michael cohen co-ordinated with one or more memberls of the campaign, including about the fact, nature and timing of the payments in particular, and as cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments he acted at the direction of individual one do you think that bragg's office sees individual one the same way sdny put in writing they saw individual one >> i never like to put myself into the position of what somebody else thinks what i will say to you is that i have no reason to disqualify any of the comments, the readings you just took from the document that was the charging document against me >> michael, have you heard from anyone at sdny >> i don't want to talk about anything that involves this
are we past the point where credibility is in question? is it just an imagine thing before a grand jury? because i think at this point, the receipts have borne out. thank him for the testimony and my understanding is corroborating all of michael's testimony. >> we're past the point in this show, really, one judges him through common sense, excuse me michael who's a friend, but you understand when someone has begun to tell the truth, but, first of all, prosecutors have two mindsets, they want to get the information, investigation and they want to figure what they can prove. they got the information from michael, 13 of his 14 visits were with cyrus vance. in that inquiry, you're always defensive, sounds good here, nicolle, but you'll actually
michigan has unabashedly held the position that nobody should suffer a lifelong consequences for marijuana convictions. we can't give michael back the quarter of a century he spent incarcerated, so he will inevitably face life consequences for this conviction, but we can commute the harm is being done to him and his family with this ongoing incarceration. >> michael, i was struck by that in the film because watching your story, i can only imagine your reaction to the last several years, we see with regards to marijuana. legalization in certain states. with that, a booming legal pot industry. what more should be done at the federal level to fix the damage done by the drug war and even as some americans have gotten rich of legalization? you tell me michael and miss corral.
tight rope, and i don't mean probation, but tight rope for their entire adult life, they are going to fall off. >> according to the bureau of justice statistics, meek was one of a staggering number of people on probation, one-third were african-americans. >> it's two americas. you got an america where they smack you in the face with a pistol so fast for horrendous crimes and getting away with it. and that's just on our side of america. >> what he always said to me michael, there's two americas. but there's not. he says there's america and black america. i got to tell you something he was right and i was wrong. >> so, while the rapper sat in prison serving his two to four-year sentence for a probation violation, an investigator looking into his
that russia will cut off energy to that nation. >> you can call me michael. it means that russia is going to play serious. they're going to play hard ball. there's more sanctions coming from the e.u. i applaud those. they're going to retaliate. but they're one step behind. finland has anticipated this. they can live without the gas. they made a strategic decision, a historic decision. they didn't join nato in the beginning. they didn't join nato when stallen was in the kremlin. they are joining because of the threat from russia. that's a giant, giant, strategic miscalculation on putin's part. and threatening to cut off the gas is not going to change it. >> i want to ask you about "the new york times" editorial board. they're arguing that the u.s. needs to more clearly define the mission in ukraine. that aid can't go on forever.
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who hear this story and think technical or not, you knew what the rules were, you violated them. how do you explain that? >> you know, we've never made any excuses for anything. they're expected to tow a line. but when you put somebody on a tight rope, and i don't mean probation, but tight rope for their entire adult life, they are going to fall off. >> according to the bureau of justice statistics, meek was one of a staggering number of people on probation, one-third were african-americans. >> it's two americas. you got an america where they smack you in the face with a pistol so fast for horrendous crimes and getting away with it. and that's just on our side of america. >> what he always said to me
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it's like 20 times faster than what most people have. i'd of said... i'd of said you're dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. the president continues to be dogged by the stormy daniels scandal. on tuesday, the adult film star whose real name is stephanie clifford sued the president. she wants to tell her story, the same story for which she accepted $130,000 to remain silent. her lawyer has appeared all over this week, but as an attorney myself i think that's still a few questions remaining to be answered by michael avenatti. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me michael, good morning. >> so michael cohen has been
heard in that bit from bloom berg. you're right about television and all those people that were just in that focus group, they're long television watchers i'm sure as are most americans. they're fairly sophisticated i think in understanding this kind of thing. >> let's switch to the other side of the aisle. i have two republicans as guests but we can all comment on what's going on among the ds. hillary clinton's campaign fired off a 2,000-word letter to the new york times complaining about their treatment relative to the e-mail scan dalt. here's my observation. has the "times" unintentionally helped hillary clinton? because now whenever this issue comes up people will remember the tainted reporting and they won't think that there's all that much to it. >> now, you tell me michael, if i had told you two months ago, two years ago, that the leading democrat was going to be complaining about liberal "new york times" and that donald trump was going to be running in 2016 would you have told me i was smoking something? >> yes, i would, absolutely.