acted inhe direction of individ one, which refers to donald trump and the payments we re talking about are to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. let s go to kaitlan collins at the white house and the response here from the white house, the president obviously fired up, and what is the formal response we are getting from the white house this evening? reporter: well, erin, we typically don t get statements like the ones i m about to read you from the white house on russia investigation news but they sent these out to reporters tonight, one on the manafort filing and one on the cohen filing. sarah sanders says this filing has absolutely nothing to do with the president, she said that it s even less about collusion and devoted almost entirely to lobbying related issues. she says once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn t one. erin, she doesn t reference the fact that this filing actually says paul manafort was in contact with administration officials and lied abou