From the New York Times are Michael Barbara, this piece the daily today for months federal investigations into the term campaign and Russia have been focused on Washington. Now the investigations have led back to New York, the press, its home town and to one may Michael Coat, it's Tuesday April, seventy Trump, incredibly smart guy. You know that I graduated top in his class classic Wharton. If I ask you, if you think about it, what is really.

United States of America that most people would probably mediately reply out. It's it's a country, yes, and of course that would be true, but if you think about it, it also accompany, and if you compare the president in a business sense, the president would be a c e o o better to make Amerika great again make this company what it needs to be. Then Donald Trump now he starts from not a racist. He believes that all people are part of one race, the human,

I think he's a wonderful man. I think he's gonna, be an amazing president. Thoughts on this fact rate unifying he's a man of great intellect great intuition and great abilities, and I worked for Mr Trump now for a long time, and I can tell you that MR trumps memory is fantastic and I've never come across the situation. When MR trumpets there's something that's, that's not accurate, I seriously yes seriously Jim. How did Michael Column and Donald Trump first me, while in it's an unlikely pairing and in a way, just makes all the sense in the world. Jim Gutenberg has been reporting on Michael calling Michael Cowan.

At one time, personal injury lawyer, and he has bought apartments and helped his family by apartments in Trump Tower Revere Trump from the ghetto, and he basically helps tromp solve a problem The problem is that Trump has an unruly and uppity Condo Board is challenging trumps authority, Michael Cohen, as a resident picks from side contradicting his fellow tenants like talk about drama in your country, more politics, New York City. We thought we seen at all and he takes from side stages a coup and delivers tromp the desired result and kills. This uprising against trumpeters on building

and there is no better way to earn dollar sums loyalty than to take his side, especially when money is at stake and involves his real estate empire. So Gold coin resident personal injury lawyer basically It's down a rebellion on each from condo board. You that's the first real interaction they have yes and eventually, Trump brings them into his office and offered him a job as well. That's a good question he's a lawyer, but to this day it's a little bit of a mystery. What we know is he's a fixture he's gonna help solve problem

he's a constantly air. What do we know about where Michael Cohen is in his career when he joined the trumped him while he then a lot of things, but what's really intriguing, as he is in the taxi medallion possess. The taxi. Medallion is what near city taxi drivers need to have a licence to pick up passengers, and these things are worth a lot of money, you're talkin in hundreds of thousands of dollars each each and he is in a business that has scores of them so that a lot of money he's in real estate too, in a big way again as Trump Tower parliament, cities collecting desert pricey an you know a top of all this. He was a personal injury lawyer right so again, successful personal injury lawyers make a lot of money. So there's a lot of cash running through Michael Collins, world, but

quality of personal injury. Lawyers is that while they make a lot of money, they're not known as the most by the book lawyers, the most kind of polished attorneys. No one, that's why there is actually joke on Saturday night like this weekend. Looking for something Mr Collins, Mullah once you have received is to come when Ben Stiller playing Michael Colonnades asked is unique, Michael Coal, yes, and you're a lawyer and that's kind of understanding, Michael colonies in hot, a traditional lawyer. You know, and- and this becomes very very important in terms of where we are so what would Donald Trump in this moment when he gets linked up with Michael Con? What would tromp have represented. HU. This personal injury lawyer, Slash taxi medallion owner Michael Cohen. Donald Trump is the embodiment of success. To Michael Cohen, don't you

Is this Ober billion a real estate develop a possibly the greatest negotiated in the history of this planet? This is american success from some kind of guy there, like guys from New York they bond over that in and the same kind of guy from New York. You know meaning well scrappy but successful scrappy but rich right and still come from the streets, Extry brawlers, who somehow found a place in America's highest soda economic echelon and maybe you're starting to get at this. But what did tromp, whose at the pinnacle of a success-

