the saga of the president and the porn star. president trump for the first time breaking his silence about stormy daniels. denying he knew about the hush money payment as he spoke to reporters and air force one. mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? then why did michael cohen make this. you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney and you ll have to ask michael cohen. down where he got the money. no, i don t know. the porn star attorney doubling down dwulk down tp saying we look forward to testing the truthfulness of mr. president trump s feigned lack of knowledge of the payment. let s discuss now arriva martin is here. she is a cnn legal analyst and the author of the best seller make it rain. also cnn legal analyst mark garragos. good evening to both of you.
either i tell my clients strap in this is the worst part of the whole thing. at least when you re a target you ve got options. when you re a subject you re boxed in. you don t know. that may be an accurate theory, mark. it s hard to know but we knew he would have to say something at some point. i want to ask you, because there was the argument to be made that cohen broke campaign finance with the payment to stormy daniels, the amount and the timing of this. i m wondering what kind of repercussions for cohen, what is he facing? disbarred? is he just a reprimand? is he in the clear when it comes to campaign finance rules? mark? look, the i don t think that s where his hazard is. i don t know the man. i feel his pain too. i never like anybody in the heart of one of these fire storms. right. his problem is the bar, you know, the professional responsibility.
arriva, the first question. he says he didn t know about the payment to stormy daniels. first what impact do you think the president s statement will have on the case if any at all. i think we re going to see stormy daniels attorney running to the federal court telling the judge, urn this is why this contract, non-disclosure agreement is not valid and should not be held accountable to the agreement. that s what he has been arguing all along is that this contract isn t valid. he said because trump didn t sign it. now we know there was no meeting of the minds. there was no mutual consent because trump didn t know about the payment or know about the alleged underlying facts of the agreement, which is that cohen was trying to keep stormy daniels from telling a story about his sexual encounter with him. this is huge news for the stormy daniels team. and we should expect the attorney as we saw him today, you know not just talking about it on cable television but also bringing it to the cou
she is a cnn legal analyst and the author of the best seller make it rain. also cnn legal analyst mark garragos. good evening to both of you. areva, the first question. he says he didn t know about the payment to stormy daniels. first what impact do you think the president s statement will have on the case if any at all. i think we re going to see stormy daniels attorney running to the federal court telling the judge, urn this is why this contract, non-disclosure agreement is not valid and should not be held accountable to the agreement. that s what he has been arguing all along is that this contract isn t valid. he said because trump didn t sign it. now we know there was no meeting of the minds. there was no mutual consent because trump didn t know about the payment or know about the alleged underlying facts of the
target, he was ecstatic and he said it worked, i ve gotten through this in the home stretch. when somebody explained to him and maybe he watched tv and realized that being the subject of a federal criminal investigation. is bad. is not only is not good either i tell my clients strap in this is the worst part of the whole thing. at least when you re a target you ve got options. when you re a subject you re boxed in. you don t know. that may be an accurate theory, mark. it s hard to know but we knew he would have to say something at some point. i want to ask you, because there was the argument to be made that cohen broke campaign finance with the payment to stormy daniels, the amount and the timing of this. i m wondering what kind of repercussions for cohen, what is he facing? disbarred? is he just a reprimand? is he in the clear when it comes to campaign finance rules? mark?