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
was diverted or stolen but even if it was all used on legitimate campaign expenses, there s almost certainly a reporting violation here. much bigger problem a reporting violation? i think that s what they tried to impeach president [laughter] a reporting violation. with stormy daniels. let me just say what a former fcc official had to say about this alleged crime. go ahead. i ve never seen this kind of set up. knowing and willful violations of the campaign act. $2 million, it may 62,000 and contributions to candidates. nothing in independent expenditures. what to do with all the money? either it seems to disappear into the pockets of where they used it to assist campaigns without reporting it which would be you know, major. and now, the freshman congressman is in trouble potentially, for twitter use. they say she s breaking all sorts of rules as a member of congress. what rules is she breaking on
was diverted or stolen but even if it was all used on legitimate campaign expenses, there s almost certainly a reporting violation here. much bigger problem a reporting violation? i think that s what they tried to impeach president [laughter] a reporting violation. with stormy daniels. let me just say what a former fcc official had to say about this alleged crime. go ahead. i ve never seen this kind of set up. knowing and willful violations of the campaign act. $2 million, it may 62,000 and contributions to candidates. nothing in independent expenditures. what to do with all the money? either it seems to disappear into the pockets of where they used it to assist campaigns without reporting it which would be you know, major. and now, the freshman congressman is in trouble potentially, for twitter use. they say she s breaking all sorts of rules as a member of congress. what rules is she breaking on
was diverted or stolen but even if it was all used on legitimate campaign expenses, there s almost certainly a reporting violation here. much bigger problem a reporting violation? i think that s what they tried to impeach president [laughter] a reporting violation. with stormy daniels. let me just say what a former fcc official had to say about this alleged crime. go ahead. i ve never seen this kind of set up. knowing and willful violations of the campaign act. $2 million, it may 62,000 and contributions to candidates. nothing in independent expenditures. what to do with all the money? either it seems to disappear into the pockets of where they used it to assist campaigns without reporting it which would be you know, major. and now, the freshman congressman is in trouble potentially, for twitter use. they say she s breaking all sorts of rules as a member of congress. what rules is she breaking on
for president, i think every one but mine in 2012 had a reporting violation. does that mean they defrauded themselves in running? no. does it mean they had a conspiracy? no. people don t report things. i believe the president on this one that it s michael cohen s fault for not actually telling him, by the way, you have to report this or you might want to think about reporting it. not the president s fault. kiersten? well, it is a conspiracy actually. you know, when you have there are three people involved, you know, we re talking about between the two women. and so this was and it was meant to be hidden. the idea that the president, you know, at the time he wasn t president, but he was running for office, didn t know that money spent to hide information from voters so that they the campaign wouldn t be affected somehow related to the campaign isn t plausible. kiersten let her finish. like i said, even if that s true, even if that s true i