Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president , we could be looking at an indictment against the president. We could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted coconspirator. Think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. Its really serious here. Well see what happens from here. The other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that Michael Cohen, and we dont know who these people are, was working w
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. And the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. If this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. Remember, who benefitted from this Campaign Fnls Violation . It wasnt Michael Cohen. The beneficiary was, according to Michael Cohen, the person who directed and then helped cover up this Illegal Campaign contribution. This brings this criminal case to the door of the Oval Office Like nothing we have seen before in this investigation. But jeff, obviously, you know, sitting president ,
according to precedent, not law, cant be indicted. Had the president leaves office, is this something charges could be pursued against him for . Well,
these actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. i m just saying i don t know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. not regarding stormy daniels. there s audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i don t know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and discussing the details of buying the rights to her story from ami. why they would be not like trump magazine actually exists that they were buying the rights so they could publish it. they were wanting to hold on to the rights so if the head of ami got hit by a truck in the immortal words of then candidate donald trump, they would be safe. you said he could still get immunity from mueller or immunity from congress if democrats win and decide to pursue impeachment charges. in both scenarios, he would be compelled to testify, right? right.
out, the benefit of this is for the president. doesn t make sense for a lawyer in good standing to have done these actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. i m just saying i don t know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. not regarding stormy daniels. there s audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i don t know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and discussing the details of buying the rights to her story from ami. why they would be not like trump magazine actually exists that they were buying the rights so they could publish it. they were wanting to hold on to the rights so if the head of ami got hit by a truck in the immortal words of then candidate donald trump, they would be safe. you said he could still get immunity from mueller or immunity from congress if democrats win and decide to pursue impeachment charges. in both scenarios,