Then you have the other situation, and every lawyer look, trump didnt violate Campaign Finance laws, and neither did the president. Harris i interviewed him on my program the other day. Yes. He said that. President trump Michael Cohen pled guilty to something thats not even a crime. Wait a minute. Nobody except for me would be looked at like this. Nobody. What about congress . The slush fund. Millions and millions of dollars paid out each year. They have a slush fund. Millions. They dont talk about Campaign Finance anything. Have you ever heard about Campaign Finance laws . Have they listed that on the Campaign Finance sheets . No. Harris im waiting for them to dig in. President trump number one, they say its not a Campaign Finance violation. Its not even under Campaign Finance. Number two, if it was, its not even a violation. Number three, its a civil matter. President obama had a really big one, ten times more money. Much more money, and you know what . He paid a fine. Im the only on
Lawyer, a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing, that is why you pay them a lot of money, etcetera, etcetera. He is a lawyer. He represents a client. I never directed him to do anything incorrect or wrong. He understands. Look, he did some bad things, unrelated to me, maybe related to his other clients. Dana live ata the white house, kevin clark. Good afternoon, the president continues to down play the origin of his situation with x fixer Michael Cohen. He didnt do a great deal for us, but he did cooperate with the special counsel and continues to do so, danaa, as he stares down the barrel of three years in prison. President trump he was on a committee, a Condominium Committee many years ago, and he was a big supporter of mine on that job. I did a great job, trump world tower, big building opposite the united nations. I liked him. He was a lawyer. Because of that, i did it. In retrospect, i made a mistake. Very interesting, rarity you heard the president say
Security posts a memo about the border wall, and its missing a few words, but dont worry . President build wall high. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. While his personal lawyer and fixer is heading to prison, President Trump is trying to shift the blame and spin the story claiming he did not direct Michael Cohen to break the law which is, of course, a complete contradiction with assertions made by the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york which stated directly in court that the illegal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and to Karen Mcdougal were done in coordination with and at the direction of President Trump. Mr. Trump also today questioning if the mcdougal payment was ever even made, and technically the president might be correct in that while mcdougal was paid for her silence by the National Enquirer Parent Company ami, theres not yet any evidence that mr. Trump or his organization paid them back. The wall street journ
Break the law. Regarding hush money payments to them and threatening to go public about alleged affairs. President telling fox news today, the prosecution of his former Attorney Michael Cohen his chest designed to make them look bad. Chief White House Correspondent john robert starts us off. A lot of talk in washington today about whether or not the president faces increasing legal exposure after the Michael Cohen sentencing yesterday. According to President Trump, he is a sort of person who would say anything even if it is a life to try to save his hide. President trump broke his selfimposed silence yesterday on the cohen sentencing on twitter and in an interview with Harris Faulkner today. He insisted that he did nothing wrong. I never directed him to do anything wrong. Whatever he did come he did on his own. He is a lawyer. The lawyer represents a client is supposed to do the right thing, that is what you pay them a lot of money. President trump also said that the payments made to S
he was okay on television, but years ago, many years, like 12, 13 years ago, he did me a favor. he was on a commit, and he was so responsive and so good, and i said he s a nice guy. he was on a committee. it was a condominium committee many years ago, and he was a very big supporter of mine on that committee. he was higher level than that. well, also the president said he was hired because of what he did for trump tower. that s when i believe they were trying to take his name off trump tower and michael cohen helped with that. yeah, also, it s not even just that michael cohen was higher than that, someone who was, you know, very close to the president and very close to his family, but the president made that remark during that interview that was taped around lunchtime. a few hours earlier he was tweeting all of this happened just because he had been taking the advice of his counsel who was michael cohen and then he s saying he didn t do legal work, he just if pr stuff, so those two