this filing today is that michael cohen was receiving $500,000 from a powerful lobbying law firm in d.c. it s a big law firm. but for doing what? having a strategic alliance. basically introducing the potential clients to them. he had know mail with the law firm. it was completely separate. he had his own office but it was separate. that s a strange arrangement. i ve been in washington a long time and never heard of anything like that. michael cohen has his hands in a lot of things that are questionable. and having this level of scrutiny on him is not a good day for the president of the united states. right. and the other piece, if i can, quickly if people hadn t been watching the last 45 minutes. the one of the pieces of news was the michael cohen helped secure $1.6 million in payment to a woman, a former playboy play mate apparently was impregnated by a top republican
involved in setting up a $1.6 million payment to a former playboy model to be quiet about what she claims was an incident in which she was impregnated by a prominent republican donor based in the west coast. his name is elliot brodie. as a part of the agreement and getting this payment of $1.6 million. the journal reports she could not discuss the content of her relationship with the gop fund-raiser. i want to read for you a statement that we have from elliot. first, i would like to apologize to my wife and family for the hurt i ve caused. i acknowledged i had a consensual relationship with a playboy play mate . at the end of our relationship, this woman shared she was pregnant. she decided she didn t want to continue with the pregnancy. i offered to help her financially during the difficult period. we have not spoken since that time. he goes on to say he believes it s unfortunate that this personal matter between him and
united states essentially and so the idea of a witch hunt based on political or partisanship play is not really founded here in the evidence. but what was founded for a judge would be you must have something now that may not pan out. there is no requirement of beyond a reasonable doubt at this stage. if you have to find everything to link a crime, but there had to have been probable cause at the very least, jake. and phil, we re told that among the information that has been seized in this raid, information dealing with the payment of hush money to stormy daniels, the adult film actress, with whom president trump allegedly had an affair, and information about his relationship with karen mcdougal, the 1998 playboy play mate of the year with whom he had an affair. i don t know the crime there. and also the stuff about cohen s taxi medallion business. just to take one second to explain it, they are required to operate in new york city and a cap on the total number so they could be quit
locations, the office and home and hotel room, they are also looking into payments that michael cohen or that were made to women and that that includes stormy daniels, but also this playboy play mate you mentioned earlier, karen mcdougal who sued the president and rather michael cohen and allegedly paid $150,000 for her story by the publisher of the national inquirer and her story never made it out and so the question of whether or not there was some effort to try to keep this story out of the headlines before the 2016 election just as the stormy daniels payment of $130,000 and quickly. and pointing out, that $150,000 payment to karen mcdougal the former play mate was in august of 2016, a couple of months before the election. the payment to stormy daniels was 11 days before the election near the end of october. and the connection what are you hearing about the connection between the president and the owner of american media, the
the investigation. that s including things like payments to stormy daniels and this other playboy play mate that the president had a relationship with. we don t know if mueller has established a legal behavior but also things going back prior and separate from cohen s relationship with the president. his investment as was described on the air earlier and were there any nefarious business practices there. it shows this is quite a broad investigation. whether in the frame work of that broad investigation, he faces criminal charge, we don t know the financial answer to that. may don t do these raids like this lightly and based on past practice, you woun have gone in there unless you had pretty good evidence that someone had broken the law. very interesting. what are you hearing about how all this could play out for rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general? i think we re seeing hints from the president s frustration on twitter. you re hearing from people on