yesterday he filed a restraining order against michael avenotti, the lawyer for stormy daniels. chael cohen wants michael avenotti to stop talking to the press. avenotti, as you know, over the past few months has been on msnbc more times than rave chel maddow. he's on a lot. cohen is angry because avenotti keeps calling him an idiot and saying he's going to flip which could influence potential jurors. the judge is like, i understand why you're upset, the fact is you're an idiot and you're going to flip. [ laughter ] my hands are tied here. i didn't even understand, why file a restraining order to stop him from talking? just pay him $130,000 like you did the last time. vice president pence had an interesting day today too. mike pence was in columbus, ohio, to talk about taxes or something. while he was there, he was welcomed by members of the lgbtq community with what was billed as a big gay dance party. >> the street closed at 2:00 p.m. a block of gay street across from the hotel where the vice president would speak later. the party started with music and revelers got down and bo

as you know, michael cohen ask the a federal judge to prevent michael avenotti from ever coming on this program again. he cited in his pleadings things that michael avenotti has said on this show that should never be said publicly and asked the judge msure that michael avenatti can never, ever come on this show again. you knew about that? >> i knew. i assume it made mr. avenatti agree right away he would never come on your show again and apologize? >> no. >> yeah. >> so this is the weird thing. this is the first time i pers i booked him last night on twitter as soon as i saw that happen. he immediately accepted on twitter. so michael avenatti is going to be on this show tonight. >> gag order. smag order. >> turns out there's reason to suspect that when michael cohen was in law school he was not taking notes during the first amendment discussion. it might just be that. i don't know. >> or he forgot since. you know, he's been under pressure. >> yeah. >> all right. >> who needs canoe time? michael cohen needs canoe time. >> that's true. but mine's occupied. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank y

he cited in his pleadings things that michael avenotti has said on this show that should never be saidure that michael avenatti can never, ever come on this show again. you knew about that? >> i knew. i assume it made mr. avenatti agree right away he wo