OA168: Michael Cohen Takes Five
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 27 April 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the main segment, we discuss the intersection between the Paul Manafort criminal trial and the public's right to know about the Mueller investigation. Oh, and ... isn't there a bill pending to protect Mueller? We break down that, too. But we're not done! After that we delve into all things Michael Cohen, including his efforts to stay the California civil suit and his less-than-likely efforts to stay out of criminal trouble in New York. If you love Stormy Daniels -- and who doesn't? -- you won't want to miss it. Finally, we end with an all new Thomas Takes The Bar Exam #73 about landlord-tenant-friend relationships. If you'd like to play along, just retweet our episode on Twitter or share it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances None! If you'd like to have either of us as a guest on your show, drop us an email at openarguments@gmail.com. Show Notes & Links
- From our grab bag: here is a link to the Kobach memo that's PROBABLY NOT WORTH ARGUING; this is the New York Post report on the hilarious Make America Great Again bar lawsuit; and this is the link to all the gun control bills passed in Maryland.
- Click here if you want to read the Comey memos.
- We first discussed the Manafort trial back in Episode 118; this is the Government's Memorandum in Opposition to Manafort's Motion to Suppress, and here is the press motion to unseal portions of the Mueller investigation. Oh, and this is Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988), discussed during the show.
- Here's the link to the Washington Post article reporting that Trump has conceded that Michael Cohen "represents me with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal." In this segment, we discuss Kastigar v. U.S., 406 U.S. 441 (1972).
- Finally, you can click here to read the government's status report filed in Cohen's New York investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | Your honor, I object! |
| 0:05.0 | And why is that Mr. Reed? |
| 0:07.0 | Because it's devastating to my case! |
| 0:19.0 | I did you know, the murders, but as you're all so looking forward to this, I thought I'd be not guilty. |
| 0:31.0 | They say a man who represents himself as a fool for a client. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool! |
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| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 168, all is right with the world because I'm back at home and now I sound worse. |
| 1:24.0 | How are you doing Andrew? |
| 1:26.0 | I'm great Thomas, and I'm especially great in that, you know, when we make requests of our listeners, they really do rise to the... |
| 1:36.0 | I think we probably got... I'm going to conservatively say 200 tweets and emails about how amazing your audio sounded last week. |
| 1:45.0 | I love our listeners. |
| 1:46.0 | Next time can we do something, but where people like, I don't know, give me five bucks or something? |
| 1:50.0 | I'm not just saying, or say, you know, how much weight I've lost or something. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm just something that's not a really, you know, insult to my home studio setup. |
| 2:01.0 | It's all I'm saying. |
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| 2:04.0 | Now that's I don't, I'm sure I don't sound as warm and deep and all the good adjectives that people use, but that's okay. |
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