a pleasure. speaking of george w. bush, republicans, jordan, a former aide in the bush white house and an analyst, this is a critical moment. those 44 senators are saying something. william cohen said something just now. this is an alarm bell for the country. i want to echo what the secretary said. those are the republicans that i see as the tradition of the republican party that i hope that it will fall back into after this horrible era. it is absolutely breath taking to consider that as recently as june of this year michael cohen was a deputy finance chair of the republican national committee. and his fellow chair steve winn, eliot brody are not chairs of the committee but what a quick fall from grace for someone so close to donald trump and donald trump can try to denigrate
details. reporter: what do porn star stormy daniels, former wrestler hulk hogan, and former deputy finance chairman of the rnc eliot brody have in common? cnn has learned they all signed almost identical confidentiality agreements written by the same beverly hills-based attorney, keith davidson. in 2012, davidson tried to broker a deal between hulk hogan and davidson s client, who was trying to make money off a sex tape, showing hogan having sex with his friend s wife. davidson wrote the confidential settlement agreement, saying the sex video would be handed over if hogan paid his client $300,000. hogan s attorney called the fbi, and davidson was caught up in an fbi raid, accused of extortion. he was questioned, but never charged. four years later, davidson became stormy daniels attorney and he used the same document as a template for the stormy daniels deal, a source tells cnn. the wording in most of it is identical. that means the president s
fined $1 million for each time she talks about the alleged affair with the president. davidson also wrote the hush agreement signed by a former playboy model he represented who accused a major gop donor of getting her pregnant. then rnc deputy finance chairman, eliot brody, agreed to pay her $1.6 million. his lawyer in the deal was michael cohen. in a statement, brody revealed more about the situation, saying the woman terminated the pregnancy. the woman s current attorney, peter stris, said none of this should have ever been exposed to the public. can you say definitively that this was not your client leaking this information? my client did not leak this information. my client was not involved in the leaking of this information. my client could not habe more upset that her personal life in this regard has been made public in any way. again, that was sara sidner
a judge in federal court today. stormy daniels was there, but that was not the bombshell to have the day. no, that honor goes to what we learned about michael cohen s clients. cohen claiming in federal court today that he has three legal clients. one, two, three. just three. we know one is president donald trump, because he says so himself. i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man. we know another is top rnc donor, and until last week, top rnc official, eliot brody. former, because on his behalf, cohen negotiated a $1.6 million payment to a pregnant playmate. and today cohen claimed that there is this third client. cohen trying to protect the d t identity of this person. his lawyer telling the judge his name should be protected because of attorney/client privilege and that person would be embarrassed to be outed as a michael cohen
time with him and his wife and they re really amazing people, and together with guys like lou degioia and also eliot brody, we re going to raise about $150 million a year over the next four years. ambitious? we re on path for it. what did i start, 30 days ago? i m already in excess of $2.5 million. and that s in between doing everything else that i m doing. i also created a strategic alliance with squire patton boggs, where my office is at, both here in d.c. and also in london. i have my dedicated offices and representing a handful of individuals, some companies on the outside. but it gives me the opportunity to raise a substantial amount of money for the rnc finance committee, for what? for the mid-term elections. and ultimately the 2020 re-elections. we ll see what the numbers are in the filings. good luck to you. can i ask you for a donation?