willingly would omit it. i never thought it was real payment. reporter: they are struggled to give squint answers to payments about the payment. did michael cohen make payments to other women for the president? i have no knowledge of that. i would think if it was necessary, yes. he maid payments for the president or he conducts business for the president which means he had legal fees. money is laid out and expenditu expenditures which i have on my bills to my clients. reporter: the new document showed disturbing pattern. this disclosure proves the following. michael cohen has been lying to the american people for months. david, schwatz, the individual who came on tv and said the president never reimbursed the payment is lying to the american people. reporter: there s been so many answers to the simple question of did the president
last years, this year s financial statements to you. you find the disclosure rel tant you may be pursuing with the president s prior signed report. 2017 would have covered 2016. this was incured in 2016. it s significant because he s admitting this. this is now in writing. it s a document and more formal that he already admitted. rudy giuliani said there are about $450,000 in payment to michael cohen. this covers up to 250,000 of that. where is the rest of that money? it doesn t necessarily clear up whether or not this was connected to the campaign. that s been a question and if so it would have been a violation. you have limits in terms of what you can donate to a campaign. that s something we don t know yet. there s still a lot of
reporter: he also seemed to defend the bureau over these criticisms he s been getting from the house intelligence committee devin nunes who had come after trying to get information of someone described as an intelligence source. something the justice department has resisted giving the committee information about. ray said the day we can t protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe. good point. fbi director clearly disagrees with the president who repeatedly said all of this russia probe is a witch hunt. also up on the hill today some pointed language from the senate intelligence committee on russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. tell us about that. reporter: this has to do with the 2017 intelligence community assessment that concluded that v vladmir putin orchestrated a cyber campaign to help donald
rosenstein signs off, they can submit to the house of representatives where they can consider impeachment. that s an alternative and a different remedy. it involves the house of representatives proceeding with impeachment and a conviction in the united states senate. it is as much or maybe even more a political process as much as a legal one. the president is not above the law. an indictment if that s the course would be upheld by the court. it would go to the united states supreme court. it s an issue that has never been resolved and there s a department of justice opinion to the contrary. i happen to think he could be indicted even if the trial is postponed. let s talk about the payments to michael cohen. the president s long term attorney. do you believe that the 100,000 plus that the president offered paid to michael cohen represents and in the disclosure statement
this to hollywood. we d be laughed out of a movie studio if we had some kind of political thriller. it would never get made. get your thoughts on comments the president made. i want you to give us the context. listen to this. we have people coming into the country or trying to come in. we re stopping a lot of them. we re taking people out of country. you wouldn t believe how bad these people are. these aren t people. these are animals. it s my understanding he s talking about ms-13 gang member who is engage in really bad criminal activity. that s situation where you have to be caref fuful what you re talking about. i think there s a unification that these gang members need to go home. i think that s right. this is what you re going to hear from the president, basically, in terms of immigration, illegal immigration. a real hawkish kind of rhetoric.