Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued
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Speaker 1: about this past weekend. And during this past weekend, you
Speaker 1: may have seen that Trump went on Meet the Press
Speaker 1: with Kristen Welker, and it was his first interview post election.
Speaker 1: And I think that there's so many aspects to this
Speaker 1: interview that it requires us to discuss it. So you
Speaker 1: know that we've spoken a lot about Trump planning to
Speaker 1: weaponize the DOJ. Much has been discussed about Trump intended
Speaker 1: to weaponize the DOJ, and I want to show you
Speaker 1: first a clip of him talking about potentially jailing Liz Cheney.
Speaker 2: Play the clip and Cheney was behind it, Well, so
Speaker 2: was Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee.
Speaker 3: We're going to for what they did? Yeah, honestly they
Speaker 3: should go to jail.
Speaker 4: So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail for
Speaker 4: what everyone on the committee?
Speaker 3: You? I think anybody that voted in are you're going.
Speaker 4: To Director FBI director in your attorney general to send
Speaker 4: them to jail.
Speaker 3: Not at all.
Speaker 2: I think that they'll have to look at that. But
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm going to focus on drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, this is the danger that we keep talking about.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to tell them what to do. I
Speaker 1: testify to that over and over and over again. Like
Speaker 1: a mob boss. He's not going to go to let's
Speaker 1: just say it's Cash Patel becomes the FBI director. He's
Speaker 1: not going to say to Cash Patel, Cash, do me
Speaker 1: a favor. I want you to look at Liz Cheney
Speaker 1: and make sure that she gets a pretty swift and
Speaker 1: a pretty significant justcence. That's not what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: Cash Patel already knows. He just put it out on
Speaker 1: television in the first post election interview, so they know
Speaker 1: what their direction already is without having to be told.
Speaker 1: I mean, then again, he starts talking about tariffs, spreading
Speaker 1: these false promises all about tariffs and what they're going
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 4: Play that clipfield, Sir, Your previous tariffs during your first
Speaker 4: administration cost Americans some eighty billion dollars, and now you
Speaker 4: have major companies from Walmart, Blackendecker AutoZone saying that any
Speaker 4: tariffs are going to force them to drive up prices
Speaker 4: for their consumers.
Speaker 3: How do you.
Speaker 4: Make sure that these CEOs, that these companies don't in
Speaker 4: fact pass on the cost of tariffs to their consumers.
Speaker 2: They cost Americans nothing. They made a great economy for us.
Speaker 2: They also solve another problem if we were going to
Speaker 2: have problems having to do with wars and having to
Speaker 2: do with other things tariffs. I have stopped wars with
Speaker 2: tariffs by saying, you guys want to fight, it's great,
Speaker 2: but both of you are going to pay tariff to
Speaker 2: the United States at one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that none of that makes any sense at all.
Speaker 1: For God's sakes, come on, you know again, Trump is
Speaker 1: going to be our president come January twentieth of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. He didn't stop wars based upon tariffs. In fact,
Speaker 1: you may remember and go back and look this up,
Speaker 1: so you know that what you're getting right here on
Speaker 1: the Michael Cohen Show, it's not innuendo or anger towards
Speaker 1: the man. No, it's fact. It's reality. Here's how the
Speaker 1: tariff system works. The country who's going to get hit
Speaker 1: with the tariff of one hundred percent. They're not going
Speaker 1: to end up losing their profit. They're going to pass
Speaker 1: it on to the wholesaler or to the distributor, who
Speaker 1: then passes it on to the wholesaler, who then passes
Speaker 1: it on to the retailer, who passes it on to
Speaker 1: come on, you know the answer the consumer, it's us.
Speaker 1: They're all going to make their same profit. They're just
Speaker 1: going to drive the prices up. And remember also going
Speaker 1: back into twenty seventeen, for example, when Trump hit Canada
Speaker 1: with an aluminum tariff, what did he do? He gave
Speaker 1: them a waiver afterwards. I mean, this is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's it's just not true. And yeah, I would like
Speaker 1: for him to concentrate on stopping wars, but tariffs, that's
Speaker 1: just not the way it's going to work. It's going
Speaker 1: to be maybe our militaries might or maybe it'll be
Speaker 1: our diplomatic our diplomats going out and creating diplomacy between countries,
Speaker 1: but tariffs one hundred percent inaccurate. All right? Then, of course,
Speaker 1: since we're talking about war, they turned to the Ukraine
Speaker 1: Russia war, discussing if Ukraine should prepare for less aid
Speaker 1: from the United States something that Zelenski and many people
Speaker 1: are concerned about, especially Poland. Play that clip?
