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very troublesome for the president here. the fact is if president trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these campaign finance violations, couldn t he? absolutely. when you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way michael cohen described it in court, these documents, it s criminal information, so it s essentially laying everything out. if this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president, we could be looking at an indictment against the president. we could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted co-conspirator. think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. it s really serious here. we ll see what happens from here. the other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that michael cohen, and we don t know who these people are,
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1186, and this is 1998, it toppled 19% by august 31st. a lot of anxiety there. but then, it mostly move sideways during the senate hearings which began early february, ended on february 12th, 1999. look at the chart, you can see the stock market was up to the races after that. neil: you have a good economic or market backed up. i think it helps if you are president to base of the like his. richard nixon was not so lucky, if you think about it. if he had to kind of growth that reagan had, clinton had, he might have survived, for sure. neil: you never know. certainly, all of these rattling barks, could it rattle your money? sam, what you think? hey, neil, good to talk to you again. i think that newspapers are sold on headlines, but stocks are purchased on bottom lines.
this really does not affect the overall bottom line. i think it certainly is something that will be selling newspapers and causing people to turn on fox
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perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. and the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. if this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. remember, who benefitted from this campaign fnls violation? it wasn t michael cohen. the beneficiary was, according to michael cohen, the person who directed and then helped cover up this illegal campaign contribution. this brings this criminal case to the door of the oval office like nothing we have seen before in this investigation. but jeff, obviously, you know, sitting president,
according to precedent, not law, can t be indicted. had the president leaves office, is this something charges could be pursued against him for?
for the principle purpose of influencing the election. president trump today is claiming that those campaign violations are, quote, not a crime. that s not what the justice department said and same president named as individual one in the plea deal. you can believe individual one who is implicated in the crimes. the president. who does have a long and storied history of saying thing that is aren t true. or you can believe career prosecutors at the justice department, two federal judges and a jury of paul manafort s peers but you have to pick one or the other. another falsehood of the president saying that he did not learn of the hush money payments until after they d been made. despite the fact, of course, that michael cohen recently released an audio recording of september 2016 in which donald trump can be clearly heard discussing a potential payment to playboy model karen mcdougall and president trump verified that tape tweeting at the time, what kind of a lawyer would tape
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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 run-up to the presidential 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