1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: And welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show. On our 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,200 continued journey to half a million subscribers, We're getting there 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,320 thanks to you. Actually had an incredible couple of days 4 00:00:09,359 --> 00:00:13,759 with more than ten thousand new subscribers. So please subscribe, watch, 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,039 keep the comments coming, and share with your family and friends, 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,839 because the stupidity it's not ending. I mean, just this afternoon, 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,440 Trump participated in the invest America round table where they 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,879 spoke about his new Trump Account investment for children. 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:31,559 Speaker 2: Now. 10 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: After their discussion, Trump took questions from reporters, it's got 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:40,520 to do that. Unsurprisingly, the conversation it focused heavily on 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,439 Los Angeles, and I want to start with a clip 13 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:47,679 from this morning where Peter Doucy asked Trump outside the 14 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:52,320 White House if Tom Holman should arrest Davin Newsom. Trump, 15 00:00:52,359 --> 00:00:56,119 of course, said he would do it if Tom said so. 16 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,640 Play the clip. 17 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 3: Gavin new from He's daring Tom Holman become an erector. 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,359 Speaker 1: Should he do it? 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,879 Speaker 2: I would Tom? 20 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,079 Speaker 3: I think it's playing. 21 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: He's done a terrible job. Look I like Gavenus and 22 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:21,280 he's a nice guy, but he's mostly incoonfidence. 23 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:23,519 Speaker 2: Everybody knows all you have to do is look at 24 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:26,640 the little railroad he's building. It's about a hundred times 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,680 over budget. We're putting a flag ball over there under budget. 26 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,439 Speaker 1: I always do under always do under budget. I mean, 27 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,519 you would think that he's talking about a Trump facility 28 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,200 or Trump property. He likes Gavin Newsom, but they should 29 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:47,120 arrest him for what meanwill After the business roundtable, Doucy 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,640 again prompted Trump to discuss if Gavin Newsom wants to 31 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,400 actually be arrested. Play that clip. 32 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 3: It seems like Gavin Newsom likes the attention that he's 33 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:03,400 getting right now. Seems like he does. He If you 34 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,239 look at recent history, somebody who was running for president, 35 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,680 you who got arrested and had a mugshot, you could 36 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,599 make the argument that politically that wound up helping you. 37 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:16,759 Are you worried at all at this moment? Talking about 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,960 him getting arrested could be helpful to his political prospects 39 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,680 because a lot of people think he wants to be 40 00:02:22,719 --> 00:02:23,680 sitting right where you are. 41 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 4: Well, in my case, it was a witch hunt and 42 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:28,319 everybody knew it, and I was able to explain that 43 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:31,080 during the process. Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here right now. 44 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,199 And it was a total witch hunt. Has proven to 45 00:02:33,199 --> 00:02:35,599 be a witch hunt. And you see what's happened in 46 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,000 his case. It really is very obvious. You look at 47 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:43,360 what's happened between the fires between I could name ten 48 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:46,039 things right now. We talk about the trains, we talk 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,960 about all of the costs in California, you talk about 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,400 all of the people that are flowing and destroying life 51 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,199 for everyone else. So no, I don't think it's going 52 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,719 to help him. I think it's actually very bad for him. 53 00:02:57,759 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: And right, yeah, first of all, let me let me 54 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:03,199 stop you right there, as a guy who was the 55 00:03:03,319 --> 00:03:06,800 key witness in both of the cases here in New York, 56 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,759 the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York Attorney General case, 57 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,039 he lost both of them. He was found guilty on 58 00:03:14,199 --> 00:03:18,479 thirty four counts by a jury of twelve, a jury 59 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,879 of his peers. I don't know what history he's talking about, 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,319 but at the end of the day, none of it 61 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:27,759 is accurate. Now, another reporter goes on and asks Trump 62 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,159 what crime Newsom committed. You see, we know that he 63 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,759 committed a crime. Again, it went to the grand jury, 64 00:03:34,919 --> 00:03:37,080 they came back with an indictment. He was indicted. When 65 00:03:37,159 --> 00:03:42,639 to trial, he lost. What crime did Davin Newsom commit 66 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:45,719 that he should be charged? Play the clip? 67 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:50,759 Speaker 4: A crime has he committed? I think his primarily primary 68 00:03:50,919 --> 00:03:53,360 crime is running for governor because he's done such a 69 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,240 bad job. What he's done to that state is like 70 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,039 what Biden did to this country. 