paul manafort. because of his swampy skills. to wrangle delegates. everyone understood he had been involved. trump says bob dole and others in the past, the left is essentially done by constantly attacking manafort s martyred a guy you look at the case, on his face, he is not a sympathetic figure. how do you think this be 28 is working in public opinion, you may have legally got him, but in public opinion, this is not a win for them at all. dana: from june-august, there have been no look opinion movement on manafort either way. everyone is already in on how they feel about it. they are locked in. i don t know if the cruelty verdict will change that that is what they found. i think the news will shake people. they will read this, hear about it and talk about it. i think that you have some kind of shape.
money. sorry, i am giving you a fact now that you don t know. it is not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they followed it through the law firm? some went through the law firm, and the president repaid it. some say that had nothing to do with the president s campaig campaign. in new york city, the broke damping finance was that we need is to so get more details. the other thing to watch here is that stormy daniels attorney, michael avenatti is tweeting out that he believes that the guilty pleas now from michael cohen will open the door for a separate civil suit against the president to be lifted. meaning, that michael avenatti believes, at least and we will have to fact check in. he will get quick deposition from the president of the united states in the stormy daniels case. his legal team will be trying to
problematic to the president, number one, cohen could be offering cooperation on the road, we don t know that for sure. we don t want to speculate. but it could open the door to that. number two, the vulnerability to the president as the campaign finance issue involves payment to those two women who alleged affairs which he has denied. stormy daniels and karen mcdougall. third potential problem for the president, remember, this development really contradicts what his new personal attorney, rudy giuliani told sean hannity back in may. remember that rudy giuliani said back then that the president made $130,000 payment the stormy daniels, but insisted that it did not break any campaign finance laws. for context, watch the sound bite. having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000 which turns out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign
cop. because you mishandled this case. now they believe that avenatti because of cohen pleading guilty, now the stay in the separate, private civil suit against the president will be lifted and i will get a deposition from the president of the united states. they will fight that enabled they will never get that deposition. let s not forget what happened in the clinton administration. it was not just criminal cases that were problematic, it was private, civil suits and depositions and allegation the lying under oath. in a private civil suit with paula jones that led to impeachment. i am not saying that we are going there. but i am saying that the cohen situation could be much more legally and politically perilous for the president and that may be why he is not weighing in. the manafort allows him to jump in and say that this is a witch hunt. dana: you know the history about that because you are
he has all the details on michael cohen s plea deal. specifically on other things he is pleading guilty to campaign finance violations saying that essentially the money he pay to women as the president s personal attorney was paid as hush money and did it under the direction of the client. this is the first time you see anyone in the president s orbit pleading guilty to charges that directly involved with the case. it has nothing to do with russian collusion or directly with the campaign. michael cohen, we are told will get jail time in the neighborhood of 3-5 years after pleading guilty, not just to those campaign finance charges that we mention came about bank fraud, tax evasion as well. the campaign finance violations that mentioned that could be