Foxy's alert michael cohen breaking his silence giving ABC his first sit-down
interview since the FBI conducted raids on his apartment office and hotel room
back in April the president's former personal attorney who once said he would
take a bullet for the president possibly hinting he may cooperate with
the feds and Special Counsel Robert Muller's Russia investigation the
opposite of taking a bullet I might add telling George Stephanopoulos quote my
wife my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will I put
family and country first in quote Laura Ingalls live in our New York City
newsroom Laura hi Harris you know for the last several months we've been
asking Michael Cohen outside of court and his hotel for a comment about the
federal investigation against him and how he feels about his relationship with
the President and it has been crickets well this weekend he decided to go on
the record but not on camera to discuss these things with George Stephanopoulos
of ABC tweeting my silence is broken exclamation point one of the big topics
Cohen's consistent loyalty to the president something as you mentioned he
has stood his ground on in the past but here is what Cohen told Stephanopoulos
on Saturday one of the big questions I asked him is what will you do if
prosecutors come to you and offer you leniency in return for information on
President Trump he said he wanted to persuade respect the process didn't get
into specifics but he added this and he added this with emphasis my wife my
daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will I put family and
country first he also asked Cohen what he would do if the president and his
legal team were to go after him and challenge his credibility Cohen told
them this I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy I
am NOT a villain in any story and won't allow others to try and depict me in
that way and then there was the $100,000 question what about that big payment he
made to Stephanie Clifford or stormy Daniels when Cohen was asked a president
Trump knew about the payment he made to allegedly keep Daniels quiet about this
alleged sexual encounter she claimed she had with mr. Trump in 2006
he told Stephanopoulos this I want to answer one day I will answer he said but
for now I can't comment further on advice of my counsel Cohen also was
asked about the FBI and Robert Muller investigation he said he doesn't like
the term witch-hunt and doesn't agree with those who demonize or vilify the
FBI so quite a turn here Harris all right laura ingalls thank you very
much a big question now is why Michael Cohen would give this kind of an
interview in the first place and why now stormy Daniels attorney Michael avenatti
weighed in tweeting if mr. Cohen really gave an off-camera interview to George
Stephanopoulos whom I respect for GMA he is dumber than I thought
he is playing games and trying to play both sides there was only one way he can
have any legitimate shot at saving his reputation that on Twitter now in person
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano so he went from taking
a bullet to taking an interview right right I don't I don't know why he would
do this I can't imagine as lawyers would want him to do so there's no good that
can come from somebody who's under a federal microscope he's not a subject of
a criminal investigation like the president he's the target of a criminal
investigation that means he's very close to being indicted for something we don't
know what I can speculate if if you want no good can come from trying to
communicate to those who are trying to indict you through television rather
than through your lawyers and I would I would add if we got you to speculate it
would be more like you know a connotation than thin real speculation
because you're looking at all the facts here real quickly though talk to me
about the substance of what he told ABC and then we can talk about what the
substance of what he told ABC if it's true and if he means it should cause the
president sleepless nights I mean Michael Cohen was not only the
president's lawyer he was his fixer the practice the president asked him to do
things that lawyers don't typically do you see this problem make it go away you
know where to get the cash should the question that that I've seen asked in
different ways and I I don't know what they'll ask of Michael Cohen but why did
the president trust him is there something in his background what what
about Michael Cohen Michael Cohen must have impressed the president we're
talking about 10 years ago when he first started to work
or the obviously pre presidential Donald Trump as somebody who would take a
