15.040 Never imagined

00:13:15.800 he'd run for president.

00:13:17.300 No, nobody did.

00:13:18.160 Who could imagine?

00:13:19.200 I mean,

00:13:19.440 what a crazy thought

00:13:20.480 that Donald Trump,

00:13:21.540 the man who's been interested

00:13:22.720 in running for president

00:13:23.600 and expressed as much

00:13:24.680 since the 80s

00:13:25.720 would actually run

00:13:27.240 for president.

00:13:27.960 Crazy, right?

00:13:29.520 But then there's another line.

00:13:31.060 He goes right back into it

00:13:32.680 and he said,

00:13:33.500 no, no,

00:13:33.920 this is really what

00:13:34.640 the campaign was going to be.

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00:15:15.460 So this is the line.

00:15:16.540 No one could imagine

00:15:17.680 Donald Trump

00:15:18.320 wanted to be president,

00:15:19.500 even though he's wanted

00:15:20.200 to be president

00:15:20.700 for at least 30 or 40 years now.

00:15:23.140 And look,

00:15:24.160 Trump himself

00:15:24.860 never wanted it,

00:15:25.700 never expected it.

00:15:26.760 Trump is a man

00:15:28.020 who ran for office

00:15:29.200 to make his brand great,

00:15:31.560 not to make

00:15:32.320 our country great.

00:15:34.160 He had no desire

00:15:35.540 or intention

00:15:36.300 to lead this nation,

00:15:37.920 only to market himself

00:15:40.060 and to build

00:15:41.120 his wealth and power.

00:15:43.640 Mr. Trump would often say

00:15:45.140 this campaign

00:15:46.620 was going to be

00:15:47.960 the greatest infomercial

00:15:49.760 in political history.

00:15:52.280 He never expected

00:15:53.560 to win the primary.

00:15:54.540 He never expected

00:15:56.040 to win the general election.

00:15:58.180 The campaign

00:15:59.000 for him

00:15:59.960 was always

00:16:01.520 a marketing opportunity.

00:16:04.100 All right,

00:16:04.960 no uncertain terms.

00:16:06.280 Donald Trump

00:16:06.880 never desired

00:16:08.360 or intended

00:16:09.440 to be president.

00:16:10.900 All it was

00:16:12.580 was a personal

00:16:13.840 marketing opportunity.

00:16:15.940 This line of attack

00:16:17.440 would be the

00:16:18.020 Moscow Hotel

00:16:19.040 line of attack

00:16:19.800 from Democrats.

00:16:20.860 He was only running

00:16:22.100 to build hotels

00:16:23.060 all over the world

00:16:23.980 and get his name

00:16:24.640 on billboards.

00:16:26.080 No desire

00:16:27.520 or intention

00:16:28.860 to be president.

00:16:30.520 That's Michael Cohen

00:16:31.700 testifying before Congress.

00:16:33.940 Except,

00:16:34.660 the only problem

00:16:35.340 with this line of attack

00:16:36.340 is it contradicts

00:16:37.960 the other Democrat

00:16:38.700 line of attack,

00:16:39.620 which is that

00:16:40.200 Donald Trump

00:16:40.700 wanted to be president

00:16:41.660 so bad,

00:16:43.620 he was so ruthless,

00:16:45.100 that he was willing

00:16:45.820 to do anything

00:16:46.820 to get it,

00:16:47.820 including

00:16:48.400 conspiring

00:16:49.940 with a foreign government,

00:16:51.340 committing crimes

00:16:52.180 with a foreign government.

00:16:53.520 Not only does

00:16:54.420 Michael Cohen's line

00:16:55.580 there

00:16:56.020 contradict

00:16:57.000 this other

00:16:57.880 Democrat attack,

00:16:58.860 it contradicts

00:17:00.100 Michael Cohen's

00:17:00.960 own statement

00:17:02.560 that he gives

00:17:03.280 later on

00:17:04.060 in this testimony

00:17:04.920 that Donald Trump

00:17:06.100 was willing

00:17:06.540 to do anything

00:17:07.340 to become president.

00:17:09.020 Sometime in the

00:17:09.840 summer of 2017,

00:17:11.780 I read all over

00:17:12.700 the media

00:17:13.260 that there had been

00:17:14.360 a meeting

00:17:14.760 in Trump Tower

00:17:15.580 in June of 2016

00:17:16.840 involving Don Jr.

00:17:18.980 and others

00:17:19.520 from the campaign

00:17:20.360 with Russians.

00:17:21.060 including a representative

00:17:24.000 of the Russian government

00:17:25.680 and an email

00:17:27.440 setting up the meeting

00:17:29.100 with the subject line

00:17:30.420 Dirt on Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:17:33.280 Something clicked

00:17:34.040 in my mind.

00:17:35.320 I remember being

00:17:36.080 in a room

00:17:36.500 with Mr. Trump

00:17:37.260 probably in early

00:17:38.780 June of 2016

00:17:39.920 when something

00:17:41.340 peculiar happened.

00:17:43.620 Don Trump Jr.

00:17:44.620 came into the room

00:17:45.740 and walked behind

00:17:47.040 his father's desk,

00:17:48.400 which in and of itself

00:17:49.960 was unusual.

00:17:51.760 People didn't just

00:17:52.700 walk behind

00:17:53.520 Mr. Trump's desk

00:17:54.800 to talk to him.

00:17:56.340 And I recall Don Jr.

00:17:57.860 leaning over

00:17:58.940 to his father

00:17:59.840 and speaking

00:18:00.880 in a low voice,

00:18:02.400 which I could

00:18:03.180 clearly hear,

00:18:04.800 and saying,

00:18:05.640 the meeting

00:18:06.620 is all set.

00:18:08.160 And I remember

00:18:08.820 Mr. Trump saying,

00:18:10.580 okay, good.

00:18:11.620 Let me know.

00:18:12.540 There you have it.

00:18:16.560 Donald Trump

00:18:17.360 set up

00:18:18.700 an elaborate

00:18:19.540 back channel

00:18:20.460 with Vladimir Putin

00:18:21.780 to fix the 2016 election.

00:18:23.980 He was personally

00:18:24.880 apprised

00:18:25.640 of these

00:18:26.040 high-level meetings

00:18:27.600 with Russian officials.

00:18:30.340 So that means

00:18:31.620 not only did he

00:18:33.520 desire to win,

00:18:34.920 but he would have

00:18:35.520 expected to win,

00:18:36.440 right?

00:18:37.660 Because

00:18:38.220 he's cheating.

00:18:39.160 He ends up

00:18:40.440 cheating

00:18:41.200 with no less

00:18:42.240 an adversary

00:18:43.220 than the government

00:18:44.300 of Russia

00:18:44.920 to fix the 2016 election.

00:18:47.800 You can't have

00:18:49.100 both of these things.

00:18:50.460 You can't have

00:18:51.080 Donald Trump

00:18:51.580 never desired

00:18:52.400 or intended

00:18:52.940 to be president.

