of two different criminal conspiracies designed to get president trump elected. one involving russia, which has resulted in at least 28 guilty pleas or indictments so far, and the one involving the hush money payoffs in which the president is now directly implicated. with me now, one of the reporters who broke the payoff news, wall street journal reporter rebecca davis o brien. incredible reporting. thank you. so, okay, how involved, according to your reporting, and according to the evidence your reporting suggests sdny has, how involved was the president in the hush money payments? as you mentioned, just to step back for a second when michael cohen stands up in federal court and says he does something at the direction of the candidate and we all say, that s donald trump, and we spent the last few months figuring out what the at the direction of donald trump looks like. donald trump is careful with his money. so it wouldn t be totally surprising if he was aware of
states may have committed a crime. i have to be careful. well, you are. but so people are clear what s going on here. rebeck is a davis o brien, great reporting. thank you so much. with me now the vice ranking member of the house judiciary committee, democratic congressman. i understand democrats who have just about to take the gavel in january and won this big victory want to be very careful, don t want to get out ahead of the facts, but you re on the judiciary committee and there s a story in the wall street journal that suggests strongly there s evidence the president helped commit a federal crime. that s right. to underscore what you started off, we want to get back to the business of the american people and deal with all of the crises engulfing america right now. putting that first. but having said that, obviously we cannot ignore crimes taking place at the highest levels of government. chris, there s only two parts of
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