bullet somebody who would do things that other lawyers might not want to dirty
their hands doing I'm not suggesting that they committed crimes together but
it does appear as though Michael Cohen was involved in things that other
lawyers wouldn't go near like paying people for silence like getting
newspapers to say something different than what they wanted to say so why
wouldn't he talk about that now that $130,000 question as Laura Engel put it
you know I won't tell you yet basically was his response again it's it's hard
for me to figure out what his game plan is she's the president be worried yes
well well if Michael Cohen is telling the truth that that he once said it
would take a bullet for the president now can't wait to roll over for him he
obviously knows something that the feds are interested in hearing and that will
soon go through a procedure whereby he will tell them what he knows and they'll
decide whether or not they want to use it now they won't do that until they
have leverage over him and they won't have leverage over him until they indict
him we've seen a lot of bloviator 'he's you know I mean you've got Michael
avenatti out there for stormy Daniels you've got people to say I have a disc
here on Twitter and I'll show it it's got all the evidence and I've got
recordings that but but in terms of just whittling this down to real evidence I
mean it's just one another one of those I don't think so this is a real case I
mean the government has more than a million pieces of evidence there it
obtained from for search warrants that it executed on his homes and his place
of business we don't know what it is but a retired federal judge went through all
of it and found a few hundred that are protected by the attorney-client
privilege and gave the vast majority over to the feds to allow them to use it
and present it to a grand jury we don't know what it's evidence of but it's
evidence of something that they federal prosecutors are interested in now we've
gotten to the point where your perspective and expertise and experience
come into play I refuse to call it pure speculation because you've seen someone
they're so kind so what is it it's probably bank fraud it's probably the
borrowing of money to to pay off obligations of then mr.
Donald Trump without telling the bank exactly where the money is going to go
so if you borrow money from a bank and say I'm gonna put a new roof on my house
and instead use the money to pay a porn any amount well it would in order for it
to be fraudulent and it's got to be above a certain amount no it took the
amount reflects the penalty the amount doesn't reflect the crime you can be
fraudulent with a dollar you're not gonna get ten years but if you're frauds
on up with a hundred and thirty thousand dollars you're gonna get 10 years I
gotcha thank fraud lightly yeah always great to
have you on the program thanks for being on the resume
I love the mess as you call President Trump
meeting a short time ago with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before he
reportedly heads to North Korea this week this is the administration faces
growing questions on whether it's denuclearization push will work a live
report ahead and liberal groups launching multi-million dollar pressure
campaigns as president Trump prepares to name his US Supreme Court nominee one
week from today what we can expect and how this all will play out in the
midterm elections the power panel getting moved in ready to weigh in
Fox News Alert President Trump is meeting with Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo today at the White House ahead of the top diplomats reported trip to North
Korea that will happen this week as well it all comes as a team of US officials
reportedly met with North Korean officials in the Demilitarized Zone over
the weekend they were working on implementing the agreement made between
the President and kim jeong-hoon last month meanwhile Axios is reporting there
could be a second round between the two leaders in New York this September
President Trump telling Fox News he believes Kim jong-un will stick to the
agreement despite US intelligence reports which suggest the regime does
not intend to fully give up its nuclear arsenal watch I really believe North
Korea has a tremendous future I got along really well with Chairman Kim
we had a great chemistry we really had a chairman but do we believe in mr.
president I made a deal with him I shook hands with him I really believe he means
it Richardson is live from the White House with more on this rich
good afternoon Harrison there are still plenty of negotiations between the u.s.
