why he does it at this time. when it comes to cohen you were there when cohen denied ever asking the president for a pardon. i want to play that again. yes. i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. now, of course, cohen s spokesperson and his attorney lanny davis did have his lawyer explore a possible pardon with trump s lawyers. gene are again not getting into trump and cohen directly. but he directed his lawyers to have a conversation with trump areas lawyers. i mean, is there anyway isn t a lie what michael cohen said? you know, it s all these levels of untruth. so cohen can sit there and i say personally and i think his comment was i never asked the president. it was miss foreign who had that conversation. so here is a level of is it gray? did he do it or did his attorney ask them? so is it true, i never personally had that
the president didn t answer, but remember how many different answers he has given over the months about the action. some of it is clearly lies now. there was an interview on air force one where he said he didn t know anything about this. so just because when you give a different answer from when you were previously lying doesn t mean your new answer isn t a lie as well. margaret. the reason i keep hammering this is because it sounds like this is the white house s new strategy. we heard it yesterday with matt schlapp of this talking ninety these aren t even crimes. we heard it through the day and the president reiterating it this morning to ainsley earhart. is this what they re going run
knowing michael as well as i know him. i don t think he ever turned to anybody. we ll have to see how the facts come out of this thing. i don t think he turned to anybody said, hey, write me a check, i ll walk into the eoval office and segue into a piece news that we just got, somebody senior inside nor vi innovartis, the one with the ceo after they started paying michael cohen had dinner with donald trump while they were at davos said that cohen reached out to them shortly after the election and said that i guess he promised access to the new administration. okay. all right. so i he is not under oath. that may be true, may not be true. but again, when you say access, you know, there s difference between opening up ideas and talking to people and then unduly influencing an administration. the president is not a guy that you re going to be able to lobby. he doesn t have any of that in his personality.
he s already made multiple billions of dollars. he doesn t like it. he signed an anti-lobbying petition in the beginning. i signed it. you can t lobby for five years why is his personal lawyer lob lobbying? if he doesn t like it, it is such a no-no in the trump world? again quarterba again, this is how it look, this is what happens in washington. you get the story out there. there could. some haze on the story. is there another way to look at this? one thing james comey said i didn t az agrgree a lot with n his book tour but he says a lie gets out there and it spins around this isn t a lie. this is document we have tell me if there is another way to read this. i am not aware of michael cohen being an aerospace expert or a pharmaceutical let me explain to your viewers my experience with washington i m so much more experienced in how it works. what this is designed to do,
i presume you have been talking to people and learning what the problems are. what are the problems and what is the concern for people in your district. in my district, well, the good thing about actually living upstate is i see everybody all day every day. and even one of my exes that used to do a character of me on snl, i only talk about politics, okay, that s all i do anyway. jobs is an important thing. even to get jobs into the district, because there is nothing and people are leaving. it s hemorrhaging people. all the young people leave because there is no opportunity and that s why your district keeps getting bigger and bigger. and we have absolutely no telecommunication infrastructure. literally like none. and we are 70 miles away from new york city and it doesn t make any sense. randomly i m embarrassed to say this but i ve been back in school because i couldn t do much with my back injury and i got a c mine us in one class. nobody gets a c minus, i don t get a c minus. it