I will always protect Mr. Trump.

So said Michael Cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer and his pit bull defender,

in an extraordinary statement this week, explaining how he facilitated $130,000 payment to a porn

star, Stormy Daniels, in the closing days of the 2016 election, so she wouldn't talk about

a sexual affair she allegedly had with his client a decade earlier.

But in publicly confirming the payment, has Cohen just exposed the president to potential legal

jeopardy? Was this a royal bone-headed legal screw-up by the president's longtime lawyer?

We'll explore that question, as well as other big mistakes by even more prominent lawyers

on this week's episode of Skull Duggery.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently saw significant quantities

of uranium from Africa.

But he times left to answer this question.

Russia is a ruse.

This is Dan Clydeman, I'm editor in chief of Yahoo News.

And I'm Michael Isagov, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

So Mike, what a wapper. I mean, the president's lawyer going out there saying these things publicly,

clearly hadn't thought through the implications. It's not what you expect from presidential lawyers.

Not at all. A number of things are worth noting here. Number one, there was no reason on Earth

that Michael Cohen had to go public with the fact that he facilitated this payment to stormy

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