Speaker 4: Should Ukraine prepare for? Lef said from the United States,
Speaker 4: after your Sawig into office, probably sure.
Speaker 1: Said, yeah he's not. Again, why not believe what he's
Speaker 1: telling you, because then he goes on to say that
Speaker 1: he's going to end the war in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: The question you need to ask yourself how play this clip?
Speaker 4: You said you can end the war in twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: You've even said you want to try to end it
Speaker 4: before you're you're actively trying to have you talked to
Speaker 4: President Putin?
Speaker 3: No, I have none.
Speaker 4: You haven't talked to President No.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to say that, but I haven't
Speaker 2: spoken to him recently.
Speaker 4: So you've spoken to President Putin since you.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything about that because I
Speaker 2: don't want to do anything that could impede the negotiation.
Speaker 2: But you've done what I have talked about.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah again an answer, a straight answer would be
Speaker 1: so refreshing. I mean, seriously, we already know that you
Speaker 1: had multiple conversations with Putin. It it has already been
Speaker 1: written about and discussed multiple times. So don't say that
Speaker 1: you have it. Oh, recently, what does the word recently mean?
Speaker 1: The last hour, the last twenty four hours, the last
Speaker 1: seventy two hours, What does recently mean to you? See,
Speaker 1: that's a very interesting and very sneaky way of putting it,
Speaker 1: which is just wrong. It's just wrong, all right. Then
Speaker 1: he also claims during that same interview that he wants
Speaker 1: to end birthright citizenship.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Last night on my TikTok, I do a TikTok show
Speaker 1: every night. One of the people who came up because
Speaker 1: we had people go live was a young lady who
Speaker 1: was adopted from Columbia, and she's petrified. Despite the fact
Speaker 1: she's been in this country thirty five years, holds a
Speaker 1: US passport, she's concerned that birthright citizenship would end up
Speaker 1: sending her back to Columbia. Here's the funny thing. She
Speaker 1: doesn't even speak Spanish. She took French in school. Play
Speaker 1: the clip.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you about some of your other promises
Speaker 4: on this topic. You've promised to end birthright citizenship on
Speaker 4: day one. Is that still your plan?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 4: The Fourteenth Amendment, though, says that quote all persons born
Speaker 4: in the United States are citizens, can you get around
Speaker 4: the fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 2: With an executive a change would maybe have to go
Speaker 2: back to the people.
Speaker 3: But we have to end it with the only country
Speaker 3: that has it through an executive action. No, we're the
Speaker 3: only country that has it.
Speaker 2: Do you know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot.
Speaker 3: One foot, you don't need to on our land.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States
Speaker 2: of America. Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Nor executive action.
Speaker 2: Well, if we can through executive action. I was going
Speaker 2: to do it through executive action, but then we had
Speaker 2: to fix COVID first.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, Yeah, again, there's so much
Speaker 1: that needs to be done. I agree with Donald that
Speaker 1: government is a freaking mess, but you want to make
Speaker 1: it worse now you're talking about ending birthright citizenship. He
Speaker 1: goes on to say he doesn't want to break up
Speaker 1: families during his mass deportation initiative, which is at least
Speaker 1: very nice of him. Right, we don't want to separate
Speaker 1: children again like last time from their parents. In fact,
Speaker 1: they're still like a thousand children separated from their families
Speaker 1: and we're talking about eight years. Play that clip.
Speaker 4: Something let me ask you about another group of people,
Speaker 4: the estimated four million families in America who have mixed
Speaker 4: immigration status. So I'm talking about parents who might be
Speaker 4: here illegally, but the kids are here legally. Your borders
Speaker 4: aren't just about yeah, well, I mean there are two
Speaker 4: aspects of this your border. Zaara tom Hommat said, they
Speaker 4: can be deported together. Is that the plan?
