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🗓️ 27 August 2018
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0:00.0 | M-S-S-W Media |
0:08.4 | This week Michael Cohen walked into a courthouse |
0:12.0 | and told a federal judge under oath that he committed a felony and that Donald Trump directed him to do so. |
0:20.0 | That happened within minutes of a jury convicting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manifort on eight felony counts. |
0:30.0 | And then later this week, Trump Chief financial officer Paul Weisselburg received immunity |
0:36.1 | in exchange for his grand jury testimony. Does this spell the beginning of the end of the |
0:40.8 | Trump presidency? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic. I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez who's a regular on this |
0:59.3 | podcast. Thank you for having me. What a crazy week. I mean for people who love courtroom drama |
1:05.9 | this was some delicious legal news, wasn't it? It literally reminded me of that last scene of the |
1:10.8 | godfather during the baptism where they're cutting |
1:13.4 | between all these things happening at the same time. I imagine these on |
1:17.2 | television and these reporters were constantly cutting between. We have one |
1:21.0 | courthouse where there's eight felony counts coming down against Paul Manafort and then in another courtroom in another city |
1:27.0 | eight counts are being pled guilty to by by Michael Cohen very very big, but no news in my opinion was bigger than what |
1:36.6 | Cohen said in federal court. And that was really a surprise. I wrote a piece in political magazine |
1:42.3 | this week about how Trump was winning until Tuesday. |
1:45.9 | He isn't winning anymore. |
1:47.7 | And what I meant by that was of course the PR piece of this and we'll talk about that later but what I thought was interesting is if you look carefully |
1:55.9 | at the charging documents for Michael Cohen. I'll let you look at those because I'm not going to go through all that. |
2:01.2 | That's a lot of information. |
2:02.6 | Well, you know, I was fair enough and I don't think I don't think most people have but as a |
2:07.9 | former federal prosecutor I spent time looking through these and what's interesting |
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