or not, is you had a federal judge affirm a plea deal regarding campaign, a campaign finance violation that has been entered into federal court as a crime. the person who copped to that, named the president of the united states, and the president of the united states went on tv an admitted that he cooperated with that and aided in that and conspired with that. the american people understand conspiracy if they don t care about the underlying crime. they know conspiracy is a crime that the president is a focus of. it s interesting how the deputies will use this. we are seeing, zerlina, democrats really start to pump the brakes on impeachment. senator blumen that wi senator blumenthal was calling for impeachment. he is pulling the reins back on that. senator, you are one of the only democrats to utter impeachment. i have never
white house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview? he s making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. the president of the united states isn t the ar bitter of that. it s judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. he s trying to clarify things and make sure this wasn t a campaign violation but listen to what he had to say and we ll come back on the back end. he made the deals. and by the way, he pled to two counts that aren t a crime, which nobody understands. i watched a number of shows. sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. those two counts aren t even a crime. they weren t campaign finance. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what
and that is an anti-public safety position for the president to take. evelyn, this morning on an interview with fox, donald trump talked about the payments that were made to these two women. he s also trying to reframe that discussion. let s listen. he made the deal. he made the deals. and by the way, he pled to two counts that aren t a crime, which nobody understands. i watched a number of shows, sometimes you get some pretty good information by watching shows. those two counts aren t even a crime. they weren t campaign finance. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, ainsley, what he did and they weren t taken out of campaign finance, that s a big thing. that s a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign. they didn t come out of the campaign. they came from me. my favorite line there is i watch a number of shows, sometimes you get some good information from watching shows. i get a lot of my information
sandra: we re talking about michael cohen here. you just said an act of patriotism and yes, michael cohen was offended as were most americans by donald trump standing up and aligning himself with putin against his own intelligence community. sandra: i want to make sure we get in the president s words this morning. he just tweeted this. michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. how do you respond to that? so interesting when donald trump admits something by saying the opposite. so by saying it s not a crime, which the law says if you give money to influence an election beyond the campaign finance limits, that s a felony. and michael cohen, with the prosecutors, stood up under oath in federal court and admitted to that crime and said he did it at the direction and
michael cohen and his attorney lanny davis insisting president trump new about directed payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels to keep them quiet and it was a crime to do so. the president s attorney saying cohen is on record several times saying the president knew nothing about it and is only now changing his story simply to save his hide. the president taking the tack this morning that michael cohen pleaded guilty to something that is not a crime. the president tweeting michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that aren t a crime. president obama had a campaign finance violation and it was settled. it was about missing a deadline. the president saying if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you don t retain the services of michael cohen. his attorney, lanny davis, told me after yesterday s court proceedings the plea deal does not end this. this is just the beginning and that cohen is willing to speak with investigator