Seemed to dial things back a bit. Particularly with regard to previous reporting about what cohen was prepared to tell the Special Counsel about President Trump and that meeting at trump tower. So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand . No. Does not. At some point, mr. Cohen might be able to be useful to the Special Counsel about whether President Trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the Hillary Clinton emails, and its not a certainty the way he recalls it. May or may not be useful to mr. Mueller. You can tell, perhaps, the hour is late. Its been a long week already. And people are exhausted. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Jonathan lamere, peter baker, and Carol Lenning is back with us. Good evening to the three of you and welcome. Jonathan, y
this hearing, as well. don, we mentioned how the vote went down 2-2, that fifth person recusing himself because his wife had been a prosecutor involved with the case in 2024. how does this conflict of interest even happen? i think representative macdougal was right, two of the five were prosecutors, but actually three of the five were prosecutors. richard smotherman was the other voting member placed there by the oklahoma supreme court. he was also a very long-time elected prosecutor. so this board was staffed with prosecutors. he recused because his wife was the chief prosecutor for richard glossip against richard glossip. so we were facing a lot of head winds going in, that s why we knew we were going to need everything. and i think attorney general
conversation and deal between mr pecker and mr trump. you can conclude your make your own conclusions that there s another witness to mr trump s crimes. and may i just add quickly that the federal district prosecutors in new york called this crime very serious, threatening our democracy. chrissy by paying somebody money not to let the american people know information before presidential election people who diminish this crime don t read what federal prosecutors described it as a serious crime, impairing our democracy. got a long way to go many questions for you and a short time to get there. so let me just say that michael cohen in that tape probably does most of the talking there. is there anything that proves a scheme to pay off macdougal was at trump s instruction or direction. not in that tape. you can infer that trump was aware of the plan for cash and kill and karen macdougal, he said. how are we going to finance it? they were talking about taking the files that they were worried