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Trump Admin To Take Free School Lunch Away From One Million Children
October 22, 2019
The Trump administration is close to finalizing
a rule that is going to kick roughly 1 million children here in the United States off of
free school lunches. Now, this is an issue that we have talked
about in the past when it was first in development, and here it is right now the poverty level
for a family of four here in the United States is $25,000 a year according to the federal
government. If you’re a family of four and you make even
a dollar over 25,000 per year, you’re not in poverty even though you’re very much in
poverty. And if you’re in poverty and you qualify for
snap benefits, food stamps, you automatically get enrolled in free school lunches. While the administration believes that, Hey,
too many people are getting free school lunches and some of them make almost $50,000 a year,
and this administration thinks that that’s a lot of money. And if they do, I encourage any one of them
to try to feed a family of four on $50,000 a year. But what they’re doing with this new rule
is saying that if you’re over or really not, even if you’re over, we’re changing the rules
to where there’s no more automatic enrollment for people who exceed that poverty level. Up till now, it had been a certain, 100% over
that was still technically very poor, but not necessarily in poverty. You got automatically enrolled. The administration thinks, no, no, no, no,
no, no. We’re letting too many people have free lunches. We’re paying too much to feed starving children
here in the United States. So no more automatic enrollment. So what this means is that families will now
have to go through the process, fill out the necessary forms, do all this paperwork, uh,
to see if they even qualify, and then they can get it. But roughly 55% of the 1 million who are being
kicked off will not qualify anymore. So 1 million are automatically going to be
kicked off. Roughly 45% of them will be able to reapply
and likely should be able to get it. But the remaining 55% or 550,000 children
no longer going to get free school lunches, and again, these are people who make less
than $50,000 a year and if anybody watching this has ever tried to feed a family of four
on $50,000 a year, I have actually family of five. It’s damn near impossible. Damn near impossible. I’ve been through that. I know what it’s like. This administration does not. This is an administration filled with millionaires
and billionaires, people who have lived privileged lives from the day they took their first breath
and now they’re trying to take away food from starving children. For many kids in this country, that free school
meal might be the only meal they get that day, but even that is too much for this administration. We’re going to borrow $1 trillion for the
next fiscal year to help pay for the tax cut. We just gave it to the top 1% and yet we can’t
shell out a couple of bucks a day for children to not go hungry. This administration is, does, has done plenty
of illegal things. They’ve done plenty of immoral things and
corrupt things, but few things they have done are more heartless than what they’re doing
to these children right now.
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October 16, 2019
I am firmly convinced that there is nobody
in this entire administration that is not willing to break the law at any given point. The latest example we have of law breaking
from the Trump administration comes not from Donald himself, but instead from education
secretary Betsy Devoss. According to a new lawsuit against Betsy Devoss,
which is actually being heard in court today, may have already had a ruling by now. I haven’t checked my computer in about 30
minutes. Maybe it’s already done with, but Betsy Devoss
is facing a, a challenge from a couple thousand students who she wrongfully is garnishing
their wages, withholding their tax returns because of their student loan debt. Now again, more than a trillion dollars of
student loan debt here in the United States. So why is this a big deal? Well, here’s the big deal. Uh, last month, a judge actually, excuse me,
prior to last month, long before that, a federal judge said, Hey, Betsy Devoss and a department
of education, you can no longer seek repayment on student loans from borrowers who attended
Corinthian college, which went out of business several years ago after they were exposed
for being a massive fraud that lied to their students, lied about their job prospects,
lied about their graduation rates, lied about everything under the sun, and they also committed
securities fraud. Um, so they went out of business and a lot
of people were left with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and a degree that
was essentially worthless. So under the rules of the department of education
and rulings by judges, these debts were forgiven, didn’t have to repay them. You got swindled. We’re not going to charge you for that. But Betsy Devoss still collecting those debts,
even though a judge told her you can’t legally collect these debts anymore. So today, the students, which there’s over
1000 of them that were having their wages garnished or their tax returns withheld to
pay off these debts, 16,000 total that were uh, wrongfully being overcharged, but 15,000
of them have been resolved. 1000 plus still out there anyway. They’re arguing in front of a judge that,
Hey, she should be held in contempt. The court very clearly said, you can’t do
a thing, Betsy Devoss still did the thing. She broke the rule. She broke the law. She has to be held in contempt. There has to be some kind of accountability
in this administration for the constant rule breaking and hopefully that’s what happens. Hopefully that is the ruling that we get. Maybe it comes out late this afternoon, may
be in a couple days. Who knows? But something has to be done. Somebody in this administration has to be
made. An example of, we have seen this far too often,
this same show from the Trump administration, whether it’s Betsy Devoss, whether it’s Ben
Carson, Palmpeo, Andrew Wheeler, Scott Pruitt before him, all of them, they’re all cheats. They’re all crooks. They’re all doing these underhanded dealings,
and it’s time for one of them, at the very least, to finally face some kind of consequence
for their action.