see in calling. This is an intriguing question and what it really is about. As Donald Trump learned at the knee of Roy Count, Donald Trump had a fateful first meeting with a New York a legend. In a very down moment. Donald Trump went to indict club in Manhattan called Le Club, where he happened to meet Roy Cone, who is famous for having defended Senator Joseph Mccarthy back in the lighting fifties and the communist hunting days. The ultimate New York City, Fixer- really good at it, by the way, in the very first meeting cone laid out for him, his philosophy of how to fight back in a lawsuit how to fight back against a federal investigation, and that was to hit back ten times. Harder. Trump is looking for a guy who can help them with Owning problems, building problems permits from needs, people who tax problems. Any MRS Roy can't from Mccarthy to the mobsters he represented Roy Cone was a bachelor. He was tough, often downright nasty in

port or on CNN Crossfire. I said that according to a book, I read well wait. Another book so here comes Michael Cohen and heat slides into that role. That Trump has been looking for. We know that says this even more recently, these in the White House, where no Roy Call- and I need a Roy colony and Michael calling for better part of two decades- was that person Michael corn becomes the new Roy yeah, so these men, seeing each other Cohen and Tromp, something that they both need. That they're both looking for yes and I think for Cohen, it's less of a need than a desire right like counter that need Donald Trump is making money in his way, but this is making it for Morocco at this stage, given

and of working and dont tromp would have already been surrounded by a lot of different layers and probably a lot of different types of lawyers. So how exactly does cone fit into this constellation of attorneys that Trump Workshop, while rights Michael Cohen is not his lawyer on the Atlantic City, Bankruptcies Michael Cowan, is not his lawyer on the building? He wants to build on the east side, so that's where his role become something where mister yes, ok! So he's not doing the big legal work of you. No building contracts he's not doing the kind of mergers and acquisitions kind of stuff that do that. My highly technical legal work that a giant real estate empire light but trumpet innovation needs, and so what kind of work does that put in calling for folio That's where you get threatening people who need to be threatened and cajoled, and enough some legal work shore is co, known for actually making threats.

I think I've seen him deny he does, but he does. He also told reporters and twenty eleven. His role is to fix any problem. If you do something wrong, I'm going to come at you grab, knew by the neck notice imagery, and I'm not going to let you go until I'm finished and, in fact is clearly proud of it. In all fairness, who hasn't said something done something that they were great simply trying to protect, somebody that they care about, and I care about Mr Tramp Tramp Organization, the children there is the situation during the campaign in the daily beast was gonna write, a story that he very much didn't want them to write about Donald Trump and his, His wife, a foreigner trompe end quote I'll Riddick. It has its own poetry. So I'm warning you tread very lightly, because what I'm gonna

The EU is going to be a disgusting. You understand me. Another person who very much does trap rebels in the wrong is an enforcer of exerting out because the whole persona or be right back.

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physical violence, you thought that there would be some for legal repercussion. If you didn't sign of that. As a matter of fact, the exact sentence used was they can make your life hell in many different ways, they being I'm not exactly sure who they were. I believe it to be Michael Cohen, it's a summer. Twenty sixteen, an important star name, stormy dangles, appears on the scene with the story she's trying to sell that she had an affair with the president some ten years earlier, and it fell to Michael calling to figure out how to fix this. And so what he did was had happened that he knew the lawyer on you represent its german dangles Israel. They must ethnic, Clifford, keep Davidson and able to work out an arrangement, but there's a campaign going on, so that to be very careful this arrangement and Judgment is, as the whole world knows. Now, a hundred and thirty,

Thousand dollars to Stephanie Clifford, acre aced remedying for her silence, so that parts done problem solved. And around the same, I'm a stormy dangles, this woman care Macdougall former paper models, as I had an affair with Donald Trump around the same time and she's looking to potentially sell her story. She ends up in front of the Enquirer. The national national choir owned by the company. Could american media ink, which is run by I've very close, Donald Trump friend David J Packer, who runs the largest tabloid news company in the country, a main choir proceeds to do. It's called a catching kill that when we talk about it, which we talked about now is very commonly known phrase. It wasn't that time where they buy her story and in a deal for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars agreed. I gotta give some exposure in her new role as a sort of fitness expert, and she will not talk about the affair during the campaign,

