Cassidy Hutchinson's Smoking Gun Changes Everything + A Conversation with Asha Rangappa

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes back Asha Rangappa, Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Prior to her current position, Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Asha has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post among others, and has been a legal and national security analyst for CNN, as well as appearing on NPR, BBC, and several other major television networks. In this episode Michael and Asha delve deep into the J6 hearings and the Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	This is my Mayo Cup.
0:09.0	Oh, baby, don't lie for me.
0:11.0	If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.
0:15.0	I did my time that's fun by me.
0:17.0	This is my mea co-bo. This is Michael Mayor Cope.
0:26.1	This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culp a podcast.
0:33.2	Did we just witness the Trump tipping point during the bombshell January 6th hearings on Tuesday?
0:42.9	Was the surprise testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, the dose of reality that finally wakes America up and starts the indictments rolling?
0:45.4	I mean, dear God, let's hope so. We are coming to you just hours after the January 6th committee shocked the world with a hearing that can only be described as cuckoo ogah psh hallo hachi
0:59.1	who would have imagined that the reckless and insane actions of the trump administration's last
1:04.9	days would be so credibly exposed by a once loyal aid a 25old West winger, who by all accounts was the trusted right
1:14.4	hand of former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. A young woman who showed more guts than all the
1:21.2	president's men. And from what I can gather, Ms. Hutchinson's testimony is a fateful nail in a whole stack of political
1:29.0	coffins.
1:29.7	I remember leaning against the doorway and saying, he said an interesting conversation
1:33.7	with Rudy, Mark.
1:35.7	Sounds like we're going to go to the Capitol.
1:38.3	He didn't look up from his phone and said something to the effect of.
1:42.5	There's a lot going on, Cass, but I don't know, things might
1:46.7	get real, real bad on January 6th.
1:49.4	What Ms. Hutchinson described was the shockingly erratic behavior of Trump high on his
1:55.2	own insurrection.
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