In 2018 a young student took her own life
at the SEED Charter School in Washington, DC. In lawsuit filed earlier this year, the parents
or the child alleged that the school did nothing to prevent the constant bullying their daughter
suffered, and that’s only the tip of the problem. That’s the tip of the iceberg. It’s only a small part of the story. Joining me to talk about this lawsuit and
the information that’s already been uncovered is attorney LaRuby May. LaRuby, let me, this, this case, it seems
like over a period of the last five years, America’s Lawyer has done half a dozen of
these stories. Child committing suicide in a setting where
the people in control didn’t have control. This is a charter school. Yes. And we already know all the fundamental problems
with the charter school. Tell us this story. Just, just lay this out for the viewers. You know, in, in January on January 23rd,
2018 Stormiyah Denson-Jackson, 12 year old, it was at SEED Public Charter School, which
is a boarding school in the district of Columbia. And, that morning, Stormiyah was found hanging
in, in her dorm room until. What were the, as I looked at the background
of this case, there were all of these warnings that took place at the school. First of all, the, the psychology, the psychiatrist
that they had following her, it wasn’t even a psychiatrist. She wasn’t licensed, it wasn’t a licensed
psychologist. Wasn’t licensed. They were a psychologist of sort, unlicensed. The child came out and said, I don’t have
any reason to live. Yeah. No, so, so Stormiyah expressed her suicidal
ideation to the people in charge, to the people that she was supposed to and they brought
her to the site and as you mentioned, an unlicensed psychologist who did a suicide assessment
on her and deemed her low risk. And to what we, what we know right now is
in the country, African American children between the ages of 10 and 15 are one of the
highest rates of, of increase of suicide, so. Between, what are the ages? It’s like between the ages of like 10 and
15, middle school age children. Right. And the poorer you are, the economics play
into it. And so when she came to the school, she was
low risk. So when they did the suicide assessment, you
had probably the most egregious nature of them doing the suicide assessment is as she
exhibited suicidal ideation. They did a survey on her and never notified
mom of the suicidal ideation or that they even did a survey on the child. Okay, here’s where it gets, here’s where it
gets really weird to me. Okay. The, there’s, there’s laws in DC. Yes. And the laws are very clear that a public
school has to follow. If you see A, then you must do B. If you see B, you must do C. You must have
licensed people that are making estimations of whether this child is at risk. That was thrown out the door because this
is a charter school. Well, it was, it was thrown out the door because
this school is serving a population of poor black children. So that’s why these things are thrown out
the door. But then in the district of Columbia, we have
a law called the US suicide prevention act because we know how many urban children are
now committing suicide. In 2015 passed a law that says every teacher,
everyone encountering our children must take suicide prevention training and at SEED Public
Charter School, prior to Stormiyah death, zero people, not a single person at the school
took the suicide prevention training. Even though we have evidence of a case that’s
also pending against the school of another 12 year old who tried to commit suicide prior
to Stormiyah. Tell me, tell me, if you would, give me how
