acquire time warner. so if cohen doesn t do any legal or lobbying work, then what did he do? well, that s exactly the problem here. at&t is in a very difficult position. i m somebody who is, as you know, believes very much in competition. i m not happy about the concentration of media ownership in the country but given the other media companies and what they own, at&t is at a competitive disadvantage unless and until it is able to retain cnn and the related properties that would level a too small playing field. so from at&t s position, the prospect that somehow they could get fair treatment if they respond to some questions by michael cohen, they send money to michael cohen is something you can expect to see. and everybody at at&t who touched this deal, even if you re the secretary who took the phone message, it s probably going to have to hire a lawyer at some point because they re going to be questioned about what was going on. and these other companies making
worse or not. it smeldz, yes. it smells funny. they say the general counsel, i can confirm that company is 100% controlled and oenld by americans and any suggestion that any point in time vekselberg or any of his companies owned or exercise any control over columbus nova is patently untrue. so let s move on, david. in response to the claims made by stormy daniels attorney, at&t corn firmed that they had retained cohen for insights into understanding the new administration. but that he did no legal work, nor did he do any lobbying work. i should point out that take the at&t is currently involved in a lawsuit filed by president trump s own department to acquire time warner. so if cohen doesn t do any legal or lobbying work, then what did he do? well, that s exactly the problem here. at&t is in a very difficult position. i m somebody who is, as you know, believes very much in
that s why they re going after him. others do have a different take. here s congressman adam schiff this morning on cnn s state of the union. here the special counsel, i m sure in discussion and in consultation with rod rosenstein, is deciding which of the cases have arisen from this investigation he should try personally and which should be farmed out to others. that s how the process should work. and while, you know, it s certainly within the judge s prerogative to ask these questions, i don t think it really bears on the legal issues. and so i think that bob mueller will prevail in the sense of being able to go forward with this litigation. i don t think there is really any legal question about that. so larry, can that metaphor case really impact what does or doesn t happen with the president? it has an impact but i don t think it will have a major impact. judges often will be very hard on the government and then ruling for them. it s happened to me, so you can t say based o
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lie and try to cover up. this is exactly what happens. giuliani also said this morning that he expects trump fixer michael cohen will cooperate in the investigations, but investigators might be disappointed because cohen doesn t have any incriminating information about president trump. i imagine that you think he shouldn t be so sure about that. no, i think he should be absolutely unsure about that. i don t think there s any question i ve been saying this for a while that michael cohen is going to turn state s evidence on the president, and i m confident there will abe lot of evidence and a lot of conduct that s going to come to light. if we just concentrate on this $130,000 payment i don t want to say story because now it s stories the stories they re forming for the american people is changing over the last several months and now the last 72 hours. now rudy giuliani is claiming he doesn t really know the facts, isn t really up to speed as the most basic facts.