Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Lets go to Geoff Bennett joining us live from the white house. Geoff, tell us about the president s reaction to omarosa. You saw the president during a photo op at his bedminster estate and asked by members of press pool to respond to the Bombshell Allegations by her new book and you saw his response there was to call her a low life. Although we should make clear that she was one of the president s first hires here at the white house. And she had a highpaying and highprofile job following her allegations that the president then a private citizen, but he could be heard on tape using the nword during the making of The Apprentice and let go from her position at the white house when officials learned that she was close to getting her hands on this tape. She then further alleges that the Trump Campaign offered her a 15,000 a month contract to stay quiet about her experiences with
the president while she was in the whit
Shock waves through the president s already shell shocked west wing. The New York Times reports, quote, the agreement adds another unusual aspect to a case never seen before in the alans of president ial Campaign Finance history. It means that a company that operates as a News Organization is cooperating with federal authorities on an investigation that involves its work with the campaign. Todays development was likely put in motion by tuesdays guilty pleas from Michael Cohen, the president s former fixer who existed at the intersection of hush money and tabloid brush fires. The times explains the role of david peckers Media Company in what could turnout to be an investigation into something that looks a lot more like a conspiracy. Quote, the Court Documents filed tuesday in connection with mr. Cohens guilty plea provided a far more detailed account than previously known about the payments made to suppress womens stories about mr. Trump that could have threatened his election prospects
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Friends of the court briefs where this was raised by one of the friends of the court. in a brief about whether the state bring this up now. so stay tuned for the discussion on tuesday about that issue. a big thing to watch, it sounds like. okay, andrea, i can t let you go without asking, because i m sure you saw the former president called you jack smith s slime ball boss. anyone who knows you things that s insane, or anyone who watches you. but i wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to that. sure. i don t think there s anything that i can say that hasn t just been better side by the maine secretary of state about these kinds of ad hominem attacks. i would separate that into two things. one is the sort of use of adjectives and adverbs. that is not legal argument. that is not a factual argument. anymore than if you say, the election was stolen.
Absolutely going to get him. and he wasn t the guy. so everything that i thought was truth was not truth any more. and, yes, i felt very guilty. still do. she felt guilty. russell felt anything but. all those years he had been unaware of how hard sheila had worked to convict him. all he had known was the intense heat police had applied. but even now, russell just can t seem to get the words i told you so out of his mouth. it doesn t change anything. angie s life hasn t been resurrected. but my role or lack of role in this case was put to rest. i no longer had to wonder any more about who perpetrated this horrible crime. i no longer had to live with the idea that there were people in the police department that thought i had perpetrated this crime.