outrageous the conduct was of the school when, when people started asking questions. So the, the, the, the school, I think we have
to kind of go back not only of the conduct of the school, but of the authorizer of the
charter school board of the school that the school didn’t do the training. The school didn’t care to do the training. Like I said, that there was a, we’ve evidence
of another, a pending lawsuit of a child maybe six months before Stormiyah who attempted
suicide. And even after that child in the school attempted
suicide, still no one at the school felt that it was okay that they needed to do suicide
prevention training to make sure that their teachers or their psychologist were equipped. What are the documents showing? If you just say, just give me in every case
like this there’s sometimes there’s outrageous documents and you go, when a jury sees this,
they’re going to be really angry. Okay. Are there, is, does that exist there? Yeah, there’s some document, I think probably
the most outrageous document that’s out there is, SEED Public Charter School is authorized
by the charter school board and the executive director of the charter school board sent
out an email that said basically, I’m not going to, when the law came out, the suicide
prevention, said I’m not going to enforce it. I’m not going to penalize any school that
doesn’t enforce it. And what we, what we know is that the school
reform act in the district of Columbia is what created the charter school board and
what the charter school world says is, hey, you know what? We’re not like the regular public school. We have autonomy. We can do what we want. We can regulate ourselves. We can make independent decisions on laws
that are in the district of Columbia and what we find out in Stormiyah’s case is when adults
decide to, to interpret the law the way they want to, children suffer unnecessarily. So, the interesting thing about this is, I
was looking at this as, you were actually involved in creating some of those laws that
said, if you are in, a school must do these things because we have this huge problem of
children within this age group that basically a lot because of despair, economic despair,
end up committing suicide along with a lot of other factors, but economic despair is
certainly one of them. So you helped author that. Then all of a sudden the, for some reason
the charter schools think that they’re above the law. I don’t get that. They just believe that autonomy means that
they can make their own independent decisions and so that they don’t have to follow the
law. And we’re very clear that, Councilman David
Grosso introduced the legislation. I was very fortunate to support the legislation
that said, because of the rising number of suicides among African American middle school
aged children, we’re going to require that teachers and staff members have suicide prevention
training so that we can prevent children from committing suicide. And not only did the school not do the training,
but the authorizer who funds the school said, you know what? It’s okay. It’s put it over there in the pile. We don’t care if you enforce the law. And unfortunately, today we’re standing with
the loss of life of an amazing young lady. Yeah, and she was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. We, I want to follow this story as it goes
on. As your trial gets closer, let’s do this story
again. Let’s see whether the SEED organization, the
charter school organization owns up to what they’ve done here. Thank you for joining me. Okay. No problem. Thank you.
