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campaign. all as part of an effort to undermine that investigation. he s pardononing people, perhaps sending a message to witnesses who might testify against him that they, too, could be pardoned. so stay strong. if an effort to prop up the dying coal industry his administration is reportedly weighing an unprecedented intervention in the u.s. energy grid which would basically order some folks to get their lick trits from coal plants. he tipped off wall street this morning about confidential employment numbers more than an hour before they were officially released. possibly to give himself some cover from last night s decision to slap steep tariffs on our closest allies in europe, canada, and mexico, renewing fears that he is leading us into a trade war. when given a chance to denounce a racist comment he instead attacks the press. he suggested one of his criminalityics should be fired for using offensive language rod will not go any further and something is going to happen. i ....
wasn t plausible, wasn t believable but it was at least relatively co teernt. to recap, michael cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that michael cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated as cohen put it $130,000 payment to stormy daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. now, the money came out of cohen s pocket allegedly taken from a home equity line of credit we were told. the president had not repaid it. in fact, mr. trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. nothing to do with skel change an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. on wednesday night rudy guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. ....
mr. cohen sought reimbursement of those expenses and mr. trump fully reimbursed mr. cohen in 2017. the category of value would be $101,000 and $250,000, and the interest rate would be zero. we re going to explain all this in a moment. remember, michael cohen paid a $130,000 settlement to the adult film star, stormy daniels, who claims she had an affair with donald trump. the president has denied those allegations. joining me now, the senior director of the campaign legal center. he previously worked in the office of general counsel for the federal election commission. we had you on yesterday. we were wondering if this disclosure was going to show up in this or this payment was going to show up in this disclosure. it did. what questions do you have now? well, we were saying that the president s decision of whether to disclose this payment in this report put him in a really tough spot because in he did disclose it, it would raise the question of why he didn t disclose it the ....
for months. his long-time lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. and we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of foreign governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. that s just the tip of the iceberg. now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the trump campaign s various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three different campaign aides starting the summer before the election. and now the president, his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. i ve taken the position, and i don t have to take this position, and maybe i ll change, that i will not be involved with is the justice department. i have decided that i ....
gone through in the book ship of fools. stay cheerful. it s our duty. see you monday. sean: welcome to hannity. great news for the united states of america. the economy is booming after months of projections, the second quarter gdp numbers are officially in with over 4% growth. in other words our economy is now moving at its fastest pace in four years. in moments we will explain what this means for you and highlight the president s historic economic track record that the rest of the media and the democrats are ignoring and the days of obama s pathetic economic stagnation are now officially over. today i interviewed the president about the roaring economy. and so much more. we ll play the highlights, plus Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. officially announced that the second quarter gdp grew at a whopping pace of 4.1%. that s double the average yearly growth under obama. under obama they nearly even made 3%. the first u.s. president in u.s. histo ....