Thats beautiful. All right. Happy birthday, willie. Thanks, guys. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. Happy birthday, willie. Good morning. Im stephanie ruhle. With a lot to cover today. Starting with what . Rudy giuliani revealing the president did reimburse Michael Cohen for that hush money payment to one and only Stormy Daniels. Derailing the president s previous story, making him a liar. They funneled it through a law firm. Funneled through a law firm and then the president repaid it. Mm, that was just the beginning. The president s lawyer also claims he had another rational for firing comey. Says jared kushner, hes disposable and lays out his strategy for how to deal with Robert Mueller. I have a great team to help us break all of this down. I want to walk you through all of this. Because this has been an extraordinary, lets call it, 14 hours. Giulia giulianis media tour has given us a ton to get through. But the headline is this. In trying to
with the campaign? i want to bring my panel in. devin barrette, national security reporter for the washington post. he wrote about it in today s paper. so devin was certainly up last late night. mike pasco, the host of the slate s daily podcast. and matt welswelsh, editor at l for reason, the monthly libertarian magazine. you heard giuliani s arguments. does it get trump off the hook as far as campaign finance? no, for mere fact the money may have been routed or funneled through intermediaries doesn t absolve all campaign finance law issues. because the critical issue is whether or not there was an in kind contribution. some kind of benefit. so it doesn t get president trump out of the woods on campaign finance law. in addition it doesn t i think i see what rudy s trying to do. trying to say, oh, well, no, it