Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Reporting violations where they failed to report some things inadvertently. I think in the obama case it was what are called 48hour report, failure to report contributions. In none of those cases that im aware of has the actual candidate or the president been implicated in ordering it be done. It wasnt that obama said lets not report these contributions. Those are kind of the more the regular violations that you see in president ial campaigns. Here we have an allegation that the president directly ordered cohen to pay money to prevent people from talking about alleged affairs. Thats a potential violation on several counts. One, people talk about the reporting violation. These were contributions that werent reported. Thats true. But, they were paid by the trump organization. That makes it a corporate contribution. It is illegal to make a corporate contribution. It is also illegal for an officer of a corporation to authorize a corpor
michael cohen has credibility issues. but it is somewhat ironic that the president, who is known to regularly lie about things, has serious credibility issues, and in fact lied about this very thing. first said he had no knowledge of the stormy daniels payments, then had to admit, yes, he did know about the stormy daniels payments is attacking the credibility of michael cohen, i think there are credibility issues on all sides. there are questions about what else can be said here. lanny davis said directly this morning michael cohen may have more things he wants to talk to the special counsel about. that does not include cooperation in this plea deal. when you hear those words from lanny davis is it in some ways a public push on his part to come up with a separate deal perhaps with the special counsel? that s certainly possible, erica. but it is a strange legal strategy. if he really has good, solid information that the special counsel s going to be interested in, then set up a prof
attribution on suspects such that when the money is gone when you are thinking about your family and your children and you are looking at very harsh federal sentence under the sentencing guidelines that same pesche who may have said i ll never cooperate is now calling up.neys and asking for a proffer meeting so he can tell them all the goodie things that h knows about someone else they may be interested in, which in this case should or could be trump. very interesting conversation. we will cont to follow this very closely. thanks to the three you for your analysis. ari melber, elizabeth holtzman, and sanny is a val owes. catch the beat tonight. want t house, geoff bennett is moneyer toing for reaction there. jeff has anyone commented on this thing? this is a white house that has ied very hard to keep the message on north korea and the successes argued there. but the bottom line is they had a message to put out there and
into a proffer meeting, enters into a proffer agreement, provides information to u.s. attorneys, and enters into some kind of deal, you can t unring that bell. the ausas who hear the information he hase them unhear it after it s out the door. so if time to pardon is if it s going to happen, the time is now. and cohen certainly knows that. and maybe within theext couple of days we will see what president trump s temperature is on the pardon process. mimi, does a pardon cover the evidence? like if s say the president pardons michael cohen tomorrow. all that evidence that was gathered up by prosecutors and to decide how much of it falls under attorney client privilege and how much of it can investigators legally use what happens to that under a pardon situation? nothing. the evidence still exists. you know, it s the same thing
came during gates attempt to cut a deal with mueller, during what s called a proffer meeting, where defendants tell what they know during a queen for a day interview. in a queen for a day interview, a defendant can typically admit to crimes with little additional consequences, unless he or she lies. rachel says it perfectly there, you can admit to any and all of your past crimes without lying in order to show the goods you might have on other people and prosecutors agree not to pi punish you, but you cannot do what rick gates did, lying in the proffer session with his counsel at mueller s office. so he went in for leniency about one crime and ended up committing another. the review, gates gets busted with this crime, goes to make a deal with mueller and commits a