the head of the technology firm showed up at trump tower in 2015 to collect $50,000. he surprised the man, john gauger, by giving him a blue walmart bag containing between 12 and $13,000 in cash. cohen denies that. he said the payments were made by check. he said, what i did, at the direction and for the sole benefit of donald j. trump. i truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn t deserve it. gloria borger, joe marino, back with us on this. what do you make of this, gloria? it s kind of an ah dashsauda story, first of all. second, this is a president who
this final act on mueller to arrive as well. nia, i m not done with this wall street journal story. i have so much more to say, which is so the man was promised $50,000, okay, to rig the polls that then donald trump the candidate cited at his rallies. look at the polls on winning, look at this, have you seen this latest poll. so they were rigged according to the guy that was going to collect 50,000. he never got that 50,000. all he got was the 12,000 to 13,000 in cash. and a glove. in a blew walmart bag. however, according to the wall street journal, michael cohen charged the campaign for the $50,000. right. so he was getting a kickback. yeah. he was bilking the campaign, so it was a campaign expenditure somehow. i don t know if he charged the trump administration. largely paid out of mr. trump s personal account, thank you.
graph. in early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at trump tower to collect $50,000 for having helped michael cohen, then donald trump s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss s favor before the presidential campaign. in the trump organization office, mr. cohen surprised the man john gauger by giving him a blue walmart bag in the is the part that alisyn likes containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and a boxing bluff that mr. cohen said had been worn by a brazilian mixed martial arts fighter. a walmart bag to help get online polls. that s pretty bad, right? i think it might be bad. just checking. all of these pieces in these strand about alleged corrupt activity on the part of the
may follow? do you think that perhaps giuliani was foreshadowing something he knows that we might find out that someone in the campaign did in fact collude more? i m not going to get in the business of kind of trying to, you know, predict what rudy giuliani is maybe significantnology nasignaling. at the end of the day the president s been very clear there s been no collusion. my understanding is there has been no collusion, i ve seen no evidence of collusion. yet i think the investigation needs to play out and i think we need to let that investigation play out. you re right, the president hahn ber been clear there s been no collusion but giuliani just moved the goal post saying that he never said no collusion between the campaign, just him. congressman, thank you for being with us this morning, a serious discussion. appreciate it. thanks, john. federal workers are still not getting paid because of the shutdown so we have some of their dire situations next. to make you everybody