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>>>IN MAY OF THIS YEAR,>>>IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, BUZZFEED PUBLISHED WHAT THEY BUZZFEED PUBLISHED WHAT THEY CALLED THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF CALLED THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF THE EFFORT TO BUILD A TRUMP THE EFFORT TO BUILD A TRUMP TOWER IN MOSCOW DURING THE 2016 TOWER IN MOSCOW DURING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. THAT PIECE IS WHERE IT WAS FIRST THAT PIECE IS WHERE IT WAS FIRST REPORTED, THAT THE EFFORTS TO REPORTED, THAT THE EFFORTS TO BUILD TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW DIDN’T BUILD TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW DIDN’T END BEFORE THE FIRST PRIMARY END BEFORE THE FIRST PRIMARY STARTED, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL STARTED, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL TRUMP LINE ON THE STORY. TRUMP LINE ON THE STORY. BUZZFEED HAD IT BACK IN MAY. BUZZFEED HAD IT BACK IN MAY. ACTUALLY THE TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW ACTUALLY THE TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW PROJECT WENT ON FOR MONTHS INTO PROJECT WENT ON FOR MONTHS INTO THE CAMPAIGN, INTO THE SUMMER OF THE CAMPAIGN, INTO THE SUMMER OF 2016 BY WHICH TIME, FRANKLY, THE 2016 BY WHICH TIME, FRANKLY, THE PRIMARIES WERE OVER. PRIMARIES WERE OVER. BUZZFEED AT THAT TIME PUBLISHED BUZZFEED AT THAT TIME PUBLISHED TEXTS BETWEEN FELIX SATER YOU TEXTS BETWEEN FELIX SATER YOU SEE ON THE LEFT AND MICHAEL SEE ON THE LEFT AND MICHAEL COHEN YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT. COHEN YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT. TEXTS FROM THAT SUMMER WHICH TEXTS FROM THAT SUMMER WHICH SHOWED THE TWO MEN DURING THE SHOWED THE TWO MEN DURING THE CAMPAIGN TRYING TO ARRANGE A CAMPAIGN TRYING TO ARRANGE A MEETING BETWEEN TRUMP AND PUTIN MEETING BETWEEN TRUMP AND PUTIN TO DISCUSS THIS REAL ESTATE TO DISCUSS THIS REAL ESTATE DEAL. DEAL. QUOTE, SATER TEXTED COHEN. QUOTE, SATER TEXTED COHEN. I HAD A CHAT WITH MOSCOW. I HAD A CHAT WITH MOSCOW. ASSUMING THE TRIP DOES HAPPEN, ASSUMING THE TRIP DOES HAPPEN, QUESTION IS BEFORE OR AFTER THE QUESTION IS BEFORE OR AFTER THE CONVENTION. CONVENTION. COHEN WRITES BACK, TRUMP, ONCE COHEN WRITES BACK, TRUMP, ONCE HE BECOMES THE NOMINEE, AFTER. HE BECOMES THE NOMINEE, AFTER. THAT VERY SAME TEXT MESSAGE THAT VERY SAME TEXT MESSAGE WHICH WAS FIRST REPORTED BY WHICH WAS FIRST REPORTED BY BUZZFEED NEWS IN MAY, NOW TODAY BUZZFEED NEWS IN MAY, NOW TODAY SIX MONTHS LATER, IT TURNED UP SIX MONTHS LATER, IT TURNED UP AGAIN IN TODAY’S CRIMINAL AGAIN IN TODAY’S CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST MICHAEL COHEN. CHARGES AGAINST MICHAEL COHEN. ANTHONY CORMIER AND JASON ANTHONY CORMIER AND JASON LEOPOLD HAD THIS STORY BEFORE LEOPOLD HAD THIS STORY BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE FIGURED IT OUT, AND ANYBODY ELSE FIGURED IT OUT, AND NOW THEY’RE REPORTING ONCE AGAIN NOW THEY’RE REPORTING ONCE AGAIN IS BORN OUT BY WHAT MUELLER’S IS BORN OUT BY WHAT MUELLER’S OFFICE JUST CHARGED MICHAEL OFFICE JUST CHARGED MICHAEL COHEN WITH IN FEDERAL COURT. COHEN WITH IN FEDERAL COURT. WELL, NOW TONIGHT, AS COHEN HAS WELL, NOW TONIGHT, AS COHEN HAS JUST PLEAD GUILTY, THESE SAME JUST PLEAD GUILTY, THESE SAME REPORTERS FROM BUZZFEED HAVE REPORTERS FROM BUZZFEED HAVE BROKEN SOMETHING NEW ON THE SAME BROKEN SOMETHING NEW ON THE SAME STORY, AND AS A LITTLE PUBLIC STORY, AND AS A LITTLE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, IF YOU ARE SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, IF YOU ARE DRINKING OR EATING ANYTHING DRINKING OR EATING ANYTHING RIGHTS NOW, PAUSE. RIGHTS NOW, PAUSE. SWALLOW. SWALLOW. I DON’T WANT YOU TO SPIT I DON’T