Lawyer, Michael Cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. The Michael Cohen case thats shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. Michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and goto fixer. He once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. I said with Michael Cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. To look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. Less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. Things have shifted. I think he couldnt walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. Cohens plea deal followed months of controversy. The media reported extensively on cohens alleged Hush Money Payments to a porn star and a maybe model. Whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew Michael Cohen as a young man who would predicted he would one day be embro
To his inner circle, how do you think he feels. According to the wall street journal, allen, long term part of the white house, you may recognize him he was for a time a judge on the apprentice. The former employee telling cnn he knows every deal the president has been involved with quote every sale anything and everything done and including the deal candidate trump and Michael Cohen talked about in 2016 and team trump has lied about from the moment this story first came to light. The deal was to buy the rights of Karen Mcdougals story, the playboy model who was alleging a 10 month affair before and it was purchased by david from a magazine that bought the rights. Here is michael trump talking about starting the deal. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david, i will do that right away. Give it to me. Ive spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up. Ive spoken to Allen Weiselberg to set the whole thing up. So much for saying th
Well play the audio for you. This happening two months before the president ial election. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend david so that im going to do that right away. I have spoken to Allen Weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding yes. All the stuff im all over that. And i spoke to allen about it. When it comes time for the financing, which will be what financing . Well, well have to pay in cash . No, no, no, no, no, no. Good tape. There you go. Today, the president seemed to confirm he was not aware cohen, his personal attorney at the time, was recording him. This is what the president tweeted. What kind of lawyer would tape a client . So sad. Is this a first . Never heard of it before. Why was a the tape so abruptly terminated, cut, while i was presumably saying positive things . I hear there are many other clients and reporters that are taped. Can this be so . Too bad the president s current personal lawyer, Rudy
Gaslighting by President Trump and his defenders. Remember a little more than 24 hours ago the president on National Television said this. And just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. Dont believe what you see with your own eyes and what you hear with your owners. And sure enough, as soon as the tape first hit air last night on cnn, the effort began to persuade people not to trust their ears, not to believe the recording, not to see in fact what the recording reveals. The president has not been telling the truth about this, nor was the cam main in the weeks and days when it mattered. Quote we have no knowledge of any of this. Thats how Campaign Spokesperson hope hicks put it just days before the election. Thats what they claimed. No knowledge. Well, we now know in words made famous by elvis presley, that was just a lie. The song appropriately was hound doug as in you aint nothing but a hound dog. Hope hicks lied when she said we have no knowledge o
Im George Howell. Newsroom starts right now. At 5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast, in about 30 minutes time, pope francis is set to arrive in ireland, the first papal visit there in almost 40 years. Many will be greeting him, cheering his arrival. But there is also clear and raw anger in that nation as the church faces a scandal the backlash over decades of sexual abuse and coverups at the hands of priests and Church Officials. At some point, the pope is set to meet with some of those sexually victims of abuse. His stops will include dublin chasm a homeless shelter, st. Marys pro cathedral and the world family celebration. Sunday includes an open air mass in dublins phoenix park. Following the story, cnn senior vatican analyst john allen, also the editor of the independent news site crux live for us in dublin, ireland, this hour. A pleasure to have with you us again john. So what is the mood there ahead of this visit by the pope . Reporter well, look, george, pope francis is expe