you have an obligation under the lawyer s code of professional responsibility to confer with your client about anything important in the case. okay. now, trump was his client. who is going to believe that trump wouldn t be consulted about this contract? the other argument that michael cohen made is this has nothing to do with the election. though this was signed, you know, within two weeks of the election. paul, does that hold water for you? no. i mean michael was helping the president get through an election. it was a reasonably intense election. reasonably important. i imagine it took a bit of his attention. the notion he would within days of an election take five minutes out of his time to do anything except donald trump is just not plausible. whether it s a legal violation, i have no idea. we ll let paul and the lawyers play that out. but i think politically where this is problematic, there s a new pew research poll today, remarkable poll, really looking at all the demograp
you that i would affect donald trump or michael kohn? you re the layers hewyers he would be, right? he puts him square in the middle of the fec. the fec violation is very similar to what happened with john edwards. john edwards had baron flying around the mistress in the private jet and to be one step ahead of the media. the irony of all ironies, the lawyer for john edwards is now jared kushner s lawyer. so trum whp would be on the k for the election question. i think kohn is on the hook for all lawyer rules. lawyers don t do this. lawyers don t pay $130,000 from their own personal equity loans for their clients. there s a whole host things is that illegal? it could be. but it s more of a question of you re not allowed to do it as a lawyer. it s a code of professional responsibility.
quoting right now, suggesting that his behavior was completely unacceptable and should be removed from his post immediately. do you agree? yeah, absolutely. the attorney general was required to recuse himself both because of provisions in statute and because of the code of professional responsibility. the idea that the president of the united states attempted to change his mind and discourage him from recusing which he was required to do by law and the fact that don mcgan delivered that message is very disturbing. kpreetl lly inappropriate and whether they understand the role of the attorney general, his oath to the constitution of the united states and obligations he has to recuse himself in the circumstances of this case. it also raises questions about the president sort of understanding what the attorney general s role is. he keeps talking about the attorney general should be there to protect the president. that is not the job of the attorney general.
conversation about this. i think this is an effort to undermine robert mueller. robert mueller has an impeccable reputation. he would recuse himself. the code of professional responsibility. if they are friends, i don t know if they are. it doesn t say actual conflict. 50% of the country thinks one thing. 50% thinks the other. if the investigator has a friendship with a key witness that s the problem i have. no matter how perfect bob mueller is for the case. when you talk about the purpose and the scope of this investigation, it has to do with russian interference with our
he is actually judge and prosecutor and witness all rolled into one. and the code of professional responsibility says you can t do that. i mean, that s the kind of stuff over which lawyers get disbarred. pete: have you argued that mueller himself is conflicted and here have you got comey resigning and then leaking through or being pushed out and then leaking this memo to get a special prosecutor. who is his good friend. pete: at what point does this start to look like open ini question session by mueller than focused investigation. well, it s horrifying because mueller is blatantly violating the special counsel law which says if you have a personal relationship with a witness central to the case, james comey, you shall not serve. and that describes what a personal relationship is. literally in the statute it said it s either a relative, or a close friend. well, that s the definition of comey and mueller. long-time partners, allies,