1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,480 our journey to two hundred and fifty thousands of scars, 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,199 and we're almost a two hundred thanks to you. Now, 4 00:00:08,279 --> 00:00:11,119 I want to talk about yesterday. I want to talk 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,119 about last night Eric Adams, the mayor of New York. 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,640 And you may say, well, that's on more of a 7 00:00:17,679 --> 00:00:21,039 local issue, it's not. It's not what it goes to 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,359 is It goes to the concept of corruption that's taking 9 00:00:25,399 --> 00:00:29,519 place in government all across the board. Now, I'm not 10 00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:32,399 saying that Eric Adams is innocent, nor am I saying 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,719 that he's guilty. How many times have you heard me, 12 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:38,079 even on this show, turn around and say, in America, 13 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:42,600 we have a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and 14 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:46,479 under that theory, I want to show you a clip 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,960 of Eric Adams talking about the indictment. 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,719 Speaker 2: Play the clip, my fellow New Yorkers. It is now 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,560 my belief that the federal government intends to charge me 18 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:04,599 with crimes. If so, these charges would be entirely false, 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,359 based on lies, but they would not be surprising. I 20 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:14,400 always knew that if I stood my ground for all 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,480 of you, that I would be a target and a 22 00:01:17,599 --> 00:01:22,920 target I became. For months, leaks and rumors have been 23 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,400 aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,159 and paint me as guilty. Just this past week, they 25 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:34,719 searched the home of our new police commissioner looking for 26 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,000 documents from twenty years ago, just one week after he 27 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:46,040 joined my administration. Enough, I would fight these injustices with 28 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,200 every ounce of my strength and my spirit. 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,719 Speaker 1: Now, look, I want to be clear about something. I 30 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:55,480 happened to know Eric Adams, and I happened to like 31 00:01:55,719 --> 00:01:59,840 Eric Adams. However, I do take umbrage to some of 32 00:01:59,879 --> 00:02:03,760 the statements that he just made. There is he trying 33 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:08,759 to say that the Biden Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department, 34 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,120 is being weaponized to go against him based upon what 35 00:02:13,479 --> 00:02:16,439 the migrant issue. I'm not one hundred percent certain what 36 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:21,000 issue that he's referring to, that the Justice Department would 37 00:02:21,039 --> 00:02:24,520 be coming after him. I don't buy that. I don't 38 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,360 And you also know that I have no love for 39 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:30,599 the Southern District of New York, and they're prosecutors, but 40 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,879 this one, very much like mine, is a very high 41 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,680 profile case, and they're going to have to have something. 42 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,840 There's no chance in the world that they are going 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,840 in to this case completely blind with made up information. 44 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,879 You see, in my specific case, what did they had, 45 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,639 They had the campaign finance violation, and then what they 46 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,240 do is they pile stuff on you in order to 47 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:58,439 add to it, despite the fact that many of those 48 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,240 allegations are let's just say, non prosecutable or should not 49 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:08,080 have been prosecuted at all. But I want to now, 50 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:12,000 I want to show you what Caitlin Collins of CNN 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,719 said the other night, play that flip. 52 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 3: The New York Times is now reporting that New York 53 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,039 City Mayor Eric Adams has just been indicted tonight by 54 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:24,840 federal prosecutors. It's still under seal as of this hour, 55 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,560 so we're still waiting on a lot of the details here. 56 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:30,439 But this comes as there has been a flood of 57 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,919 resignations in his administration, and of course we have seen 58 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:40,240 several of them embroiled in investigations from his administration. The 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,039 phones seized by several of them, including the police commissioner, 60 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:48,919 the school chancellor, the deputy mayor, several officials in his administration. 61 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,719 This has all been going on as today we saw 62 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:55,879 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocostio Cortez, one of the most prominent voices 63 00:03:56,199 --> 00:03:58,840 in the Democratic Party who doesn't often get involved in 64 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,039 the politics of New York City on the local level, 65 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:05,520 calling for Adams to resign, saying she did not see 66 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,120 how he could continue to govern the city. He responded 67 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:11,360 to that by saying that he had not faced any 68 00:04:11,439 --> 00:04:14,080 charges yet. Of course, now tonight we see that he 69 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:15,360 has been indicted. 