The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Associate independent counsel for the Watergate Investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a Watchdog Organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former Virginia Attorney general. Ill start with you. The president in his own words admits to making the payment. Your reaction . Kim or ken . Kim, go ahead. Ken, well go to you next. All right. Sorry, i misheard. Go ahead, ken. Who do you want to start . I think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. The president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping
as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. Michael cohen has said a lot of Different Things about this payment. But i also want you to take what we just heard from the president admitting he
papadopoulos. i did ask sarah huckabee sanders this morning about the specific question raised by the indictment. it says a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about other damaging material, and he later told the trump campaign about potential future releases. the question is who did the directing? was it president trump? sarah huckabee sanders says i m not an attorney. here s what else she said earlier this morning on cnn. i know the charges are about whether or not he gave false statements. that s on that individual. that has nothing to do with the president. those are the charges they have brought against this individual when you want to get into specific questions, you ll have to talk to the president s outside counsel on that. and the president s outside counsel, rudy giuliani, is, in fact, echoing the white house. he told kristen welker this is a false statement case. the white house is taking the posture this has nothing to do with president trump. b
participated in that event of paying those women those payments. now, that is what the white house had to offer today, not a lot of substance here. a lot of repeated statements we heard in the past, either referring to the president s outside counsel, rudy guiliani, who doesn t come to the briefing room to address reporters, that is sarah sanders job, but also saying the president had done nothing wrong. and one more maintaining there had been no collusion. now, in regards to paul manafort, sarah sanders was asked if there had been discussion about a pardon for paul manafort. that comes after the president s tweet this morning essentially signaling as much, saying he felt that paul manafort was treated very badly by the justice system and essentially saying he hnadn t gotten a fair trial. even though it was one of the most recent acts of bank fraud brought in charges against paul manafort, the same month he joined the trump campaign. sarah sanders didn t rule out whether the president
strategic about the women he chose and he deliberately played on their understandable desire to get ahead in their careers. again, breaking news, harvey weinstein has surrender ed to authorities today in the new york police department s first precinct in southern manhattan. he s expected to be fingerprinted, photographed and transported to the new york criminal court where weinstein will be released on one million dollar bail and be required to wear an ankle monitor according to two sources. we will follow this news as it develops throughout the day. still to come on morning joe, why was the president s in-house council at yesterday s highly classified briefs with top members of congress and the doj? well, the president s outside counsel, rudy giuliani, said it was because, quote, the president personally wanted him there. so, again, this is the stuff of
their release? not that i know of. reporter: why are they commenting on it? i don t know. reporter: [ inaudible ]. again, i m not sure of the comments on that report or the claims in that report. that s something that you would have to talk with the department of justice and the president s outside counsel. reporter: when he learned the reporting that michael cohen s phones were wired? i can t verify the validity of that report. reporter: how many payments were made you d have to ask outside counsel. reporter: rudy giuliani said this morning imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016 in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton, a reference to the payment. so does the white house now acknowledge that that payment was made with politics in mind? again, i m not aware of the