Hey, everyone listening to our podcast. This is Ari, and I wanted to tell you a little bit about this special episode, which is exclusive for our podcasts.

You may know Michael Avanotti, of course, as the attorney for Stormy Daniels or as a prominent voice of the resistance.

In fact, there's a New York Times magazine article out this weekend that calls him a man whose ability to steer a news cycle is rivaled only by Donald

Trump's. And for this week's podcast Extra, we want to bring you an extended version of my newest

interview with Michael Avanotti that aired just this week, and it's a longer version of some of what

we talked about that you may not have heard. And then we've got some more from a previous interview

that's pretty interesting, given everything that's happened this week from Michael Cohen's new lawyer, Lanny Davis, to the Mueller indictments, because it's the first time Michael Avanotti ever spoke publicly about Michael Cohen flipping.

He happened to do it on the beat, which made for a pretty interesting interview, as I say, given everything that's happened.

So I hope you enjoy our podcast extra.

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I hope you enjoy this special podcast extra of The Beat with Ari Melbert.

I mentioned Michael Avinati is my guest on the beat.

Now, you have said Lanny Davis, who represents your adversary in the civil case, Michael

Cohen, is being phony.

What do you mean?

Well, here's what I mean by that, Ari.

I mean, Lanny is a very good attorney.

There's no question about that. He's been a very good attorney for a number of years.

You know, it appears that we finally have an adult in the room, which is refreshing.

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