Mr. Cohen sought reimbursement of those expenses and mr. Trump fully reimbursed mr. Cohen in 2017. The category of value would be 101,000 and 250,000, and the Interest Rate would be zero. Were going to explain all this in a moment. Remember, Michael Cohen paid a 130,000 settlement to the adult film star, stormy daniels, who claims she had an affair with donald trump. The president has denied those allegations. Joining me now, the senior director of the Campaign Legal center. He previously worked in the office of General Counsel for the federal election commission. We had you on yesterday. We were wondering if this disclosure was going to show up in this or this payment was going to show up in this disclosure. It did. What questions do you have now . Well, we were saying that the president s decision of whether to disclose this payment in this report put him in a really tough spot because in he did disclose it, it would raise the question of why he didnt disclose it
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campaign is, they were so ad hoc, things were flying day by day, we didn t have the resources to do that. or, we didn t get anything incriminating, so no harm, no foul. but that s a pretty low bar to clear to say, look, we didn t accept anything. but this happened. this is a national security threat potentially and they never did that. the perception there, the appearance is there. it is very troubling. it makes you wonder if anything else happened after that in order to get information that was dangled in front of them. the other thing i found interesting was don jr. said he had no idea whether or not his father was involved in crafting the statement, jon. bring us back to that moment in time and tell us what we know from our reporting about whether the president was involved in crafting that statement aboard air force one? right. so the moment came as sort of this meeting was uncovered and unveiled and. don jr. s participation was revealed in news reports. the president was actua
we haven t seen anything. we haven t hard anything. we will see what happens. confirming he s still insisting on denuclearization. pyongyang said earlier it could walk away from the summit if the united states tries to force the country to give up all of its nuclear weapons up front. north korea has already called off scheduled talks with south korea to protest joint military drills with the u.s. those exercises happen every year. this is not the first time that north korea has cast doubt on pledges related to its nuclear program. time and again the kim dynasty has made promises to rein in the country s nuclear activities only to brake those promises later on. the big question now is who will blink first in the nuclear showdown with north korea. let s bring in nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols and jeffrey lewis from the nonproliferation program at the middlebury institute of international studies. hans, what is the latest? the latest from this building
important to note that when people say, it wasn t a big deal because we didn t get anything out of it, that s not actually quite true because what the trump campaign in fact got out of it was the release starting relatively soon after this meeting of massive quantities of purloined e-mails. and releases that continued throughout the duration of the campaign. and so it isn t it is true that they didn t get disparaging information at this meeting. but it is not true that they didn t get disparaging meeting about their campaign opponent. so i think it is i think the meeting remains a terribly damaging episode for them, and at bare minimum, what it shows is that if there was no collusion, all caps, exclamation mark, exclamation mark,
the way that this payment was structured being routeded, broken up into different payments, and then routed through a law firm, certainly would be read to suggest some intent to conceal it. that might factor into decision of whether to bring criminal charges. did we learn anything else in this financial disclosure of interest? well, i mean we learned that the president s lawyer is continuing to have this inability to get him out of trouble without getting him into more trouble. it is incredible that they could have resolved one of the two problems that the president faced here. they could have taken off the table the campaign finance violation or they could have taken off the table the personal financial disclosure violation, and they did neither. adav noti, thank you for breaking this down for us. back to the other breaking news we re following this hour, newly released documents are shedding more light on that controversial trump tower meeting between trump campaign officials