Meeting with Michael Cohen and david pecker, the head of the company that owns the National Enquirer as pecker offered to help the campaign identify negative stories about his relationships with women, stories that would then be killed, kept from the public. This is from a Court Document in the immunity deal that the company, ami has reached with prosecutors. One sentence caught our eye when this story came out yesterday. Im quoting. In or about august 2015, david pecker, the chairman and chief executive officer of ami, met with Michael Cohen, an attorney for president ial candidate and at least one other member of the campaign. Well, today, we learned the one other member of the campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, was donald j. Trump, the number one member of said campaign. Now, before this news came out, the president gave an interview where he informed fox news viewers that everythings fine. He didnt do anything wrong, and even if he did, it wasnt wrong anyway.
Presidency on even shackier ground. An ally of the president s telling nbc news, quote, the entire question about whether he committed an Impeachable Offense now hinges on the testimony of two men. David pecker is the chief executive at ami, the company that publishes the national inyei enquirer. Mr. President , did Michael Cohen cover up your dirty deeds . Were all bracing for a tweet storm from the president and, guess what, we got one. In his first tweet he says, i never corredirected michael coh break the law. I believe mr. Cohen will have an opportunity to answer every question and to tell the full story about what he knows about mr. Trump. A russian woman with deep ties to key republican players and the National Rifle association during the 2016 campaign pleaded guilty in federal court. She even appeared in the audience at a trump q a event and asked a question that led him to make an announcement he wanted to improve relations with russia. That gets right to the heart of whether
Expert warns some kids may never see their parents again. We begin with breaking news in polit politics. Wisingburg has been subpoenaed to testify. The ultimate nightmare scenario for trump according to an employee who says he knows anything and everything about mr. Trumps finances. The story breaking this afternoon in the wall street journ al coming as the u. S. Attorney tightens the screws in the investigation into Michael Cohen. It seems a clear sign officials are moving closer to the president s closest inner circle from his old company. In the trump Michael Cohen tape that cnn broke earlier this week the two men, the president and Michael Cohen discuss mr. Weiselbu weiselburg. His name may sound familiar to you. He is the center to the Trump Organization and he has been for decades. As cfo he has controlled the movement of money for trump. Its clear he has information that investigators want to discuss. Michael cohen mentioned his name in the secret recording between himself and t
We begin tonight with two pieces of breaking news. A new investigation, this time the president s inaugural committee over how it spent the more than 100 million it raised and whether it accepted donations from people looking to gain influence or access to new administration. Well have more details on that. But first, the other breaking news tonight, more evidence that shows the president seems incapable of telling the truth about almost any aspect of the hush money payments that just sent his former lawyer to prison. The president said today that he never directed Michael Cohen to do anything wrong. He said a lot of other truth challenged things which well get to. But tonight, we now know that two months after he began his president ial campaign, donald trump was in the room at a meeting with Michael Cohen and david pecker, the head of the company that owns the National Enquirer as pecker offered to help the campaign identify negative stories about his relationships with women, storie
Matter. This was someone whoer iss p sereptitiously recorded you. Yet this is someone that was in your inner circle. It happens. I usually hire good people but it just happened. I never directed him to do anything wrong. Whatever he did, he did on his own. Hes a lawyer. A lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. Thats why you pay them a lot of money. The president s legal analysis, though, not even passing the fox news smell test. Listen to what judge napolitano had to say. A very, very telling statement came out of the judges mouth yesterday after he read all the documents and heard all the arguments from the government, prosecutors in d. C. , prosecutors in new york, Michael Cohen and his lawyers. And that was about the president. The judge finding that the president ordered and paid for Michael Cohen to commit a crime. That is very telling. What crime . The intentional deception and failure to report campaign payments. The president not even able to keep his