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and that, to me, was to reminiscent of when don mcgahn has recounted, the former white house counsel, said he was berated by president trump for taking notes of their meeting. saying why are you taking notes? real lawyers like roy cohn don't take notes and don mcgahn said well i'm a real lawyer and i take notes. that was just very reminiscent of not having a paper trail. >> no, andrew, that's so funny because the contrast between don mcgahn, the white house lawyer, and roy cohn, the ideal and the idol of a lawyer. >> for donald trump specifically. >> for donald trump. picking up on what's happening right now. cohen is talking about how long before the election this was. the tape. he says a month. he is dying right now to mean? tremendously negative story in the trump campaign. what did you understand as a result of communications about the impact of the access hollywood tape? it's going to be significantly impactful, especially with women voters. and there's an e-mail, over the donald trump playboy article owned by ami and cohen is telling them i told them to immediately take it down.
and that, to me, was to reminiscent of when don mcgahn has recounted, the former white house counsel, said he was berated by president trump for taking notes of their meeting. saying why are you taking notes? real lawyers like roy cohn don't take notes and don mcgahn said well i'm a real lawyer and i take notes. that was just very reminiscent of not having a paper trail. >> no, andrew, that's so funny because the contrast between don mcgahn, the white house lawyer, and roy cohn, the ideal...
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the reporting was as early as 2017, or 2018 that don mcgahn stopped him from having the d.a. prosecute james comey and hillary clinton and others. and it was only when his handpicked special investigator john jerome started looking into all of the folks and finally felt like they were doing his work and his prosecuting. i want to redo the section from the interview with time. would you fire a u.s. attorney that didn't prosecute someone he ordered them to? trump, it depends on the situation honestly. trump wanted to and tried to do this. again, it is fundamentally changing what the department of justice would be. that feels like a real leap from what he is able to do or restrained from doing even though he wanted to in the first term. >> one of the leaders he admires the most is victor ergan. what he and the autocrats have done is tried to separate out what we consider to be liberal democracy into two different parts. liberal democracy like i need this in the classic political science like liberals on the left but in the classic sense where you have a system of government that
the reporting was as early as 2017, or 2018 that don mcgahn stopped him from having the d.a. prosecute james comey and hillary clinton and others. and it was only when his handpicked special investigator john jerome started looking into all of the folks and finally felt like they were doing his work and his prosecuting. i want to redo the section from the interview with time. would you fire a u.s. attorney that didn't prosecute someone he ordered them to? trump, it depends on the situation...
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trump wanted me to working with don mcgahn at the white house general counsel's office. >> sir, one second. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney/client privilege and in order to handle some of the matters that i talked about in my opening it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten years and here trashing the guy he worked for for ten years, didn't get a job in the white house, and now and now you're behaving just like everyone else who has got fired or didn't get the job they wanted like andy mccabe, like james comey, same kind of selfish motivation after you don't get the thing you want. that's what i see here today and i think that's what the american people -- >> mr. jordan, all i wanted was what i got. to be personal attorney to the president, to enjoy the senior year of my son in high school and waiting for my daughter who is graduating from college to come back to new york. i got exactl
trump wanted me to working with don mcgahn at the white house general counsel's office. >> sir, one second. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney/client privilege and in order to handle some of the matters that i talked about in my opening it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten...
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what do the democrats demand when john mcnutt mike don mcgahn, the executive when donald trump was in office. executive privilege, democrats cry foul, kind of the same thing with the difference being this transcript is already out. we already have it, the only question is are you willing to release the audio, so i would say that the white house is making more of this than it needs to be because now we can all just sit back and go, wow, that must be really bad. >> judge jeanine: you know, jesse, it was three and a half months ago that the request came in for this, i think it was february 5th. took them three and a half months to say, we are going to use executive privilege. they just kind of pushed back, pushed back, oh, let's try executive privilege. >> jesse: semi congressional sources, judge, are telling me -- not talking about chad pergram -- are telling me this is what happened, this was supposed to be an 11:00 hearing in the morning and because of these republicans went to show solidarity with donald trump in new york, it pushed the entire hearing back to 8:00. so everybody was a
what do the democrats demand when john mcnutt mike don mcgahn, the executive when donald trump was in office. executive privilege, democrats cry foul, kind of the same thing with the difference being this transcript is already out. we already have it, the only question is are you willing to release the audio, so i would say that the white house is making more of this than it needs to be because now we can all just sit back and go, wow, that must be really bad. >> judge jeanine: you know,...