and North Korea on this Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is at the White House
this morning he'll be here for this meeting the president Trump has with
Dutch prime minister upcoming in about a half hour the Secretary of State is the
point person for this administration when it comes to North Korea he has been
there twice met with Kim jong-un and is expected to return again soon now
officials are saying that conversations between the United States and North
Korean governments have continued since the June 12th Singapore summit between
President Trump and kim jeong-hoon national security adviser John Bolton
has offered the most aggressive timeline for North Korea to surrender its nuclear
and biological weapons and ballistic missiles he says it could happen within
a year Bolton a skeptic on North Korean sincerity says the administration
understands the risks in dealing with the Kim regime
there's nobody involved in this discussion with North Korea in the
administration who is overburdened by naivete we've seen how the North Koreans
have behaved before president's been very clear he's not going to make the
mistakes of prior administrations we're going to pursue this and we'll see
what happens now the document the President and Kim signed in Singapore
leaves most of the terms of disarmament up to these ongoing negotiations how
North Korea would surrender these weapons programs what it would receive
in return and when it would receive it this as senators also push for robust
inspections I supported the president talking with the North Korean dictator
because I do believe that has the potential for increasing our safety and
eventually leading to the denuclearization of North Korea without
those inspections we can have no guarantee that North Korea is not
cheating once again and that's another important aspect to all this finding out
more about exactly what North Korea has the secretary of state says the United
States has a reasonable understanding of the North Korea nuclear program but it
needs to work with North Korea through these ongoing discussions to have a full
understanding of what they have Harrison Richardson thank you very much let's
bring in Robert Charles former assistant secretary of state to : Powell former
Navy intelligence officer and attorney great to see you as always Robert first
of all with this you know Mike Pompeo getting ready to have the second round
the president getting ready to earth a further round the president talked about
to have a second round this September what do you make of it I think people
need to be realistic about this process good things take time and I've heard
John Bolton with whom I worked back in the era of the Libyan disarmament talk
about Libya in the one-year time frame and I think even John knows that that's
an aspirational goal at the end of the day this is going to take time this is
more like the intermediate nuclear forces agreement that Reagan negotiated
with the Soviets the first agreement occurred in 1981 the final real
agreement in 87 it was a treaty that was ratified in 88 and it took three years
to get rid of all those weapons and in fact even in Libya today it took we got
December of 2003 we got their commitment to denuclearize and we didn't finish all
the chemical weapons until 2016 you think the text time that any kind of
a timetable that we'd be putting together is a good sign I mean that you
know I I don't want you to get too far down the politics of this all but you
can't ignore the fact that one political party absolutely thinks that the
president wouldn't get this done but a timetable what is it indicative of
Harris you make a great point at the end of the day we are all Americans and in
fact every Ally we have in the world and some of our adversaries think it would
be a great idea to denuclearize North Korea what we need here is a little a
little bit of kind of deep breathing and a little bit of consensus around the
idea that that this is a good thing what we need is a Sam Nunn or a scoop Jackson
a Democrat who and maybe maybe half a dozen of them who say you know what
national security trumps everything we really do want this to happen let's
support the president let's make this happen and you will take time it will
take consensus China the pressure has to continue on China the sanctions have to
continue but at the end of the day we're persuading the North Koreans that having
nuclear weapons is a bad idea because eventually it would lead to a preemptive
strike of some kind on that system why can't they just rely on an extraordinary
conventional force they are the fourth largest standing army in the world they
have 5,000 short-range missiles they have 4,000 tanks nobody's going to hit
them they need to give up the nukes get the economic advantages and go forward
and every American in the United States Senate every senator every member of the
House ought to be saying this is a great thing let's move down we may disagree
with the President on other things but this is a great move forward let's make
it happen methodically you know Roberts hearing you lay out the military stakes
of all of that brings me to the latest reports that it looks like maybe
satellite images other indicators that North Korea is doing something on the
ground with regard to weaponry that it shouldn't be I'm sure you're seeing
those same reports real quickly before I like to know your thoughts on that yeah
so so let's unpack that Harris in 10 seconds hear what that report seems to
indicate and it's you know on the open source now is that their short-range
missile production may be ramping up some do does this have anything to do
with the nuclear debate not at all short-range conventional missiles really
have nothing to do with this process so I think it's a false bogey it's not
wrong but it's not relevant at the end of the day what we want is this
Peninsula to be nuclear free and this president for the first time in decades
is apparently moving us in that direction
interesting Robert Charles former assistant to Secretary of State Colin
Powell we appreciate your time thank you
liberal groups targeting red state Democrats and multi-million dollar ad
campaigns they're warning them against supporting president Trump's nominee to
the US Supreme Court will that work or will we see some Democrats crossover and
support the president's choice during the tough midterm election season the
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