00:18:53.960 And

00:18:54.500 Donald Trump

00:18:55.760 both desired

00:18:56.980 and intended

00:18:57.580 to be president

00:18:58.180 so much

00:18:58.980 that he cheated,

00:19:00.760 fixed the election

00:19:01.480 with Russia,

00:19:02.240 and therefore

00:19:02.780 expected to be president.

00:19:04.320 You can't have that.

00:19:06.220 Those don't

00:19:06.940 both work.

00:19:08.900 So why would

00:19:09.820 Michael Cohen

00:19:10.440 say it?

00:19:10.940 Michael Cohen

00:19:11.460 is throwing spaghetti

00:19:12.420 at the wall.

00:19:13.480 He's not here

00:19:14.320 to tell the truth.

00:19:15.420 He's not here

00:19:16.120 because he's now

00:19:16.780 reformed.

00:19:18.180 He's seen the light.

00:19:20.300 No.

00:19:21.220 Michael Cohen

00:19:21.800 is trying to garner

00:19:22.560 public sympathy,

00:19:24.120 probably wants to

00:19:24.740 get out of jail

00:19:25.320 a little earlier

00:19:25.920 than he's supposed to,

00:19:27.300 because he's a broken,

00:19:28.920 weak man

00:19:29.520 who has betrayed

00:19:30.440 his benefactor.

00:19:32.640 That's what it is.

00:19:33.660 There's no,

00:19:33.980 I don't understand

00:19:34.660 what the other

00:19:35.180 explanation would be.

00:19:37.660 This is what happens

00:19:38.800 when you get the squeeze

00:19:39.840 put on you,

00:19:40.720 is people just start

00:19:41.400 saying anything,

00:19:42.060 even if the things

00:19:42.640 contradict themselves,

00:19:45.000 which clearly

00:19:46.040 he's done right here.

00:19:47.700 So, okay.

00:19:49.220 Now,

00:19:49.740 Michael Cohen

00:19:50.200 has even less credibility

00:19:51.260 than he had

00:19:51.980 when he started

00:19:52.640 because somewhere

00:19:53.820 in there he's lying.

00:19:55.580 He didn't only lie

00:19:56.580 in the last

00:19:57.000 congressional testimony,

00:19:58.080 he lies in this one.

00:19:59.460 One of those

00:20:00.080 conflicting statements

00:20:00.980 has to be a lie.

00:20:02.860 So next up,

00:20:03.620 Donald Trump

00:20:04.100 is a racial bigot. 0.59

00:20:05.100 Now,

00:20:06.320 this is

00:20:07.100 the greatest evidence

00:20:08.200 that they've got

00:20:08.800 nothing on

00:20:09.780 Russian collusion.

00:20:12.560 If they've got

00:20:13.600 Donald Trump,

00:20:14.700 if they've got

00:20:15.680 evidence

00:20:16.220 that Donald Trump

00:20:17.760 conspired with

00:20:18.860 the government

00:20:19.480 of Russia

00:20:20.380 to fix

00:20:21.340 the 2016 election,

00:20:23.200 broke,

00:20:23.860 presumably,

00:20:24.740 untold numbers

00:20:25.840 of laws,

00:20:27.700 made him,

00:20:27.980 made himself a traitor

00:20:29.100 to his own country,

00:20:30.000 why would they

00:20:31.900 bring up

00:20:32.300 that he doesn't

00:20:32.880 like black people?

00:20:34.440 Doesn't that seem

00:20:35.000 a little weak?

00:20:35.820 I mean,

00:20:36.100 you've got

00:20:36.460 the president

00:20:37.460 of the United States

00:20:38.200 committing treason,

00:20:39.420 that's the allegation,

00:20:40.740 and also he said

00:20:41.800 a mean thing

00:20:42.280 about a black person

00:20:43.080 one time?

00:20:43.620 No.

00:20:44.380 The reason

00:20:45.200 that they're going

00:20:45.820 and trying to portray

00:20:46.620 Donald Trump

00:20:47.140 as some sort

00:20:47.600 of racial bigot

00:20:48.480 is because they

00:20:49.460 don't have evidence

00:20:50.260 of any crime.

00:20:51.500 And racial bigotry

00:20:52.300 is not a crime,

00:20:53.280 but in the court

00:20:53.820 of public opinion,

00:20:55.060 it hurts him.

00:20:56.500 When you're looking

00:20:57.300 at the 2020 election,

00:20:58.640 which is what this

00:20:59.300 is really all about,

00:21:00.380 it hurts him.

00:21:01.980 And so he says,

00:21:02.860 Michael Cohen goes,

00:21:03.880 does the little dance

00:21:04.620 that the Democrats

00:21:05.220 want him to do.

00:21:06.380 He says,

00:21:06.760 Donald Trump's a racist.

00:21:08.300 Mr. Trump is a racist.

00:21:11.000 The country has seen

00:21:12.580 Mr. Trump court

00:21:14.240 white supremacists

00:21:15.360 and bigots.

00:21:16.640 You have heard him

00:21:17.640 call poorer countries

00:21:18.860 a**holes. 1.00

00:21:20.720 His private,

00:21:22.360 in private,

00:21:23.600 he is even worse.

00:21:24.700 He once asked me

00:21:27.040 if I could name

00:21:27.600 a country run

00:21:28.820 by a black person

00:21:29.960 that wasn't a s**t hole. 0.67

00:21:32.160 This was when

00:21:32.820 Barack Obama

00:21:33.720 was president

00:21:34.580 of the United States.

00:21:36.900 And while we were

00:21:37.500 once driving

00:21:38.200 through a struggling

00:21:39.040 neighborhood in Chicago,

00:21:41.040 he commented

00:21:42.080 that only black people 0.89

00:21:43.900 could live that way.

00:21:45.900 And he told me

00:21:47.120 that black people

00:21:48.580 would never vote for him

00:21:49.740 because they were

00:21:50.840 too stupid.

00:21:52.800 And yet,

00:21:53.360 I continued

00:21:54.800 to work for him.

00:21:56.900 Wow.

00:21:58.040 Ooh, gosh.

00:21:59.580 Michael Cohen

00:22:00.160 must be a pretty bad guy

00:22:01.560 if he's going to

00:22:02.160 not only work

00:22:02.860 for someone like that,

00:22:04.680 but he's going to

00:22:06.200 pledge undying fealty

00:22:08.500 to him.

00:22:09.460 Say he'd take

00:22:10.000 a bullet for him.

00:22:11.780 Wow.

00:22:12.420 Michael Cohen

00:22:13.080 must be a real dirtbag.

00:22:14.420 Well, we already knew that.

00:22:15.320 But the stories

00:22:16.560 that Michael Cohen

00:22:17.940 is telling,

00:22:19.000 the stories

00:22:19.700 are hard to believe,

00:22:21.980 certainly impossible

00:22:22.980 to corroborate.

00:22:24.340 But then,

00:22:25.560 even the insinuations

00:22:26.780 he's making

00:22:27.660 are bizarre.

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00:24:07.900 Michael Cohen

00:24:08.440 says Donald Trump

00:24:10.440 is this big racial bigot.

00:24:12.240 Okay.

