And now convicted attorney, Michael Cohen. In his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison, Michael Cohen told abc news the president s claims are just not true. Nothing in the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. Trump. He directed me, as i said in the plea, he directed me to make the payments. But thats not all. Nbc news has confirmed a wall street journal report that trump was in the room with National Enquirer publisher, david pecker, and Michael Cohen in august of 2015 during the actual hush money discussions. This is a direct contradiction to what trump said back in april. Remember this . Reporter did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Why did Michael Cohen make those . Didnt know where the money came from. Lets start with white house correspondent, Kelly Odonnell. Regarding the hush money payments, cohen said trump knew it was wrong and trumps intent was to, quote, help the campaign. Has there been a reaction fr
Federal prosecutors disclosed that the president directed a pair of campaign felonies that basically defrauded voters. Thats one. Two, his personal lawyer and fixer was talking about a deal with the russian government that included political synergy, a deal which he lied about to congressional investigators and he said he lied for the president. And three, his campaign chief lied about among other things his contact with someone tied to russian intelligence. Theres also now an enormous body of public evidence demonstrating the trump orbits eagerness to team up with russia earlier in the campaign. Not to mention the pervasive culture of lying and corruption that has been uncovered by prosecutors more generally. As the Washington Post notes, we now know that russians interacted with at least 14 that numbers at 14 now Trump Associates during the campaign and the transition. That includes some family members. The president s lawyer lied to investigators about his interactions. His National
Departure was trumped by trump. Kelly spent 17 months on the job but his likely replacement could have even less time in that role. Trump versus comey again. The president lashing out. A newly released transcript shows the russia investigation began by looking into four individuals and details how a member in trumps circle was using information leaked to the fbi. After a long week of russia headlines, we have to do this once in a while. A bit of a laugh with snl. Dont be scared. Its just me, Robert Mueller, your dads friend from work. Im not allowed to talk to you. Thats fine, eric. It was pretty clear early on that you dont know anything. Nope. I wish i could say the same thing for some of your dads friends. Like mr. Pillowfort. Manafort. Mr. Papa johns pizza. Papadopoulos. You might want to call him federal inmate 10358. All right. Going to start with the fall out from the bombshell revelation ppsrevelations. A growing number of republicans fear the legal trouble will go to the rest
Again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 540 of the Trump Administration and an explosive development as weve been covering all day on the russia investigation with the president just two days away now from his summit and private time with Vladimir Putin. Lets put it this way, if you wonder if we were really hacked by the russians, if you question the lengths they went to affect our election or if you wonder what the special counsel has been up to all this time, read the indictment that came out today. Robert mueller charged 12 russian officers with a wide range sustained cyber attack on this countrys democratic process. The indictment alleges the russian agents conspired to interfere in our 2016 election by hacking the dnc, the clinton president ial campaign and the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein explained how the alleged conspiracy unfolded. The defendants worked for two units of the am maine Intelligence Director
Development as weve been covering all day on the russia investigation with the president just two days away now from his summit and private time with Vladimir Putin. Lets put it this way, if you wonder if we were really hacked by the russians, if you question the lengths they went to affect our election or if you wonder what the special counsel has been up to all this time, read the indictment that came out today. Robert mueller charged 12 russian officers with a wide range sustained cyber attack on this countrys democratic process. It alleges they conspired by hacking the dnc, the clinton president ial campaign and the Democratic Congressional campaign committee. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein explained how the alleged conspiracy unfolded. The defendants worked for two units of the am maine Intelligence Directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. They created fictitious online personas including d. C. Leaks and guccifer 2. 0. And they used those personas to rele