Michael Cohen: NY DA 'believes there is a case to be made' against Trump

As for what happened today, well, I was asked to go back to Alvin Bragg's office to meet with his team and, as I said when I was leaving, actually when I entered and then left the facility, his team is very well versed in all the aspects. In this

case

, I'm really impressed with how quickly they got up to speed. Let's not forget that Mark Pomerance was involved in this for over a year and Mark's knowledge of this

case

along with Carrie Dunn was spectacular, but I have to say that this team is also very aware of all the facts, all the information and all the testimonies that have been provided so far.

People get married before they have 15 dates. Why 15 visits? Well, let's not do it. Don't forget 13 were with former DA Cyrus Vance, three of those 13 while he was incarcerated in Otisville, so technically that's 10. Now it's two and I'm going back to the DA's office when I'm not going to tell you, but At the end of the day, to me it is an indication and a clear indication of how serious Alvin Break is taking this investigation, so without asking you to tell us what you talked about, can you give us an assessment of what part of the alleged criminal?

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that Donald Trump's conduct is at the forefront of Mr.

Bragg's office, so I can't, it's no different than wondering exactly what we're talking about and I really want to respect the request of the district attorney's team because I don't want to warn to nobody and when I say I'm talking about Trump and his team about what exactly they're looking for, but a lot of it, as Mark Pomeranian said last night on his show. Much of this has already been discussed, it's just that they are so deeply immersed in the nuances of each and every aspect of all of what we will call alleged illegalities that were committed by Trump and company, so one of the things about those that Mark Pomerance writes about in his book The first 106 pages of his book are about his analysis of the crimes committed around what you went to jail for Trump's money payments to Stormy Daniels through you and immigration the kind of cover story that really I got on the phone and told Melania Trump that it was all your idea, you did it to protect him and how Trump was running from the Oval Office in 2018, I mean, do you think under scrutiny like I said, Could we try to share? to each and every one of them, I don't really want to provide any of the sum and substance of the conversations that I had with the district attorney again today, other than to say that, along with much else, is being discussed right now and the interesting thing.

What everyone keeps asking me is why now what's going on with Alvin Breg why is he finally moving on. Is it because it gets so much scrutiny as a direct result of whether it's Pomeranius' book or even on this show? You and I have had this conversation. Like Mark Pomeranz, I don't understand why it took so long, but if you think about it, he was new to the office and I think it's only fair that he had enough time like they did to review the case, I think. he used the transportation analogy that you know he just wasn't ready to take off and he had said it before and I stand by it.

I think we're on track and I think, pretty imminently, we're going to have a takeoff and eventually. since we're going to use transportation idioms here, we're going to get to our destination and you think that's an indictment of Donald J. Trump, that's the destination, something else, Mark Pomeranz. I mean, the answer I just reproduced was to my question about why sdny. that he had amassed enough evidence on Donald Trump to confidently name him dozens and dozens and dozens of times as essentially an unindicted co-conspirator number one. um, that answer where you say I have no idea is to my question about why sdny never investigated the secret money scheme, do you know the answer to that?

No, that's something I'm trying to figure out and it's one of the things I constantly shout from the rooftop. It's about transparency. Last night we heard the State of the Union. Our president talks about transparency and democracy and I have been shouting the same thing that there is no transparency as I told you. I have the foia request that is there, we have been there for seven months and I still have seven. months since the court told them they had to start prosecuting. I have Mark Zade as my lawyer. There are 486,000 documents, of course, first they said there are none, but then they finally determined after Zaid's lawsuit that this is 486,000 I have yet to get a single document why because they don't want to be transparent there is something very wrong with the southern district of New York there is something very wrong with the way this crazy Jeffrey Berman handled himself in his own book talks About that, you know, I filed a complaint against Jeffrey Berman for exactly that reason, the fact that he supposedly recused but is still talking to the Maine Department of Justice.

This is a real problem if Americans are supposed to believe that our justice department is legitimate. Lady Justice wears a mask because it's not supposed to be if you're rich you're poor, if you're black you're white, everyone is supposed to be treated equally in the eyes of the law. I can't say it clearly, the Southern District of New York does not operate under those circumstances and I will address it, unfortunately it is taking a lot of time and requires you to know that many attorneys Jeff Berman does well in his book that he got involved because his deputy was receiving instructions from the Maine judge.

I think Rod Rosenstein's staff should remove some of the references to Donald J. Trump. Do you think there was also interference in terms of whether that case should be brought once Trump left office? Oh, I have absolutely no doubt that is the reason they refuse to Be transparent, that is why they refuse to turn over any of the documents because it will implicate the president, uh, the former president, it will implicate Bill Barr in terms of weapons and I find it comical that right now you have the Republicans shouting that the Biden Administration is using the Department of Justice as a weapon against Trump and his acolytes, it is exactly the opposite, it is a total deviation and listen, I have documents that I would love provide to President Biden because this is exactly what we must do as Democrats and we must shout. about how his use of weapons is destroying our democracy and, even worse, how he is destroying our constitution, we talk about the idea that two systems of justice have been created, two standards of justice thanks to this, it is said in my program all the time. time, if you go to shoot for the king you can't miss it to make a case against Trump, it's a different standard than what was used for you or what would be used for me or David, maybe not Neil, he is more real than us, um, and this is Mark Pomeranz.

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that in itself are two separate systems of justice.

Do you agree with that? Yes, I completely agree with Mark at the end of the day, let's take a look to see what's going on in DC alone, how many, how many legal problems. The problems are plaguing several different members of Congress. Do you see anyone being held accountable? I give up my first amendment constitutional right and didn't publish the first book at the end of the day. This is the big problem. This is where the Biden Administration is, Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Inspector General, everyone needs to start looking into this because without him, as you said, we now have two completely separate legal standards.