00:24:12.520 Raises some questions

00:24:15.420 as to why he would

00:24:16.120 keep working for that guy

00:24:17.240 but then he says

00:24:18.360 Donald Trump referred

00:24:19.660 to poor countries

00:24:20.940 as S-holes. 1.00

00:24:23.940 Call it hell holes.

00:24:25.040 That's similar

00:24:25.860 to the word he used.

00:24:27.400 Now,

00:24:27.600 I think Trump

00:24:28.140 was specifically

00:24:28.740 referring to Haiti

00:24:29.680 where no one would deny

00:24:31.800 people live in squalor.

00:24:33.360 People cook mud pies,

00:24:36.620 not the delicious dessert

00:24:37.880 but actual like mud pie

00:24:39.920 made of mud.

00:24:42.700 Pie,

00:24:43.340 they cook mud

00:24:44.060 just to fill their bellies

00:24:45.100 because people are starving there

00:24:46.300 because it's a horrifically run country.

00:24:48.840 That's not racist.

00:24:50.240 That's not racially bigoted

00:24:51.300 to say that.

00:24:52.680 Then he says,

00:24:53.280 yeah,

00:24:53.600 Trump,

00:24:54.540 he said that black people

00:24:56.520 would never vote for me.

00:24:58.420 Well,

00:24:58.640 I don't know.

00:24:59.020 Trump's made black support 0.63

00:25:01.220 a key part

00:25:02.940 of his entire administration.

00:25:04.120 He constantly touts

00:25:05.420 his support among black people.

00:25:06.920 He has touted

00:25:09.020 black unemployment,

00:25:10.540 very low unemployment numbers

00:25:12.560 as a key accomplishment

00:25:14.780 of his administration.

00:25:16.200 He frequently says

00:25:17.020 he's done more

00:25:17.600 for black Americans

00:25:18.560 than any president

00:25:19.240 in American history

00:25:20.100 and it's hard to refute that.

00:25:23.420 Now,

00:25:24.280 the question of the racism

00:25:28.000 as Michael Cohen's

00:25:30.020 throwing spaghetti at the wall

00:25:31.080 gets challenged

00:25:31.960 by Mark Meadows

00:25:33.040 who does a very good job of it.

00:25:34.800 Mr. Cohen,

00:25:35.720 do you know

00:25:36.540 Lynn Patton?

00:25:38.360 I'm right here.

00:25:39.360 Oh,

00:25:39.660 yes, sir.

00:25:40.000 Do you know Lynn Patton?

00:25:41.360 Yes,

00:25:41.640 I do.

00:25:42.860 I asked Lynn

00:25:44.120 to come today

00:25:44.820 in her personal capacity

00:25:46.200 to actually shed some light.

00:25:49.440 How long have you known

00:25:50.340 Ms. Patton?

00:25:51.140 I'm responsible

00:25:52.080 for Lynn Patton

00:25:53.080 joining the Trump organization

00:25:54.440 and the job

00:25:55.240 that she currently holds.

00:25:57.180 Well,

00:25:57.760 that's,

00:25:58.360 I'm glad you acknowledge that

00:25:59.780 because you made

00:26:00.720 some very demeaning comments

00:26:03.980 about the president

00:26:05.160 that Ms. Patton

00:26:06.000 doesn't agree with.

00:26:07.360 In fact,

00:26:07.940 it has to do with

00:26:09.280 your claim of racism.

00:26:11.840 She says that

00:26:12.980 as a daughter

00:26:13.840 of a man born

00:26:14.840 in Birmingham, Alabama,

00:26:16.540 that there is no way

00:26:18.660 that she would work

00:26:19.460 for an individual

00:26:21.680 who was racist.

00:26:24.160 How do you reconcile

00:26:25.060 the two of those,

00:26:25.920 Mr. Cohen?

00:26:26.000 As neither should I

00:26:27.080 as the son

00:26:27.780 of a Holocaust survivor.

00:26:30.160 Come again?

00:26:31.000 What was that?

00:26:32.160 John Kasich,

00:26:32.860 is that you

00:26:33.340 talking about your father

00:26:34.280 who's a mailman?

00:26:35.020 What does that have to do

00:26:35.980 with anything?

00:26:36.960 What just happened

00:26:37.740 is Michael Cohen

00:26:38.600 got the squeeze put on him,

00:26:40.620 said that Donald Trump,

00:26:41.540 he used to say

00:26:42.040 Donald Trump doesn't have

00:26:42.820 a bigoted bone in his body,

00:26:43.980 he's the nicest,

00:26:44.580 most wonderful guy

00:26:45.200 in the world.

00:26:45.880 Now he's going to go to prison,

00:26:47.200 he's trying to get out of jail

00:26:48.420 a little early,

00:26:49.140 and he says Donald Trump

00:26:50.380 is a big racist. 0.75

00:26:51.580 So then,

00:26:52.540 a black employee

00:26:54.040 of President Trump

00:26:55.240 comes in and says,

00:26:56.080 no, he's not.

00:26:57.080 He's not a racist,

00:26:58.040 I wouldn't work for a racist,

00:26:59.140 he's fine, good guy.

00:27:00.780 And then Michael Cohen says,

00:27:01.880 my father was in the Holocaust,

00:27:04.020 he survived the Holocaust.

00:27:06.020 Does that have to do

00:27:06.860 with anything?

00:27:08.020 Because you have no answer,

00:27:09.180 that's what it has to do

00:27:10.020 with it.

00:27:10.920 And then so Meadows,

00:27:11.880 Mark Meadows,

00:27:12.520 Republican congressman,

00:27:13.720 presses this

00:27:14.480 a little bit further.

00:27:15.700 Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan

00:27:16.800 were the two real stars

00:27:18.020 of this hearing

00:27:18.660 on the Republican side,

00:27:20.040 they really drilled down

00:27:21.000 to what matters.

00:27:22.120 Mark Meadows says,

00:27:22.820 okay, you're calling him

00:27:23.700 a racist.

00:27:24.960 We've got a black employee

00:27:26.120 of the Trump organization

00:27:27.400 who says he's not a racist.

00:27:29.600 You,

00:27:30.180 a schmuck 0.97

00:27:30.640 who's got the squeeze put on him,

00:27:32.100 who's a convicted liar,

00:27:33.060 say he is a racist.

00:27:34.320 Do you have

00:27:35.320 any evidence

00:27:36.840 at all,

00:27:37.900 any way

00:27:38.760 to corroborate

00:27:39.660 your claims

00:27:40.360 that he's a racist?

00:27:41.040 but Mr. Cohen,

00:27:44.180 I guess what I'm saying

00:27:45.260 is that I've talked

00:27:46.200 to the president

00:27:47.140 over 300 times.

00:27:48.460 I've not heard

00:27:49.060 one time

00:27:49.840 a racist comment

00:27:51.320 out of his mouth

00:27:53.180 in private.

00:27:54.800 So how do you reconcile it?

00:27:56.140 Do you have proof

00:27:56.960 of those conversations?

00:27:58.320 I would ask you to ask.

