My best friend and I have been following these investigations closely, and our best exchange this week ended with, “They’re so bad at crime! How is this the first time they get caught?!”

They give me just enough snark to get through the week and stay engaged rather than fall into a deep vat of ice cream fueled depression.

You’re going to have to work very hard to convince me this is not an actual transcript.

Ha! Avenatti just crashed that hearing!

For me it’s been a combination of John, Seth Meyers, and Samantha Bee.

You’d think after Manafort’s “Rise and Shine! It’s the FBI!” home search last summer that one would get rid of highly incriminating evidence but nooooo...

It’s like everything else involved with this administration; nobody thought they would ever get caught,and that they could do what they wanted,and if nothing else,that the same stuff that could incriminate them,they figured they would hold onto to have over someone else.

Americans are so desensitized to war, they’ve forgotten we’re still in Iraq and Afghanistan. Howard Stern pointed out that a helicopter full of the Air Force’s elite pararescue died last week, and no one cares. These guys’ motto “So that others may live”. They jump in when missions go to shit, and save our people.…

This comment is going to end up criminally underrated no matter how many stars it gets.

John’s takes on this administration are the Best Takes. Last Week Tonight has been my lifeline.

I’m not surprised he made the recordings in the first place, but I will be surprised if he was stupid enough to KEEP them this long right there in his office. You would think anyone who has evidence that would incriminate themselves would have long since hidden or destroyed it no? This investigation has been going on…

TRUMP: I can’t believe you did this, Michael. I’ve said it before—we have to be more careful with the cyber.
COHEN: ...What?
TRUMP: The tapes. They’re part of the cyber ...no?
COHEN: No, they’re...
TRUMP: But email is.
COHEN: Email is, in a way, yes.
TRUMP: Part of the cyber. So what are tapes?
COHEN: They’re just...tapes.…

Considering Fox & Friends just told him what a great idea it would be to bomb Syria as a distraction from Comey’s book, I think your “if and when” just became “any day now”.

I’m guessing not all of the calls were with clients. So there wouldn’t be client attorney privilege on those calls.

On that note, what’s the over/under on how many slobbering think pieces will be produced on How Presidential Cadet Bone Spurs Is if and when he bomb Syria?

He also waived attorney client privilege if he played them for third parties.

“Lordy, I hope they have tapes!”

If he was in the habit of replaying them, then they were easily accessible. The Feds have them all!!!!!

Damn, and here I was thinking that no one would be as stupid as Nixon after Watergate, recording everything criminal in the office.

Wow, it really IS...