ed: we have been talking about it all morning. what did the memos actually see. break down the mueller memos and talk about it. bottom line here you see there is no explicit collusion. document after document. we have seen that before this month after month the investigation going on about a year and a half now. no specific collusion. michael cohen though in deep trouble. he was asking for leniency because he was cooperated with both the special counsel probe but also an investigation here in new york the southern district the u.s. attorney here. however that s largely about tax evasion and about financial crimes and about problems with taxi medallions. it s not clear that he actually has any specific dirt on the president particularly in the russia investigation. what michael cohen does have is campaign finance payments to keep women silent stormy daniels and karen macdougall. we have heard that before. did that actually break the law as we have heard from alan dershowitz and others.
report. we welcome back george washington university law professor jonathan turley. mollie, byron, david, you have had time to read through. byron, you first. i think with the case of michael cohen and paul manafort, have you always had to divide the actual personal crimes they committed in their own businesses versus the things that were related to donald trump. so, taxi medallions, tax evasion all of that stuff that michael cohen pleaded guilty to, that s the stuff that s going to get him the real jail time, remember. you can kind of separate that and likewise, with manafort, the some of the ukraine deals, all of his shady businesses, buying a million suits and all of that stuff, you can separate that question is what news to this tell us about trump? farce michael cohen is concerned it doesn t tell us a lot more new, i think. the campaign contributions the issue of paying off stormy daniels and karen macdougall and prosecutors
who won pennsylvania, won michigan, won states republicans had not won since the 1980s electoral landslide. he was empowered to lead and democrats must let him lead. my fear is the rest of the democratic party isn t quite as wise as capri is. they will call for this. we have seen 58 democrats call for it in the house. that s my fear. harris: i have got to get this in. the president was asked whether he knew about the payments to stormy daniels and karen macdougall what those convictions were about yesterday. this is a preview of what you will see on fox & friends tomorrow. watch it. did you know about the payments? later on i knew, later on. but, you have to understanding, ainsley, what he did and they weren t taken out of campaign finance. that s a big thing. that s a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign they didn t come out of campaign. they came from me. and i tweeted about it. real quickly and i will go to you, capri. this remains an issue but the presiden
recorded a conversation with then candidate donald trump in 2016. discussing a payment to former playboy model karen mcdougal. she claimed she had an affair. but the president s current s attorney rudy guiliani telling the new york times the tape demonstrates that the president did nothing wrong. in the middle of this vacation dropping by. thank you very much. doug shone former advisor to president clinton. you dropped the bomb during the commercial. you know michael cohen? i do. i think he did this for either to protect donald trump or to protect himself. how does it protect the president? by having a record of what was said. rudy guiliani is saying that no
it s not the mainstream media any longer. to me it s a real question what happened in helsinki between president putin and president trump. i m not going there to say let s talk about that. i think that s a real issue. there s a question of collusion, what happened with the 12 russian generals. those are real questions that i care about as a patriot, passionately. these issues with stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, much less important, i think politically and hopefully legally. to the campaign dollars issue, i thought it was interesting in what we found out today in reporting that the president apparently wanted this on the record. don t pay in cash. they weren t talking about making a payment. they were talking about what they would do if there were a payment. i thought it was interesting. make a record of it. doesn t that speak to the