worth to avoid paying taxes. he ll outline what he calls the president s lies, racism and cheating in his private business and accuse the president of committing a crime while in office related to those hush money payments to stormy daniels. cohen plans to bring records to back up his claims. the wall street journal reports cohen will bring documentation he claims proves he was reimbursed for his payment to stormy daniels in the form of checks, some signed by donald trump who was, by the way, president at the sime. none of the claims should come as a surprise. the president s racism has been evident since he headlined the birther movement. his shady business practices have been widely reported. he s already identified as individual one, who master minded the hush money payments. but there s a giant difference
committing a crime while in office related to those hush money payments to stormy daniels. cohen plans to bring records to back up his claims. the wall street journal reports cohen will bring documentation he claims proves he was reimbursed for his payment to stormy daniels in the form of checks, some signed by donald trump who was, by the way, president at the sime. none of the claims should come as a surprise. the president s racism has been evident since he headlined the birther movement. his shady business practices have been widely reported. he s already identified as individual one, who master minded the hush money payments. but there s a giant difference about reading about his conduct and getting a comprehensive account straight from a first-hand witness on camera.
to give the president the moniker individual one in the cohen case. those prosecutors being willing to spell out in court explicitly that individual one is, in fact, the president of the united states, and he directed the commission of these felonies. that forward-leaning posture for this u.s. attorney s office in the southern district of new york has led to recent speculation that that prosecutor s office might ultimately decide that they re going to ignore justice department internal policy which says you re not supposed to indict a sitting president while that president is still in office. politico.com reported yesterday that there is growing speculation in legal circles that this prosecutor s office, sdny, might be willing to defy that justice department policy. they might be willing to try to indict the president out of that office, since they are pushing up against that boundary anyway in the prosecutions they have already pursued.
either in or there s any concerns? he told the attorneys that i m not a target. yeah. reporter: [ inaudible question ] about which? reporter: [ inaudible question ] i don t know about that. for the record sha have not said publicly anything like that. it doesn t mean it s not true. we simply don t know. i am hard pressed to take donald trump at his word. i think he is a liar. i would like to hear some other qualifiers. the fact of the matter is this. the mueller investigation is going to play itself out. so is the southern district of new york. it is an investigation mind you that michael cohen said in court i know it seemed so long ago he was directed by individual one, donald trump. we all believed to be individual one to commit these crimes.
getting ready for his congressional testimony and this is from the special counsel s office. cohen admitted with respect to both statements he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. that s the payments of the women. the southern district went out of his way to say he was directed by individual one. mueller didn t do that when he talked about his congressional testimony and how he came up with the decision to lie and who might have helped him. but he did say there was coordination with people in the white house and neither mentioned the president specifically. and they could have. is this about me versus we? is this about the president directing it or something more