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However, he would like to thank John Challis 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.920 for granting him a fair trial, Thank the jury for 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:03.880 their very long and hard fought deliberations. He is evaluating 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:09.080 all of his options at this point. Thank you everyone. Today, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.440 as you heard, Michael Golan pled guilty to eight felony charges. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.000 Five of those dealt with tax evasion for the years 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.440 two thousand and twelve through two thousand and sixteen, in 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.160 which he failed to report approximately four point one million 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.400 dollars in reported income. Approximately two point five of that 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.560 money was from interest payments from a personal loan that 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.240 he failed to report. Approximately one point three million dollars 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.720 of that money was from the operation of his taxi 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.520 medallion business. Approximately one hundred thousand dollars of that money 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.800 was from brokerage commissions and over two hundred thousand dollars 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.760 was from consulting fees. That's over four point three million 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.880 dollars over five year period, which translates into a loss 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.640 to the United States Treasury of approximately one point three 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:08.160 million dollars. In addition, in count six, Mr Cohen played 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:12.080 guilty to making false statements to a financial institution in 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.840 connection with an application for a home equity line of credit. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.040 In that application, he failed to disclose more than fourteen 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.359 million dollars in debt that he had, and as a 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.120 results of that concealment, he obtained that five dollar line 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.600 of credit, which he would not have been entitled to 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.640 had he been candid and honest. But very sad about that. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.760 It doesn't involve me, but I still feel, you know, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.920 it's a very sad thing that happened. This has nothing 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.800 to do with Russian collusion. Just started as Russian collusion. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.160 This has absolutely nothing to do there's a witch hunt 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.320 and it's a disgrace, but this has nothing to do 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.400 what they started out looking for Russians involved in our campaign. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.400 There were done. I feel very badly for a manta 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.080 for it. Again. He worked for Bob Toh. He worked 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.880 for Ronald Reagan, He worked for many, many people, and 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.520 that's the way it ends up. And it was not 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.280 the original mission, believe me, it was. There was something 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.040 very much different, so had nothing to do with Russian collusion. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:25.000 We continue the witch Thank you very much. Welcome to 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.599 the Bucks Exton Show. We continue the witch hunt. The 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.960 President says, h And that's certainly true. It's a fascinating 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.640 and I would tell you, folks, a very unsettling thing 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.040 to see what has happened here in these two trials, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.360 or at least one trial and one set of set 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.400 of charges, one immediant trial. And I want to break 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.680 these down. And you know the details of them are 0:04:54.720 --> 0:05:00.200 not all that important in terms of at least the charges, right, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.720 the the details of what they hit. And you'll you'll 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.800 notice that that one the prosecutor who was stating what 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.920 what Cohen did, he kept saying, you a four million 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.240 dollars of hitting it, And well, it's one million dollars 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.000 that the the federal government did not get their hands on. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.159 It's one million dollars that is really at issue here. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.280 That was there cut, That was Uncle Sam's cut from 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.080 what at least from what I can gather um and 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:32.080 on Manafort. They got him on uh eight counts, ten counts, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.800 there was a there was a mistrial. I couldn't tell 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.080 on ten of the counts. Now, a lot of people 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.320 are gonna look at this as is already the case. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:45.080 I see here on CNN a slightly celebratory tone. A 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.280 lot of people are now gonna run and talk about 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.200 how everyone who's around Trump is a crook. And I 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:55.479 would like to start with some very very important, let's say, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.280 basic assumptions that we should all have here before we 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.160 get into all this. I know people are gonna say, 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.919 oh my gosh, look what this proves. And first of all, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:09.000 proves nothing about Russia collusion or the election, nothing, absolutely nothing. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.320 The President's right about that. But what I can't tell 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:21.400 you was this. If you had taken a team of ferocious, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:28.919 ideologically driven federal prosecutors and given them unfettered authority to 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.720 pull whatever records they want, to pull anyone they want 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.320 under oath, and essentially to go get scalps, and you 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:41.200 had unleashed that group a manner, I mean, a Mueller 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:46.640 like squad on a Hillary Clinton and her immediate circle. Okay, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.480 I no serious person could convince me that you would 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:57.040 not find tax problems, financial impropriety, uh, you know, failure 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.560 to register as a foreign agent. A lot of these 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.440 things that come up with Manafort and with Cohen you 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.760 would see in similar fashion with Hillary and her And 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.960 in fact, I think Hillary herself, quite honestly, if you 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.120 if you were to shake the tree vigorously long enough, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.200 things would fall down. That would be criminal in nature. Uh. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.960 And and some of you are saying, well, buck, also, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.720 you don't have to shake any tree because she violated 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.040 classification protocol so that she could maintain um maintain. And 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.880 you know, people always forget this. I think this is 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.280 important to remember. And I know this is where I 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.920 I get a lot of trouble from my liberal friends. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.600 Why are you talking about Hillary when it's man of no? 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.240 Because it matters? It really They can call it what 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.960 about is M? All they want, but this really does 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.760 matter because the worst thing you can have is what 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.440 about is M? In the justice system? They say, it's 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.160 what about is M from pundits and people that go 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.200 on the news, But what about is M? When it 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:54.080 comes to the justice system, meaning you know, well, what 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.040 about this thing? But not what about that thing? When 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:04.000 people are treated differently based on their connections, their political affiliations. Uh, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.200 that is incredibly destructive. And you were talking about undermining institutions. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.880 When Republicans can count up getting the harshest possible treatment 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.800 from federal prosecutors and Democrats know that they will be 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.480 treated as leniently as they possibly can. We have a 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 very we're entering a very dark period in our country. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.360 And with Hillary and those around her, it was obvious 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.040 to anybody who was paying attention that she was getting 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.679 special treatment. Um that yes, she broke laws. But also 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.520 if you were to dig into the Clinton Foundation and 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.560 what they were doing, there was clear impropriety there and 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.560 they just weren't willing to see it or take action 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.880 on it. With Trump, you see the opposite. You know, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.640 with with Trump, you see an effort to do everything possible, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.280 and the prosecutors, prosecutors arsenal that the tool kits that 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.200 they have arsenal sounds scarier, will stay with that the 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.640 arsenal raw uh to take to take people down. This 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.240 is different, folks. This is distinct from what we've seen 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.000 with others, and and and there there's some other things 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.360 that just just some general feelings on this that I have. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.920 One of them is that any American should here that 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.280 Maniford And maybe I'll talk about with the co and stuff, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:22.800 and I want to focus on a manaph for a second. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.840 Any American should here that Manaford faced for in some 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.600 of the specific accounts. Right, he had eighteen counts against him, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.920 ten of them mistrial, eight of them found guilty. That 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.800 on some of those counts in which he was found guilty, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.320 one infraction and we're talking about tax infractions could be 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.840 punishable by up to thirty years in federal prison. And 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.240 I understand what the argument is here, right folks, people 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.960 will say, oh, but he'll never get that, Okay, But 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.880 what kind of country are we live again where you could, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:58.520 even in theory, go to prison for thirty years based 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.160 on not letting the federal government steal even more of 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:03.959 your stuff. I always think that's important to remember with 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.839 these tax fraud cases too. You know, uh, the the 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.880 notion is that, well, you're not paying any taxes. No, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.760 it's that you didn't pay all of your taxes. You're 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.160 still paying taxes. You know, you're still contributing the federal 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.120 government's still taking money from you. Just a question of 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.200 did they get their full cut or not? And I 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.880 know that you know, the country would cease to run 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.240 if nobody paid their taxes. And you know some of 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:27.920 you're gonna tell me, well, buck, we had no federal 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.800 income tax until the twentieth century. I know that's all true, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.200 and I wish we could go back to that, although 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.240 I don't think there's any really serious effort right now 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.600 to get us there. Um, But in the meantime we 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.520 we would have a serious financial crisis on our hands. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.760 And people don't pay their taxes. Okay, fine, thirty years though, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.400 three zero one count. Think of any person, you know, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.240 Think of the worst boss, the most lumberg like boss. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.800 They have to come in here on Sunday, you know, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.600 the worst boss you've ever had, the worst neighbor or whatever, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.240 somebody just drove you nuts. And if they got caught 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 on one on one count of tax evasion, would you 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.960 think it was just to send them away for thirty years? 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.560 What is that all about? You know, we have this 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.480 system of a federal prosecution where so much is in 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.800 favor of the prosecutors at this point, I mean, you 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.480 effectively gamble away your entire life if you even want 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.920 to try and protest your innytance that look. I yeah, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.319 I think Manufort, sure, I think he's guilty. Of course, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.520 do I think that he violated the law? Yes, to 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.360 the law matter, sure of course. But with Democrats, is 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.720 it fair to say the law is the law? Certainly 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.440 not the case when it comes to legal immigrants. You know, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.760 when when I always bring up how Democrats feel about 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.680 illegal immigration, which is the laws don't count, I will 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.640 talk to you also about you know, taxes, and the 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.600 same case can be made. Right. You can say about 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.520 illegal immigrants, come on, they just want to be here, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.520 They just want their piece of the dream. You can 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.520 say about Paul man Effort, well, he's contributing to the economy, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.320 and you know he he didn't hurt anybody. And it 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.520 doesn't it doesn't financially matter to the federal government that 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.760 one person did not pay you know, whatever it was, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.200 millions of dollars of tacts. It makes no difference whatsoever, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.520 zero difference. But we punish him because we believe in 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.360 a rule of law. With legal immigration, you'll notice that 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.640 logic does not apply anymore. The law is no longer 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.280 the law. The law is some kind of a of 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.160 a suggestion. It's it's something that changes based on the 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:36.000 whims of the Democrat mob. And that's that's another that's 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.320 another part of this I think is important focus on. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.080 And and finally there's this. I know there's some there's 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.040 celebration out there among people who hate Trump, their celebration 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:50.320 out there among people that really just want to see suffering, 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.120 among those who were even for a short time as 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.200 mana for it was a short timer for he was 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:01.600 fired on the Trump campaign. Um, but they they really 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:06.319 like to joy ride in this man's in this man's downfall. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.440 And I would just say that that is unseemly, folks, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.920 it really is. You know that we're not talking about 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.760 a a psycho killer. We're not talking about a rapist, murderer, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.760 somebody who's you know, beneath contempt. We're talking about a 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.560 guy who's greedy, who was was shady and his business dealings, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.800 and who is only let's all be clear about this, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:34.800 only now facing the rest of his life, possibly in prison. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.280 That's right. He could spend the I mean, he might 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.480 get an eight ten twelve years sentence. Yeah, you know, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.400 maybe maybe he'll get out and have some time, but 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.320 he could get a lot more than that too, but 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.600 I think he faces over eighty years, which is also, 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.559 let's all be honest, insane, eighty years. I mean he 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.000 should have to make financial restitution, pay a fine, and 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.280 be banned from, you know, the the industry he was in, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.520 and you know, do a lot of chair already work 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.839 like I actually go volunteer and help people. I mean, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.400 it's lock them away for eighty years. Why is that 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.360 even on the books? Why should that even be possible. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.520 So there's a lot of celebration out there right now, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.320 the folks because a guy who had worked for other 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.199 administrations you won't hear much about that, who was kind 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.520 of a political insider, a political player here in d C. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.520 And obviously abroad, he got jammed up on a tax 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:31.200 fraud case. Look at how far we've gone from Russia 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.760 collusion and the sanctity of our elections. We now have 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.680 journalists who can barely hide their glee at some you know, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:43.440 political gun for hire basically who didn't pay his taxes. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.960 And this is supposed to make us sleep more soundly 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.600 at night. I just I you know this, This is 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.240 this has become a focus of the Trump deranged in 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.840 ways that tell us much more about them then it 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.360 tells us about Russia collusion or Trump or anthing else 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.160 going on here. I want to talk to us about 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.520 the coe and stuff. I know Trump is gonna be 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.240 speaking uh in a little bit as well his rally 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.880 to night. I'm sure it's gonna be It's gonna be fascinating. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.120 So that will pick up some of that live if 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.360 we can eight four four nine hundred to eight to 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.520 five eight four four nine hundred Buck also send me 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.480 your thoughts on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash buck sexty. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.840 The lines are lit. Team. So let's get to some 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:35.440 of our wonderful callers. Here. We have John in Mississippi. Hey, John, Buck, 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.720 how are you. I'm good, Thanks for calling in good? 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:44.920 Um yeah, so what uh? What disturbed me is that 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.880 he could get thirty years in prison at doubt that 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.720 he will, but he could. And yet on one count, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.280 by the way, John, not to interrupt you, but one 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.560 count he was charged with eighteen counts. Amazing. So we 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:03.120 routinely let murder, rapists and people who commit our robbery 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.400 out in a fraction of the time that they're supposed 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:11.600 to serve. Is ironic. Well, yes, and you know, there's 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.560 actually a pretty clear movement john on the left to 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.000 suggest that, you know, financial crimes because of white privilege, 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.240 for example, financial crimes are less harshly punished and are 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.960 just as bad and therefore should be punished as harshly 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.160 as people who are violent. You know. So, so a 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.800 violent criminal, uh, you know, a gang banger who you know, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.120 shoots a gun off at somebody and is guilty of 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.520 attempted murder should serve you know, about the same amount 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.080 of time as somebody who owes the federal government more 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.600 tax money. I mean, there are people on the left 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.560 will tell you that that's what justice would look like, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:51.240 that that happens. Well, the government has to uh scare 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.600 the populace into submission, um, you know, with with a 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.600 with a sentence like that. Uh. They are trying to 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.440 send a message that you don't mess with the government, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:08.280 and that's why they are so there. I think the 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.760 government is terrified of things like cryptocurrency and bitcoin because 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.640 they can't control it and they know it, and they're 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.880 probably behind price manipulation of the bitcoin market and all 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:24.760 that stuff right now. Um, but yeah, they're they're they're 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.160 really not your friends. No, they are not your friend. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.280 As I like to tell people, be very clear on that, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.600 the government is not your friend. So John, thank you 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.680 very much for calling him, and I appreciate it. Shieldsaye 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:42.800 Brent in New Mexico. Hey, Brent about shill time man Shields. Yeah. Well, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.720 on a note on that, I guess it goes to 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.159 show you the difference between being charged by the federal 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.720 government by your state government. I mean, the state is 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.680 the one who handles your murder charge, but if the 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.200 federal government gets involved on a tax evasion thing, it's 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.399 a whole another ballpark. Right. Oh yeah, I mean the 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.760 federal secutors. Remember, you have to there's mandatory minimums, you 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.040 have to serve your full sentence, there's no parole, and 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.879 the resources that federal prosecutors have are way bigger and 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:13.800 better than usually what you'll get against a district attorney. Yes, sir, well, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.560 I kind of jumped the gun on the Cohen thing, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.320 but I didn't hear it your monologue, but I was 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.200 reading in my Twitter feeding and I won't drop names 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.920 on the reporters who were saying it. But rumor has 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.000 it the Cohen might plead down to a campaign finance 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.760 charge and if that happens told that implicate Trump? Or 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.800 do you think that there is something that's seriously be 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.520 concerned about it? You think that they're just talking. I 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.920 think that's that's a perfect segue to where I was 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.760 gonna go here, which I wanted to start with, focus 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.200 on mana fort Uh, and then get to the Cohen situation. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.399 I have to wonder also, I don't mean to be 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.840 conspiratorial here, Brent, but you know that the timing of 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.679 this maybe if you're Cohen, do you you know you 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.400 did they plan this? It's it seems a little coincidental. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.960 I guess it could be a coincidence. I can't say 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.800 it it's not, but that this happens on the same day, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.760 doesn't that strike anybody? Is maybe somebody well, I think 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.440 that the most likely situation is that Cohen maybe wanted 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.200 to get this over with the same day that Manaford 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.280 got his skill. I don't know, it's it's definitely something 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.760 that I'm taking note of. We will talk about Cohen though, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.280 and what is going to happen with him, and whether 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.920 or not, to your question, Brent, he's a possible problem 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.639 for Trump. We'll talk about that in in just a 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.640 few moments here coming up after this break eight four four, Buck, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.720 if you want to chat eight four two way to five, 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:42.280 will be right back. He's holding the line for America. