Said on hannity that the president reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 payment as the nondisclosure agreement. But he cast the payment as a retainer for Services Rendered and expenses incurred on Michael Cohens behalf, that the president was not reimbursing him for paying off Stormy Daniels. Merely reimbursing Michael Cohen for expenses he said he had. At the heart of the case is the potential for the violation according to Rudy Giuliani. A that is what he believes he is pursuing. And the fact that the president reimbursed cohen for the payment to Stormy Daniels takes it off the table. Listen to what he said. He was definitely reimbursed. No doubt about it. Why did he say he wasnt . Maybe, maybe first of all, if we had to defend this as not being a campaign contribution, we could do that. This was for personal reasons. The president had been hurt personally. Not politically. Personally so much. And the first lady by some of the false allegations that one more false allegations six
Washington. New tonight, giuliani is reportedly calling on attorney general Jeff Sessions to step in on the cohen investigation. Chief National Correspondent ed henry just attended an event with the newest member of the president s legal team. I was just with Rudy Giuliani a few moments ago at a 9 11 charity event. The tunnel to a towers foundation. He was very up front about saying that he had another conversation with the president a few hours ago and that the president , despite all the Media Chatter about giuliani having disastrous interviews, that the president is very happy with the pugnacious tone that giuliani is pushing. In fact, giuliani confided to me that the president joked he is so pleased with giulianis performance hes thinking about sending him to the talks with kim jong un to try to work out the peace talks with north korea because he likes the tough line that giuliani is taking. Remember, last night we talked about the president moving quickly from cooperation to conf
These xwreements are common among celebrities and people of wealth. This morning, guiliani pushing back against claims he contradicted the president , who said last month he did not know about the payment cohen made to the porn star ahead of the 2016 election. Watch. I dont think theres any contradiction of that, thats what i said last night, people were surprised, i think this is a tweet that is valuable, the president indicates he understood it. He didnt know the details of this until we knew the details of it, which is a couple of weeks ago. We had to defend this not being a campaign contribution, i think we can do that. This is personal reasons. Melissa john roberts joins us from the north lawn. A lot of news today, break it down. Gee, what a difference compared to a regular day, huh . Right. Usually nothing happening here. There are a lot of people who say that what Rudy Guiliani dropped on Sean Hannitys show is a direct contradiction of what the president told the White House Pre
It is friday, may 4th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Well start with stunning revolutions as the the New York Times describes it suggesting a president losing control of his own narrative. As of this week, it turns out that the statement about his health was not actually from trumps doctor but had been dictated by mr. Trump himself, the president has split with the leaders of the legal team and hired a new attorney and mr. Trump had finance the 130,000 payment intended to buy the silence of the actress known as Stormy Daniels. The Washington Post reports that when Rudy Giuliani went on National Television wednesday night and said the president had, quote, funneled money to Michael Cohen for the cost of the porn stars nondisclosure agreement, quote, neither White House Counsel Don Mcgahn or emmitt flood, the white house attorney recently hired knew that trump had reimbursed cohen before giuliani actually revealed it on fox news. The communications of media staff run by Sarah Huckabee sanders d
Going to daniels. Giuliani also laying out the conditions for a possible interview between President Trump and special counsel robert mueller. The former new york city mayor saying the sitdown would be two to three hours max and would hinge on some specific conditions. I dont expect that were going to have an interview with the exonerating i have a lot of questions. I would like to get one not under oath. I would want a videotape and audio taped. I want to make sure they dont misrepresent his answers. But this is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Sandra john roberts is reporting live from the north korea the north lawn. A stunning revelation when Rudy Giuliani acknowledged that the president did, in fact, reimburse Michael Cohen, his personal attorney for the 130,000 that cohen paid to daniels for that nondisclosure agreement. However, giuliani insists the president was paying cohen a retainer for Services Rendered and expenses incurred and didnt know specifically what the money wa