To stephanie clifford, stormy daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. trump. and he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about karen mcdougal who also claimed an affair with mr. trump. he says the president should be worried. yes, he committed a crime. he should be indicted if he were not president, he clearly would be indicted and jailed for that crime. whether he can be indicted as president, of course, is not yet decided. nothing in cohen s plea deal requires him to cooperate with any investigation of the president but it doesn t preclude him from doing it either. eric: the president is tweeting. what else are you hearing from the white house on the stunning developments? it was a pretty remarkable tweet and we got a statement last night from the president s new personal lawyer rudy giuliani who said there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the
Coordination with the prosecutor s language there that he agreed to. and donald trump is disagreeing with the prosecutors, with mr. cohen s description of this as a crime. the same way he disagrees with the entire intelligence community. not one dissenter in his own administration. so when rudy giuliani says truth isn t truth, you just heard donald trump reverse truth and make it into a falsehood. classic. eric: in court yesterday your client said he was directed by candidate number one basically then candidate trump to make this illegal contribution. it is under department of justice guidelines and mr. mueller has said a sitting president cannot be indicted. does michael cohen and do you believe donald trump committed a federal crime and if he were not the sitting president of the united states he would be indicted right now? there is no question that he has committed a federal crime. whether he can be indicted has
More than 650 suspicious pages and counts. their connection to russia and iran. eric: and we have some brand-new reaction this morning coming from president trump right on the heels of the news of michael cohen s plea deal accusing his former attorney of quote, making up stories. now the president s most vocal critics all lining up to slam mr. cohen. we ll get the reaction straight ahead. and former campaign manager advisor for mr. trump michael cohen who is there. he has known michael cohen and manafort. mr. caputo will be here in a minute for both he should be indicted. if he were not president he clearly would be indicted and jailed for that crime. whether he can be indicted as president, of course, is not yet decided by the supreme court.
Watergate criminal conspiracy that caused richard nixon to resigned. he called john dean in all caps a rat. that s the nature of the man that is sitting in the white house. so i wouldn t take too seriously his reaction to michael cohen deciding to step up to the line and take responsibility and under oath describe what he did he did at the direction and with the coordination of the president. meaning that his crime was the president s crime. sandra: since the outcome yesterday, you have gone on other television networks and said and gone a bit beyond what you are telling us now, saying that cohen s knowledge reached beyond the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and included information on whether trump participated in a criminal conspiracy to hack into the computers of democratic officials. i did say possibility.
Under oath is that at the direction and the coordination of the president of the united states, donald trump, named candidate, that the donations given to keep quiet two women, which mr. trump wasn t willing to sign those checks himself. he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments, is a federal crime. and if michael cohen, with the prosecutors in new york agreeing, admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. eric: you ve been a long-time clinton advisor and lawyer for hillary clinton and close to bill and hillary clinton, what do you say to those that there should be a special counsel investigating the clintons, dnc, dossier, chris fofer steele and the way it was handled by the department of justice and f.b.i. officials, some of whom have been fired and showed a distaste for donald trump becoming president of the united states? first of all, you didn t