yeah i find it strange that max boot is calling stephen cohen a put in apologist i'd like to call max boot a war machine apologist he's an apologist for the military industrial complex he's an apologist for war criminals has this guy gotten anything right ever in his career he pushed iraq he was wrong he pushed libya he was wrong he pushed syria he was wrong he pushed you krane he was wrong it's absolutely amazing that the the if this guy any air time whatsoever and we can remember i think was three or four of us back to remember that tucker carlson had max boot on show and tucker carlson crush dollar he crushed him and he showed what an idiot max would match who is an apologist for stupid people around the world but he's very popular ok because he says the right things to the right people well. stephen cohen also has to explain to my example of that the so-called russian madelyne it's not perfect. well i think you know i was very impressed when several u.s. senators and other prominent politicians when they compared two thousand and sixteen election and they alleged russian made them

stephen cohen also has to explain to my example that they still called russia madelyne it's not perfect harbor well i think you know i was very impressed when several u.s. senators and other prominent politicians when they compare the two thousand and sixteen election and then ledged russian method into a part of harbor a lot of the people just told hey you know my father survived but harper he saw what it was police you know stop doing that you know these kind of comparisons are insulting to america in the first not only is that there we have a new call for sanctions coming out of the u.s. senate now i they're on they're on vacation right now they're on leave so i don't think they're going to act upon it but it is it's really just virtuous signaling ok and i think what you continue to see this in two minutes is one ups ship basically there is a large part of the american political establishment which is desperate to find something to be true. with and that is the russian card and nobody loses points for beating up on russia now that the fact is this goes against american fundamental di

stephen cohen also has to explain to my example that they still called russia mad and it's no of pearlharbor well i think you know i was very impressed when several u.s. senators and other prominent politicians when they compare the two thousand and sixteen election and their ledged russian method into a part of harbor a lot of the people just drooled hey you know my father survived but harper he saw what it was police you know stop doing that you know these kind of comparisons are insulting to america in the first not only is that we have a new call for sanctions coming out of the u.s. senate now i they're on they're on vacation right now on their own leave so i don't think they're going to act upon it but it is it's really just virtuous signaling ok and i think what you continue to see this in two minutes it's one of the ship basically there is a large part of the american political establishment which is desperate to find something to be true. with and that is the russian card and nobody loses points for beating up on russia now that the fact is goes against american fundamental dip

the value in it the later sanctions are again for russia's alleged attack on democracy but as stephen cohen professor and emeritus of russian studies and politics and n.y.u. and princeton said in the nation in reality there was no attack no pearl harbor no nine eleven no russian parachuters descending on washington only the kind of meddling and interference in others' domestic politics that both countries have practiced almost ritualistically for nearly one hundred years and that kind of meddling and interference is just like what was revealed again this week when documents provided by whistleblower edward snowden to the intercepts revealed the documents showing that the n.s.a. hacked into encrypted network of news organization al-jazeera why well in the words of the n.s.a.'s own documents recently the n.s.a. has decrypted a number of interesting targets deemed a bible. product lines to have high potential as sources of intelligence the u.s. targeting of al jazeera again is nothing new and whether it's with sanctions or bombs it does nothing to protect democracy so what sanction the nonsens

the value in it the latest sanctions are again for russia's alleged attack on democracy but as stephen cohen professor and americas of russian studies and politics and n.y.u. and prince says that in the nation in reality there was no attack no pearl harbor no nine eleven no russian parachuters the spending on washington only the kind of meddling and interference in other is the message politics that both countries have practiced almost ritualistically for nearly one hundred years and that kind of meddling in interference is just like what was revealed again this week when documents provided by whistleblower edward snowden to the intercepts revealed the documents showing that the n.s.a. hacked into encrypted network of news organization al jazeera why well in the words of the n.s.a. the documents recently the n.s.a. has decrypted a number of interesting targets deemed a by product lines to have high potential as sources of intelligence the u.s. targeting al jazeera again is nothing new and whether it's with sanctions or bombs it does nothing to protect democracy so let's say action the nonsen

