to deal with these women problems that probably have come up on numerous occasions in the past. and i think he's going to say that implicitly he was authorized to engage -- >> but if he has carte blanche to do that from some prior discussion, how come he has to take out a loan, according to him, from his home equity line of credit? what attorney -- have you ever loaned a client -- >> michael cohen is the best attorney -- if he'll take me as a client, i'll do it. >> lawyers don't. >> lawyers don't do that, but if you look back at his history, michael cohen's history, he was almost like a trump groupie when he got involved with trump. he had bought real estate from trump. he became a true believer in trump, and trump liked him so much, he started throwing him legal work. so that's sort of his entryway into the trump organization. he's devoted to trump in a personal way. now, he uses his own money so that the president has no obvious link to the transaction. and what's to stop the president