The Michael Knowles Show - February 27, 2019


Ep. 305 - Michael Cohen Throws Spaghetti At The Wall


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

168.99185

Word Count

8,031

Sentence Count

702

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

33


Summary

A baby is born 7 years after her father died. Michael Cohen testifies that he lied to Congress. A Democratic presidential candidate makes slavery reparations a central tenet of his campaign. Plus, a bizarre bioethics theory about designer babies.


Transcript

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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.
00:01:26.880 A lot of milkmen walking around the earth for all of human history.
00:01:30.320 But the story, that story about the baby being born seven years after her father died,
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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
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,
00:06:11.040 I mean China like the porcelain.
00:06:13.140 It's the break China school of thought.
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.
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
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,
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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00:14:07.420 and it would happen
00:14:08.760 however many times a week
00:14:10.320 and he would tell these stories
00:14:11.760 and they would always relate
00:14:12.880 to politics or American history
00:14:14.260 or something like that
00:14:15.060 and they were really good,
00:14:16.480 really well-formed episodes.
00:14:19.300 This Mike Rowe podcast
00:14:20.520 reminds me of this
00:14:21.800 to a T.
00:14:22.640 Rowe has that total
00:14:24.600 stage presence,
00:14:25.940 that Reagan-esque stage presence,
00:14:27.520 the timing,
00:14:28.220 the topic.
00:14:28.720 It's just fabulous.
00:14:30.200 It's stories for the curious mind
00:14:32.900 with a short attention span.
00:14:34.680 It's fabulous.
00:14:35.800 It's also reminiscent
00:14:37.100 of the late Paul Harvey's
00:14:38.220 The Rest of the Story.
00:14:39.940 It's a short mystery
00:14:40.960 about a famous person
00:14:41.940 or event you know
00:14:43.060 filled with surprising facts
00:14:44.180 you don't know.
00:14:44.660 It's America's number one
00:14:45.660 short-form podcast
00:14:46.900 downloaded more than
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00:14:50.100 Really, really good.
00:14:51.240 I loved it.
00:14:52.100 I don't want to spoil it,
00:14:53.380 but there's a great one
00:14:55.300 about a president
00:14:56.100 who wanted to make America
00:14:57.260 great again
00:14:57.900 and how it split a family
00:15:00.100 right up until the end.
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00:15:13.920 We like him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
00:36:59.580 There's no evidence of that,
00:37:00.720 but he's a racist.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
00:45:38.640 Get your mail back questions.
00:45:39.460 And in the meantime,
00:45:39.980 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:45:40.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:45:41.400 I'll see you then.
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00:46:10.900 Hey everyone,
00:46:11.360 it's Andrew Klavan,
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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.
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00:46:30.380 I'm Andrew Klavan
00:46:31.280 on The Andrew Klavan Show.
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