71 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:02,159 Speaker 1: What a great answer. Well, did you actually think of 72 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,000 that yourself? Or did Steve Miller come up with that 73 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,360 genius response? What crime did he commit becoming governor of 74 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,639 the state of California? Truly just a brilliant answer by 75 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,160 a brilliant man. Now, a clip from twenty twenty has 76 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:23,279 been circulating of Trump talking about deploying National Guard in 77 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:27,079 certain states. Let me show you. Let me show it 78 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:28,839 to you. Play the clip. 79 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 5: I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the 80 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,000 Republican Convention. I'm going to restore law and order, and 81 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,959 I have accepting Democrat run cities. 82 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 2: Look, we have laws. We have to go by the laws. 83 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:43,680 We can't move in the National Guard. 84 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 5: I can call insurrection, but there's no reason to ever 85 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,399 do that. Even in a Portland case. We can't call 86 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,120 in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor. 87 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: Oh really, really, let's play that one more time. Just 88 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:00,959 so that you see exactly the point trying to make. 89 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 5: I promised four years ago at the Democrat at the 90 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,279 Republican Convention, I'm going to restore law and order, and 91 00:05:07,319 --> 00:05:12,279 I have accepting Democrat run cities. Look, we have laws. 92 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,800 We have to go by the laws. We can't move 93 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,639 in the National Guard. I can call insurrection, but there's 94 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:20,240 no reason to ever do that. Even in a Portland case, 95 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,639 we can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested 96 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:24,399 by a governor. 97 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,759 Speaker 1: You know, it's exactly what my sub stack post for 98 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,439 tomorrow is going to be about. When I saw that clip, 99 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,439 I'm saying to myself, what happens when he starts doing this, 100 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,560 for example in red States where he's controlling the governor 101 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,399 and then they just run him up there? And this, 102 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,360 to me, LA is the litmus test of what more 103 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,920 is yet to come. A reporter of course at the 104 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:52,639 Business round Table brought up that video, play that clip. 105 00:05:52,879 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 6: When you were talking about unrest in American cities, you said, quote, 106 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,519 we have to go by the laws. We can't call 107 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,600 in the National Guard unless were requested by a governor. 108 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:04,879 What change now? Why is this situation different to not 109 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:06,560 consult with governor knew some about. 110 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 4: Well, the biggest change from that statement is we have 111 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:11,399 an incompetent governor. So I talked about governors, but I 112 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:13,800 didn't talk about he's an incompetent governor. Look at the 113 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,920 job he's doing in California. He's destroying one of our 114 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,959 great states. And if I didn't get involved, if we 115 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,480 didn't bring the guard in, and we would bring more 116 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,040 in if we needed it, because we have to make 117 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:27,560 sure there's going to be law and order. You had 118 00:06:28,519 --> 00:06:32,079 a disaster happening, and they now admit it was a disaster. 119 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,839 I watched the chief yesterday, was a good man, by 120 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,079 the way, and he said, well, we're lucky we did 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,879 this because they were overwhelmed. You saw what was happening, 122 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,160 So we did the right thing. Everybody agrees to that. 123 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,959 Speaker 1: Lie, lie, and more lies. 124 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:49,319 Speaker 2: You know. 125 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I say, please share this, 126 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:57,399 share this program with your family, your friends, because the 127 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:02,240 lies coming from the right, they're just extraordinary. Now. On 128 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:07,120 that clip, Trump also claimed that the LAPD was thanking 129 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:13,000 him for bringing in the National Guard problem. Yesterday, the 130 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,639 LAPD said that the FEDS created the hazardous conditions play. 131 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,399 Speaker 7: The clip LAPD was not given advance notice that the 132 00:07:22,399 --> 00:07:27,240 federal operation federal operations would occur in that area. As 133 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,480 a result, we were not prepositioned to respond immediately to 134 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:35,120 unrest related to those actions. Once the call for assistance 135 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,720 came in, LAPD responded within thirty eight minutes. And that 136 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:41,560 sounds like a long time, but I'll tell you why 137 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,839 that is. The response was impacted by traffic, crowd density 138 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:51,480 in the area with unrest occurring, hazardous conditions caused by 139 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:55,160 tear gas that was previously deployed by federal agents at the. 140 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: Doesn't sound to me like he's thanking you their boss. 141 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,959 I'm not sure what you talked about, right, I mean, 142 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,759 what world are you living in when a comment like 143 00:08:05,839 --> 00:08:09,720 that from the chief of LAPD is telling you you 144 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:11,839 caused a hazardous condition? 145 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:12,959 Speaker 2: Now. 146 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: Earlier this afternoon, Gavin Newsom posted on x that he 147 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,120 is going to suit Trump and actually that they were 148 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:24,639 preparing immediate filing in it. He turns around and he says, 149 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,439 now we are suing Donald Trump. This is a manufactured crisis. 