the, you know, in the runup to the 2016 election to keep the stories quiet. and this is the perfect storm confluence of those two requests. here you have donald trump and michael cohen talking about payments to a woman who claimed an affair and trying to keep that story quiet. i think that super important to the fbi s investigation about campaign finance because if this was ultimately about the campaign, if they said on the tape, and we don t know this, they said on the tape it is really important we tamp this down for the next month before the election, then it is a campaign issue. and i think that is really important. real quick, matt. do you have any sense of why donald trump through michael cohen would even want to buy the rights to the story? ami, the parent company of the national enquirer was already protecting the president. if you own the rights to a story, then it s your story. you can make sure it never gets
they re investigating him for violation laws including a hush payment he made to stormy daniels two weeks before the 2016 i election. cohen said he would take a bullet for president trump raised speculation he may splip and provide testimony against the president after he told abc news his first loyalty is to his family and his children. for more on this i m jinld by our legal analysts. back with me is andrew. thank you for joining me once again. i m going to start with you. giuliani saying he has no concern whatsoever about michael cohen flipping here. do you think that is just bra vad yoe or do you think giuliani actually knows something? i don t think as an attorney who just came on the case several months ago that jewel lanny can know for sure what cohen knows and more than that, what cohen has the motivation to
that you helped create influenced the 2016 election? i think it must have played some role. you know, i can t say for sure is this something that wanted for trump or a particular candidate. you know, it s sort of impossible to guess. but i think absolutely it played a role. thank you. cheers. when we come back, the reporter who broke wiley s story for the new york times joins me along with our reporter. i m going to ask them if they can connect the dots here and explain what wiley s information could tell us about the 2016 i election.
facebook ads. in key swing states that hillary clinton wasn t even bothering to campaign. this election meddling shouldn t be of surprise, which we will explain. it has been going on for decades. just ask president barack obama. we have damning videos to showsa you. breaking news from attorney general jeff sessions. he is saying that the doj abuses and the bought and paid for dossier will be investigated finally. first, tonight s opening monologue. tonight we start with president barack obama ignoring a major warning in 2014 that russia would try to r in fact interfere in the elections. what did obama do in 2016, 2015, 2014? did he even try to stop it? absolutely not. instead, just weeks before the i election, listen to what then-president obama said. i have never seen in my
that s what i want, to make sure we re taken care of here in the state of nevada. and ryan nobles is following the investigation at the white house this morning. good morning. victor, good morning to you. and president seizing on this washington post report that outlines exactly when and where president obama learned about russia s attempt to intervene in the american election. this post report is a bit of a bombshell, it details in specificity at the time when president obama was informed by the cia russia and vladimir putin in particular were said to intervene and help donald trump. there s one in the report that describes the administration s response as sort of a choke. that they dhoked and did not do enough to stop intervening in the election. not surprisingly president trump agrees. list ton what he said to fox set to air tomorrow. i just heard that obama knew about russia a long time before