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
and spent most of those days in a tent by the side of the kabul airport runway guiding aircraft as they landed and took off. when the attack happened, i was sitting there with the rest of my team and the other marines. you hear a large explosion. we were sitting next to the runway. you see and hear that explosion and a small earthquake. everybody just sat. gibson arranged 35 medical evacuations to germany. marines, screams out at the top of his lungsing get your kid on. in my head i m like i have to defend myself. at the same time i have to continue my services in air traffic. it came to a point where we had to halt the landing areas. we don t know where it s coming from. a sergeant was one of the marines standing guard
to start considering that as a possibility. like democrats, for example, should start vocalizing that more. but no, republicans by and large are saying that the manafort trial, for example, does not have anything to do with russian election interference, that neither does cohen and of course that s just not true with regard to the manafort trial. against the backdrop, just like seth said, is all of the work that manafort did for pro-russian oligarchs in ukraine and his attempts to cover that up while he was working on the trump campaign and over the course of the decade, of course, that he was working for the pro-russian government and ukraine. it s more about reading between the lines here, but i think it s safe to say republicans are not going to abandon the president any time soon. megan, there is a little bit of an achilles heel here for the president. in july when we started to hear that michael cohen might talk about knowing that donald trump knew about the trump tower meeting,
business. this is separate and apart from a violation that simply is the cost of doing business. now, we could argue that in a number of different congressional races and a number of different senate races, ballot measures, the campaign finance violations have swayed the outcome because people merely have not known who is trying to speak to them, who is trying to effect their ballot box decision. but this is, again, this is something that is distinct. right. this is the president s personal lawyer saying the president told me to violate campaign finance laws right before the election and let s also remember that this shows, based on that video that you showed on air force one, that the president not only, when he was candidate trump, violated federal law, but that it also shows that the president, when he was president, lied about it. right. and so consciousness of guilt. nick, you and i have talked about this. right. that s where we are. but again, you know, rudy g
campaign finance violations, and that is a serious charge. now, yes, you are absolutely right. when it comes to the daily ongoings of super pac spending, when it comes to spending by congressional candidates, is there a hideous lack of oversight by the federal election commission? absolutely. the commission, as you said, is designed essentially for deadlock and for inaction. but this is different. this is the president s personal fixer saying that president trump directed him, meaning they were in a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. that poses a huge legal threat to the president. so, john harwood, i want to read back lanny davis s tweet from a few moments ago in which he talks about here it is. he talked about his client. today he stood up and testified under oath that donald trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of flungsing an election. if those pamtsz were a crime for michael cohen, then why wouldn t they be a