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
charges connected to russian collusion. however, he s somebody who was convicted of charges related to vast sums of money he received from a putin-allied leader of ukraine who talked during the campaign about trying to get right with some of his funders, deraposka among them, and participated in the trump tower meeting. finally michael flynn who is a cooperating witness who was the national security advisor in the white house pled guilty to a crime about lying about his contacts with russian diplomats. so russia is bathed all through this process. right. and it becomes the ability of the president to construct anything like a plausible denial about knowledge or activity with russia. it just gets more and more difficult with every development like this. so, jegs ka, let s just go back to this for a second. on the face of it, we have