President Trump attacks his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, battle breaks out over border funding, and Obamacare takes a hit in the courts.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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All righty. So we begin today with all of the continuing hubbub surrounding Michael Cohen.

So as we mentioned last week, the president is in a bit of a legal trouble. He's got a bit of legal

trouble here. His legal trouble basically consists of Michael Cohen. I don't think the Russia investigation, as I've said for a while, is going to come up with anything major on the president. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll find out. But when it comes to Michael Cohen, Cohen has basically made an accusation that President Trump violated campaign finance law that he instructed him to violate disclosure law and also personal giving

limits by giving a bunch of money to American Media Inc. to lock up Stormy Daniels's story

or that he intended to do that for Karen McDougal and then he actually did it without American

Media Inc. He just paid off Stormy Daniels and that was an in-kind contribution. That was illegal.

And President Trump had instructed him to go ahead and do all of that. Well, President Trump responded over the weekend by calling Michael Cohen a dirty rat. So he tweeted out, remember, Michael Cohen only became a rat, in quotation marks, after the FBI did something which was absolutely unthinkable and unheard of until the witch hunt was illegally started. They broke into an attorney's office, all caps. Why didn't they break into the DNC to get the server or Crooked's office? Well, a couple of things. First of all, I do love that crooked Hillary has now just become crooked. So we all know what that means, which is the man's an expert at branding. I mean, you've got to give that to him,

right? He just says crook and we're like, oh, yeah, he's talking about Clinton. But the,

but when it comes to this tweet, a couple of problems. Number one, it is not illegal to get a warrant to search a lawyer's office. They went through the DOJ. They went through procedures.

They didn't break into Michael Cohen's office. It wasn't like they went in there with a pry bar, like this is Watergate, and then just broke into Michael Cohen's office.

Also, if he thinks that's bad, then why is he recommending that they should have broken into the DNC?

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