the value in it the latest sanctions are again for russia's alleged attack on democracy but as stephen cohen professor and emeritus of russian studies and politics and n.y.u. and princeton said in the nation. and in reality there was no attack no pearl harbor no nine eleven no russian parachuters descending on washington only the kind of meddling and interference in others domestic politics that both countries have practiced almost ritualistically for nearly one hundred years and that kind of meddling and interference is just like what was revealed again this week when documents provided by whistleblower edward snowden to the intercept revealed the documents showing that the n.s.a. hacked into encrypted network of news organization al jazeera why well in the words of the n.s.a.'s own documents recently the n.s.a. has decrypted a number of interesting targets deemed a by product lines to have high potential as sources of intelligence the u.s. targeting of al jazeera again is nothing new and whether it's with sanctions or bombs it does nothing to protect democracy so what sanction the nonsense

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i would like to thank stephen cohen, founder of end of ec. michael cohen. dave della pinto. and the secretary-treasurer of the nwc. i give a nod to her mother, k. thank you for a wonderful daughter. together, these four amazing attorneys have over 100 years erving for whistleblowers. that's amazing. i also want to hank julia and my -- -- mia -- they put this together. they did a wonderfuljob. the whole crew of the national whistleblowers center staff and interns. i want the whistleblowers to remember to network. and to take care of staff and interns. i want the yourself. physically, emotionally. and i want to see you next year and i want to hear how you are controlling your narrative. thank you. have great year. thank you for coming. [applause] >> thank you. that was wonderful. thank you very much. thank you. >>there may still be some food out there. please get it. cookies, there's definitely cookies. no more food? oh. well, at least there are cookies and coffee.

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president trump had been tweeting some nasty things-- as is his want-- specifically about michael cohen. >> stephen come out. >> yeah, the tape had come out the night before. so caitlin then asked the question that everybody would want to ask, which is to provoke him to say something about michael cohen, "did michael cohen betray you?" and then he didn't answer it. then there was another question about michael cohen. and then she asked something about the summit with putin, part two, and has he not accepted the invitation, or whatever. >> stephen: yeah. >> and apparently offended the trump administration, offended by the impertinence of her questions, they told her later that she could not attend another event in the rose garden where she was supposed to be the pool. >> stephen: and even though she's not just there representing cnn, she's representing all of the news networks. >> everyone! cbs, nbc, abc, fox, everybody. >> stephen: and they said, "we're having this thing and you can't come"? >> you can't come because we didn't like your questions, they were rude. first of all, step back for a secon

. >> stephen: i was on andy cohen's show "watch what happens live," which is going to be on this sundayink midweek. >> what day is it, wednesday? >> stephen: i don't know. >> cheers. >> stephen: cheers. ( cheers and applause ) >> all right! feeling good. >> stephen: there we go. then you moved to canada. >> yes. >> stephen: from bulgaria. >> yes. >> stephen: do you get tired of the stereotype that canadians are nice? are they actually nice, or do we just not tell-- we can't tell how they're being rude. >> okay no i think it is a stereotype for a reason. i get told that i'm very nice, and i do have-- i've had that experience. i recently went to montreal to visit my brother, for example, and we played this game at the bar-- i guess i have a drinking theme. maybe i'm an alcoholic. i don't know-- yeah, here we go, load them up. so we were at the bar and playing this game we invented called, "rock, paper, dare." essentially, you dare the other person to do something, and in this case a bachelorette party was there, the girls had a tray of 12 drinks, and my brother dared me to grab one of the

election is about enough i think all of a you kind of an all right let stephen come back and then we'll go through james' point. the michael cohen case had nothing to do with russia the michael cohen case have to do with paying off two women for their silence so that donald trump as the republican candidate was not embarrassed during the election campaign rushes an entirely different issue cohen accuses trump of instigating a crime about campaign finance russia is another matter and which we can talk about that is exactly the point i was going to raise thank you for doing it with even let me say that's five let's take it on a step forward though and ask the question to james in london i think where we're going now with this discussion is the question that if the president's lawyer eggs lawyer is now facing jail time for doing something that he says he did on the orders of donald trump can donald trump at some point face charges himself. you know what's interesting i think about how both robert mueller is building this case and have donald trump is responding to it all the interesting overtures to how one would build and respond

