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The drug giant ceo sending an e-mail to all staff saying, "yesterday was not a good day for novartis given the news about their relationship with cohen." but if yesterday was bad for novartis today could be worse. take a look at this new reporting. it turns out this is according to stat news that specializes in health care coverage, that the $100,000 monthly retainer fee that novartis was paying to cohen's llc was to help it "better understand u.s. health care policy matters and it was four times more," i'm going to repeat that, quadruple what it paid any other qualified external lobbyist. als...

Novartis today could be worse. take a look at this new reporting. it turns out this is according to stat news that specializes in health care coverage, that the $100,000 monthly retainer fee that novartis was paying to cohen's llc was to help it "better understand u.s. health care policy matters and it was four times more," i'm going to repeat that, quadruple what it paid any other qualified external lobbyist. also according to stat news, novartis has spent $12 million on lobbying since trump took office. compare that to the 1.2 million that went entirely to michael cohen. about 10% of everyth...

Is a retainer fee or a retain-her fee? this legal stuff is so confusing. david, it's the only time -- i tweeted this earlier in the week. i said it's the only case i've ever heard of where a billionaire has to use a retainer in $35,000 monthly installments to pay a $130,000 debt. it strains creditity. go to smerconish.com, answer the latest poll question of the day. do the latest developments awrying out of the stormy daniels case now imperil the presidency. by dragging it out this long -- is he risking giving the democrats more power, those who want to impeach? and during the campaign, the ...

Prosecutions you have to have a guilty conscience. if you knew about the payment when it was made, that goes to the campaign finance law violations, what giuliani was doing was trying to ex-cull pate michael cohen by saying he was repaid for this loan. but also at the same time, exculpate trump by staying he knew about the loan, but he didn't really know about it, there was a $35,000 a month retainer fee, to use to pay off the -- >> you know, he's the fixer. he knew it was reimbursed in one sense, he didn't know the specifics of it. >> did giuliani clean it up a little bit? >> no, he muddied 9...

Are the rest of us missing something that we haven't picked up in a grand scheme. thank you for being here. i always appreciate your analysis. >> thank you. what are your thoughts? tweet me @smerconish. if a point of that statement is that he doesn't know all the facts and is not speaking on behalf of the president, why should we listen to or believe anything rudy says? that's the question people are asking about the white house now. that it's death by a thousand cuts. like the doctor, the whole doctor ronny issue and the doctor from new york and the president having dictated that. in the ...