00:27:59.520 Do you have tape recordings

00:28:00.300 of those conversations?

00:28:01.540 No, sir.

00:28:02.220 Well, you've taped

00:28:02.800 everybody else.

00:28:03.840 Why wouldn't you have a tape?

00:28:04.660 That's also not true, sir.

00:28:06.220 That's not true.

00:28:07.160 You haven't taped anybody?

00:28:08.280 I have taped individuals.

00:28:09.520 How many times

00:28:10.120 have you taped individuals?

00:28:11.640 Maybe 100 times

00:28:12.660 over 10 years.

00:28:13.600 Is that a low estimate?

00:28:14.700 Because I've heard

00:28:15.480 it's over 200 times.

00:28:17.640 Oh, devastating.

00:28:19.760 You see what Cohen's doing here?

00:28:21.280 He's trying to play

00:28:22.120 the hapless schmuck.

00:28:23.820 In a sense,

00:28:24.320 he is a hapless schmuck, 0.98

00:28:25.280 but he,

00:28:26.200 using his free will,

00:28:28.100 deceived people,

00:28:29.280 taped people,

00:28:30.360 lied to Congress,

00:28:31.620 cheated the government.

00:28:32.740 He did this.

00:28:33.540 He made those choices.

00:28:35.660 He says Trump

00:28:36.220 was a horrible racist.

00:28:37.240 He kept working for them

00:28:38.060 for a long time.

00:28:39.900 Now he says,

00:28:40.340 oh, no, sir.

00:28:41.180 No, yes, sir.

00:28:42.020 No, sir.

00:28:44.300 And what Mark Meadows

00:28:45.340 is showing is,

00:28:46.320 you actually secretly

00:28:47.380 record people a lot,

00:28:48.460 don't you?

00:28:49.360 You record,

00:28:49.960 no, only about,

00:28:51.100 I don't know,

00:28:51.320 only like 100 times

00:28:52.320 or something.

00:28:53.780 100 times?

00:28:54.500 I don't,

00:28:54.820 have you ever,

00:28:55.340 have you ever recorded

00:28:56.300 100 conversations

00:28:57.940 in your life,

00:28:58.620 private conversations?

00:29:00.200 No.

00:29:01.100 Was it 200?

00:29:02.220 Well, I mean,

00:29:03.060 I don't know.

00:29:03.740 I don't know.

00:29:04.760 So you got this guy

00:29:06.340 who's so deceitful

00:29:07.900 that he's recording

00:29:08.780 over 100 private conversations,

00:29:11.280 but he didn't,

00:29:13.560 he just didn't get

00:29:14.480 any of those racist ones.

00:29:16.060 Shucks,

00:29:16.460 that's too bad.

00:29:18.440 That's,

00:29:18.740 if only he had,

00:29:19.460 well,

00:29:19.820 too bad,

00:29:20.340 okay.

00:29:20.980 So this was a pretty brutal

00:29:22.560 two-pronged attack

00:29:23.600 because it,

00:29:25.000 what it does

00:29:25.740 is not only

00:29:26.840 totally undercuts

00:29:28.420 the claims

00:29:29.380 that Cohen is making,

00:29:30.340 but it also portrays Cohen

00:29:32.420 not as this pitiful

00:29:33.500 little schmuck

00:29:34.200 but as

00:29:35.580 a political operative

00:29:38.040 who is now

00:29:39.200 switching sides

00:29:40.360 and doing exactly

00:29:41.740 the same

00:29:42.320 hard-charging

00:29:43.480 flacking

00:29:44.000 that he used to do

00:29:44.680 for Trump,

00:29:45.100 now he's doing it

00:29:45.620 for the Democrats.

00:29:46.640 Omarosa tried this too. 1.00

00:29:47.860 She said,

00:29:48.360 I've got tapes

00:29:49.320 of Donald Trump

00:29:50.160 saying terribly bigoted things.

00:29:52.780 So,

00:29:53.060 okay,

00:29:53.940 show them.

00:29:55.480 Well,

00:29:56.280 uh,

00:29:57.180 no,

00:29:57.660 well,

00:29:58.180 no,

00:29:59.580 no,

00:30:00.180 no,

00:30:00.300 I don't want to.

00:30:01.960 Now,

00:30:02.320 she said all of this

00:30:02.980 while she was trying

00:30:03.420 to sell her book.

00:30:04.840 So,

00:30:05.040 okay,

00:30:05.160 I remember that.

00:30:05.820 I got the tapes.

00:30:06.520 I'm coming out

00:30:06.940 with the tapes.

00:30:07.560 All right,

00:30:07.740 well,

00:30:07.860 she's not selling

00:30:08.420 her book anymore.

00:30:09.280 Where's the tapes?

00:30:10.660 They're not coming out.

00:30:12.040 So,

00:30:12.500 the GOP

00:30:13.120 pointing out

00:30:15.160 inconsistencies

00:30:16.100 even within

00:30:16.880 the testimony today.

00:30:19.420 You've got

00:30:20.120 Michael Cohen

00:30:20.820 convicted of lying.

00:30:22.880 You've got

00:30:23.580 every little

00:30:24.400 line he comes out with,

00:30:26.200 the GOP

00:30:26.620 seems to counter

00:30:27.280 and then he contradicts

00:30:28.160 himself,

00:30:28.500 probably lies again

00:30:29.080 before Congress,

00:30:30.620 certainly lies again

00:30:31.520 before Congress.

00:30:32.440 The best Cohen

00:30:33.420 can come up with

00:30:34.100 at the very end

00:30:34.860 is grade school

00:30:37.240 taunts.

00:30:38.500 You're a pathological

00:30:39.800 liar.

00:30:41.560 You don't know

00:30:42.160 truth from

00:30:42.820 falsehood.

00:30:44.760 Sir,

00:30:45.160 I'm sorry,

00:30:45.740 are you referring

00:30:46.380 to me or the president?

00:30:47.120 Hey,

00:30:47.500 this is my time.

00:30:48.800 Are you referring

00:30:49.180 to me or the president?

00:30:50.000 When I ask you a question,

00:30:51.320 I'll ask for an answer.

00:30:52.440 Sure.

00:30:53.480 Oh,

00:30:53.820 are you referring

00:30:54.440 to me or the president?

00:30:55.600 Ha ha,

00:30:55.920 I am rubber

00:30:56.880 and you are glue.

00:30:58.300 Yeah,

00:30:58.700 whatever,

00:30:59.260 whatever,

00:30:59.880 it bounces off of me,

00:31:01.160 it sticks to you.

00:31:02.440 Ha ha,

00:31:03.040 yeah.

00:31:04.000 Yeah,

00:31:04.400 I went to law school.

00:31:05.380 Yeah,

00:31:05.980 all right.

00:31:06.880 It's like devolved

00:31:07.840 into Rodney Danger.

00:31:08.640 You don't get no respect.

00:31:09.720 Ah,

00:31:09.980 yee.

00:31:10.540 No,

00:31:10.760 you all know my doctor,

00:31:11.680 Dr. Vinnie Boombats?