WANT YOU TO SPIT ANYTHING OUT ON YOUR NICE COUCH. ANYTHING OUT ON YOUR NICE COUCH. I LIKE YOUR COUCH. I LIKE YOUR COUCH. THIS IS THEIR HEADLINE TONIGHT THIS IS THEIR HEADLINE TONIGHT “THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION PLANNED “THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION PLANNED TO GIVE VLADIMIR PUTIN THE $50 TO GIVE VLADIMIR PUTIN THE $50 MILLION PENTHOUSE IN TRUMP TOWER MILLION PENTHOUSE IN TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW.” MOSCOW.” QUOTE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S QUOTE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S COMPANY PLANNED TO GIVE A $50 COMPANY PLANNED TO GIVE A $50 MILLION PENTHOUSE AT TRUMP TOWER MILLION PENTHOUSE AT TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MOSCOW TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AS THE COMPANY VLADIMIR PUTIN AS THE COMPANY NEGOTIATED THE REAL ESTATE NEGOTIATED THE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT DURING THE 2016 DEVELOPMENT DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN. CAMPAIGN. TWO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TWO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TOLD BUZZFEED NEWS THAT MICHAEL TOLD BUZZFEED NEWS THAT MICHAEL COHEN, TRUMP’S PERSONAL LAWYER COHEN, TRUMP’S PERSONAL LAWYER AT THE TIME DISCUSSED THE DEAL AT THE TIME DISCUSSED THE DEAL WITH THE REPRESENTATIVE OF WITH THE REPRESENTATIVE OF DIMITRI PESKOV, PUTT TEN’S PRESS DIMITRI PESKOV, PUTT TEN’S PRESS SECRETARY. SECRETARY. THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE TRUMP THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION PLANNED TO FORGE ORGANIZATION PLANNED TO FORGE DIRECT FINANCIAL LINKS WITH THE DIRECT FINANCIAL LINKS WITH THE LEAD OVER A HOSTILE NATION AT LEAD OVER A HOSTILE NATION AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CAMPAIGN THE HEIGHT OF THE CAMPAIGN RAISES FRESH QUESTIONS ABOUT RAISES FRESH QUESTIONS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RELATIONSHIP PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KREMLIN. WITH THE KREMLIN. OH, I DON’T KNOW. OH, I DON’T KNOW. DOESN’T EVERY PRESIDENTIAL DOESN’T EVERY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN EVERY ELECTION CANDIDATE IN EVERY ELECTION OFFER A $50 MILLION GIFT TO A OFFER A $50 MILLION GIFT TO A FOREIGN LEADER WHO AT THAT TIME FOREIGN LEADER WHO AT THAT TIME IS RUNNING A MILITARY IS RUNNING A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OPERATION TO HELP INTELLIGENCE OPERATION TO HELP THAT CANDIDATE BECOME PRESIDENT THAT CANDIDATE BECOME PRESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES? IN THE UNITED STATES? DON’T THEY ALL DO THIS? DON’T THEY ALL DO THIS? YAWN. YAWN. ISN’T THIS NORMAL? ISN’T THIS NORMAL? JOINING US NOW IS ANTHONY JOINING US NOW IS ANTHONY CORMIER, REPORTER FROM BUZZFEED CORMIER, REPORTER FROM BUZZFEED NEWS WHO HAS BEEN AHEAD OF THIS NEWS WHO HAS BEEN AHEAD OF THIS STORY FROM THE VERY, VERY STORY FROM THE VERY, VERY BEGINNING. BEGINNING. I HAVE TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS. I HAVE TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS.>>THANK YOU.>>THANK YOU.>>FIRST, LET ME ASK YOU,>>FIRST, LET ME ASK YOU, OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF WHAT WAS OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF WHAT WAS CHARGED TODAY BY MUELLER AND CHARGED TODAY BY MUELLER AND THAT MICHAEL COHEN PLEAD TO IS THAT MICHAEL COHEN PLEAD TO IS STUFF THAT YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY STUFF THAT YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED. REPORTED. THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT RELATES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT RELATES TO COHEN THAT YOU WERE SURPRISED TO COHEN THAT YOU WERE SURPRISED TO NOT SEE COME UP TODAY? TO NOT SEE COME UP TODAY?