bag of insurgents this really putting together a campaign to compete against a well-funded establishment rival they were facing in the idea of them colluding in a sophisticated way seems completely ridiculous as someone in the campaign put it. they were barely able to collude with each other little with the russians. the white house reacting from sarah sanders, government filings tell us nothing of value that wasn t already known. mister cohen repeatedly lied and as the prosecution pointed out, he is no hero but you know in these filings that the special counsel s office identified him as credible and helpful. what is really going on behind-the-scenes at the white house as they digest this material thing it exonerates the president? based on the statement from sarah that the white house is trying to play down the significance of this, from the beginning said there was no collusion between donald trump s campaign and russia, donald
collusion so what we are going to see now is a great pivotal way from trump russia collusion toward things like obstruction of justice or campaign-finance violations because this has all been from day one an effort to impeach the president and doesn t require trump russia collusion. just requires something there. shannon: we have many questions on the collusion question, they do talk about the fact that individual one who we believe to be the president, they say he was directing cohen with respect to paying off women who said they had potential affairs with the president however you want to characterize that. jonathan turley had this to say about those particular parts of the filing. they are directly implicated in the president of the united states.
from a campaign or personal funds and the president was the one who directed the payments. members of his campaign, members of the trump organization all document that the money was paid before the election and prosecutors brought charges that mister cohen was motivated for political reasons to pay hush money and mister trump is named as the person who directed and coordinated it. reporter: he mentioned sharks, democrats on the wasting no time blasting the president as a co-conspirator with talk of impeachment and calling for brett kavanaugh s supreme court nominee hearing to be postponed. this nomination is now tainted because the president who nominated him, brett cavanagh, implicated in a criminal conspiracy. he did not drain the swamp, he made it more rigid and more fetid. there is a cesspool around this president. reporter: chuck grassley says
money was paid before the election and prosecutors brought charges that mister cohen was motivated for political reasons to pay hush money and mister trump is named as the person who directed and coordinated that. democrats on the hill wasted no time blasting the president as a co-conspirator with talk of impeachment and calling for the supreme court nomination hearing to be postponed. this nomination is now tainted. the president was nominated brett kavanaugh, implicated in a criminal conspiracy. he has not cleaned the swamp but made more rigid and fetid. there is a cesspool around this president. as for brett kavanaugh s hearing, the committee chairman says that is still a go. :has more legal woes being subpoena to testify in a trump foundation investigation.
of tax and bank fraud and campaign finance charges from has many payments to two alleging affairs with the president that he denied, cohen agreeing to jail time in the plea deal and his lawyer making serious threats but this is just the beginning. mister cohen has knowledge of certain suspects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows. the president s attorney we should the statement there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government s charges against mister cohen. the president addressed the news before and during the rally in west virginia. doesn t involve me but i still feel it is a sad thing that happened. has nothing to do with russian collusion. fake news of the russian witchhunt, we have a whole big combination. where is the collusion. democrats were quick to react.