Speaker 2: That way you keep the foot Not? Well, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be breaking up families. So the only way
Speaker 2: you don't bring up the family as you keep them
Speaker 2: together and you have to send them all.
Speaker 4: Back, even kids who are here legally, Well, well.
Speaker 3: What's you going to do if they want to stay
Speaker 3: with the father. Look, we have to have rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: You can always find something out, like you know, this
Speaker 2: doesn't work, That doesn't work. I'll tell you what's going
Speaker 2: to be horrible When we take a wonderful young woman
Speaker 2: who's with a criminal, and they show the woman and
Speaker 2: she could stay by the law, but they show the
Speaker 2: woman being taken out or they want her out, and
Speaker 2: your cameras are focused on her as she's crying, as
Speaker 2: she's being taken out of our country, and then the
Speaker 2: public turns against us.
Speaker 3: But we have to do our job, and you.
Speaker 1: Have I don't even have anything to say about that.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I'm so disappointed the man who I
Speaker 1: have known for over two decades. This is what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, birthright citizenship, mass deportation, not breaking up family. Seriously. Then,
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, Welker asks Trump if he plans for the
Speaker 1: United States to stay in NATO. Another issue I was
Speaker 1: recently in Italy. I was brought to Italy to speak
Speaker 1: in front of an entire crowds like two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty people on television, and this was one of the
Speaker 1: questions that they asked me. Do I think that the
Speaker 1: United States is going to stay in NATO. Let's hear
Speaker 1: it from the guy himself, play the cliper.
Speaker 4: Well, the United States stay in NATO while you're in
Speaker 4: office anywhere NATO. Do you commit that the United States
Speaker 4: will remain a member of NATO while you're in office?
Speaker 3: Again, they have to pay their bills. If they pay
Speaker 3: their bills.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, but not if they don't pay their bills.
Speaker 2: But NATO's take an advantage of us, because we would
Speaker 2: go look two things. Number one, they take advantage of
Speaker 2: us on trade, meaning the European nations.
Speaker 3: Okay, like terrible.
Speaker 2: They don't take our cars, they don't take our food products,
Speaker 2: they don't take anything they take. It's a disgrace. And
Speaker 2: on top of that, we defend them. So it's a
Speaker 2: double where mey. So let me just tell you I
Speaker 2: was able to get hundreds of billions of dollars put
Speaker 2: into NATO just by a tough attitude.
Speaker 3: I said to the countries, I'm not going to.
Speaker 2: Protect you unless you pay, and they started paying and
Speaker 2: that amounted to the more than six hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's a big thing. Otherwise they wouldn't even be fighting.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't have any money to fight if they're paying
Speaker 2: their bills. And if I think they're doing a fair
Speaker 2: they're treating us fairly. The answers, Absolutely, I'd stay with NATO.
Speaker 4: But if not, you would consider the possibility of absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yeah. What that is is a very very
Speaker 1: as Donald likes to say, it's the weave, right, it's
Speaker 1: a weavy way of saying he's going to extricate the
Speaker 1: United States from NATO unless he thinks that they're all
Speaker 1: paying their fair share and so on, Well, what if
Speaker 1: out of ten NATO countries nine are one, isn't Is
Speaker 1: he then going to turn around and say, well, so
Speaker 1: and so isn't therefore the United States' out probably yes. Well, then,
Speaker 1: of course the conversation turns to the next big topic,
Speaker 1: Trump's healthcare plans. This is a nightmare. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Here's and then he voted against Nobody understands.
Speaker 4: Sir, you said during the campaign you had concepts of
Speaker 4: a plan. Do you have an actual plan at this
Speaker 4: point for healthcare?
Speaker 2: Yes, we have concepts of a plan that would be better.
Speaker 4: Still just concepts. Do you have a fully developed plan?
Speaker 3: Let me explain.
Speaker 2: We have the biggest healthcare companies looking at it. We
Speaker 2: have doctors who we're always looking because Obamacare stinks, it's lousy.
Speaker 3: There are better answers.
