ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve -- appear to involve the president of the united states. that he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of president donald trump to two women. one was in -- one involved a payment to a woman $150,000, believed to be karen mcdougal. the second to a payment believed to be stormy daniels in october of 2016, rather, for $130,000. and for that payment michael cohen told the court that he received restitution for that payment or he received the money back for that payment from the candidate who is believed to be donald trump. throughout this investigation, this particular investigation which stemmed from the special counsel's office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned public corruption -- public corruption investigators here in new york both on the fbi side and the united states attorney's office. today they brought home a significant criminal information