Democrats prepare for impeachment. New investigations are launched against President Trump,

and we check the mailbag. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Well, we have a lot to get to today. We will get to your questions in the mailbag.

A little bit later on. It has been a jam-packed week of not very good news for the White House.

There is more not-very-good news for the White House on the way. Unfortunately, today we'll talk about all of that. But we begin today by reminding you that it is simply not responsible for you to rack up the credit card debt and then never pay it off or have a plan for doing so. Which is why you should consolidate your credit card debt and get a lower rate and make sure that you can pay it off so you're not paying it off until you're dead. With Lending Club, you can consolidate that debt or pay off your credit cards with one fixed monthly payment.

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slash spend and check your rate in minutes and borrow up to 40 grand. Okay, we begin today with Michael

Cohen. So Michael Cohen is making the round. He is now preparing to go to jail and also he's preparing

presumably to sell a memoir that he will then write while he is in jail. So when he gets out,

he has some sort of revenue

coming out. It's amazing to see how the press treat Michael Cohen versus the way the press

treated, for example, Linda Tripp, way back when in 1998, 1998. So Linda Tripp, if you'll recall,

was the woman who recorded phone calls with Monica Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky described

being pressured by the Clinton administration to change her testimony regarding her affair with Bill Clinton,

and then Linda Tripp revealed these recordings, and the press treated her as just a pariah.

She was a rat, she was a terrible person.

How could she have taped these conversations?

It was just, just awful.

Well, now Michael Cohen is making the rounds.

He is on ABC

News exclusively with George Stephanopoulos, the very objective news journalist, George

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