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
campaign violations which you and i discuss. they don t get enforced. but more importantly to clint s point, it s always hard to know what effect a campaign violation has. but michael cohen has now stated it is in this information, it is in his guilty plea, he did what he did, he paid these two women for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election. how do you put that in the mix of the crime? in other words, the crime is, one, illegal contribution and one excess contribution. now we realize the effect might have been substantially more serious than what we think of as an election spending violation. well, i mean in terms of the effect, that s something that certainly we will look at. so i would say is this different from the, quote-unquote, run of the mill violation that we see where somebody i mean, there s been many stories, for instance, about super pacs recently only deciding to spend money 13 days before the election so they don t have to report or not reporting at