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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Trump's Weird Putin Crush Continues + A Conversation with Michael Smerconish

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

With the GOP desperately trying to walk back it's pro Putin nonsense, Donald Trump continues to talk up his friendship with the madman dictator. Michael deconstructs the now infamous Sean Hannity interview where the Fox News blowhard desperately tried to get Trump to say Putin was evil. Later CNN host Michael Smerconish joins Mea Culpa to examine the political fallout. 

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0:00.0

This is my Mayor Cop

0:05.8

This is Michael Bo

0:09.0

Oh, baby, don't lie for me.

0:11.6

If I tell you my story, don't cry for me.

0:15.1

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:17.3

This is my mea co-bo.

0:22.5

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culp a podcast.

0:26.5

The cleanup effort by the GOP to distance themselves from idiotic comments made by Donald Trump and other MAGA figures, praising Vladimir Putin in the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

0:40.3

has begun in earnest.

0:41.3

But when you see a member of Congress say things like this, the one thing I want you to know,

0:46.3

they're outliers in the largest sense possible on our side.

0:52.3

And there's some on the left that are outliers. So let's

0:56.2

end with this thought that America believes that Zelensky and the Ukrainians are

1:01.0

the good guys and Putin's the bad guys and we'd like to be helping the good guys more.

1:06.2

In the annals of political pronouncement that have aged poorly and quickly, relatively few rank up there

1:13.6

were Trump's hailing Vladimir Putin's savvy and genius comments two weeks ago. Even as the Russian

1:20.7

president ramped up an invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now credibly accused of war crimes,

1:27.2

and Putin is quite likely insane.

1:30.4

Last I checked, that's pretty fucking far from being ingenious.

1:34.2

Russian State TV is also using clips of Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

1:38.9

Why would they do that?

1:41.1

Because he sounds like one of the Kremlin pundits on the Russian state television.

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