we had in the watergate case, but this is a dramatic day. it s a thrilling day for anybody who wants to see the truth come out. this is clear evidence that the president committed crimes. and that is grounds for impeachment. there s no question of it. i know he will defend in saying well, this isn t rush. well, i don t care that it s not russia. it s not russiagate, but it s still trumpgate. this is crimes by the president of the united states, and it affected the election. that is a terrible thing, is that we have that happen in our country. and your opening is quite correct about the millions of people who might not have voted for him had they known the truth. and we can t get restitution for that. there is no way. but we could get some relief from this presidency. and we re joined now by phone by mimi rocah. she s a former federal prosecutor who worked in the southern district of new york, the office that is prosecuting michael cohen. and mimi, as to smoking guns, in the testimony
prosecutor who worked in the southern district of new york, the office that is prosecuting michael cohen. and mimi, as to smoking guns, in the testimony in court today there came a point as is a standard point in these proceedings where the judge wanted to know from the prosecutor if the prosecutor really does have enough evidence to convict michael cohen on all of these counts. and so on the campaign violation counts in which the prosecutor also said these crimes were committed at the direction of the candidate, the prosecutor actually told the judge that this is the evidence that they have. records obtained from an april 9th, 2018 series of search warrants on mr. cohen s premises including hard copy documents, seized electronic devices, and then here is maybe the smoking gun. she said, and audio recordings made by mr. cohen. so mimi, there the federal
isn t the best case scenario here tonight for the president, the best case, that at the very least he didn t hire the best. that at the very least the president hired admitted and convicted felons. did i miss anything? that s what keeps reverberating in my head. i m just laughing but we need to say one other thing about michael cohen. we do not know for a fact that he s not yet going to cooperate in some measure with robert mueller. that was sort of left out there. it s not part of this agreement. certainly seems less likely than it did a month ago. if you follow the reporting on this closely it remains an open question as to whether michael cohen will talk to robert mueller and whether mueller will turn around and recommend a lighter sentence. that chapter of the story is not over and the president remains exposed in that fashion. april ryan, to you. the president, remember, was calling all of this a witch hunt over and over again. he said it on april 9th when michael cohen s apar
trump and cohen merits so much attention, i think there is one known reason why this thing is interesting. and i say this as a skeptic on this story in general. there s one thing here that grabs me. we have known that the publisher, who paid this woman, karen mcdougal $150,000 for the story and killed the story, didn t run it. we know that he company is american media incorporated. they publish had the national enquirer and mens journals and other names you have heard of. we have known that company, american media got a federal subpoena at some point this spring in new york. today, wall street journal today was the first to report american media s subpoena arrived on the exact same day michael cohen got his office and his home and his hotel room and his safety deposit box all raided by the fbi. he got raided april 9th. american media got a subpoena from the feds that same day, april 9th. cohen gets raided april 9th and
michael cohen got his office and his home and hotel room and safe deposit box raided by the fbi. he got raided april 9th. american media got a subpoena from the feds that same day, april 9th. cohen gets raided april 9th and american media gets a subpoena that same day. that means legal pressure of various kinds was brought to bear on people close to the president, on his lawyer, this publishing firm basically his best friend, does that kind of pressure on people closely related to the president does that go to the president s own legal woes? we don t know but we ve been watching the dynamics after the raid. nine days after they got the subpoena they announced a new settlement with karen mcdougal with very specific plans for her to start appearing more often in their publications, including