70 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, so I understand, and I appreciate everybody chiming in, 71 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,879 and they all have a right to say whatever they want. 72 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,800 It's called the First Amendment, unless, of course he Michael 73 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,800 Cohen and Donald Trump was the president. But you have 74 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:32,120 the First Amendment right to say whatever you want. Whether 75 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,800 you're a congress person or just a lay person, it 76 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,639 makes no difference. So they can call for it. He's 77 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,199 not stepping down. He's already made that crystal clear. But 78 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,879 what I want to turn around, and I want to 79 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,759 just spend a second and talk about, is what these 80 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,639 charges are stemming from. The New York Times actually reported 81 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:56,279 that what it's regarding is an influx of campaign finance 82 00:04:56,519 --> 00:05:01,600 money that came from foreign sources, and one of those sources, 83 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,560 I believe was Turkey, where they had a construction project, 84 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:10,959 and somehow or another, that construction project was fast tracked 85 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:16,040 through a developer, through a construction company that ended up 86 00:05:16,759 --> 00:05:21,279 donating that money or a large sum of money to 87 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,839 the Adams campaign in twenty twenty. Now, that is a 88 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,959 clear violation of campaign finance rules, and that is a 89 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,279 federal offense. I know, because that's what the Stormy Daniels 90 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,439 matter was, about what they're going to charge and what 91 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,600 they're going to pile on next that I have no idea, 92 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,720 but it appears that it wasn't just Turkey alone, that 93 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,279 there was other campaign finance money that was coming in 94 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,319 from foreign entities. This is a problem. This is a 95 00:05:52,319 --> 00:05:57,639 real problem. Now, when I said earlier that they must 96 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:03,199 have information out in my mind that the contractor or 97 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,199 other people must have provided testimony and documents to the 98 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,000 Southern District, they're not that stupid that they're going to 99 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,920 jump in with something like this. But nevertheless, Mayor Adams 100 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,720 is claiming that he's innocent. Play that clip. 101 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,519 Speaker 2: If I'm charged, I know I am innocent. I will 102 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,079 request in immediate trials so the New Yorkers can hear 103 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:29,879 the truth. 104 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, he has the right within which to plead not guilty, 105 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:39,279 and then they will, of course unseal the indictment. I 106 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:43,439 suspect they will, and they will also then have to 107 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,079 turn over what's called three H two's. Those are grand 108 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,920 jury documents that were obtained and used in order to 109 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:54,759 get the indictment. That's going to be very interesting because 110 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,639 that tells the whole story. You see. I wasn't able 111 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,639 to get them because in my Space Pacific case, I 112 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,759 was literally I was told if I didn't plead guilty, 113 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:07,800 and this is on a Friday five point thirty. By Monday, 114 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,480 they were filing an eighty page indictment was going to 115 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,399 include my wife and I was like, what, But he 116 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,480 doesn't have that situation, Thank goodness, And those three O twos, 117 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,439 which are the statements that were made in order to 118 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,360 obtain the indictment, will be released. I for one, am 119 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,879 very interested, I really am. I'm interested in order to 120 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,759 read all of the allegations that are raised in the 121 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:36,879 three twos. I'm interested to see the indictment, the specifics, 122 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,360 and hopefully they provided the specifics so that we can 123 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:46,800 all see whether or not our Mayor Eric Adams is 124 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:51,040 actually guilty of this campaign finance violation, because if he's not, 125 00:07:52,199 --> 00:07:55,399 this is a real serious problem once again for our 126 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,079 Department of Justice, and it will change my entire perspective 127 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:03,720 about the weaponization of the Justice Department under this current administration. 128 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:07,000 You see, I have often said, while I am pro 129 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,879 Harris and Walls, and I've always been pro Biden, I've 130 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,639 never been a fan, for example, of Merrick Garland, our 131 00:08:14,759 --> 00:08:17,759 Attorney general. And I am very curious just to see 132 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:20,879 how this whole thing plays out, not just as somebody 133 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:24,199 who has gone through the system, but somebody who's a lawyer. 134 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:29,079 And so we all are on pins and needles waiting 135 00:08:29,319 --> 00:08:33,240 for this information. We're waiting for the release of the 136 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,240 information so that we can review it and discuss it 137 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,039 here on episodes like that. Nevertheless, despite the fact this 138 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,480 isn't about the campaign and so on, I will still 139 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:46,720 reiterate what I do every single episode. Please, my friends, 140 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,240 make sure that you go to vote dot org. Make 141 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:55,279 sure that you are registered. It takes five seconds. Please 142 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,919 do it, and make sure that come November fifth, that 143 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,559 you vote Harris Walls twenty twenty four. Hey, everyone, first 144 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,879 of all, thanks for watching. I mean, we're gonna be 145 00:09:04,919 --> 00:09:10,240 posting daily episodes with reactions and talking about politics. We'll 146 00:09:10,279 --> 00:09:13,600 be talking about everything in fact, so please like and 147 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,080 subscribe join us on this journey.