Giuliani Tempts Trump

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🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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What was Rudy Giuliani doing, going on TV and saying Michael Cohen paid off a porn star at Donald Trump’s direction and that Trump fired James Comey for reasons entirely different from the one Trump gave at the time? I speculate we’re seeing a newly aggressive legal strategy that might lead to the firing of Robert Mueller and others at the Justice Department, while Noah Rothman thinks that would... Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Thursday,
0:29.7	May 3rd 2018 talking to you live from warm even sultry New York City I'm John
0:37.8	Pothoritz the editor of commentary the 73 year old monthly of intellectual
0:43.6	analysis political probity and cultural criticism from a conservative
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1:03.8	with me as always a greenwald or senior editor hi Abe hi John and Noah Rothman our associate editor hi Noah hi John
1:10.2	sorobo marie is off today and I didn't know we're gonna talk about on this podcast at six o'clock yesterday
1:17.2	evening and then at around 10 o'clock yesterday evening it was pretty clear what we were gonna be
1:24.0	talking about Rudy Giuliani the president's new
1:31.3	consulieri went on shan Hannity show and despite the best efforts of the Fox News channel to make
1:39.5	absolutely no news when it comes to the Trump administration he made so much news I don't
1:45.4	even know how to unpack it but there was news about why a new theory of the case about why
1:57.2	the president fired James Comey from Rudy Giuliani that completely flips the president's own claims
2:06.9	in the week of the firing on its on their head and then a whole lot of talk about
2:13.4	uh... stormy Daniels the porn star payoff and Michael Cohen the president's fixer lawyer and what was going on there
2:24.2	so where do we begin
2:30.7	well let's say what was said okay start there okay so uh go ahead
2:36.4	okay well uh the the big revelations uh i think from that interview were um and I have some
2:44.6	thoughts about how this was revealed but let's just go with substance first first he's talked about
2:49.2	how Donald Trump fired James Comey explicitly um because uh he would not tell him in the world that
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