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
prosecutor noted, mr. cohen s actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time. i don t know if you expected a differen different statement from rudy giuliani. this is the same statement he s been putting out for months. the fact of the matter is if you read this indictment, he s doing it at the direction of donald trump. if he s doing it at the direction of donald trump, there s a conspiracy. it s an agreement, an agreement to commit campaign financing crimes. it s a five-year felony. this is a serious matter. cohen didn t do this on his own. he didn t suddenly come up with the idea, oh, i ve got to go pay stormy daniels $150,000. he had no connection to stormy daniels. he didn t know who stormy daniels was. the only way he would have had the ability to know any of that was because donald trump told him about it. donald trump told him that there was a danger that she was going to release all this information before the election.