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
under oath is that at the direction and the coordination of the president of the united states, donald trump, named candidate, that the donations given to keep quiet two women, which mr. trump wasn t willing to sign those checks himself. he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments, is a federal crime. and if michael cohen, with the prosecutors in new york agreeing, admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. eric: you ve been a long-time clinton advisor and lawyer for hillary clinton and close to bill and hillary clinton, what do you say to those that there should be a special counsel investigating the clintons, dnc, dossier, chris fofer steele and the way it was handled by the department of justice and f.b.i. officials, some of whom have been fired and showed a distaste for donald trump becoming president of the united states? first of all, you didn t
facts. the democrats memo doesn t and can t say that the fisa court was told that hillary clinton, her campaign and the dnc paid for this dossier or that christopher steele, who put together the dossier, was desperate to keep donald trump from becoming president or that same chris fofer steele had a personal relationship with the number four lawyer at the department of justice, bruce ohr and his wife, nelly, who did the research for the fusion gps. those facts won t change. sandra: nunes said we want it out and made it clear unanimously we want it to get out. it has become so very political nunes calling the memo itself so very political. talking about christopher steele. nunes says here democrats say he is a good source. here is what nunes said about christopher steele over the weekend. christopher steele lied to the f.b.i. and i can t for the life of me know when you have the house who said that this guy lied to the f.b.i., and you