That he's with the team, that he's on board." And the next day, the day after that meeting occurs on April 17th, Donald Trump starts tweeting out that Michael's not going to flip. One of the people that was involved in cooking the books."Īkerman continued: "What's wrong with it is it comes to a point when Michael meets with Costello, who is talking to Rudy Giuliani, who is talking to Donald Trump, and it all comes back to Donald Trump that Michael is on board and that he's staying with the team. Then he got calls from other people, friends of Donald Trump, who called up and basically told him to keep in line, including Allen Weisselberg who I believe also called him during that period of time. "It really starts on April 9th when the search warrant is executed and only a few days after that Donald Trump calls him according to the Mueller Report and he can confirm this and told him that, you know, he was just checking in to see if he was okay and he encouraged Michael to hang in there. "Well, that's all part of the story," Akerman explained. He asked why something like that matters. Melber put up a headline saying Costello contacted one of Trump's lawyers to see, allegedly, if he could arrange for a pardon for Cohen. Attorney's office and he's a good guy and it seems like he was wittingly or unwittingly part of a plot to keep Michael Cohen in line," he continued. "I start with the Mueller report because the Mueller report laid out a witness-tampering plot by Donald Trump, basically to keep Michael in line with Donald Trump," said Akerman, saying that it went through Rudy Giuliani and Bob Costello. Speaking to Ari Melber, he and Akerman explained that the special counsel's report on the Russia investigation revealed a lot of information about the exchanges between Cohen and Costello, including the attempt by Trump allies to keep him from flipping. Costello then said that he provided stacks of "evidence" about Cohen that show he was desperate and willing to do anything to get out of potential prison.īut the reality is a different matter, according to Cohen. He declined but he sent Costello instead. That's the big one.Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman joined Michel Cohen on MSNBC Monday following a press conference by Donald Trump ally Bob Costello who appeared before a Manhattan grand jury.Īs a possible indictment hangs over Trump, the district attorney's office asked the former president if he wanted to speak out in his defense to the grand jury. But Raw Power is the high-priced spread when you're talking about the Stooges. All three Stooges albums are equal to me. We were very well rewarded for that record, later. 'Oh, I say, it's Iggy Pop!'"ĭespite the Stooges' disintegration months after Raw Power was released, he added: "I had the faith that if we did our best, things would come around. I'd stick my head out and see Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret. When I couldn't come up with the lyrics and live with them at the same time, they put me in the basement of Blakes Hotel. We were given every artistic requirement – a place to rehearse, and a good studio. Pop insisted that MainMan had represented the band's "best shot to do something," and reported they'd been well-treated during their time in the U.K. On top of that, we were all one step away from becoming junkies and the ones that weren't junkies were completely out of touch with reality. "I knew our management didn't want it, I knew that radio didn't understand it and I knew that most people wouldn't get it. "I knew that there were a few malcontented, strange people out there who were actually going to like this, but there was no apparatus to gather them up. "I realized that there was almost no one in the world who wanted to save the Stooges," Pop said. The band, with a new lineup, had relocated to London to make the record at the invitation of David Bowie's management company, MainMan. I felt a sense of relief that it made me artistically secure. He allowed that "Search and Destroy" was the "record's masterpiece," continuing: "I knew it when we did it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |