RUSH: Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? (interruption) No, I'm not playing any of the sound bites yet because I don't know if I'm gonna get the entire interview in order or if we're gonna cherry-pick it here. There's some confusion back and forth in the email. But we'll get to it. We'll get to it quickly. But get this. The Wall Street Journal, just within the last I guess hour or two, published a story saying that Michael Cohen, in a recorded phone call, is now walking back parts of his guilty plea. Michael Cohen...

Remember how excited everybody was when the FBI and the Southern District of New York raided Cohen's home and his apartment and his office? They were gonna get the goods on Trump, remember? They were gonna finally get everything they wanted, because Cohen was Trump's bagman. Yeah! Cohen was the guy that knew all of Trump's secrets. Well, all they found was a bunch of dirt on Cohen. So Cohen, trying to limit the damage to him, started making up stuff about all the things Trump supposedly did.

He would tell Mueller and he would tell SDNY whatever he thought they wanted to hear in order lessen his exposure to prison time, and the effort bombed out. So now Michael Cohen is "disavowing responsibility for some of the crimes to which he has pleaded guilty." In other words, he called 'em and said (paraphrased), "Hey, wait a minute! You know that thing I told you? I didn't really do it. You know that other thing over there where I pled guilty? I didn't really do it. (sputtering)

"I -- I -- I just told you that 'cause I thought that's what you wanted to hear. I thought it would help me. I knew you wanted Trump, so I was trying to help you." Now he's walking it all back. He was "contending in a recent recorded phone call that he had not evaded taxes and that a criminal charge related to his home equity line of credit was a lie." These are the kind of people that the Democrats invested everything in to try to get Trump. These are the kind of people. You know, Mueller even passed this guy off.

Mueller listened to this guy a couple of minutes and said, "You know what? I'm gonna move these guys over to SDNY and they can deal with this." Mueller decided early on that Cohen had nothing for him. But Cohen still would tell anybody, including the Drive-Bys, what he thought they wanted to hear -- and he was found guilty on a bunch of stuff, and now he's trying to say he didn't do it. (laughing) He's trying to walk back his guilty plea. I just love it.