00:31:12.640 Yeah.

00:31:13.220 So,

00:31:13.860 this is basically

00:31:14.820 the best Cohen

00:31:15.460 can come up with.

00:31:15.980 You see this little

00:31:16.680 sly smile.

00:31:18.440 Yeah,

00:31:19.180 yeah,

00:31:19.760 he,

00:31:20.080 you talking about

00:31:20.760 the president?

00:31:21.440 Yeah,

00:31:21.820 yeah.

00:31:23.000 That's all this is.

00:31:24.280 This is just stupid

00:31:25.520 sophomoric insinuation

00:31:27.320 that gets shot down

00:31:28.200 on every factual point

00:31:29.140 by the GOP.

00:31:30.080 We will talk about

00:31:30.840 what it all means,

00:31:32.180 what the main takeaway is.

00:31:33.160 We got a lot more

00:31:33.560 to get to,

00:31:33.940 but first,

00:31:34.280 go to dailywire.com.

00:31:35.380 You know what you get.

00:31:36.140 You get all the shows,

00:31:36.840 you get to ask questions

00:31:37.480 in the mail back

00:31:38.000 coming up tomorrow.

00:31:39.000 You get everything

00:31:39.640 and you get

00:31:40.240 the Michael Cohen,

00:31:41.160 I'm sorry,

00:31:42.060 the leftist tears tumbler.

00:31:43.560 You get the leftist tears tumbler,

00:31:44.880 get it,

00:31:45.180 or you're going to drown.

00:31:45.840 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:46.720 We'll be right back.

00:31:47.280 Okay,

00:31:58.240 pathetic showing from Cohen,

00:32:00.220 grade school taunt

00:32:01.040 is the best he can come with.

00:32:02.160 Basically,

00:32:02.660 that's all you can walk away with

00:32:03.800 because all of the claims

00:32:04.820 he makes get refuted.

00:32:06.980 He himself contradicts them.

00:32:10.540 So all you get

00:32:11.560 are these grade school taunts

00:32:12.820 and you realize

00:32:13.560 that this tool

00:32:14.560 is dancing for Democrats

00:32:15.980 the same way he used to dance

00:32:17.080 for Trump.

00:32:18.840 My main personal takeaway

00:32:20.600 from this

00:32:21.180 was looking at this.

00:32:22.360 I thought of the heavenly virtues,

00:32:24.760 prudence, justice, temperance,

00:32:26.720 fortitude, faith, hope, and charity.

00:32:28.960 And I thought

00:32:29.740 through all of the characters

00:32:30.980 of history,

00:32:32.200 have you ever encountered

00:32:34.120 a person

00:32:34.860 with such

00:32:36.860 an abject emptiness,

00:32:41.500 a total lack

00:32:42.660 of all of those virtues

00:32:44.100 as Michael Cohen?

00:32:45.220 Obviously,

00:32:46.460 there are a lot worse people

00:32:47.520 in history,

00:32:48.900 much more wicked people,

00:32:50.940 much more unjust people.

00:32:53.300 But when you think about them

00:32:54.540 in history,

00:32:55.040 go to Attila the Hunt

00:32:56.000 or something,

00:32:57.500 at least they had fortitude.

00:32:59.780 At least they,

00:33:00.760 I don't know,

00:33:01.140 at least they had hope.

00:33:03.220 They had,

00:33:03.960 Michael Cohen has,

00:33:04.900 he doesn't have prudence.

00:33:06.760 He's been reckless

00:33:07.740 his whole career,

00:33:08.740 reckless working for Trump,

00:33:09.720 now reckless working

00:33:10.400 for the Democrats.

00:33:12.000 Justice?

00:33:12.620 What justice?

00:33:13.280 He lies out of both corners

00:33:14.920 of his mouth.

00:33:17.420 Temperance?

00:33:17.820 He doesn't seem like

00:33:18.400 a temperate man.

00:33:19.100 He doesn't seem

00:33:19.520 like a terribly moderate man.

00:33:22.040 He's all about extremes.

00:33:24.680 Fortitude?

00:33:25.160 He's totally weak.

00:33:26.040 He admits,

00:33:26.520 he says,

00:33:26.860 I'm a weakling.

00:33:27.980 My weakness has led me

00:33:29.260 to where I am today.

00:33:31.780 Faith?

00:33:32.260 And not a whole lot

00:33:32.880 of fidelity with that guy.

00:33:34.300 Hope?

00:33:34.660 Not a lot of hope.

00:33:35.300 He knows he's going to jail.

00:33:37.080 Charity?

00:33:37.540 No charity at all.

00:33:38.380 He's willing to betray

00:33:39.400 his benefactors.

00:33:40.300 He's just bereft

00:33:43.480 of any of the virtues.

00:33:45.460 How sad for him.

00:33:47.860 Broadly,

00:33:48.400 when you look at the

00:33:49.080 political takeaways

00:33:50.340 from the hearings,

00:33:51.180 it turns up nothing

00:33:51.920 of substance.

00:33:53.520 What of substance

00:33:54.720 came out of this?

00:33:57.780 Trump lawyer says

00:33:59.000 Trump is a racist

00:33:59.880 and then Trump

00:34:00.980 black employee

00:34:01.760 says he's not.

00:34:02.700 Okay.

00:34:04.040 Trump says,

00:34:06.220 or Cohen says

00:34:07.180 that Trump paid off

00:34:08.440 Stormy Daniels.

00:34:10.300 Uh-huh.

00:34:10.860 Got it.

00:34:11.340 Yeah,

00:34:11.520 we knew that one.

00:34:13.300 Cohen says,

00:34:14.420 uh,

00:34:14.840 Trump's a bad guy.

00:34:16.540 Okay,

00:34:16.900 right,

00:34:17.100 we got that.

00:34:17.840 All it does

00:34:18.460 is create a distraction.

00:34:21.060 And there is

00:34:21.780 an actual scandal here.

00:34:23.020 We know that

00:34:23.680 the Democrats

00:34:24.240 and the Hillary Clinton

00:34:24.940 campaign

00:34:25.580 colluded

00:34:26.700 with the Obama

00:34:27.480 Justice Department

00:34:28.320 and a foreign

00:34:29.100 intelligence source

00:34:30.000 that goes all the way

00:34:30.740 into Russia.

00:34:32.500 And the evidence

00:34:33.220 that we have of this

00:34:33.920 is the Steele dossier.

00:34:34.820 We know,

00:34:36.680 you have

00:34:37.140 FBI agents

00:34:39.640 fired in disgrace.

00:34:41.060 Andrew McCabe

00:34:41.980 admitting that he

00:34:43.000 tried to launch

00:34:44.040 a coup d'etat,

00:34:45.220 commit treason

00:34:45.840 to overturn

00:34:46.320 a presidential election.

00:34:47.780 Peter Strzok,

00:34:49.000 top FBI agent,

00:34:50.540 saying that

00:34:51.420 the FBI,

00:34:52.620 the power of the state,

00:34:53.420 would not allow

00:34:54.420 Donald Trump

00:34:54.960 to be elected president.

00:34:57.120 Colluding with Democrats,

00:34:58.560 Democrat-funded

00:34:59.480 foreign intelligence

00:35:01.020 to spy on the

00:35:03.020 Trump campaign,

00:35:03.660 try to stop them

00:35:04.240 from winning.

00:35:04.720 That is the scandal.

00:35:05.940 And we're going to hear

00:35:06.520 about that scandal

00:35:07.220 as it comes out.

00:35:08.760 Jim Jordan gets it.

00:35:09.980 Jim Jordan,

00:35:10.580 Republican congressman,

00:35:11.700 talks about the actual

00:35:12.760 scandal here

00:35:13.520 in beautiful

00:35:15.440 and concise detail.

00:35:17.340 I want you to think

00:35:18.060 about this.

00:35:18.700 When have you ever seen

00:35:19.380 a federal agency

00:35:20.140 where this has happened?

00:35:21.240 James Comey,

00:35:21.880 director,

00:35:22.360 fired.

00:35:23.040 Andy McCabe,

00:35:23.800 deputy director,

00:35:25.060 fired.

00:35:25.800 Lied three times

00:35:26.660 under oath,

00:35:27.280 under investigation,

00:35:28.560 right?

00:35:28.780 As we speak,

00:35:29.840 Jim Baker,

00:35:30.300 FBI counsel,

00:35:31.840 demoted then left,

00:35:32.860 currently under investigation

00:35:33.980 by the U.S.

00:35:34.640 Attorney's Office

00:35:35.200 in Connecticut.

00:35:36.220 Lisa Page,

00:35:36.880 demoted then left.

00:35:37.960 Peter Strzok,

00:35:38.520 deputy head

00:35:38.940 of counterintelligence,

00:35:40.520 demoted then fired.

00:35:42.680 That's what happened.

00:35:43.800 That's what we're

00:35:44.280 concerned about.

00:35:45.280 So you've got

00:35:46.140 two competing scandals.

00:35:47.500 Trump colluded

00:35:48.000 with Russia.

00:35:49.120 The Democrats

00:35:50.060 colluded with the DOJ

00:35:51.420 and actually Russia,

00:35:52.700 foreign intelligence.

00:35:53.560 Those are the two

00:35:54.200 competing scandals.

00:35:55.680 And they're both

00:35:56.540 trying to get airtime.

00:35:57.640 The way that you know

00:35:59.080 that the Democrat scandal

00:36:00.400 is illegitimate

00:36:01.460 and that the Republican

00:36:02.660 or the Democrat allegations

00:36:04.080 rather are illegitimate.

00:36:05.680 Democrat scandal

00:36:06.480 is very legitimate

00:36:07.180 and that the Republican

00:36:08.560 claims are legitimate.

00:36:10.420 That the real scandal

00:36:11.700 here was perpetrated

00:36:12.700 by the Democrats.

00:36:13.680 The way that you know

00:36:14.500 that,

00:36:14.800 that the GOP

00:36:15.300 is on the right track

00:36:16.220 is that our allegation

00:36:18.000 hasn't changed.

00:36:19.400 Our allegation is

00:36:20.740 the Democrats

00:36:21.860 colluded with the

00:36:22.820 Obama Justice Department,

00:36:24.140 which colluded

00:36:24.620 with foreign intelligence

00:36:25.620 to subvert

00:36:26.800 the 2016 election,

00:36:28.100 to spy on the Trump campaign,

00:36:29.560 and to try to overturn it

00:36:30.820 once Trump won.

00:36:31.560 That's our allegation.

00:36:33.160 There's a lot of evidence

00:36:33.960 for that.

00:36:36.000 The Democrat story,

00:36:37.480 what is the Democrat story?

00:36:38.980 The Democrat story

00:36:39.880 is Trump never wanted to win.

00:36:41.220 He was only enriching

00:36:42.020 himself personally.

00:36:43.620 Also,

00:36:44.400 Trump so totally

00:36:45.440 wanted to win

00:36:46.180 that he was willing

00:36:47.080 to commit crimes

00:36:48.060 with a foreign government

00:36:48.860 to cheat

00:36:49.340 and rig the election.

00:36:50.880 Then the other,

00:36:51.660 then Trump slept

00:36:52.420 with a porn star.

00:36:53.540 That's,

00:36:54.080 for somehow,

00:36:54.460 that's part of this scandal too.

00:36:55.880 He slept with a porn star

00:36:56.880 and also he's a racist. 0.65

00:36:59.580 There's no evidence of that,

00:37:00.720 but he's a racist. 0.67

00:37:01.600 That's the,

00:37:02.040 that's the,

00:37:03.040 so you've got

00:37:04.880 not only contradictions

00:37:06.300 without the Democrat,

00:37:07.420 within the Democrat claims,

00:37:08.540 you've got totally irrelevant

00:37:10.240 insults

00:37:12.020 and charges.

00:37:15.600 Trump is a racist.

00:37:16.740 First of all,

00:37:17.440 first of all,

00:37:18.800 especially after Spike Lee's

00:37:20.160 stupid speech at the Oscars.

00:37:22.140 There are many photos

00:37:23.440 on the internet.

00:37:24.120 The internet is forever.

00:37:25.140 There are many photos

00:37:25.760 of Donald Trump

00:37:26.400 palling around with Spike Lee,

00:37:28.260 palling around with Al Sharpton,

00:37:29.800 winning awards

00:37:30.660 with Muhammad Ali

00:37:31.600 and Rosa Parks.

00:37:33.820 Nobody ever called

00:37:34.840 this man a racist

00:37:35.660 until he ran for president

00:37:37.040 as a Republican.

00:37:39.260 But they're throwing

00:37:40.600 spaghetti at the wall

00:37:41.920 because they don't

00:37:43.540 have real charges

00:37:44.960 and,

00:37:45.580 furthermore,

00:37:46.060 because they're guilty

00:37:46.880 of a major scandal

00:37:48.720 themselves.

00:37:50.020 The left always projects.

00:37:51.540 And what are they guilty?

00:37:53.420 They're guilty of

00:37:54.580 interfering in the 2016 election,

00:37:57.020 conspiring and colluding

00:37:58.160 with the federal government

00:37:59.460 and with foreign governments

00:38:00.680 to prevent Donald Trump

00:38:04.280 from becoming president.

00:38:05.120 What is the political fallout

00:38:07.640 from this testimony?

00:38:08.680 Nothing.

00:38:09.040 It doesn't move the needle.

00:38:10.880 Well,

00:38:11.340 what evidence

00:38:12.020 did Michael Cohen provide?

00:38:13.220 He provided a check

00:38:14.260 that Donald Trump

00:38:15.200 reimbursed him for services.

00:38:17.800 Yep,

00:38:18.460 we knew that.

00:38:19.580 He provided a copy

00:38:20.700 of financial statements.

00:38:21.720 We already knew about

00:38:22.380 Michael Cohen's complex finances

00:38:23.900 and Donald Trump's

00:38:24.700 for that matter.

