"I Never Thought the Judge Was Going to Throw a Three Year Freaking Sentence"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On the day President Trump's former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen reports to federal prison, actor and comedian Tom Arnold joins "The Investigation" to discuss his unconventional friendship with Cohen, how they met, and even shares a discreetly recorded phone call between the two. During the 36 minute tape, Cohen dishes on President Trump: "I lost everything...because Trump had an affair with a porn star," Stormy Daniel's former lawyer Michael Avenatti: "it's called karma boomerang," even his prison sentence: "I never thought the judge was going to throw a three year freaking sentence...what they can do to anybody, it's just obscene." Cohen also describes to Arnold his closed door testimony to Congress and tells "The Investigation" -- "I needed to get the truth out there"

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0:00.0	President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is counting down his last hours as a free man.
0:11.0	The reason I called this because they had me on campaign finance.
0:23.0	I lost all my rights.
0:25.2	I needed to get the truth out there.
0:26.8	Listen, Michael, I love you.
0:28.4	You're amazing.
0:29.4	And we will talk soon.
0:30.9	Oh, thank you, pal.
0:31.7	All right, buddy.
0:32.4	Bye, Al.
0:32.8	You got it.
0:34.1	Welcome to The Investigation.
0:35.6	I'm Chris Vlasto, senior executive producer here at ABC News, along with me in the studio, John Santucci and Matt Moss, two senior producers who have been tracking and covering all things President Trump since day one.
0:47.2	Today is a big day for president's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. He is sitting in jail in Otisville Federal Penitentiary in New York
0:56.5	where he's going to spend the next three years and two months. But before he went to jail, he stood out
1:02.1	in front of his Park Avenue apartment and had this to say. I hope that when I rejoin my family
1:08.0	and friends, that the country will be in a place without xenophobia,
1:14.4	injustice, and lies at the helm of our country.
1:18.6	There still remains much to be told.
1:22.3	And I look forward to the day that I can share the truth.
1:25.8	And thank you all very much.
1:29.1	Michael Cohen has fallen from being President Trump's fixer and golden boy to now sitting in a jail cell. And we have not
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