2016 campaign. Those words were in a text message sent from Keith Davidson, hes the attorney for both of the women at the heart of the story. Playboy playmate Karen Mcdougal and porn star Stormy Daniels. It was a text sent to the National Enquirer, dylan howard. And davidson is on the stand right now on day nine of the donald trump Election Interference hush money trial. With Explosive Testimony being given right now about his dealings with ami and Donald Trumps inner most circle. Earlier today, he told the court and the jury that dylan howard texted him back a response, quote, talk first thing. I will get you por than anyone for it. You know why. Davidson said that he understood even back then that the owner of the National Enquirer, that david pecker and donald trump were good friends. Two weeks after the texts were exchanged, Karen Mcdougal met with howard, where she alleged that she had an affair with donald trump that went on for several weeks to months. And ami declined to pick u
Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Havent read the Washington Post story, part of that is that donald trump has become enamored of the new Talking Point from his tv lawyer Rudy Giuliani that collusion is not a crime so they have gone from no collusion, no collusion, no collusion to collusion isnt a crime and give us more about whats reported about his mood and raging. He privately has been raging about whats happening vrnl hes upset about the News Coverage, about why isnt he getting more credit for what he views as the good works hes done and as the post reported on friday on the front page, 4,229 lies in the first six month of the this year alone. The reason hes not getting the favorable News Coverage is because the
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. About it. Something directly has him spooked. But its caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his soninlaw under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. Okay. Joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than Rudy Giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. Lets look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the Trump Tower Meeting. When you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. No one has pointed to one. They pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the United States. That would be one possible charge. Aiding and abetting a conspir
felony, that is a violation of federal law. he was seeking something of value from a foreign government. that s my first point. my second point about it i don t want to skip over that though. let me that s really important. and frank and voice are here. the only reason he wasn t indicted or recommended to be indicted by the mueller probe is because there was no intent to do that, right? it was the stupidity defense. neither junior the son as ken accurately points out. we covered his colleagues with great interest, the trump tower meeting where donald trump jr. said what they said it was, was dirt on hillary clinton. but because they didn t know it was illegal, the scenario rick lays out was something that wasn t criminal. frank, could this be a different situation? could you argue that he knew the difference this time? yeah. we absolutely could say he was on notice and, in fact, the statute that i was quoting earlier says corruptly requests or seeks this thing of value.
that it could be something he didn t know he was committing a campaign finance crime. the president is on notice right now the stupidity defense. well, campaign finance crimes are a little more complicated than that, but but intent. intent is the term of the law. the president is on notice now, the head of the federal elections commission has issued a statement. george stephanopoulos has told the president that this is ultimately a crime. so if this is to happen in the future, they can t hide behind the sort of defense we didn t know what it was. but let s again put this in perspective. this is a test for christopher wray. this is a test for the fbi director and every other republican in america to not keep coddling the president, and are you going to stand up or not? is there any suspense on how that test ends? are you waiting for an outcome? we re not, and it s a shame because, look, i came into the doj under wray in 2004, and i worked with him in the criminal divisio