>>NO, NOT REALLY.>>NO, NOT REALLY. I MEAN, THIS CAME OUT OF LEFT I MEAN, THIS CAME OUT OF LEFT FIELD A LITTLE BIT. FIELD A LITTLE BIT. I DON’T THINK THERE WERE A WHOLE I DON’T THINK THERE WERE A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW HE WAS LOT OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW HE WAS NEGOTIATING AT THIS LEVEL. NEGOTIATING AT THIS LEVEL. WE HAD HEARD SOME RUMBLES. WE HAD HEARD SOME RUMBLES. I WAS ACTUALLY REALLY SURPRISED I WAS ACTUALLY REALLY SURPRISED THAT THEY ACTUALLY CONFIRMED THAT THEY ACTUALLY CONFIRMED THAT HE MADE THE PHONE CALL TO THAT HE MADE THE PHONE CALL TO PESKOV. PESKOV. IF YOU RECALL, HE HAS LONG HELD IF YOU RECALL, HE HAS LONG HELD THAT I JUST WENT TO KREMLIN.GOV THAT I JUST WENT TO KREMLIN.GOV BASICALLY AND SENT AN E-MAIL. BASICALLY AND SENT AN E-MAIL. I NEVER HAD ANY CONTACT WITH I NEVER HAD ANY CONTACT WITH PESKOV WHO IS FAIRLY PESKOV WHO IS FAIRLY HIGH-RANKING KREMLIN OFFICIAL. HIGH-RANKING KREMLIN OFFICIAL. SO IT’S REALLY CURIOUS TO ME SO IT’S REALLY CURIOUS TO ME THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S OFFICE HAS NAILED THAT DOWN. OFFICE HAS NAILED THAT DOWN.>>WHAT DOES THAT SUGGEST TO YOU>>WHAT DOES THAT SUGGEST TO YOU ABOUT THEIR ACCESS TO ABOUT THEIR ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AND SOURCES? SOURCES?>>EITHER THEY HAVE SIGNALS>>EITHER THEY HAVE SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE OR MICHAEL HAS JUST INTELLIGENCE OR MICHAEL HAS JUST GIVEN UP THE GOODS. GIVEN UP THE GOODS. EITHER THEY’VE GOT HIM OR HE’S EITHER THEY’VE GOT HIM OR HE’S SIMPLY COOPERATING. SIMPLY COOPERATING. I CAN’T TELL AT THIS POINT WHICH I CAN’T TELL AT THIS POINT WHICH ONE IT IS. ONE IT IS.>>MICHAEL COHEN DID NOT>>MICHAEL COHEN DID NOT PREVIOUSLY HAVE A FORMAL PREVIOUSLY HAVE A FORMAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH THE COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT, AND HE NOW DOES. GOVERNMENT, AND HE NOW DOES. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? WE KNOW HE WAS COOPERATING WE KNOW HE WAS COOPERATING BEFORE. BEFORE. NOW HE IS COOPERATING UNDER AN NOW HE IS COOPERATING UNDER AN AGREEMENT. AGREEMENT. IT’S BEEN SUGGESTED TO US THAT IT’S BEEN SUGGESTED TO US THAT MAYBE THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT MAYBE THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT UNDER COOPERATION AGREEMENT YOU UNDER COOPERATION AGREEMENT YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE TO HOLD DON’T HAVE A CHOICE TO HOLD ANYTHING BACK. ANYTHING BACK. YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO TELL THEM EVERYTHING, BACK TO LIKE EVERYTHING, BACK TO LIKE STEALING GUM BALLS WHEN YOU WERE STEALING GUM BALLS WHEN YOU WERE 8. 8. GIVEN YOUR REPORTING AND YOUR GIVEN YOUR REPORTING AND YOUR EXTENSIVE SOURCES ON THIS EXTENSIVE SOURCES ON THIS SUBJECT, DO YOU FEEL LIKE IF SUBJECT, DO YOU FEEL LIKE IF MICHAEL COHEN IS A WIDE OPEN MICHAEL COHEN IS A WIDE OPEN BOOK TO PROSECUTORS, THERE IS BOOK TO PROSECUTORS, THERE IS NOTHING THAT HE CAN HOLD BACK, NOTHING THAT HE CAN HOLD BACK, ARE THERE AREAS IN WHICH HIS ARE THERE AREAS IN WHICH HIS POTENTIAL TESTIMONY IS QUITE POTENTIAL TESTIMONY IS QUITE DANGEROUS? DANGEROUS?>>OH, GOD, ABSOLUTELY.