00:38:25.160 He provided an article

00:38:28.520 with Donald Trump's

00:38:29.860 handwriting

00:38:30.420 that possibly implied

00:38:32.460 that Trump used

00:38:33.220 non-profit money

00:38:34.480 on a portrait

00:38:35.800 for one of his clubs.

00:38:37.540 Does that sound

00:38:38.520 confusing or irrelevant?

00:38:40.420 Yeah,

00:38:40.720 it is.

00:38:41.000 I mean,

00:38:41.340 if the charge is

00:38:43.480 that Donald Trump

00:38:44.380 misused some

00:38:45.260 non-profit money,

00:38:47.320 great,

00:38:48.060 great.

00:38:48.540 I can't wait

00:38:49.560 for us to litigate

00:38:50.960 that one in the

00:38:51.540 court of public opinion.

00:38:52.500 when the Clinton family

00:38:55.880 took money

00:38:57.960 hand over fist,

00:39:00.320 millions and millions

00:39:01.800 and millions of dollars

00:39:02.760 from foreign governments

00:39:04.260 while Hillary Clinton 0.83

00:39:05.840 was Secretary of State

00:39:06.840 in their slush fund foundation

00:39:09.760 which had to be shut down

00:39:10.820 and was so corrupt. 0.58

00:39:11.640 Great,

00:39:11.940 bring that one on.

00:39:12.660 Okay,

00:39:12.900 perfect.

00:39:13.840 And then the other one,

00:39:15.240 the other evidence

00:39:15.960 is letters

00:39:17.000 that Cohen wrote

00:39:17.780 on behalf of Trump

00:39:18.640 to the college board

00:39:20.780 which runs the SATs

00:39:23.200 to high schools

00:39:24.660 to colleges

00:39:25.300 to prevent them

00:39:27.200 and intimidate them

00:39:28.100 from releasing

00:39:28.680 Trump's grades

00:39:29.480 and SAT scores

00:39:31.040 which they shouldn't do anyway.

00:39:33.340 This is evidence

00:39:34.200 of what?

00:39:35.340 What is that evidence?

00:39:36.340 Anybody would do that.

00:39:37.240 Hillary Clinton

00:39:37.780 would always

00:39:39.200 kept her thesis

00:39:40.240 from Wellesley College

00:39:41.800 under lock and key.

00:39:43.660 What does that prove at all?

00:39:46.020 What he's trying to imply,

00:39:47.240 he's not trying to show

00:39:48.220 any crime

00:39:48.700 or any nefarious activity,

00:39:49.760 what he's trying to imply

00:39:50.760 is that Trump is an idiot

00:39:51.720 that he has low SAT scores,

00:39:53.140 low grades

00:39:53.640 which is really rich

00:39:54.680 coming from Michael Cohen

00:39:55.700 who attended

00:39:56.760 according to

00:39:58.300 above the law

00:39:59.300 law school rankings

00:40:00.700 the worst law school

00:40:02.200 in the country.

00:40:03.800 Michael Cohen

00:40:04.320 attended a law school

00:40:05.260 with the highest

00:40:06.180 admission percentage

00:40:07.260 of any

00:40:08.300 American Bar Association

00:40:09.580 approved law school.

00:40:11.000 This was a major issue.

00:40:11.940 They basically let in 0.63

00:40:12.920 anybody who applied.

00:40:14.300 The median LSAT score

00:40:15.860 of people who went

00:40:17.260 to Michael Cohen's law school

00:40:18.400 was in the 18th percentile

00:40:20.760 which we're seeing today

00:40:21.700 as this clown

00:40:23.660 is running his mouth

00:40:24.640 before Congress.

00:40:26.040 70% of graduates

00:40:27.120 of that law school

00:40:27.840 could not get

00:40:28.560 a law job,

00:40:29.720 full-time law job

00:40:30.520 within nine months

00:40:31.260 of graduation.

00:40:32.120 The vast majority.

00:40:33.640 And here is Michael Cohen

00:40:34.880 implying that

00:40:35.580 Donald Trump

00:40:36.180 is an idiot. 0.98

00:40:37.140 A billionaire

00:40:37.660 who went to Wharton.

00:40:38.720 Okay, right, good,

00:40:39.680 that's cute.

00:40:40.980 So even the insinuations,

00:40:42.460 there's no real fallout.

00:40:44.260 Now, the practical side

00:40:46.060 of this,

00:40:46.660 Democrats will use this 0.82

00:40:47.540 as an excuse

00:40:48.080 to launch more investigations,

00:40:49.880 more hearings,

00:40:50.780 more whatever.

00:40:51.480 They were going to do that anyway.

00:40:52.840 There's no bombshells

00:40:53.900 that came out of this.

00:40:54.980 It doesn't change

00:40:55.760 anybody's opinion.

00:40:58.740 Okay.

00:41:00.020 Now,

00:41:00.920 this is

00:41:02.620 obviously

00:41:03.660 frustrating

00:41:04.660 in so much

00:41:05.100 as it takes away

00:41:05.720 a news cycle.

00:41:06.580 A news cycle

00:41:07.080 where we could be talking

00:41:07.840 about

00:41:08.300 Donald Trump

00:41:09.720 meeting with Kim Jong-un.

00:41:11.180 A news cycle

00:41:11.880 where we could be talking

00:41:12.860 about

00:41:13.340 how the left

00:41:14.680 is defending

00:41:15.580 dictators in Venezuela.

00:41:17.740 Where we could be talking

00:41:18.920 about how the left

00:41:19.720 is defending infanticide.

00:41:22.020 That's okay.

00:41:22.640 They got their news cycle

00:41:23.700 out of it.

00:41:24.200 Good for them.

00:41:25.280 Good for them.

00:41:27.360 What does this do?

00:41:28.320 I don't think it accomplishes

00:41:29.440 what they wanted it to.

00:41:30.320 I think they were hoping

00:41:30.980 for that bombshell.

00:41:31.860 I think Debbie Wasserman Schultz

00:41:33.280 was hoping.

00:41:33.920 She would say,

00:41:34.260 how do you corroborate this?

00:41:35.260 And Cohen would say,

00:41:35.820 here's how I do it.

00:41:37.340 But he said,

00:41:37.740 I don't know.

00:41:38.720 All right, okay, I don't know.

00:41:39.760 I went to a law school

00:41:40.680 that basically isn't even

00:41:41.980 a law school.

00:41:42.500 What do you expect me to do, huh?

00:41:44.820 I don't know.

00:41:45.820 You all know my doctor,

00:41:46.680 Dr. Vinny Bumbatza.

00:41:49.300 Basically a loss for Democrats.

00:41:51.140 I mean, it's sort of whatever.

00:41:52.240 He presented unsavory things

00:41:55.000 and unsavory news stories

00:41:56.500 that were already out there

00:41:57.780 to begin with.

00:41:59.400 Before we go today,

00:42:00.340 I do want to show this clip

00:42:01.520 because I think I'm getting

00:42:03.160 the weather reports from hell

00:42:04.380 and it's pretty chilly

00:42:05.060 down there today.

00:42:06.280 Jorge Ramos,

00:42:07.840 far left winger.

