didn t happen but the story of the affair would have been damaging enough for his client that he wanted to make it disappear. the issue i brought up with him was this wasn t just your personal client at this point, this was a candidate for the president of the united states so it wasn t business as urge. this is not the job he had a decade before, it was different because it should have been hold a higher standard. there were ethics regulations, campaign finance regulations you have to abide by and the way michael cohen sees it is it was business as usual and he was doing what he s always done. emily, welcome. thank you. michael cohen it sort of defies reality for him to say the affair didn t happen but the story would have been so explosive. there were tons of women making all sorts of allegations about now president trump and trump didn t care so i m not sure how that explanation flies. michael cohen is walking around with everyone knowing he made
orbit of informal advisers. you are absolutely right to say he is a perfect character in trumpland. michael cohen is a self-described fixer. he is someone who has worked for a decade to try and make things disappear for his boss. this is someone who is unbelievably publicly loyal to his boss and privately as well but in every interview i ve done with him and i have done a number of them over the past six months the first and last thing he says is how loyal he will be to his boss no matter what, no matter what it costs him, no matter what it costs his business or his family, his loyalty is to president trump. and part of that is that he has been so close to the trump family for so long that he knows that loyalty is the one button you should push so he pushes it and pushes it and pushes it over and over and over again. wow. emily, the michael cohen/stormy daniels timeline, how long has he lived with this
of someone else threatening her. he said he would have no way of knowing if someone threatened her. he admits to paying her $130,000. why did he cut her a did he cut $130,000. in the past he has said this is president trump is someone who he would be loyal to no matter what. the answer he gave me this week was slightly different that this was his job, he is a fixer, he s doing what he s done for years, which is taking care of problems for the president and in the normal course of business there would be situations where he would take care of anything. my question was, well, have you taken care of situations like this before and that s where he drew the line. wouldn t go into what he had done. if there was no affair, as the president says, what was the money for? in other words, why was he paying for someone with whom the president wasn t having an affair, $130,000? very good question. michael cohen said the affair
questioning of stormy daniels attorney on this show when he said that stormy daniels had been physically threatened. what did michael cohen say when you asked him about that information? every day i had to reinterview him because news kept breaking and i was transcribing the latest interview on friday morning and when mika asked that question, i picked up the phone and i had to say, hey, michael, did you threaten stormy daniels and he said to me unequivocally, i ve never talked to her, i ve never texted her, i ve never met her in person, i ve had no communication with her other than through her old attorney. i said to him, do you know of anyone else threatening her and he said i don t know, but i can only speak for myself and he had not issued any threats to her. so he wouldn t acknowledge if perhaps someone else it was within the realm of possibility