Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued
journey to five hundred thousand subscribers. I'd like to take
a moment, as I'm sure every single person who's turned
on the television so far has seen the tragedy that
took place between the American Airlines plane that collided with
the military helicopter that crashed in the Potomac River in Washington, DC.
So I would like just to take a moment to
think about the family and those that have now been
tragically lost in this senseless set just this senseless, senseless accident.
But I do also want to turn around and say
that while we're sitting here and we're trying to figure
this out, just remember the families and all of those
that were just lost. What a terrible, terrible tragedy to
go to sleep to last night, and certainly of course
to wake up to where it appears that there are
no survivors. Well, yesterday Trump signed what's called the Lake
and Riley and I want to give you a summary
of this new law. Here's what it says. The measure
directs federal immigration enforcement to detain and deport those without
legal status charged with minor theft or shoplifting a sort
of a law enforcement officer, or crimes resulting in death
or serious bodily injury of another person. You know, in
case you don't remember, Laken Riley was the young girl
who was killed by a migrant. The only issue that
I have with this entire act posted up one more
time is the very very first line into it, when
you're talking about the deportation of individuals charged with minor
theft or shoplifting. Yeah, again, you can take that down.
I just find that when you put that into the
same law, the same act, when you're talking about death,
it just seems right, doesn't It just make it seem petty. Well,
while signing the law, Trump took the opportunity to give
a speech and potentially answer some questions, which is what
we the American citizens are looking for. Trump spoke about,
of course, the interaction that took place with Columbia, with
the President of Columbia over the weekend. Let me show
you that clip. Play it.
Speaker 2: He probably read about Columbia two days ago. They said, no,
we're not taking them, as say, we're going to take them.
You're gonna take them. You're gonna like it too. You're
gonna take them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me let me say this. We criticize Trump
on many things, but where he does things that are
so different, they're so out of the ordinary that you
have to turn around and look to see what was
the result. They turn around, they put these migrants onto
a plane. Columbia said, we're not allowing the plane to land.
We're not taking them. Trump then turned around and again
did something which was, let's just say, more than unusual,
and he said, no problem. We're going to hit you
with a twenty five percent tariff, and if you don't
accept them by next week, it's fifty percent, and after
that it's one hundred percent, which basically would put Columbia
into an economic downfall. And so within less than a
half a day, maybe twelve hours, the president of Columbia folded.
He capitulated. And now what you're seeing is you're seeing
a new administration that's coming and feeling emboldened, feeling incredibly
powerful that they can actually continue to do this, to
threaten these tariffs, to threaten to economically destroy anybody that
doesn't agree with what Trump wants to do. Now that
may work with Columbia. Don't forget the entire trade is
like thirty two and a half billion dollars. It's far
from enormous. But I will tell you this wouldn't work.
If it was Italy. It wouldn't work. If it was France,
it won't work. If it's Russia. It's not going to work,
certainly for China. I'll tell you what else Trump did.
He suggested that while we're trying to navigate the movement
of these migrants, he suggested setting up thirty thousand beds
in Guantanamo Bay and sending thirty thousand migrants off to
this island. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the
Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the
thirty thousand person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people
don't even know about it. We have thirty thousand beds
in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening
the American people. Some of them are so bad we
don't even trust the countries to hold them because we
don't want them coming back, So we're gonna send them
out to Guantanamo. This will do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the part that I wanted to show you.
At the very beginning, and I had it posted twice.
We're talking about migrants for shoplifting, obviously very different than
the gang members that Trump's talking about, those few and
far between. This is where you have to sort of
draw a line. He then teased that foreign countries are
going to be forced to take back these migrants, and
you know what, they're gonna like it too. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: We may have tough talk from others, but it's not
gonna mean anything. They're gonna all take them back and
they're gonna like it too. They're gonna like it. They're
gonna take it back, and they're gonna like it today.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, mister president of filling whatever country you want.
You're taking these people back, and you know what, you're
gonna send me a letter on top of it. Trump then,
of course brought up California and the wildfires and how
he gave water to California. Play this clip.
