i m not sure you have your facts quite right about that. roger stone not working for the campaign, because the president and says you know what, i think wikileaks is about to dump clinton s emails. the president says good. that s great. they hang up the phone. the thing about it is that everybody knew wikileaks was going to dump it because a sound dumped he was going to tweet something against the democrats a week before. he knew at the same time as everyone else there is no inside information. that s why mueller didn t charge him with anything. he said hillary s emails were going to get dumped. wrong. it was the dnc. one more thing. on the payoff, it s not a campaign finance violation and here s why. it s a personal expenditure. cohen testify that he s been paying these things to keep them out of the public for ten years, would have done it regardless. there is cohen speaking to the press now. i am humbled. i am thankful to chairman cummings for giving me the opportunity today to te
and i hope that as chairman cummings said, it helps in order to heal america. and i think you all again. have a good day. reporter: when you talk about retribution, worried jesse: only one thing to say. dana: i just want to add juan: i want to finish up. dana: i want to add something to the point, you are talking about the payments. whether it s a campaign finance violation or personal expenditure. that is something that s at issue. that s the crux of it. if you are a tote fan, what you might like about what cohen said is he showed there is no pattern of it happening. it s a one-time thing. he didn t want to embarrass melania. i think the fact that he did that jesse: with women. he said that with women. he said there were other times he made payments going back to 2007. paying things to go away. dana: is not a payment
and just like he s not a lawyer. without objection, so ordered. i ask unanimous consent of the l.a. times article of jule record, which outlines the $1.2 million payment and their misgivings thereafter. without objection, so ordered. any other unanimous consent requests? thank you, mr. chairman. i ask unanimous consent to make the february 9, 2019 washington post profile michael cohen, titled michael cohen secret agenda, part of the record. their story shows cohen to be a selfish manipulator who was all about himself. he even has a false anecdote about how he once claimed to deliver his own son, his own baby. without objection, so ordered. thank you. i ask unanimous consent to make the main nine, 2018 washington post article south korean firm paid michael
president of the garden party. we have never recovered to him being president. cohen just ran through every tweet however done by keith olbermann. at the end of that thing, he knew when he said trump was a racist con man in chief, that he fulfilled the media mission as offering the perfect sound bite. the perfect lower third. every network had that lower third. racist con man cheat. they knew. lanny davis knew that if he met the media assumptions, this thing would be a major success, so he met the media assumptions. he went through the litany of everything the media feels about trump without ever laying a hand on collusion, without ever putting any news out. we had to sit here the whole day and not talk about real news. talk about this crap.
thank you very much. i listen to all of this. it s very painful. it s very painful. you made a lot of mistakes, mr. cohen. you have admitted that. one of the saddest parts of this whole thing is that some very innocent people are hurting too. you acknowledged that. that s your family. until you come here today and deep in my heart, and when i