Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Former President Donald Trump about to speak at any moment after another stormy day in thee courtroom. The judge denying his lawyers motion which would have allowed trump to respond to Stormy Daniels. Mi wrapped up over seven hours on the stand. Trumps lawyers hammering away at stormys credibility poking her story and grilling her about attempt to make money off of her alleged affair with trump. The defence showing off this 40dollar. They claimed she was selling on her website whicshh shows her draped in a christlike robe. As stormy not denying she made bank admitting she has to pay legal bills to the tune of half a Million Dollars that she owes to the she former president. Then stormy got super natural. A bizarre moment when the defence grilled daniels work as paranormal investigator asking about a show where she said she can talke sa to dead people and lived in a house she believed to house she believed to be haunted it turned out to ju
Become a reality among democrats. Up first, a tale of two felons. President trump praises Paul Manafort, his former Campaign Chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. The president tweeted this, i feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12yearold tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to break. Make up stories in order to get a deal. Such respect for a brave man. The president took another swipe at Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and personal fixer for more than a decade who pleaded guilty to eight charges and implicated the president of the United States in a hush money scheme. The president tweeted this. Quote, if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Lets bring in our white house
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i have nothing to do with russia, folks, okay. i will give you a written statement. but they tie me in to russia all the time. they like to tie me in to russia. now, cohen will have some time before he heads to prison. the judge has ordered him to report to prison on march 6thth in addition to paying around a million dollars in restitution. wolf. he will be up in prison in upstate new york, not too far from new york city, starting in march. m.j., at the same time cohen was sentenced prosecutors made public for the first time that the owner of the national enquirer admitted its role in the pay-off to one of two women trump allegedly had an affair with. what does the company say the campaign knew about that hush money payment? that s right. this is a very big headline involving ami. this is the company that made the hush payment, of course, to karen mcdoug. the southern district of new york announcing today it will not prosecute ami for that payment in exchange for cooperation
general arrangement that michael would take care of things like this. the following morning, mr. trump added that cohen received a monthly retainer. then on july 24th, cohen s lawyer released a secret recording between cohen and mr. trump discussing the logistics of another payment. this time to former playboy model karen mcdougal. when it comes time for the financing, which will be what financing? i have to pay cash. no, no, no. on august 21st, cohen officially flipped on his former boss and plead guilty to campaign finance charges stemming from those payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdoug ap. he also told the federal judge the mcdougal payment was for the principal purpose of influencing the election. we should note that president trump denies these affairs with these two women. joining us now, utah congressman chris stewart, a republican. a key member of the house intelligence committee. very nice of you, congressman,