donald trump with michael cohen his long time fixer and lawyer and securing what were widely seen as hush money agreements with karen mcdougall and stormy daniels. well, a couple of different possibilities. first of all, as a purely dollar value, outsiders are only allowed to contribute a certain amount. i believe it s $5,300 per election. this is this was well in excess of that. but more importantly, it has to do with the reporting requirements. is that there are requirements that all money that goes in to a presidential campaign has to be accounted for. it has to you have to identify source and you have to identify how the money was spent. the question what happened here was that this money both to
the silence of stormy daniels. that benefit was not disclosed. so, it doesn t really matter for that purpose who made it, who reimbursed whom, it has to do with the president s potential liability. which michael cohen understand this has nothing to do with the campaign, i could have done this months ago, years ago which doesn t matter. the law says if the campaign gets a benefit that benefit has to be disclosed. there s very little question given the timing of the hush payment that that was for the purpose of benefiting the campaign. that means there s a violation of election law no matter how you cut it, no matter who reimbursed whom. he the question is who s on the hook for that. is the treasury that signs the forms, the president himself that knew about it. is it cohen? who s on the hook? and that s one of the arguments i ve heard that counters that is donald trump has a long history, we now know, of entering into these hush money agreements. so if he s doing these all the t
with federal investigators in the southern district of new york. then he went on to praise the southern district of new york prosecutors and investigators. how does this play then? well, certainly it seems like there is more to this story. i think it has keith davidson s fingerprints all over it. i think that s going to be the next guy to go down in this investigation. there is prosecutors don t believe in coincidences. the fact that keith davidson was a lawyer for all of these women in the hush money agreements on the other side with michael cohen, that s not a coincidence. i think that s where it is going next. the media, what does law enforcement do with this sketch? a sketch, detailed sketch, one that is seven years from memory seven years ago and they re putting it out in the public. right. this is not a law enforcement sketch, just to be clear. so avenatti and stormy daniels took this on themselves. now, it is not to say that, you know, state investigators and, you kn
the president is surrounded by terrible lawyers. michael cohen only has three clients. we for two of them what he was doing was arranging poorly executed hush money agreements. if you look at some of his other lawyers, he s not a real criminal lawyer in any sense of the word. he mainly runs an organization that allows him to raise money from republicans all over the country and hire his brother, his wife and other extended members of his family. the president is now completely overmatched. he s squaring off not just against bob mueller and one of the best all star teams of prosecutors in america, but also the southern district of new york, maybe the best us attorney s office in this country. bob mueller came out of that