election is about enough i think all of a you kind of an all right let stephen come back and then we'll go through james' point. the michael cohene had nothing to do with russia the michael cohen case have to do with paying off two women for their silence so that donald trump as the republican candidate was not embarrassed during the election campaign rushes an entirely different issue cohen accuses trump of instigating a crime about campaign finance russia is another matter and which we can talk about that is exactly the point i was going to raise thank you for doing it with even let me say that's five let's take it on a step forward though and ask the question to james in london i think where we're going now with this discussion is the question that if the president's lawyer eggs lawyer is now facing jail time for doing something that he says he did on the orders of donald trump can donald trump at some point face charges himself. you know what's interesting i think about how both robert mueller is building this case and have donald trump is responding to it all the interesting overtures to how one would build and respond to a

stephen miller during that time. nermeen: where do you see this going, richard cohen?'ve expressed concerns about the white nationalists who are in the white house, but talk about what has been going on outside as well. in different places around the country. >> well, i am concerned, of course, with white nationalism within the administration that i am outside of it. after charlottesville, we saw some of the players who have been prominent their kind of retreat into the background from the bad publicity as result of heather heyer's death. we saw the tech industry clamped down on them. at the same time, we saw you emergency -- new emergent elements of the whites from assist movement come to the four, particularly in places like portland, seattle, with the rise of a group called the proud boys. amy: i want to ask about what happened on a recent tweet. trump tweeting -- former kkk grand wizard david duke and the far integrate -- vdare talking but genocide. response wrote -- again, this coming just after trump speechwriter fired after was revealed he spoke at a whites from

stephen colbert" is up next. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >> a once-secret recording between president trump and his longtime fixer, michael cohens surfaced. it features the two discussing payments to a "playboy" model who claims she had an affair with mr. trump.

election is about enough i think all of a you kind of an all right let stephen come back and then we'll go through james' point. the michael cohen case had nothing to do with russia the michael cohen case had to do with paying off two women for their silence so that donald trump as the republican candidate was not embarrassed during the election campaign rushes an entirely different issue cohen accuses trump of instigating a crime about campaign finance russia is another matter and which we can talk about that is exactly the point i was going to raise thank you for doing it with even let me say that's five let's take it on a step forward though and ask the question to james in london i think where we're going now with this discussion is the question that if the president's lawyer eggs lawyer is now facing jail time for doing something that he says he did on the orders of donald trump can donald trump at some point face charges himself. you know what's interesting i think about how both robert mueller is building this case and have donald trump is responding to it all the interesting overtures to how one would build and respond t

stephen: and it gets weirder. omarosa says she walked into the oval office one day after trump was having a meeting with cohen, cohen is leaving, she walks in, she sees the president chewing up a piece of paper. i saw him put a noat in his mouth, since trump was ever the germophobe i was shocked, he appeared to be chewing and swallowing the paper. it must have been something very, very sensitive. well, the hunt for trump's tax returns just got way growers. (laughter) that is-- omarosa also revealed that trump had big plans for the art of the deal, writing that trump wanted to husband use his own book for his swearing in, she asked, instead of the bible, yeah, "the art of the deal" is a best seller. it's true, absolutely true." the art of the deal "was a best seller t sold over one million copies swi pretty close to the bible's five billion copies. fun fact, they're both ghostwritten. (laughter) and-- thank you, thank you very much thank you very much, and omarosa is not just relying on her memory here, she secretly recorded her meetings in the white house including chief of staff john kelly firing her in the situati

cohen had his house raided for tax fraud. and it's only a matter of days until stephen miller's arrested for stealing human skin to hide the fact's a lizard. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] here's the basic gist of this case. collins was major investor in a biotech company and he sat on their board which right off the bat is insane. a sitting member of congress should not be on the board of a publicly traded company. that's like finding out an nfl referee is a part owner of the patriots which i wouldn't be surprised to hear! [ laughter and applause ] but collins allegedly shared private information with friends and family members so they could sell the stock before it tanked. in fact, he actually bragged about recommending the stock to his friends and colleagues. he was once overheard on the phone in the capitol saying, "do you know how many millionaires i made in buffalo in the past few months?" and he said to the company, "i talk about it at every turn, just like you talk about your kids hitting a home run." okay, but your friends don't become millionaires off your kid hitting a home run. [ light laughter ] unless they'r