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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

What the FBI was REALLY looking for @ Mar A Lardo + A Conversation with Victor Shi

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes Victor Shi, the youngest elected Delegate for Joe Biden in 2020, he is a former White House Intern and the co-host of the iGen Politics Podcast with the distinguished Jill Wine-Banks. Shi is also a writer, speaker, organizer, activist, and a junior at UCLA, where he is majoring in American Literature and Culture. Shi is currently a communications intern at Precision Strategies and his on-air commentary and interviews have been seen on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, PBS Newshour, ABC, the Daily Herald, and the Chicago Tribune. His op-eds have been published in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, USA Today, The Hill, and International Business Times. Michael and Victor talk about the current state of politics and what needs to be done to get the attention of young voters.

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0:00.0

This is my Mayo Cop

0:05.8

This is my Mayo Cop

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. This is Michael Mayor Culper.

0:26.3

This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayaculpa podcast.

0:28.3

We are joined now by Michael Cohen.

0:29.9

He is the host of the Mia Coppa podcast.

0:34.5

He's a principal with Crisis X, and he has walked us through so many of these issues here.

0:35.2

Welcome back.

0:36.1

Good to see you, Ari.

1:11.3

You hear that type of criticism. That was about a search on you. Now the search has hit home in a big way for Donald Trump. What is he doing here? Did he misplay this? And what would be in his safe? Well, he definitively misplayed it. It's definitely karma boomerang. He didn't believe anything that he was saying about me. It wasn't about me. It's always about him. And that's what he now has to contend with. So it's funny that you asked me about what was in the safe. Today I probably received about two dozen plus phone calls and journalists asking, what do you think was in the safe? And I think everybody should sort of stop and let's just allow the process to go forward. Pass the popcorn kids

1:16.4

because this movie is just starting to get good. All anyone can talk about is the FBI finally

1:22.8

arriving at Mara Lardo's doorstep. It was inevitable, but they didn't really raid the place.

1:29.1

They carefully combed through looking for classified documents that Trump had refused to

1:35.0

hand over.

1:36.4

They had previously collected 15 boxes of documents he was not authorized to take.

1:43.1

Then they came for the rest. Or so the story goes,

1:46.6

but they didn't toss his place. They didn't drag him out half naked in the middle of the night.

1:52.4

No. They came. They took 12 more boxes of evidence, and they left. Yeah, so they broke into

1:59.4

his safe. They still didn't make any sort of scene,

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