Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
watergate criminal conspiracy that caused richard nixon to resigned. he called john dean in all caps a rat. that s the nature of the man that is sitting in the white house. so i wouldn t take too seriously his reaction to michael cohen deciding to step up to the line and take responsibility and under oath describe what he did he did at the direction and with the coordination of the president. meaning that his crime was the president s crime. sandra: since the outcome yesterday, you have gone on other television networks and said and gone a bit beyond what you are telling us now, saying that cohen s knowledge reached beyond the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and included information on whether trump participated in a criminal conspiracy to hack into the computers of democratic officials. i did say possibility.
above almost all else. so when he tweets that his white house counsel isn t, quote a john dean type, then all caps a rat, for meeting with and talking to special counsel robert mueller, you have to wonder, what does the president moon by calling dena rat? so flashback, 1973, where john dean, then president richard nixon s white house counsel flipped and helped bring down nixon s presidency. is this the rat trump is tweeting about? the one who was in the white house and became somewhat familiar with its inner workings, the watergate matter was an inevitable outgrowth of a climate of excessive concern over the political impact of demonstrators, excessive concern over leaks, and insatiable appetite for political intelligence all coupled with a do-it-yourself white house staff regardless of the law. now, just this past sunday,