it s an opportunity for that missed a come in and tell them that maybe there is some innocent explanation for all o this as you reported, it s typicall something that is declined i the person does not have som valid misunderstanding t explain the whole thing away so, i think a very fai conclusion is that the investigation is over and th charges will be coming there is so much swelling around the former presidents worth reminding our viewer what exactly we are talkin about here and this particular case 130,000 dollar payment in th awaiting days of 201 presidential campaign to storm daniels. a hush money check cut b michael cohen who by the way has cooperated in this investigation, spoken to the da s office many, many times as recently as last week so what specific of crimes could we be talking about here what would be the penalty? i think it s aims that tw crimes are likely. once a month ossifies business records under new york law, it is a misdemeanor unless it i
picking up speed. this is regarding the hush money paid on that behalf of donald trump to former adult film star stormy daniels. on over the past two weeks the prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury about donald trump s role in the payments. laying the groundwork for criminal charges. trump is accused of making 130,000 dollar payment to daniels back in 2016, to secure her silence over an alleged affair. his former personal attorney michael cohen has still attained that payment, any ended up stirring serving time in it wasn t meant to kate keep voters in the dark. trump, who denies the allegations was let off the hook at the time. but what about now? this week, cohen met with manhattan district attorney alvin broad. it s the 15th time he spoken with that office in connection to this probe, and michael cohen says he believes the office will be building a very strong case against donald
he set them aside and set them apart. i thought it was brilliant. you alsom saw in the sheer structure of the speech, two thirds of the speech was on this stuff. it was on brass tacks. the agenda the bipartisan bill, the chips act, job creation, junk fees, all the sort of 130,000 dollar jobs for which you do not need a four year college degree all this other stuff, and i will say, this is stuff i was shocked by. abortion got three lines. roe v. wade got overturned last year. now if you are joe biden, you will think i m going to say that i am going to veto a national abortion ban. but it is a zero sum game. and making choices about what you emphasize and what you don t. and what you saw was, that was the lead of the speech. it was that kind of middle class political economy, economic agenda stuff. and everything else, which is in the back half of the speech, half the pivot, including ukraine, including lgbtq rights, including abortion, including immigration. that just got
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,
trump s former personal lawyer, michael cohen, spoke with the a, i mean brett, about hush money paid to stormy daniels, who said she had an affair with trump. that s according to people with knowledge of the matter. the times goes on to say, the questioning of cohen is the clearest sign yet the dea is ramping up his investigation into trump s role in the 130,000 dollar hush money deal. and michael cohen is joining me right now. voila, in the flesh. of course, the new york times bestselling author, host of the mea culpa podcast and author of the book, revenge, how donald trump weaponize the u.s. department of justice against his critics. welcome, michael. okay, don t push back too much, okay? don t tell me you can t talk about this. i will try to ask you questions that you can answer. i m sorry. yeah, please only give me the questions i can answer. how about this? what can you tell us about your meeting with the manhattan the a and is it possible you are going to talk with them agai