Damaging winds. Good evening to all of you in hawaii. Just 10 00 p. M. Good morning to the rest of you. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is thursday, august 23rd. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. The president tried to minimize cohens role in life and business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. The payments Michael Cohen made to the two women who allege they had an affair with trump. What he knew and when. The president saying with fox news he did in the know about the payments until later on. He did not specify a date. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. You have to understand, what he did and they were not taken from campaign finance. Thats a much bigger thing. They did not come out of the campaign. They came from me. Reporter that Contradictis The Tape released by Michael Cohen last month which discusses how to make a payment to one of the women before the payment was made. When it comes to the financing. What financing . Payment. Pay with cash . No, no, no. I got it. Reporter as these questions come, the white house is struggling to mount defense here. The president found out about the payments that Michael Cohen made later on. He is on tape discussing how to
make one of the payments with Michael Cohen. So before the payment was made. How do you explain that . Once again, i commented on this extensively. What i can tell you about this is that the president did nothing wrong. There are no charges against him. You can stand here and say the president has never lied to the American People . In ththat is a ridiculous accusation. Reporter we will see playing out that Michael Cohen will paint him as a liar and not a credible figure in the situation. That is likely to raise more questions why the president surrounded himself with Michael Cohen in the first place. Dave and christine. That was a tough crowd in the believing room. One of the jurors in the Paul Manafort trial says a lone holdout prevented them from convicting on all 18 counts. Paula duncan tells fox news jurors agreed to disregard the testimony of the former right
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. More information and Top Republicans are downplaying the matter entirely. Naturally it makes us very concerned. You know, the president should not be held responsible for the people he trusted. I dont see deeper meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes and you cant lie on a loan application. Drama. Away from the agenda that most of us have signed up for and we are actually executing. The New York Times reports Senior Republicans are urging the most vulnerable incumbents to speak out about the wrongdoing surrounding President Trump to keep the house. One Democratic Congress member think it is is time for Robert Mueller to reveal what he has. It is important for us to have all of the facts in front of us. I think mueller, chris, has to think at this point about giving us preliminary findings. There is nothing that stops mueller to say here is what i know right now and ill continue to work. And democrats are trying to use the cases to stall Brett KavanaughsSupreme Court nomination. Chuck schumer calling on republicans to suspend the confirmation hearing, but a spokesperson for Chuck Grassley says the hearing will start on september 4th. John bolton is meeting with his russian counterpart this morning in geneva. We have Cnns Fred Pleitgen in moscow with the latest. Hi, fred. Reporter good morning, christine. One of the things that is apparently on the agenda according to john bolton, he said this at the Press Conference yesterday in israel, is election meddling. We have been monitoring the russian side about all of this issue. We are hearing from the kremlin
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news he did not know about the payments until later on. He did not specify a date. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. You have to understand, what he did and they were not taken from campaign finance. Thats a much bigger thing. They did not come out of the campaign. They came from me. Reporter that contradicts the tape released by Michael Cohen last month which discusses how to make