In just a moment. He and his colleagues writing tonight, quote, President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard air force one in april according to two people familiar with the arrangement. It was not immediately clear when mr. Trump learned of the payment, which mr. Cohen made in october 2016 at a time when news Media Outlets were poised to pay her for her story about an alleged affair with mr. Trump in 2006. But three people close to the matter said mr. Trump knew that mr. Cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it. The president has spent the last several hours speaking out, in particular going into damage control mode trying to clean up comments that Rudy Giuliani made this week about trump reimbursing Michael Cohen. Ill tell you what. Rudy is a great guy, but he just start
Top of the gop field in 2016, is now behind bars. Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. , revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of Money Laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task
Hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. One of the authors of that story, matt apuzzo, will join us in just a moment. He and his colleagues writing tonight, quote, President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard air force one in april according to two people familiar with the arrangement. It was not immediately clear when mr. Trump learned of the payment, which mr. Cohen made in october 2016 at a time when news Media Outlets were poised to pay her for her story about an alleged affair with mr. Trump in 2006. But three people close to the matter said mr. Trump knew that mr. Cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it. The president has spent the last several hours speaking out, in particular going into damage control mode trying to clean up comments that Rudy Giuliani made this wee
Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. Revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task is to determine whether the Trump Campaign coordina
Wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the fbi investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. Trumps lawyers may take the information to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. Also that, quote, the white house hopes to get a readout of the materials next week. Giuliani telling the a. P. He wants to know about the use of a longtime government informant who approached members of Trumps Campaign about russian efforts. He says that if it was inappropriate, special counsel Robert Muellers entire probe may be illegitimate. Giuliani added the white house may press the Justice Department to, quote, reevaluate the investigation. Yesterday lawmakers received classified briefings with intelligence and Law Enforcement officials about the fbis use of an informant in the russia investigation. The president has alleged the fbi source was planted in his campaign for political reasons. Thats