150 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,799 He is creating fear and terror to take over a 151 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:38,279 state militia and violate the US Constitution. The illegal order 152 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,919 he signed could allow him to send the military into 153 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:47,480 any state he wishes. Every governor red or blue should 154 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:52,159 reject this outrageous overreach. There's a lot of hyperbole out there. 155 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:58,240 This isn't that. This is an unmistakable step towards authoritarianism 156 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:03,480 that threatens the foundation of our republic. We cannot let 157 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:07,519 it stand now. A reporter then goes on and asks 158 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,519 Trump about the lawsuit, played the clip, and. 159 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 3: Around the time that we were walking in here, the 160 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,639 governor and the state attorney general said that they're going 161 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,000 to sue you for sending the National Guard. And they're 162 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,120 saying there's no invasion, there's no rebellion. The president is 163 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:25,440 trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for 164 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,559 his own political ends. Federalizing the California National Guard is 165 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,759 an abuse of the president's authority under law. 166 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:36,279 Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting. You watched the same clips 167 00:09:36,279 --> 00:09:39,240 as I did. Cars burning all over the place, people 168 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,600 riding and by the way we stopped it, we were 169 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:44,120 able to make it much better, but it still looked 170 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:48,399 pretty bad. And in watching clips last night, people were saying, 171 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:51,519 this is really a big problem. And until we went in, 172 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,440 if we didn't do the job, that place would be 173 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,759 burning down, just like the houses burned down. 174 00:09:55,919 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 2: They were in big. 175 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 4: Trouble last night, Peter, you know it, and the night 176 00:09:58,879 --> 00:10:01,960 before and the night before that, And I feel we 177 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:02,759 had no choice. 178 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,159 Speaker 2: I don't want to see. I don't want to see happened? What? 179 00:10:06,159 --> 00:10:08,399 What happened so many times in this country. 180 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 4: I watched Minneapolis burn, I watched look at what happened. 181 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: Okay, he's talking about a natural disaster. We're talking about 182 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,600 the wildfires versus what's going on here now. Of course, 183 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,399 other topics were discussed at the round table. Reporter asked 184 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,360 Trump if he plans to talk to Elon play that 185 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,759 clip plan tis something which one on Elon Musk. Do 186 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:36,759 you plan to speak to him on the phone anytime soon? 187 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:42,759 Speaker 4: I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine 188 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,600 he wants to speak to me. I would think so 189 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:46,879 if I were him, i'd want to speak to me. 190 00:10:47,039 --> 00:10:49,440 But and maybe he was already called. He'd have to 191 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,759 ask him, ask him whether or not he's already called. 192 00:10:52,159 --> 00:10:56,759 But uh, i'd have no problem with it. Well, I 193 00:10:56,759 --> 00:10:58,480 don't want to say that, but you know, but I 194 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,840 would imagine he'd want to talk to me, mister Benett. 195 00:11:02,759 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: Yeah again, exhausting. And lastly, Trump rambles about his upcoming 196 00:11:12,159 --> 00:11:16,080 military parade. Play the clip, but. 197 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,279 Speaker 2: It was time to celebrate, and that's what we're doing. 198 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,039 Speaker 4: So it's it's on June fourteenth, and it's going to 199 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,639 be a parade the likes of which I don't know 200 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,120 if we've ever had a parade like that. 201 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,279 Speaker 2: It's going to be incredible. 202 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:30,039 Speaker 4: We have Arab even though it's the Army, We have 203 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,159 a lot of those Army airplanes flying over the top, 204 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,399 and we have tanks all over the place. 205 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 2: So we have. 206 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,519 Speaker 4: Thousands and thousands of soldiers going to bravely march down 207 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:41,240 the streets. 208 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,639 Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful day, I think. 209 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: And look, let me be very clear, as I talk 210 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,879 about in my sub stack of today la Mayhem, here's 211 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:54,519 the part that I really need people to hear. I've 212 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:59,080 seen him pull the exact same stunt before. For God's sakes, 213 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:02,480 I helped write the script once upon a time. You 214 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,080 think the deployment of National Guard troops is about keeping 215 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:11,600 people safe, come on, please stop. Trump's idea of safety 216 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:16,519 is a lock door between him and accountability. This is 217 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:23,080 my community, This right here is about fear. Optics full stop. 218 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,559 And that's what's gonna happen, and that's what we're gonna see. 219 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:30,919 This is just the beginning and that's my prediction, and 220 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,840 as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone, First of all, 221 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:37,919 thanks for watching. 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