daniels story. until now at least michael cohen's story was clear, it wasn't plausible, wasn't believable but it was at least relatively coherent. to recap, michael cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that michael cohen, the president's attorney, facilitated, as cohen put it, a $130,000 payment to stormy daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. now, the money came out of cohen's pocket allegedly, taken from a home equity line of credit we were told. the president had not repaid it. in fact, mr. trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. nothing to do with squelching an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. on wednesday night rudy guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. >> it's not campaign money.