Speaker 2: The water has now begun flowing in California as we
continue to increase the flow in coming days. Nobody's seen
anything like that. And I've also taken strong action to
regain control of the Washington bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, one's ever seen this before, because let me
tell you what he posted. He posted these things again,
of course on truth social where if you read it,
it seems like he's taking credit for the rain that
finally hit La over the weekend. The water is flowing
big time in northern California. The long empty reservoirs will
soon be full. Thank you, President Trump. Don't take that
down yet. Don't take that down. First of all, we're
talking about the rain. Second of all, the reservoirs had
been full, and he's thanking himself. This is just when
I saw it pop up. I had to read it again.
I just wasn't sure I was seeing it correct. So
here's what else he posted. He turns around and he says,
the United States military just entered the great state of
California and under emergency powers turned on the water flowing
abundantly from the Pacific Northwest. And beyond the days of
putting a fake environmental argument over, the people are over
enjoy the water. California. Well, you know, there's a lot
of things that we tend to see. You can take
that down. There's a lot of things that we tend
to see. But when it comes to the news there's
nothing that's ever now, whether it's hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, assaults, shoplifting.
Everybody's got a camera today attached to their mobile device.
Everybody's got a camera. How Come I didn't see any
thing about the US military invading the state of California.
And I'm just trying to figure out, is there somewhere
in California, whether it's like a spicket or a handle
that you just have to flip that turned the water on.
I just, you know, look, there's a lot of things
I don't know. I didn't know that existed. I'm going
to continue to do my research on it because it's fascinating.
He then, of course, addressed the federal funding freeze and
the confusion that's surrounding it. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: We did very well in twenty twenty, but we did
really well just recently. And I'm restating right now to
correct any confusion that the media has purposely and somehow,
for whatever reason, created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid have not
been affected by any action We're taken in any way,
shape or form. We are merely looking at parts of
the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and
fraud and abuse.
Speaker 1: By the way, thank you for the clarification. That's all
that the people wanted, mister president. If you're watching this,
and I'm certain that you are, or at least your
people are, all that they wanted was just a response
because it was confusing. It was confusing not just to
as you'll say, the left wing media, it was confusing
to the right wing media as well. Why well, I
don't know, maybe it just wasn't written right, but you
spelling it out. That's that's what a lot of people
wanted to know. Medicare, Medicaid, Is it going to be affected?
You say it's not. We take your word for it. Now.
I also want to talk about the confusion that surrounds
the alleged fifty million dollars that was supposed to be
spent on sending condoms to Gaza. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: And that process. We identified and stopped fifty million dollars
being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Amas fifty image.
And you know what's happened to them. They've used them
as a method of making bombs. How about that?
Speaker 1: No, no, again, Sometimes don't double down. And I know
this is like a Steve Miller type thing. Okay, you
can't make a bomb out of a condom unless it's
filled with fluid. I mean, let's be serious about this,
that they're floating condoms now that have what bombs in them? Sure? Sure,
I'm just curious to know where this information came from.
Enlighten all of us. And that's the whole point. Just
because it's said, or it's just because someone like a
Steven Miller writes it, doesn't mean you should go along
with it. You know, for a fact, if I was
there with you, that shit never would have come out,
because it's absolutely that shit bullshit. And lastly, Trump was
asked about government funding while signing the Lake and Riley Act.
Play this clip.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sure you take a quick question of going
the funding for paulus. I don't think this is appropriate time. Really,
I respect it, but I don't think it's appropriate. I
could just that your government is doing very well and
we're getting way back, but this is not the appropriate time.
Speaker 1: Bank by the way, He's right, wasn't the appropriate time. However,
what's been done regarding government funding in the last what
one week since he's taken in. Okay, let's not overexaggerate
where we're at. Let's all hope that, yeah, the fraud,
the waste, the abuse of government comes to an end.
We all know it exists. How many times have you
read about the golden toilets of the ten thousand dollars
screw drivers? We all know it. In fact, I saw it.
I saw it myself when I was in prison, where
we were destroying at the direction of the institution. We
were destroying brand new equipment. This is true, so that
they could reorder new ones and then increase their budget. Look,
I'm not opposed to cutting the fraud, the waste of
the abuse. We all should we should all want that,
and let's hope. Let's hope that the team that he's
building is successful. And that's why I say there's a
lot of chaos that's going on, some created and some unfortunate.
And that's why I ask you to please subscribe, watch, comment,
and share with your friends, because the chaos it's not stopping.
And this is where you should come to find out
the truth. And as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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