it but the white house acknowledged that the president took part if crafting the misleading response. the president weighed in as any father would. reporter: donald trump junior seauing saying having left the gym and during the meeting between jared curb mer akushner russian ambassador. let s get some more reporting. the president s legal team can t indict a sitting president, won t indict a sitting president. those are the ground rules. all they get to do is write a report.
bloombloo bloom bloomenthal. our correspondents and analysts are all standing by. ncht first, let s go our senior white house correspondent with the very latest. reporter: it s another chapter in this ongoing saga over stormy daniels. for months the white house insisted they did not. the president insisted he did not a couple months ago. his new lawyer said he did. it became official on page 42 of a 95 page report, the president did reimburse michael cohen for that payment. president trump not answering questions tonight. mr. president, why didn t let s go. reporter: conceding for the first time in a financial disclosure report he repaid more than $100,000 to his personal lawyer michael cohen for expenses occurred during the to 16 campaign. reporter: the form released
today revealed the payment to cohen who is the subject of his own criminal investigation. the form did not say what the payment was for. cohen has acknowledged paying 130,000 to porn star stormy daniels to keep her from going public. reporter: it appears to contradict what the president said last month. did you know about $130,000 payment. reporter: the president did not disclose the payment last year in his financial report. the disclosure this year drew attention of the ethics office which passed along to rod rosenstein. in a letter today the acting director says you may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry you may be pursuing regarding the president s prior report. his letter is tantment to a criminal referral. it s a crime to knowingly and
willingly would omit it. i never thought it was real payment. reporter: they are struggled to give squint answers to payments about the payment. did michael cohen make payments to other women for the president? i have no knowledge of that. i would think if it was necessary, yes. he maid payments for the president or he conducts business for the president which means he had legal fees. money is laid out and expenditu expenditures which i have on my bills to my clients. reporter: the new document showed disturbing pattern. this disclosure proves the following. michael cohen has been lying to the american people for months. david, schwatz, the individual who came on tv and said the president never reimbursed the payment is lying to the american people. reporter: there s been so many answers to the simple question of did the president
reporter: he also seemed to defend the bureau over these criticisms he s been getting from the house intelligence committee devin nunes who had come after trying to get information of someone described as an intelligence source. something the justice department has resisted giving the committee information about. ray said the day we can t protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe. good point. fbi director clearly disagrees with the president who repeatedly said all of this russia probe is a witch hunt. also up on the hill today some pointed language from the senate intelligence committee on russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. tell us about that. reporter: this has to do with the 2017 intelligence community assessment that concluded that v vladmir putin orchestrated a cyber campaign to help donald