Good evening, im ali velshi sitting in for lawrence odonnell. We have a very good last word for you. Trumps tangled web. From russia collusion, to the president s tortured relationship with the truth. Well look at it all over the course of this hour. The day began as a growing web of deceit between president and shifting stories between the president and Rudy Giuliani to clean up Rudy Giulianis nowinfamous fox news appearances. Youll remember he revealed that the president reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 Hush Money Payment. There are new details that just broke within the last half an hour about when the president learned of that payment to Stormy Daniels. According to the New York Times President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a Pornographic Film Actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in april, according to two people familiar with the
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yeah, i don t think finding anything she does surprising at this stage of the game, as long as it favors the former president, but it is shocking to me as a former federal prosecutor, as somebody who it has many friends and law enforcement, heaven forbid, somebody in law enforcement gets killed because of these false claims that jack smith intended to have the former president assassinated. i mean, it s ludicrous. it s ridiculous, and it s in it s dangerous and it s incendiary and not to take that seriously and to toss it out because she didn t like the way they conferred conferring doesn t require doing it in a proper form or in a way that meets whatever her standard is. it requires talking to the other side and they did and they mentioned it in the papers that they had conferred and trump s team didn t agree trump now, by the way, two sources tell kristen holmes who obviously covers the trump campaign that he s told a lot of people that he believes he could go to prison, that he s
mid september, he is using drugs in her presence, crack cocaine, and he s also aware of it. he knows that he s an added at the time. so you just need to get it three weeks further to the date when he purchased the weapon, then 11 days that he possesses it and then they have it, but they do have additional text messages coming a day after in two days after he had purchased the gun, where he s texting about using crack cocaine. so it s building to that point before we go, emily just talked who had lived next door near and few houses from justice alito talking about the timing here, saying that the letter that justice alito sent to congress in which he said, my wife i pong the flag because of this dispute. and she was so upset because of the c were all these things and that s why she on the flag. it doesn t add up because the police report or the date of which that altercation happened was at least 20 days or close to 20 days after after the flag was actually the troy. and it s actual
was interested abo wk ago. the judge had said okay, but he to agree to these conditions. and i want to put those conditions back up again for our audience here. no introducing new evidence. no acting as a witness and e essentially testifying without cross examination. he can t bring up irrelevant matters, deliv a campaign speech, or impugn the judge, his court staff, or the prosecution, but trump s team didn t agree to these terms by the judge s extended deadline, which was yesterday. danny, trump s team, they didn t agree. you re a defense attorney yourself. what would you have done with this? would you have wanted trump to testify? or was this an easy out for them? i would have done nothing because this motion would never have been granted unless a party is named trump. this isn t how any of this works. originally when it was reported that justice engoron denied the request, i thought that makes sense because no other party with counsel unless they re pro se doing the whole thing b
organization. they have already been found lie blg by the judge on one of the seven causes of action here, so the penalties the trump organization is facing here, the a.g. is asking for $370 million and more important is the cancellation of the trump organization s business certificates here in new york. if that happens they re literally out of business. that s what s at stake here. a couple things, the fact this is going to be decide by one judge. trump s team didn t argue to get a jury. they might have had a shot at that. also, is there a bit of room here for appeal, at least on the second part of it, that maybe it s overreach by the a.g. s office to completely wipe out the ability for trump org, if found liable and guilty here, to do business in the state at all? very important to keep in mind, no jury, this is a judge. the judge is the one, we already know where he stands, but the are still several counts outstanding, and then there s the question of what will the penalty be. d