President s now confirmed reimbursement to Michael Cohen. Remember, reimbursement he denied far long time. Now its confirmed for payments to Stormy Daniels days before the election campaign, before the election. Did it violate Campaign Finance laws . And trump confirmed in a tweet this morning that cohen received a monthly retainer, just as giuliani made several fox news appearances to talk about that controversy. That money was not campaign money. Sorry, im giving you a fact now that you dont know. The president repaid it. Oh, i didnt know, he did. People were, indeed, surprised, which is why this is a tweet thats very valuable because the president indicates he understood it. He didnt know the details of this until we knew the details of it which a couple weeks ago. If we had to defend this as not being a Campaign Contribution, i think we could do that. This was for personal reasons. This was the president had been personally. Theres much more to that including a line that nobody tho
A former trump president ial Campaign Aide said after his interview its clear that investigators are focused on russian collusion. Do they now know more about the Trump Campaign than the people who ran it . And speaking freely, Rudy Giuliani raises hope north korea will soon release three americans but the white house says it actually cant confirm that. Does he have access to National Security information . Wolf blitzer is off today. Youre in the situation room. The white house bombarded with questions of the bombshell interview of Rudy Giuliani, the newest member of President Trumps legal team, press secretary sanders was just forced to defend false statements she and the president made about hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. Rudy giuliani blindsided the white house revealing what the president knew about the deal and that the former new york mayor linked it to the 2016 election. The white house now saying that mr. Trump eventually learned of the payment to daniels. Were go
Pressure from the investigation. It leaked. The New York Times saying trump said, i just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy a real nut job. I face great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. Thats not all. On that same day, mike pence was publicly denying what trump was privately telling those same putin appointees in a comment that would later be shredded by Donald Trumps own Public Statement to lester holt. What about the president s dissatisfaction with the russia probe . Did that play into this, sir . Let me be very clear, that the president s decision to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general and the attorney general to remove director comey as the head of the fbi was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interests of the American People. Some statements dont age well. Tonight a year later we know that even trumps allies dont bother claiming anymore the comey firing was about a recommendation from Rod Rosenstein and jeff sessions.
Michael cohen when he was trying to defend Michael Cohens 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels but Rudy Giuliani is nowhere to be seen or heard trying to defend Michael Cohens Financial Arrangements for the money that was paid to Michael Cohen by giant corporate interests trying to buy access to the president of the United States. Rudy giuliani was willing to say anything when it came to defending Michael Cohen for what Michael Cohen said was using his own money to pay off Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about her sexual relationship with donald trump. Ruud sai Rudy Giuliani said its the kind of thing he did all the time for his clients. That was money that was paid by by his lawyer, the way i would do out of his law firm fund or whatever fund, it doesnt matter, the president reimbursed that. Michael could take care of things like this, like i take care of things like this for my clients. Is it the kind of thing ive settled for celebrities and famous people. Every lawyer that has done t
Of your show. Now that youve gotten a chance to see it, i see you were as enthralled by it as i was. There are a number of things that the president and his lawyer, mr. Giuliani, are now copping to, is maybe the thing they were going to say, that you would think would have to be pried out of them with a search warrant, a subpoena, at least being under oath. The fact that theyre volunteering this stuff because they think its the best possible foot forward with the public explaining their behavior is mind bending. I dont know where this goes from here. I dont know what you do after you confess. Its funny how stories change after an fbi raid. Yeah. Suddenly they have a new view of what happened. They have to put a new spin on it but they have to admit to the behavior. This is a weird time. It feels to me in the movie the plot is over, we know what happened, bad guys got caught. We have the transparency. Usually in the movie were getting ready for the credits. At this point the credits are