tonight we re joined by one of the few trump executives to work by his side. that could be interesting. but i begin with client number 3 sitting down with individual 1. allow me to explain. it s a very 2019 story. donald trump went to speak with another fellow former michael cohen client, sean hannity, to attack cohen s allegations that trump was behind that money scheme to pay off stormy daniels. he told me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and he didn t tell you. he did. and he made the decision. remember this, he s an attorney. whatever decision he makes, he s supposed to rely on an attorney to make a decision. when you have an attorney, you re supposed to be able to rely on your attorney. attorney-client privilege? it s also called reliance. he knows what he s doing. reliance is an actual defense, though not to committing a crime.
w who i want to get your response, of course. there are other witnesses. we re going to hear from those other witnesses, and what is so striking about what donald trump did was he was willing to many to help him get elected. that kind of threat to our national security. we re seeing it again and he overruled his own security advice and professionals. i think none of it was about donald trump as a person, all of it was attacking cohen. from one prosecuting senator,
now, it donald trump didn t tell cohen to make those hush money payments, if cohen just decided to pay stormy daniels all out of the blue, why did trump pay for it? cohen has the receipts, of course, and he showed them to congress. today s trump lawyer rudy giuliani tried to explain. we brought out ten months ago that he made the mamtpayments. it s our view of it that the president didn t know about it at the time. and then the president when he found out about it made arrangements for reimbursement. nobody really buys that, and donald trump is well known to not spend a lot of money. he is considered by many of his former coworkers notoriously cheap. hundreds of people have actually sued him for not paying back what he owed. that means things he authorized like dishwashers, painters, bartenders, and yes, quite relevant tonight, lawyers. former federal prosecutor john
interested in donald trump s tax returns. add to that financial chair maxine waters with new questions that deal with potential use of funds by the many who serve on the judiciary committee. thanks for being on the beat tonight. thank you very much. a lot to talk about but let s begin with the tax returns. what can you tell us about that process of something the democrats all want to do, they are made necessary by the ways and means committee wanting and protect the public against the kind of tax fraud that was revealed very dramatically in the trust that s against the law. you view what cohen outlined there, and he said it under
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