Cowan who should not have had Anything to do with that deal between care, Macdougall, I'm enquire. They are the two parties in the deal, the president and his lawyer are not part of that deal officially on paper Cohen talks to am I during that process. Am I acknowledges it talk to Poland during the process and the other thing we know is CARE Macdougall Lear at the time Keith Davidson, who was also involved in the stormy dangles story, so you represented both women, around the same time have been in contact with Cohen, at least at the deal's conclusion, and we know that from our own reporting. So our understand is that Cohen orchestrates a deal to silence New Clifford and advise is another entity, in this case, a merger media, and how to silence another woman care Macdougall. Yes, all windows, there was communication,

have to assume that actions like this. You know solving the problem of an affair that could become public and presidential campaign, making sure it stays quiet that does have to be seen as the ultimate act of loyalty a gap in how more loyal do you get and by the way in doing ass. Michael Cohen has now walked himself into a huge trouble. With, draw investigators, we're getting some news, that's a little it startling here that the FBI earlier today raided the office of the president's more time person lawyer the FED say he is under criminal investigation agencies to salute document, including some related to micro coins. One hundred and thirty thousand dollar payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, somewhat that howls dated from has this war to work. Collins been doing in his role as an authority for job. How has it becomes

jack of so much federal scrutiny because the feds look at someone like Michael Cohen, its close to Trump as you could possibly get, is messy during a camp. Period, so you want away at him and so actions like what he did for Fermi dangles gives them this opening and it shows you that he is really in the thick of some. Let's face it, some unseemly stung by covering up news during a political campaign. But what else? What do you mean? What ass? Well? So, in the current investigation, it will be camping, finance violations. It will be potential. Bang fraud or wire fraud. That's it that's that's gaiters and looking at, but there is really no way to say where it leads. We know there just stayed in those taxi medallions. Why? I'm never? Why there's a lot of money in those tax, medallions almost service to some larger legal goal for prosecutors? It's to get really inside it?

guys world, and then it's going to put some pressure on him, because if they find something that's under later to Donald Trump but really problematic for Michael Cohen, then we could assume there will be pressure on Michael Cohen, say either face some really serious, judges or maybe cooperate it sounded. What you're saying is that investigators are poem They're gonna find a way to break this most oil aid to Donald Trump and essentially flippin. It definitely appears to be in the Mexicans. Put it that way. Others present for this, because the present has many very loyal form raids who in one way or another, now seem to be talking yet with a special council, None as loyal as Michael Cowan. None, I would say, as knowledgeable about certain aspects of trump world. As

from your reporting on his chin. Does the idea being Michael COIN, seem at all plausible. Does Cohen remain as loyal as he would have one tromp first brought him on all those years ago, when he the starry eyed young lawyer, I mean I don't but you I've trained myself to be ready for anything in this presidency. So I think you have to say yes to that. It will be astonishing because, if you look at what microphones says about loyalty to the president, obviously very loyal and very dedicated to Mr Trump, I like to keep myself in that little circle of extremely loyal, p.

We will do what is necessary to protect him and the office of the presidency. So it will be a huge deal. It will be dramatic, honoured interpersonal level, but much more importantly. It will be very consequential for a federal investigation, opening the door to the entire Trump organization and that's why colleagues rode over the last couple of days that the president's legal team is far more worried about Michael Cohen than other aspects of the russian investigate, even the special council. It sounds that way. Woody represent two Donald Trump. If Michael Con were to cooperate, me would have to feel like the bottom falling out because he's so central to Trump world, not trump world in Washington, but Trump world in New York, which is really hope.

Like home? Yes right? Other words in anywhere away like the one secure place and dont transform right now, would be not secure. His Roy cone now potentially flipping and also having his own files about Trump breached, is no overstating us. Yes, is thank you. Thank you. on Monday afternoon, Michael Cohen appeared in court in New York. Seeking a restraining order on behalf, himself self and President tribe to stop the government from

viewing the documents that were seized in last week's red, citing the attorney client privilege of his clients during the hearing, a federal judge demanded that Cohen revealed the identities of those coins. In addition to diatribe among them was Sean Hannity, the Fox news host and an outspoken supporter of tromp in We have already said he had occasionally discussed legal questions with calling, but had not Molly hired him. As a lawyer, the hearing ended with the judge denying Cohen and trumps request to block the government from viewing Cohen's documents, Here's what else you need to know that we support strongly the work of the IPCC, W fact finding me,

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