Alan Dershowitz: Cohen Is Not as Loyal to the President as He Once Was

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DERSHOWITZ: "Lawyers and clients have those conversations all the time. I have had conversations like that with clients. The end result is, cash was not used, no payments were made. The context of the tape all suggests that the President wanted it to be papered. They wanted it to be a corporation, not just a payment. He wanted to make sure it was done right. He wanted to make sure it was done with records. So I think the big picture is no crime. It sounds like Cohen is not as loyal to the President as he once was. It also suggests that this conversation never should have been heard by any of us. And Cohen should not have recorded a conversation. You trust your lawyer to have a discreet conversation so that you can lay out all the possibilities and then decide what to do. The end result is no payments were made, no cash was given. And so this is a big deal about nothing.”