>>OH, GOD, ABSOLUTELY. THE THINGS THAT THAT MAN KNOWS, THE THINGS THAT THAT MAN KNOWS, THE AMOUNT NOTES HE KEPT, THE THE AMOUNT NOTES HE KEPT, THE RECORDINGS? RECORDINGS? MICHAEL COHEN IS A VERY MICHAEL COHEN IS A VERY DANGEROUS THREAT TO THE DANGEROUS THREAT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. OF AMERICA. HE IS. HE IS. AND IT’S VERY CLEAR THAT THE AND IT’S VERY CLEAR THAT THE WHITE HOUSES THAT BEEN TRYING TO WHITE HOUSES THAT BEEN TRYING TO BURY MICHAEL COHEN THROUGH A BURY MICHAEL COHEN THROUGH A SERIES OVER LEAKS OVER THE PAST SERIES OVER LEAKS OVER THE PAST SORT OF FEW MONTHS AND I KNOW SORT OF FEW MONTHS AND I KNOW MICHAEL A LITTLE BIT. MICHAEL A LITTLE BIT. AND I KNOW PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIM, AND I KNOW PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIM, AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FAMILIAR AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH HIS THINKING ARE VERY CLEAR WITH HIS THINKING ARE VERY CLEAR THAT HE IS ACTING IN WHAT HE HAS THAT HE IS ACTING IN WHAT HE HAS DECIDED TO BE A PATRIOT. DECIDED TO BE A PATRIOT. HE IS ACTING IN HIS MIND TO HELP HE IS ACTING IN HIS MIND TO HELP THE PUBLIC UNDERSTAND EXACTLY THE PUBLIC UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN 2016, COME HELL WHAT HAPPENED IN 2016, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. OR HIGH WATER.>>DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE TRUMP>>DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW DEAL, OR ANYTHING TOWER MOSCOW DEAL, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT MICHAEL COHEN WAS ELSE THAT MICHAEL COHEN WAS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN DURING PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN DURING THE COURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN IS THE COURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO RUSSIA DIRECTLY RELATED TO RUSSIA INTERFERING IN THE ELECTION TO INTERFERING IN THE ELECTION TO HELP TRUMP, ANY COOPERATION, HELP TRUMP, ANY COOPERATION, CONSPIRACY, COLLUSION BETWEEN CONSPIRACY, COLLUSION BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO WORK TOGETHER TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO WORK TOGETHER TO HELP TRUMP GET ELECTED WITH TO HELP TRUMP GET ELECTED WITH FOREIGN ASSISTANCE? FOREIGN ASSISTANCE?>>SO THERE IS A SMALL LINE IN>>SO THERE IS A SMALL LINE IN THE STORY IN BOTH THE ONE WE THE STORY IN BOTH THE ONE WE PUBLISHED IN MAY AND THE ONE WE PUBLISHED IN MAY AND THE ONE WE PUBLISHED TODAY IN WHICH TWO FBI PUBLISHED TODAY IN WHICH TWO FBI AGENTS WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF AGENTS WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THIS INQUIRY BEFORE MUELLER GOT THIS INQUIRY BEFORE MUELLER GOT INVOLVED TOLD US THAT MICHAEL INVOLVED TOLD US THAT MICHAEL COHEN HAD COMMUNICATIONS WITH COHEN HAD COMMUNICATIONS WITH MORE THAN ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO MORE THAN ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO EITHER KNEW ABOUT OR TOOK PART EITHER KNEW ABOUT OR TOOK PART IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE. IN THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE.>>SO HE IS TALKING TO THEM>>SO HE IS TALKING TO THEM ABOUT TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW, BUT ABOUT TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW, BUT THEY THEMSELVES WERE INVOLVED IN THEY THEMSELVES WERE INVOLVED IN OR HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE OR HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTERFERENCE OPERATION? INTERFERENCE OPERATION?>>THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.>>THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.>>WHY ARE THOSE TWO THINGS>>WHY ARE THOSE TWO THINGS RELATED? RELATED? WHY WOULD THE SAME TWO PEOPLE BE WHY WOULD THE SAME TWO PEOPLE BE INVOLVED? INVOLVED?>>GOOD QUESTION.