after he admitted to making a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford clifford who goes by the name stormy daniels alleges she had a sexual relationship with donald trump in two thousand and six she said cohen made the payment in return for his silence trump has denied knowledge of the payment it isn t clear if the rate is directly linked to the mother investigation into suspected russian meddling in the u.s. election or clifford s alleged hush money by the way it may spell more legal trouble for donald trump. some of the other stories making the news this hour saudi arabia s crown prince mohammed bin solve is wrapping up a visit to france as part of a global tour that seen him travel to a number of western capitals activists have protested the visit there urging french leaders to raise human rights issues with the prince over saudi arabia s role in the war in yemen. colombian authorities have arrested
for legal aid rudy giuliani made an unexpected disclosure about a payment of one hundred thirty thousand dollars to daniels and just where it came from that money was not campaign money sorry i m giving you a fact now that you don t know it s not campaign money no campaign finance violation so they follow the through law for follow through over the president repeated that contradicting trump s initial denial that teen you anything about the payment your very. first day however confirmed on twitter that the money was reimbursed to his personal lawyer he wants more tonight be a fat saying such agreements were very common among celebrities and people of wealth in a white house briefing on thursday spokeswoman sarah saunders said trump didn t initially know about the payment to stormy daniels and only find out about it later