no campaign finance violation. >> they funneled it through a law firm. >> funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. >> oh, i didn't know -- he did? >> yeah. >> the president repaid cohen, he said, so that that was the damage control. and it's a sign of how well it played that mr. giuliani was back on fox the very next morning to try to clean up his mess, except he didn't, he made an even bigger mess because he blew a hole in perhaps the most important claim that michael cohen had been making, that the original hush payment had nothing to do with the election. cue legal eagle rudy giuliani. >> imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016 in the middle of the last debate. cohen didn't even ask. cohen made it go away, he did his job. >> imagine if it came out then, just like that michael cohen's claim that it was just a coincidence this happened less than two weeks before the election became even more laughable. remember, cohen had said he could have made the payment months before but just happened to do it when he did it. just a short time after that fox appearance as all this was