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:47.359 Buck Sexton his back. So we were speaking before about 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:53.440 the uh Cohen situation, or sorry, the Manaford situation, and 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.600 now we should speak about the Cohin situation a bit 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.840 um my Michael Colin was president's lawyer, is close confidante. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.240 Some people in a in a nod to the Godfather 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.080 and other mafia pop culture referred him as a consoliary. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.600 So we all know you don't pronounce the G, so 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:17.359 it's not a consigliary. Um. But Michael Cohen, who is 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.040 the president's personal attorney, has admitted to charges felony charges, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:26.439 including federal campaign finance law violations by arranging hush money 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.480 payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboar 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.560 model Kara mcdougalll at the direction of then candidate Trump. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.879 Um In total, Coin pleaded guilty to five counts of 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.240 tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:46.040 financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:53.520 and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. Cohen 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:58.359 could receive who wants to guess, who wants to guess? 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.000 He You you heard those charges right, basically finance stuff 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.320 like moving moving around some money to different things for 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:09.360 the purposes of enriching himself or for political reasons. Five 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:15.719 years in prison, ten years in prison, try sixty five 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:22.040 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Wow, that's 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.080 what he could have received. His plea deal says he 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.119 will not challenge a sentence between forty six and sixty 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.520 three months, so four. Basically he's looking at four or 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.639 four or five years. Uh. And the deal does not 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.960 involve a cooperation a group with federal prosecutors, so he 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.280 could be He's gonna be sentenced on December twelve, So 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.080 Cohen could go away for four He's gonna go away 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.960 for four years, folks, for this four years. Uh, and 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.879 he's not cooperating, which people are gonna point it this 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.920 and say, well, what does that really mean about whether 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:54.840 he's any risk to the president. This brings me to 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.000 what my my esteemed call or a few moments ago, 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.480 I was asking about I don't think Trump, I don't 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.760 think Cohen has anything on the president but understand, folks, 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:07.159 that this is all about the president to the Democrats, 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.680 is isn't about some individuals who didn't pay their taxes 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.800 or did shady things in their businesses. Anything that anyone 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.359 does around Trump, or that they did years before they 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:22.119 were around Trump in the case of Manafort, anything that 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.119 they did that is wrong. The media will try to 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.439 find a way to place at a Trump's feet. It's 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.480 Trump's fault. Trump is the cause of the problem. Trump 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.080 is the reason that these issues happen. Now. I know 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.119 that's not rational, it's not reasonable, but this is what 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.920 they believe. And you need to understand that that's really 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.240 the takeaway here, and you can don't have to take 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.119 my word for it. We've got a member of Congress, 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:51.600 for example, Democrat, what is it, u Castro, John I mean, Mike, Yes, yes, 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:55.040 Representative Castro. Here's what he says about this place. Seventeen today, 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.920 we witnessed the President United States go from the fine 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:02.080 pan into the fire, moveing not just from political liability 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.679 for a bad situation with Russia, collusion and so forth, 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.479 to perhaps legal liability. Now and the question has come 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:11.720 up a few times about what the Congress will do 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.119 and I can't say for sure what the Congress will do, 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.399 but I believe that the Judiciary Committee in both the 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.040 House and the Senate should take this this issue up 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:25.160 immediately and should start to hold hearings about exactly what happened. Uh, 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.800 Call in the folks who could coroborate what the president 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.439 may have done according to Michael Cohen. Call in the 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.600 people from American media, the man who owns the Inquirer, 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:37.600 for example, and corroborate what was said by Michael Cohen. 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.960 The president's personal lawyer, somebody who has kept his secrets, 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:43.879 somebody who has been not just a lawyer but a 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:48.680 confidant to this president, has made very serious allegations about 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:54.479 the president's behavior. Has nothing to do with the Russia, folks, 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.320 nothing at all. This is all about Stormy Daniels and 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.720 h that other woman that Trump had the alleged actually 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:05.000