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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Why CNN is Kissing Trump's A$$ + A Conversation with Tara Setmayer

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes one of our favorite people from the Lincoln Project, Tara Setmayer. Setmayer is a former CNN political commentator, a contributor to ABC News, and a former GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill. She's appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Setmayer was named a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project as a senior advisor. Setmayer hosts the live show "The Breakdown" alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV. Michael and Tara dig deep into the media and its effect on the elections, Trump's denials, and George Santos. 

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0:00.0

This is my Mayor Cop.

0:09.0

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

0:15.0

I did my time that's fun by me.

0:17.0

This is my mea cobo.

0:20.0

This is Michael Mayor Culper.

0:26.1

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

0:32.1

The pandemic is officially over, or at least the state of emergency we've been living under,

0:36.4

has been remanded according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

0:41.3

And if you're listening to this right now, well, congratulations, you made it.

0:47.4

If you're one of the millions who lost friends or family, like I did, I'm sorry for your loss.

0:48.3

I really am.

0:55.3

But now that the COVID crisis is coming to an end, so are some of the measures put in place to help us deal with the pandemic.

0:57.1

And last Friday at the southern border, they braced for the worst as Title 42 came to an end

1:03.3

as well.

1:04.7

Back in March of 2020, the Trump administration put Title 42 in place to turn migrants back at the border. Well, they came

1:13.6

anyway. Title 42 didn't really work, and now it's back to business as usual, which means back

1:21.4

to a broken system with no end in sight. Several judges tried to keep Title 42 from ending, but they failed. But let's be real,

1:32.1

Republicans would love to keep the emergency law in place rather than fix the problem. Those who

1:38.6

have embraced the great replacement theory don't want any migrants to be allowed into our country, period, end of story.

1:46.9

Now that they want to go out into the fields and do the jobs of migrant workers, they just don't

1:51.9

want their white nationalism challenged by asylum seekers. As far as I'm concerned, I mean,

1:58.1

whatever, what the fuck, it makes no sense. From day one, President Biden

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