Extremely loyal people. Tonight i will ask Michael Cohens lawyer what else hes got. There is no dispute that donald trump committed a crime. Plus, what does congress do with a potentially compromised president . We should be pushing to postpone the Kavanaugh Hearing. And the other trump world indictment. And duncan, thank you very much right from the beginning. Congresswoman Duncan Hunter misusing Campaign Funds. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. Donald trump has gotten caught. It is the president himself that now has been implicated in a criminal conspiracy to help him win the presidency. A conspiracy that doesnt have
to do with russia. And now the president s private business empire, his Family Foundation are in the legal cross hairs and we have no idea what is yet to come or how far it will go. Appearing in Federal Court yesterday to plead guilty to eight felony counts, Michael Cohen fated under oath that he broke Campaign Finance laws in 2016 before the election to cove
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collude and corrupt the american democracy system in the 2016 election which the trump tower meeting was all about. But also, knowledge about the Computer Crime of hacking and whether or not mr. Trump knew ahead of time. Lanny davis will be joining me in just a moment. So stick around. The president s involvement of a federal crime. Despite having been caught, his role. Despite the audio tape we have all heard, the president and cohen planning the mcdougal payment. The president says he didnt know about the hush money until after the facts. Did you know about the payments . Later on, i knew. Later on i knew. But you have to understand ainsley, what he did, and they
lawyer and assistance to tell a story. That is useful, but the legal question here is Michael Flynn pleaded guilty and cooperated and we never heard about it sort of on the outside. Just strange to me, our conversations already happening to mueller. Has Michael Cohen already talked to
that happened in watergate. they are deliberately trying, even if you can t prove that they worked with the russian government which seemed to me there is plenty of evidence of that too. just on this alone, they were deliberately trying to conceal information that would influence the election and help him win election jill is absolutely on the spot there. you have to look at what happened in the context of everything else that was going on in the campaign at the time. the access hollywood tape. all of these women coming out of the wood work that was accusing trump. trump was calling them liars. you had lots of controversy just before the comey tape came out. so all of this happened in that context and it wasn t only when he was running for office but after he was elected, they are still going through this. phonying up documents. while he is the sitting president. reimbursing him on monthly basis.
trump. trump was calling them liars. you had lots of controversy just before the comey tape came out. so all of this happened in that context and it wasn t only when he was running for office but after he was elected, they are still going through this. phonying up documents. while he is the sitting president. reimbursing him on monthly basis. phony documents, phony invoices. this is something that is right out of the organized crime book. this looks more like a mafia family than it does the president of the united states and the first family. not only that yeah. go ahead. i can t understand how congress can let this happen and do nothing and for any congressman to say it is up to the legal system, it is up to the legal system but it is also up to congress. this is clearly impeachable
perhaps rightly so, and impus e i impulsive what he is doing. they need to have a venting session to stop him from tweeting and not normally what we do with the president. but also self-damaging if, you think about. it. the comey tape tweets he put up facilitated to the appointment of bob mueller. he knew the answer, right? the republican in charge is saying today, not good enough. you can t deny there are tapes on twitter. we want something on letterhead from the white house officially informing this committee that there are no tapes and not in a lawyerly fashion. yeah. i just think, you know, at some point he will potentially recognize that he is his own worst enemy on this medium. he, obviously, loves twitter and stir a news cycle and it helps him vent, i imagine. there are real word consequences to this. you will launch probes. you will spark the creation of a