>>GOOD QUESTION. I DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. I DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. WE’RE UP TREE WITH OUR SOURCE WE’RE UP TREE WITH OUR SOURCE TRYING TO GET THEM TO TELL WHITE TRYING TO GET THEM TO TELL WHITE HOUSE IT IS. HOUSE IT IS. IN FACT WE SPOKE TO THEM TODAY. IN FACT WE SPOKE TO THEM TODAY. SLOW DOWN, WE’RE STILL WORK IT. SLOW DOWN, WE’RE STILL WORK IT. I DON’T KNOW. I DON’T KNOW. I CAN’T TELL. I CAN’T TELL. I DON’T KNOW WHICH INDIVIDUALS, I DON’T KNOW WHICH INDIVIDUALS, I DON’T WANT TO SPECULATE. I DON’T WANT TO SPECULATE. BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR DEAL, THIS THIS PARTICULAR DEAL, THIS MOSCOW TOWER AND THE MOSCOW TOWER AND THE INTERFERENCE CONNECT THERE IS A INTERFERENCE CONNECT THERE IS A NEXUS THERE, AND I DON’T GET IT NEXUS THERE, AND I DON’T GET IT YET. YET.>>BRIEFLY, AND THIS IS NOT YOUR>>BRIEFLY, AND THIS IS NOT YOUR REPORTING SOY DON’T WANT ROW TO REPORTING SOY DON’T WANT ROW TO ASK YOU TO COMMENT ON SOMETHING ASK YOU TO COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW PERSONALLY ABOUT. YOU DON’T KNOW PERSONALLY ABOUT. BUT “THE NEW YORK TIMES” BUT “THE NEW YORK TIMES” REPORTED ONE OF THE PEOPLE REPORTED ONE OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED ON THE RUSSIAN SIDE IS INVOLVED ON THE RUSSIAN SIDE IS A RUSSIAN GENERAL WITH MILITARY A RUSSIAN GENERAL WITH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BACKGROUND. INTELLIGENCE BACKGROUND.>>YEAH, HE IS.>>YEAH, HE IS. WE REPORTED THAT FIRST. WE REPORTED THAT FIRST.>>VERY GOOD.>>VERY GOOD. THEY’RE FURTHERING YOUR THEY’RE FURTHERING YOUR REPORTING ON THAT TODAY TONIGHT. REPORTING ON THAT TODAY TONIGHT.>>THAT’S GREAT.>>THAT’S GREAT.>>DOES THAT GATE THERE IS A>>DOES THAT GATE THERE IS A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, THERE IS MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, THERE IS A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION ELEMENT TO THE TRUMP TOWER ELEMENT TO THE TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW DEAL? MOSCOW DEAL?>>I UNDERSTAND IT, AND I’VE>>I UNDERSTAND IT, AND I’VE HEARD THAT YOU DON’T — NO ONE HEARD THAT YOU DON’T — NO ONE EVER LEAVES THE GRU. EVER LEAVES THE GRU. NO ONE EVER LEAVES RUSSIAN NO ONE EVER LEAVES RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS PERSON WAS A BIT OF A GRAY HAT, PERSON WAS A BIT OF A GRAY HAT, THAT HE MAY HAVE AIDED THE U.S. THAT HE MAY HAVE AIDED THE U.S. IN THE NUMBER OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE NUMBER OF INTELLIGENCE MISSIONS IN THE PAST. MISSIONS IN THE PAST. I’M NOT CERTAIN. I’M NOT CERTAIN. THAT WOULDN’T BE THE GUY THAT I THAT WOULDN’T BE THE GUY THAT I BET ON. BET ON. HE IS A FRIEND OF FELIX SATERS, HE IS A FRIEND OF FELIX SATERS, RIGHT. RIGHT. FELIX SATER IS INVOLVED IN THIS FELIX SATER IS INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL. DEAL. BUT I’M NOT QUITE CERTAIN. BUT I’M NOT QUITE CERTAIN. NONE OF MY SOURCES HAVE NONE OF MY SOURCES HAVE SUGGESTED IT, AND I’M NOT SUGGESTED IT, AND I’M NOT CERTAIN THAT HE IS THE GUY I CERTAIN THAT HE IS THE GUY I WOULD IMMEDIATELY SORT OF PIVOT WOULD IMMEDIATELY SORT OF PIVOT TO. TO. I WOULD BE MORE CURIOUS TO KNOW I WOULD BE MORE CURIOUS TO KNOW WHO EITHER AT THE BANKS OR AT WHO EITHER AT THE BANKS OR AT THE KREMLIN WERE THESE THE KREMLIN WERE THESE INDIVIDUALS TALKING TO. INDIVIDUALS TALKING TO. WHO WAS WORKING THAT BEHIND THE WHO WAS WORKING THAT BEHIND THE SCENES? SCENES?>>WHO AT THE BANKS OR AT THE>>WHO AT THE BANKS OR AT THE KREMLIN. KREMLIN.>>I FEEL LIKE I’M FOLLOWING>>I FEEL LIKE I’M FOLLOWING YOUR BREADCRUMBS A LOT THESE YOUR BREADCRUMBS A LOT THESE DAYS ANTHONY CORMIER FOR