michael cohen has just told me that your complaint is baseless along with the allegation that president trump file ad a false report. what s your agent? the argument is that michael cohen is an agent of president trump. he s president trump s personal lawyer. he was the head lawyer at the trump organization at the time of this payment to stormy dan l danie daniels. we allege two violations. two different types of violations. one is pretty clear that the president or someone closel related to him spent $130,000 to influence the election. hush money to prevent embarrassment of the president with an individual with whom he had an affair who was talking to major media outlets at the time. this came about a week after the access hollywood tape went public. violation number one, failure to disclose an expenditure by the trump campaign committee in the amount of $130,000. the second violation that we
allege is possibly having occurred is if this money did not come from president trump, there was an illegal campaign contribution. if it came from the trump organization, that s an illegal contributi contribution. if it came from another individual, that s an illegal large contribution. that s your logic there. as i said, michael cohen is telling me your suit here is baseless. obviously, daniels has denied the affair. trump also denied via trump s attorney. i guess the question for you if you cannot prove it was hush money that was paid to her, does that take away your case? do you have to prove it was money to shut her up? we don t have to prove anything. the legal standard for filing a complaint like this one at the federal election commission is it s there reason to believe the law was broken. they have subpoena power. it s the dent of justice job to
investigate. they like wise have subpoena power. it looks pretty obvious this was hush money payment given the timing, given the reporting that ms. daniels was talking to major media outlets. she was negotiating with media outlets about appearing and given an interview a view years prior to in touch magazine with great detail about the alleged affair. does it matter if donald trump knew about the money? if michael cohen went and did this without trump s knowledge, does that take away any concern about the campaign? it definitely matters. if he was acting without donald trump s knowledge and authorization and completely without any knowledge or authorization by other trump campaign committee staffers. this will not be. it s not a contribution to the trump campaign. our complaint is invalid.
there s multiple work streams that mueller has. the money laundering, collusion, obstruction of justice. maybe there s a possibility that one aspect of this thing gets in four to six weeks more or less shutdown. i don t think it s realistic that all of them will. thanks very much. appreciate it. some new reporting for the wall street journal on the alleged cash payment to a porn store by the personal lawyer for president trump. you may recall the journal reported michael cohen arranged $130,000 payment to a woman who goes by the name of stormy d danie daniels. that payment was to prevent publication of an alleged air fa affair between her and president trump. mr. cohen arranged the money through a private company he set up in delaware called special consultants back in october 2016. the president denied any affair
what i saw was he lost a part of himself. i think our father was a part of tilger so much that when he passed, tiger became lost. he didn t know how to fill that void. now, we did here at cnn reach out to tiger woods. no response to the comments made by his older brother. you can see my special downfall. it s going to be on at 10:00 tonight. you are going to hear my interview with one of his alleged mistresses, veronica n danie daniels. you will be surprised. she has different insights. it s tonight at 10:00 eastern here on cnn. back to reynolds wolf talking ability snow in california and a lot of it. plenty of it.