the course of investigation. and so as this mushrooms, you now have more investigators in new york running in a different direction into the trump team. i think it s a very damaging situation for the white house. one other bar czar note i just want to mention from the wall street journal report on elliott broedy. they write the broedy agreement uses the same pseudonyms for mr. broidy and the one he was allegedly involved. david denison, the same name used for mr. trump and ms. clifford. phil rucker, before we go to break here, this seems like the issue that could potentially set the president off beyond all other issues that could potentially lead him to fire rod rosenstein. would you say that chatter around that there was so much speculation he was going to do that friday. that didn t actually happen. yeah, you know, kasie, there have been a lot of moments in three s 15 months when donald trump s been president when he s been angry or upset or raging. we write about his mood
uses the same pseudonyms for mr. broidy and the one he was allegedly involved. david denison, the same name used for mr. trump and ms. clifford. phil rucker, before we go to break here, this seems like the issue that could potentially set the president off beyond all other issues that could potentially lead him to fire rod rosenstein. would you say that chatter around that there was so much speculation he was going to do that friday. that didn t actually happen. yeah, you know, kasie, there have been a lot of moments in three s 15 months when donald trump s been president when he s been angry or upset or raging. we write about his moods a lot. but this week felt different this past week. he was really irate over the raids on cohen, over the unknowns. it wasn t clear what records
is if anything, what it shows about this pattern is this was something that was so routine. if you believe the reporting. the various other reporting. that these pay offs were happening with multiple women at the same time. today in the wall street journal it was reported that the same pseudonyms. were used with this woman associated with elliot. as used in the stormy daniels contract. cohen is sitting there with a machine. ripping off these mbas. how old are you. i want to say one more thing. i don t this is serious. i m not waiving it away. i don t think the stakes are as high when you talk about russian meddling. there s one point that i don t mean to scare viewers. i believe we re on the brink of a constitutional crisis.
shouldn t be photographed or videotaped out on the stoop, if you will, with his buddies. i want to ask you about cohen s involvement with a republican donor s payment to a playboy playmate who the donor had gotten pregnant. what do you make of the fact that michael cohen used the exact same pseudonyms to identify the parties in your case as he did this payoff? legally i guess it doesn t matter, but does it seem odd to you? it does seem odd. i broke this story on thursday night by way of my twitter. then the wall street journal reported it on friday. to be fair, it s unclear whether it was michael cohen that utilized those pseudonyms, whether it was his idea for that in that instance, or keith davidson s. it s unclear at this time. but i did want to go back to one thing, anderson. the other thing that stood out to me from the hearing that took place on friday in federal court is as follows. michael cohen s attorneys have
the special prosecutor s attention, especially when this story provoked michael cohen to say publically, i came up with $130,000 and i, you know, handed it over in this situation two weeks before the election. and that kind of quickly raises questions about campaign finance. right. and it certainly raises questions about kind of the flexibility of how money might flow between related and unrelated entities. i think the fact that they were using pseudonyms and llcs that by their very nature are fairly not transparent although interestingly enough he had his name on it, which is more than most llcs have. but i think it all speaks to why he is a key person that irrespective of what michael avenatti is doing, he would have been a person of focus but i think the focus is much more