and the white house still isn't answering questions about michael cohen. on the surface you would expect the white house to want to smack down any notion that someone close to the president was engaged in a pay for play scheme as michael avenatti, stormy daniels's attorney is indicating. but shrz referred all of those questions to the president's outside counsel. rudy giuliani says the president did not know about payments cohen can received. to be fair, michael cohen isn't the first person to capitalize on connections to people in power. >> sure. >> what's not normal though is that cohen was operating in secret, right, he didn't make his activity public by hanging a shingle as a will beyist. we still don't know exactly what cohen promised the companies, whether he was able to deliver or if he just duped various companies into thinking he was the key to navigating the trump white house when in fact he probably wasn't. u.n. one thing we know for sure is on a day when the white house