cohen s allegation, a prosecutor would not move forward with charging the president, but he mentioned certain things that the southern district of new york could actually find evidence, for example, when he says he inflated his assets to get a loan from a bank, i think that would be pretty easy to corroborate. he did bring a check written out while he was president of the united states that was essentially a hush money payment. you don t know. he is paying michael cohen money. there is going to be he is on retainer. i think this is an important issue here. how many other facts are around this. the fact that there is multiple crimes, not just conspiracy or collusion, is not something that makes the president look better, he looks work. mimi, all of the questions we
company. and he he is an american citizen, so it s not illegal. i want to be clear, because we just put up simon kukes, he s accused no wrongdoing, he s an american citizen, it is entirely legal what he did. i don t want to tar by association because you have not been born in russia. absolutely, right. here s the question for you, seth, which i think gets to the complexity here, right? it can be hard to sort of keep track of this web, but there s a way you can view it as incorps terror or ex-corpitory. getting money from the former soviet union, maybe it doesn t look so weird in light of collusion that there are all the connections. what do you think of that argument? well, you know, the way i see this is to i try to step back a little bit. and i think when you look at what these guys were to me the interesting part is they were investing in michael cohen s essential consultants,
the drug companies he was talking about in the clip did not want the government to negotiate because they would cost them money. and two, the drug company novartis paid michael cohen $1.2 million, which they claimed got them nothing. trump cast himself during the campaign as and different kind of republican, someone who would stand up to the greedy drug companies and fight for the average american. instead, he s pushed the same policies we have seen from republicans for decades. the only difference is he and his supporters keep pretending that drain the swamp is a real thing. more on that right after this. why did i want a crest 3d white smile?
warner merger. there comes a time when he says, you need a friend. it appears if there s coordination wean the president and cohen on these topics. if there s no coordination at all, it looks like the business cohen was engaged in was identifying company that is were under the hammer from the president walking up to them very quietly and saying, give me some money, i can help you. and even if he didn t have the access he thought he had or couldn t change the policy, it s pretty sleazy. what would you want to know as an investigators, joyce, if you were sort of looking into this? so the most important question to me is where did cohen s money end up? and we ll find out the answer to that, or mueller will, probably has, based on the bank records that cohen has that will come from his financial institutions. and whatever the government was able to seize during the search warrants they executed recently. if that money somehow gets funneled towards trump, towards
the white house, that will be really the most interesting piece of information from a prosecutorial point of view. just to be clear, all the reporting is about where the money is coming in from. we know where some of the money went to, stormy daniels, $130,000 in an anonymous play rate, at $1.6 million for elliott brody. finally, nick, you cover money and politics. you influence peddling. you cover dark money. you cover this sort of beat for years as well as anyone. have you ever seen something like the vehicle that michael cohen created? no, not in lobbying. what we normally see are the consultancies like lobbying companies. and they do what they have to do to not register. right. because for some reason, they think being a lobbyist is the most honest person in washington. they are a person who registers and says, i m a lobbyist. on the issues, they write disclosures.