and he was first asked, more than ten times, more than 100 times. he said probably 500 times. you see this happen in other organizations like mob families. and i hate to make that comparison, but if the shoe fits. it provides a difficult burden for prosecutors to show it because just claiming that someone is speaking in code, that maybe can sweep too far. you need some corroboration of that. so i think i m not surprised by it. it seems it was the m.o. over a period of years. it s a difficult thing to prove and that s why people employ that tactic because it becomes harder to prove later because you aren t using the precise words that may be incriminating. he says threatened. more than 500 times over ten years. the president told him to go threaten someone or some organization. but with the lawsuit threats and other threats, not necessarily physical threats. is that the way you understood it? correct. i want to be very clear. he was sweeping broadly about what threats mean and there
whether it s congress or the department of justice, every one sympatico with. needs to try to go over board in forget the united nations. forget the law. being ethically appropriate. that means not just impartial y forget everything else. it s a crude and jungle like view of the world as seen through the eyes of mob impartiality. families. that s how donald trump that s only part of it but avoiding the appearance of impro operates. that s his world view. if there s a trump doctrine, it comes from queens and brooklyn p impropriety. both you have have so much and new york and the mob experience in this. families that control that city. it s an important point. it s fascinating hearing theage i would only echo it by saying it comes from the movie depiction of how those things s work and not always the reality. analysis. if that s part of an effort to distract attorneys like yourself or the rest of the public from shutting down the mueller probe, we re going to stay on those if t
whether it does, it is abuse of power. the it is not the way the pardon power is supposed to be used. anybody who would forgive it or try to explain it away is making a mistake. now, the problem is, you know, what are the facts and how much corroboration is there for it? it sounds like, you know, this evidence and these accusations are coming from michael cohen himself. as the president can legitimately say, michael cohen is not just a liar, he is a proven and admitted liar. there needs to be other evidence, too, for this to be, you know, a slam dunk situation. yeah. i mean, first of all, does it would it matter if it was only people around the president who were sort of, you know, giving some sort of assurances or nods or winks, that the president would take care of michael cohen? it is a question of interpretation. you know, people who are heads of mob families don t always write down in print, i want you to take care of this person in this particular way.
this was a superceding and there are two others. this will be four, i believe, all separate in terms of sentencing. so you ve got now bob mueller you re frustrated by it but once you catch somebody at it, it gives youore leverage. if he s in jail, it puts the pressure on him and makes h whole prospect of what his future looks like, again, a longer jail term and he s no longer sitting in his multimillion dollar arlington townhouse. he s sitting in a prison cell. mueller s saying bad you a also good on you. one of the prosecutors, weissman, i think his name is on the filing. he signed it. he is known for his prosecutions of mob families.
president in the release of his book to mob families, i used the comey model, if you will, that s what we are going to say. fine, we will talk about the clinton crime family. what is the reaction in d.c. tonight over comey s analogy? there is some shock about this because it certainly makes it seem like james comey is less of an honest broker than he has portrayed himself in the mainstream media when he says things like that. if, in fact, that s what he is telling abc news and their special. the other key points i am hearing from republicans on capitol hill who have been investigating the possibility of a second special counsel is that james comey is a fine one to talk because even before this book has come out, there are some big developments. you have andrew mccabe