00:42:09.160 He's the guy on Univision

00:42:10.740 who's a grandstanding buffoon

00:42:12.560 who hates Donald Trump.

00:42:14.420 A total partisan hack.

00:42:17.020 He went on Sean Hannity's show

00:42:19.000 just the other day

00:42:20.320 because Jorge Ramos

00:42:22.880 was down in Venezuela,

00:42:24.200 left winger,

00:42:25.120 and that socialist dictatorship

00:42:26.920 down there detained him.

00:42:28.800 They threatened him.

00:42:30.240 And it just reminds me,

00:42:31.760 socialism,

00:42:32.960 to the left at least,

00:42:34.440 it sounds great

00:42:35.480 on a sunny day in Manhattan.

00:42:36.940 Oh, it sounds wonderful,

00:42:38.500 so fair,

00:42:39.260 so wonderful.

00:42:41.060 Then the reality of it

00:42:42.160 really hurts,

00:42:42.920 even for a far left winger

00:42:44.280 like Jorge Ramos,

00:42:45.580 who you would never expect

00:42:46.740 ever to say a nice thing

00:42:47.880 about someone like Sean Hannity

00:42:49.340 or any conservative.

00:42:51.340 When he saw the reality

00:42:52.700 of socialism,

00:42:53.520 when he was detained

00:42:54.320 by a socialist government,

00:42:55.640 when his life was threatened

00:42:56.700 by a socialist government,

00:42:58.680 he goes on Sean Hannity's show

00:43:00.200 to sing his praises.

00:43:01.480 When I needed the support

00:43:03.660 the most,

00:43:04.860 I heard that you were

00:43:06.340 talking about us in Venezuela,

00:43:08.160 and that was incredibly important.

00:43:09.900 So from the bottom of my heart,

00:43:11.300 thank you so much, Sean.

00:43:12.300 Thanks so much to Fox News

00:43:13.560 because on those moments

00:43:16.020 when you are detained

00:43:17.100 in a dictatorship,

00:43:18.700 when there's no one

00:43:20.220 to help you

00:43:20.940 and you see a tweet

00:43:22.300 or you see a report

00:43:23.700 from Fox News

00:43:24.500 or from an American media,

00:43:26.700 you know that you're not alone

00:43:28.080 and we felt that

00:43:29.060 we were not alone.

00:43:29.740 So, muchas gracias.

00:43:32.460 A chilly day in hell,

00:43:34.040 but there is Jorge Ramos

00:43:35.260 thanking conservatives

00:43:36.940 for defending him

00:43:38.360 against the socialist regime

00:43:40.460 in Venezuela.

00:43:41.620 He then went on

00:43:42.320 Anderson Cooper's show,

00:43:43.280 on a left-wing show,

00:43:44.240 to talk about

00:43:45.180 what happened to him down there.

00:43:47.300 Venezuelan agents

00:43:48.320 were outside the hotel

00:43:50.040 the whole night

00:43:50.840 so nobody could come in

00:43:52.220 and we couldn't leave the airport.

00:43:54.380 They wanted to make sure

00:43:55.080 that we were going to go

00:43:55.980 directly to the airport.

00:43:57.280 We were deported,

00:43:58.060 actually, from Venezuela.

00:43:59.740 It was a difficult moment

00:44:04.380 because we didn't know

00:44:05.200 what could happen.

00:44:06.280 It's a dictatorship.

00:44:07.340 So they can do

00:44:07.960 anything they want

00:44:09.140 and we were concerned

00:44:10.140 that at the airport

00:44:10.920 at some point

00:44:11.580 during our journey

00:44:12.700 that they could have

00:44:13.640 kidnapped us

00:44:14.780 or kept us in the country

00:44:15.900 without our permission,

00:44:18.240 obviously.

00:44:19.040 And Democrats

00:44:19.640 are still defending that,

00:44:21.240 defending socialism,

00:44:22.360 defending that radicalism.

00:44:23.480 They're defending Maduro.

00:44:25.160 Bernie Sanders

00:44:25.860 won't call Maduro a dictator.

00:44:27.340 Jorge Ramos will.

00:44:29.520 They're defending socialism.

00:44:31.040 They're running on socialism.

00:44:32.980 They're running on radicalism.

00:44:35.260 We're out of time

00:44:36.120 so we can't get to

00:44:37.040 some of the more radical

00:44:38.320 suggestions that they now have.

00:44:40.820 But that's what they're running on.

00:44:42.020 That's what they're,

00:44:43.020 this is all about 2020

00:44:44.520 and they're looking at 2020

00:44:45.560 and they're running on

00:44:46.340 pretty unpopular things.

00:44:47.540 Open borders, 0.65

00:44:48.600 infanticide,

00:44:50.040 socialism,

00:44:50.820 which has caused

00:44:51.580 a dictatorship

00:44:52.380 and starvation in the streets

00:44:53.760 in Venezuela,

00:44:54.960 a formerly rich country.

00:44:56.100 They're running on

00:44:56.880 all these unpopular things

00:44:57.880 and the only thing

00:44:58.680 that they can do

00:44:59.360 to distract from it

00:45:00.780 is throw a bunch of circuses

00:45:03.840 and try to convince people

00:45:04.860 that Donald Trump

00:45:05.700 is a racist bigot

00:45:08.460 who never wanted

00:45:09.460 to be president

00:45:10.100 and he really wanted

00:45:10.740 to be president

00:45:11.240 and he'd do anything

00:45:11.980 and he committed crimes

00:45:12.800 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:45:14.180 That's all they can do

00:45:15.320 is create a crazy distraction.

00:45:18.420 But the reality underneath

00:45:19.700 is the corruption

00:45:20.780 and the radicalism

00:45:22.420 of the Democrat Party

00:45:24.040 which unfortunately for them

00:45:26.120 it's a long haul to 2020.

00:45:27.760 There are going to be

00:45:27.980 a lot of debates

00:45:28.680 and they're not going to be able

00:45:30.560 to hide it for very long.

00:45:31.700 They can't hide it

00:45:33.140 behind Fredo,

00:45:35.180 Michael Cohen

00:45:35.820 for very long.

00:45:37.260 That's our show.

00:45:38.000 Come back tomorrow.

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00:46:10.900 Hey everyone,

00:46:11.360 it's Andrew Klavan,

00:46:12.260 host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:46:14.200 You know,

00:46:14.460 in their ceaseless attempts

00:46:15.700 to turn Donald Trump

00:46:16.800 into a villain,

00:46:17.600 the Democrats have made heroes

00:46:19.040 out of blackmailing strippers

00:46:20.900 and McCarthyite lawyers

00:46:22.520 and rogue FBI agents

00:46:24.780 violating the Constitution.

00:46:26.120 Now it's Michael Cohen's turn

00:46:27.780 in the spotlight.

00:46:29.060 We'll be talking about that.

00:46:30.380 I'm Andrew Klavan

00:46:31.280 on The Andrew Klavan Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 27, 2019

Ep. 305 - Michael Cohen Throws Spaghetti At The Wall

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