The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Stormy Daniels in october of 2016, rather, for 130,000. And for that payment Michael Cohen told the court that he received restitution for that payment or he received the money back for that payment from the candidate who is believed to be donald trump. Throughout this investigation, this particular investigation which stemmed from the Special Counsels office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned Public Corruption Public Corruption
time. it has how michael cohen set up consultant companies. encrypted serves used to communicate. i imagine michael cohen wouldn t be in that conversation if he didn t come with information the southern district of new york would find compelling and have proof of. yeah, i mean, i think a number of people have asked me, they said, so what about a cooperation agreement and what does it say in his plea agreement? when you directly implicate and when you provide the context that michael cohen was clearly able to do in court today under oath, he was sworn in when he did that, and then you directly implicate the president and you re able to provide information which is contained in the criminal information as far as the specifics about it, and he also testified that he did these things with intent, and that s something that the u.s. attorney s office in court, the prosecutor said throughout. they want to point out that he had intent, not just on the charges that relate to the president, bu
charges, on the count 6, as far as the charge tied to banking, all of that. he was in a position where he was, ali, he was doing this with intent. he said so. when you come across and say those things, you have the allocution that he did today and he so clearly laid out the things that he did, those are things that are going to be corroborated and i think the criminal information and what the investigation was able to find clearly spells that out. we are also talking about banking issues here and we re talking about crimes that involve a paper trail. i mean, when you have money that s transferred from person x to person y, these are not things that you need somebody s testimony for. the bottom line is that s what happened. money was transferred from one person to another and that there s communications that can be found back and forth. so i think when you look at this, i think you look and you say there s a lot of underlying evidence to anything that michael cohen allocuted to in
ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the united states. that he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of president donald trump to two women. one was in one involved a payment to a woman $150,000, believed to be karen mcdougal. the second to a payment believed to be stormy daniels in october of 2016, rather, for $130,000. and for that payment michael cohen told the court that he received restitution for that payment or he received the money back for that payment from the candidate who is believed to be donald trump. throughout this investigation, this particular investigation which stemmed from the special counsel s office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned public corruption public corruption investigators here in new york both on the fbi side and the united states attorney s offic
ali, for this afternoon, is incredibly significant, and perhaps extraordinary. put this into perspective here. this is the president s former long-time lawyer walking into federal court implicating the president in what prosecutors call an illegal hush money pay out, at the same time a guy who used to run his campaign who was intimately involved for several months at a crucial time of the election is getting for crimes, every campaign rally i was at, lock her up, you now have five people close to the president and his campaign who since election day have been convicted of breaking the law, ali. that is what today s reporting michael cohen and paul manafort added to that list, rick gates has pleaded guilty. michael flynn has pleaded guilty. george papadopoulos, unless he changes his plea, has pleaded guilty. he sent out a tweet suggesting