Scaramucci: Cohen Won't Flip on Trump

President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen probably won't flip on his former boss, one-time White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who spoke with Cohen on Monday, believes.

"I didn't get the sense that he was going to 'flip on the president,'" Scaramucci told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday. "I think everybody who is in a situation that Michael Cohen is in has to have some level of cooperation with prosecutors, but more specifically is he going to flip on the president or not flip on the president? I think the answer is no."

However, Scaramucci added, "I take the president on his word that he didn't do anything wrong, so there's nothing to flip on."

On Saturday, Cohen told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, during a off-camera interview, that his decision to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and a probe in New York will depend on advice on his own attorney, and that his first loyalty lies with his family, not with Trump.

Scaramucci said he believes Cohen made the comment, though, because of the way Stephanopoulos asked his questions.

"It's the way people phrase questions that boxes people in," he said. "I think that he's always put his country and his family alongside his loyalty to his friends, his friend being the president."

However, Scaramucci said he also thinks Cohen "meant it" in the past when he said he would "take a bullet" for Trump.

"I do think he's in a situation right now where he did that interview because he wants people to know that he's not a villain," said Scaramucci. "One of the things that happens in the media and I experienced this personally, you get mashed up and brutalized in the media and if you don't come on shows like yours and talk directly to viewers, they can see you very differently than who you actually are."

It was a good idea for Cohen to do the interview, said Scaramucci, as it sent a "humanizing message" of who he is.

"We should all step back from all the mudslinging and throwing and recognize we have families," said Scaramucci. "We're human beings. And people should recognize that and take a step back. The president also happens to be a human being."

The best advice someone in Cohen's place could get, he added, is to wait to see what the accusations and indictment include and then develop a strategy, said Scaramucci.

"Once that shoe drops, you invite me back on, I can talk specifically in great delineation what that strategy should be," he said. "I think he has a fantastic lawyer now, and I predict that he will have a good outcome in this case."

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