Speaker 2: If we come up with a better answer, I would
Speaker 2: present that answer to Democrats and to everybody else, and
Speaker 2: I do something about it. But until we have that
Speaker 2: or until they can approve it, but we're not going
Speaker 2: to go through the big deal. I am the one
Speaker 2: that saved Obamacare, I will say, and I did the
Speaker 2: right thing. I could have done the more political thing
Speaker 2: and killed it. And all I had to do was
Speaker 2: starve it today.
Speaker 4: You did try to have your Justice Department effectively kill
Speaker 4: it though.
Speaker 2: No kill it from a legal standpoint, but from a
Speaker 2: physical standpoint, I made it work in.
Speaker 1: Your I don't even know what the hell that means. Look,
Speaker 1: if there is a plan that's better than Affordable Character,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's like thirty six million Americans that live
Speaker 1: thanks to the Affordable Care Act, that they have health
Speaker 1: coverage because of the Affordable Care Act. If there's something better,
Speaker 1: by all means, I'd rather I don't care if we
Speaker 1: call it the Obamacare, you call it trump Care. As
Speaker 1: long as people have healthcare coverage and that they don't
Speaker 1: have to end up sacrificing their lives because they can't
Speaker 1: afford to see a doctor, this is I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the United States of America we're talking about. I mean, then,
Speaker 1: speaking of healthcare, Welker then goes on to ask Trump
Speaker 1: if he plans on releasing his own medical records, as
Speaker 1: all presidents other than Donald have done. Play this clip.
Speaker 4: When you think about your time in office, you are
Speaker 4: making history for a range of reasons, including the fact
Speaker 4: you will be the oldest person to be sworn into office.
Speaker 4: Do you commit to releasing your medical records.
Speaker 3: Sure, I do it all the time. I think I've
Speaker 3: released four of them, not.
Speaker 4: Just a letter, though you your full medical report.
Speaker 2: I would, and I think anybody should have good I mean,
Speaker 2: according to all the reports.
Speaker 3: I don't want to wear's wood. Is this in wood
Speaker 3: where I cannot good wood? But my reports are very good,
Speaker 3: very strong.
Speaker 4: So you planned to release you have no problem with it.
Speaker 1: She's right. He did not release his medical reports. He
Speaker 1: released a report, but not the medical records right now.
Speaker 1: Of course he turned around and you'll release things like, oh,
Speaker 1: his cholesterol was a little high and so on. But
Speaker 1: they didn't put in any of the any of the
Speaker 1: juicy sort of stuff that we want to know. Does
Speaker 1: he have block karated right? What's his what's his score?
Speaker 1: You know nothing? Nothing. Well, you had is doctor Ronnie Jackson,
Speaker 1: who he referred to as Ronnie Johnson. He had Ronnie
Speaker 1: Jackson turns and he's the healthiest president ever in the
Speaker 1: history of this country. Lastly, last I want to show
Speaker 1: you a clip of Welker now asking Trump, this is
Speaker 1: great about the Democrats rigging the past election. You can't
Speaker 1: make this stuff up because again it goes right back
Speaker 1: to where we started all with the big lie play
Speaker 1: the clip.
Speaker 4: Democrats have control of the White House now they didn't
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty. If they are going around stealing elections.
Speaker 3: Why Democrats have control now.
Speaker 4: Of the White House? So why didn't they steal this
Speaker 4: election since they have more power now?
Speaker 3: Because I think it was too big to rig.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when he loses, it's rigged. When he wins,
Speaker 1: it's too big, it can't be rigged. And so on again.
Speaker 1: Don't we all just want to take the tone down?
Speaker 1: Don't we all want to see the president, regardless of
Speaker 1: whether it was Kamala Harris or whether it's Donald Trump, succeed.
Speaker 1: And I think the answer is yeah, because we all
Speaker 1: want to succeed. We want our country to succeed. And
Speaker 1: the way that we start by succeeding is being honest.
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing. Be honest to the American people,
Speaker 1: and not just Donald Trump, the entire administration. They need
Speaker 1: to be honest to the American people so that we
Speaker 1: know what's legitimately going on. And as always, my friends,
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