Mr. Cohen sought reimbursement of those expenses and mr. Trump fully reimbursed mr. Cohen in 2017. The category of value would be 101,000 and 250,000, and the Interest Rate would be zero. Were going to explain all this in a moment. Remember, Michael Cohen paid a 130,000 settlement to the adult film star, stormy daniels, who claims she had an affair with donald trump. The president has denied those allegations. Joining me now, the senior director of the Campaign Legal center. He previously worked in the office of General Counsel for the federal election commission. We had you on yesterday. We were wondering if this disclosure was going to show up in this or this payment was going to show up in this disclosure. It did. What questions do you have now . Well, we were saying that the president s decision of whether to disclose this payment in this report put him in a really tough spot because in he did disclose it, it would raise the question of why he didnt disclose it
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Good morning, everyone. It is monday, july 30th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis bergdorf. President trump spent part of his Weekend Lashing out and questioning the credibility of Robert Muellers ongoing investigation. In a series of tweets yesterday, trump claimed there was no collusion and called muellers probe a witchhunt and an illegal school. He went on to right, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflict Of Interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious Business Relationship. I turned him down to head the fbi one day before appointment as Special Counsel, and comey is his close friend. Also, why is mueller only appointing angry dems, some of whom have worked for crooked hillary, others including himself have worked for obama. And why isnt mueller looking at all of the Criminal Activity and real russian collusion on the
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that call in light of what mr. mueller have said. six members since have come forward and said add me to that call. failed to do in that hearing, he failed tod exonerate the president. he said he could not exonerate the president. let me add an extra point. throughout the entire time of mr. mueller s presence before the house judiciary committee, he evidenced elements of a crime. he was not in any way shortchanging his answers that crimes have been committed. he said yes, to the three elements of obstruction. he said yes that one element of obstruction could result in jail
that mueller has come up with the most enticing bits of information that made clear that donald trump and his campaign were pawns. including that donald trump were pawns, unwitting pawns, half witting pawns. that s going to be part of the mueller story. we know that, i think, from what lawyers dealing with mueller have told us. some things we hear from lawyers dealing with lawyers that are part of the joint defense agreement, with the white house is that these lawyers representing ohs in the case believe that trump has lied every step of the way. through this whole process and investigation. and that, too, goes to the question of obstruction. how does the obstruction fit with being a pawn? john, the argument made today by so many trump surrogates on this air and elsewhere, that all
early? i love it. actually, it is 10:00 in my world. let s talk about the trump/mueller investigation. he seems to be ramping up his attacks against mueller, using words like illegal scam, obviously he has used witch-hunt for some time. is this a sign you think the president is beginning to get nervous about the mueller investigation or how do you explain the sudden escalation in language? beginning to get nervous? of course he s nervous. he s furious. he doesn t know, like all of us, what is happening behind the closed doors of that investigation, and that is driving him crazy. but what he s doing is what anyone would do in a kind of sense politically and just throw mud, throw mud, see what sticks, accuse him of being democrats. that s a strategy born of the fact that what we have is a vacuum that s fuelling this story of speculation and what could mueller have, and in the end, of course, whatever comes out trump will say president trump will say that it is wrong,