The Report Part XIV: The Fixer Flips

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We’re almost at the end of our story. This episode will cover the final set of activity that the Special Counsel examines for possible obstruction of justice: the president’s behavior towards his long time attorney Michael Cohen. Unlike the other possible acts of obstruction in Volume II, which mostly occur after Trump takes office, the relevant conduct towards Cohen spans the entire time period at issue in the Mueller investigation. It starts all the way back before the campaign. To Trump Tower Moscow.

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0:00.0	Michael Cohen has been Donald Trump's attorney,
0:04.0	confidant, and fixer for years.
0:07.0	And no one's been more loyal to the boss.
0:10.0	No fairness, who hasn't said something or done something that they regret?
0:14.0	Simply trying to protect somebody that they care about.
0:18.0	And I care about Mr. Trump.
0:20.0	But one thing Donald Trump is he's a compassionate man.
0:23.0	He's a man of great intellect, great intuition, and great abilities.
0:27.0	Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic.
0:30.0	And I've never come across a situation where Mr. Trump has said something that's not accurate.
0:35.0	Mr. Trump truly cares about America.
0:37.0	He loves this country.
0:39.0	He's an amazing negotiator, maybe the best ever in the history of this world.
0:43.0	On February 27th, 2019, Cohen sits before the House Oversight Committee.
0:48.0	He's been here once before to testify about Donald Trump.
0:52.0	But that time, he'd lied.
0:54.0	Now he has a different story to tell.
0:57.0	The last time I appeared before Congress, I came to protect Mr. Trump.
1:03.0	Today, I am here to tell the truth about Mr. Trump.
1:08.0	I lied to Congress when Mr. Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower Project in Russia.
1:15.0	I stated that we stopped negotiating in January of 2016.
1:20.0	That was false.
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