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there was reporting, i think, as early as 2017 or '18 that don mcgahn stopped him from having the doj prosecute jim comey and hillary clinton and others, and it was only when his hand picked special investigator john durham started looking into all those folks that he finally felt like someone was doing his work and his prosecuting. i want to read you that section from the interview. would you fire a u.s. attorney who didn't prosecute someone you ordered him to, him or her. trump, it depends on the situation honestly. time, so you might? trump, it would depend on the situation, yeah. i mean, trump wanted to and tried to do this. again, it's fundamentally changing what the department of justice would be. that feels like a real leap from what he was able to do, a restrain from doing what he wanted to in a first term. >> one of the leaders he admires most is viktor orban. and orban has described himself as an illiberal democrat. i would question the democrat part of that moniker. what orban has done is they've tried to separate out what we consider to be liberal democracy into two differ
there was reporting, i think, as early as 2017 or '18 that don mcgahn stopped him from having the doj prosecute jim comey and hillary clinton and others, and it was only when his hand picked special investigator john durham started looking into all those folks that he finally felt like someone was doing his work and his prosecuting. i want to read you that section from the interview. would you fire a u.s. attorney who didn't prosecute someone you ordered him to, him or her. trump, it depends on...
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but what did they what do the democrats demand when don mcgahn, the general counsel for president trump, was in the white house, they went to trump's office, tried to goe to the mat for executive privilege. the democrats cried foul democr it's kind of the same thing. but the difference being this transcript is already out. we already have it. the only question is are you willing to release the audio? so i would say that the white house is making more of thist nd than it needs to be because now we can all just sit back and, go, wow, that must be really bad. >> you know,e as jesse was three and a half months ago that the requests came in for this. i think it wasand onth february. it took them three and a half months. so to say we're going to use executive privilege. i mean, they they just kind of pusa privilh back push back d it's like, oh, let's try executive privilege. >> so my congressional sources, judge, are telling me, i'm not talking. chad pergram. they are telling me this is what happened. this was supposed to be an 11:00 hearing in the morning. and because of these republicans to
but what did they what do the democrats demand when don mcgahn, the general counsel for president trump, was in the white house, they went to trump's office, tried to goe to the mat for executive privilege. the democrats cried foul democr it's kind of the same thing. but the difference being this transcript is already out. we already have it. the only question is are you willing to release the audio? so i would say that the white house is making more of thist nd than it needs to be because now...
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we saw it with the mueller investigation, with don mcgahn, i want you to be out front saying this and i want deniability. you knew if he can avoid putting his signature on this. >> there's tons of evidence for any of us who have covered trump grabbing other people's cell phones and giving orders. tell me how this is playing out in court today. >> reporter: the timing is a the really important conversation. it's one you were just talking about on the table. if you think about the release, that was in early october. this is something that they have been setting up throughout the day and throughout the testimony of the other witnesses leading up to today. the release of the tape, they started with e-mail exkangs between keith davidson and michael cohen on october 26th. 14 days before the election, just two weeks before the election, all of this happening in a matter of six weeks time. also you think about how the prosecution is really setting up the stage for this credibility issue when it comes to their witnesses. the michael cohen, the stormy daniels of the world and all the other witn
we saw it with the mueller investigation, with don mcgahn, i want you to be out front saying this and i want deniability. you knew if he can avoid putting his signature on this. >> there's tons of evidence for any of us who have covered trump grabbing other people's cell phones and giving orders. tell me how this is playing out in court today. >> reporter: the timing is a the really important conversation. it's one you were just talking about on the table. if you think about the...