charges. most notable were charges of campaign finance violations stemming from payments cohen made to playboy play mate karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. aim of preventing the payment of learning of extramarital ateff s affairs. payment cohen said the president directed him to make implicated the commander in chief in a crime. cohen asked for leniency. he hoped for no prison time but the judge refused that request in part because cohen denied to fully cooperate. at this point the extent of what he did and did not tell law enforcement remains unknown. in a statement release, his lawyer promised more information is forthcoming. at the appropriate time after mr. mueller completes his investigation and issues his final report, i look forward to assisting michael costate
of the national enquirer. she received $150,000 owned by trump friend david pecker to keep quiet about her alleged affair with trump. two months later, october 7th, americans heard the access hollywood tape in which mr. trump brags about assaulting women. later that month on the 27th, michael cohen paid adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep her affair with the presidential candidate quiet. the next day daniels siengned a nda covering the affair and the payment. 11 days after that donald trump was elected president of the united states. he created fake invoices, the same day the president asked james comey to let the flynn matter go. on april 5th of this year the president told reporters he didn t know about the payments cohen arranged. a month later on may 3rd, he finally acknowledged he did know
president told reporters on air force one he didn t know about the payments cohen arranged while he was president he said that, but a month later on may 3rd he finally acknowledged that he did know about the payments which cohen says were meant to effect the outcome of the election. joining me now, former assistant director of the fbi ron hossco and former senior vice president of the national enquirer, stu z-ak a.m. the president is implicated in michael cohen s court documents. we can forget about the technicality of whether its an unindicted co-conspirator or whether he s the elections violations are not actually criminal, the fact is, michael cohen has confessed to making these payments for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election. now what happens? well, look, if i m robert mueller, if i m looking through his eyes, i m looking at the
and the white house still isn t answering questions about michael cohen. on the surface you would expect the white house to want to smack down any notion that someone close to the president was engaged in a pay for play scheme as michael avenatti, stormy daniels s attorney is indicating. but shrz referred all of those questions to the president s outside counsel. rudy giuliani says the president did not know about payments cohen can received. to be fair, michael cohen isn t the first person to capitalize on connections to people in power. sure. what s not normal though is that cohen was operating in secret, right, he didn t make his activity public by hanging a shingle as a will beyist. we still don t know exactly what cohen promised the companies, whether he was able to deliver or if he just duped various companies into thinking he was the key to navigating the trump white house when in fact he probably wasn t. u.n. one thing we know for sure is on a day when the white house
him for his business practices. there s been wide speculation if cohen is charged, he will turn on the president. last week the president called into fox news and distanced himself from cohen and the investigation. michael is a businessman. he s got a business. he also practices law. i would say probably the big thing is his business and they re looking into something having to do with his business. i have nothing to do with his business. but the trump campaign is paying some of cohen s legal fees with the president s re-election campaign funds. according to the federal election commission, nearly $228,000 has been paid to cohen s defense attorney s firm. two campaign officials say the money is for legal fees associated with the russia investigation and not the current criminal investigation that partly looks into payments cohen made to stormy daniels. a woman who alleges an affair with the president, which trump denies. ami, the company that owns the national enquirer denies the