While Donald Trump was getting briefed on the state of American national security, his counsel, Michael Cohen, made a disastrous late-afternoon appearance on CNN.

Now, if TV has taught us anything, it's that lawyers traditionally instruct their clients to say little-to-nothing when confronted with difficult questions, because lawyers, themselves, are supposed to do most of the talking.

Particularly when cameras are rolling.

"Polls? Okay, which polls?"

"All of them."

"Okay."

It's already a meme:

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