Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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documents and other pieces of evidence as you were just you and the guests were just explaining a few minutes ago. but clearly, the white house, or the president s legal team, rather, is trying to downplay the significance of this but it s a very important development, and it directly, you know, if it s true, it directly implicates the president in a crime. barbara, let s talk about that particular part of things. there are a few things happening here, because michael cohen, according to this reporting, did things and had conversations that are contrary to what he actually testified about in congress in terms of the number of times he discussed the moscow project with donald trump, in terms of what, if anything, the trump administration or donald trump contributed to his testimony. it continues to look very serious for michael cohen. what does this look like to you for donald trump? i think if this report is true, it s very serious for donald trump as well. as we heard, this is n
news. president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project. quoting again from the report, the special counsel s office learned about trump s directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents. cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office. a little reaction to this breaking story tonight. our colleague, chris hayes, tweets, nixon was literally impeached for this. our panel is still with us. phil rucker, barbara mcquade and emily jane fox. barbara, let me just talk to you about the degree to which what my colleague, stephanie rule who my colleague, stephanie ruhle, calls donald trump s tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, employing strategy or a misinformation technique or a pr campaign? because for all of the stuff that you so clearly described to us as being legal violations, rudy giuli
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