A recap of the days news. He did, and they werent taken o ut of Campaign Finance, thats a big thing. Thats much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign . Is they didnt come out of the campai campaign. They came from me. It isnt even a campaign violation. What the president appears to be claiming there is completely untrue, which would mean it was false and a lie. You cant Duck Campaign finance laws simply by paying out of your own pocket. Thats a crime. A crime that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to yesterday. A crime cohen says he committed at the direction of donald trump. Heres what he said in if court yesterday. And i quote, on or about the summer of 2016,court yesterday. And i quote, on or about the summer of 2016, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office, i and the ceo of a Media Company at the request of the candidate worked together to keep an individual with information that
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A recap of the days news. Explain that . Ive commented on this pretty extensively. What you can tell you is ha 2 president did nothing wrong, there is no collusion. For anything beyond that i would refer you to the president s outside counsel. Didnt he say he didnt know about it and then theres a tape during before it happened discussing it . Ok. Again Michael Cohen is alleging is that trump committed a crime. And directing cohen to pay to silence women who claim they had affairs with trump, that is collusion. You might think republican lawmakers would be compelled to speak out in the face of this. Actually, it probably wont surprise you at all that the response from the president s own party is pretty much this. Crickets. Deafening silence. Nothing. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell completely silent. Majority whip john cornen i dont know the facts. The facts. House Speaker Paul Ryan punting to his spokesperson who said, quote, we need more information than is currently available
And now we re discovering, too, that, well, you knowha hunter s lawyers were saying, you do know if this is brought to trial. of re going to ask joe biden are to testify. he ll be a fact witness and ll of this and that, you know, they would force joe toe joe to testify and then they wanted hunter s lawyers wanted the biden dojprosec to prosecute. what does this look like to you, mr. speakeute.r? ker? well, i don t think it s complicated. first of all, hunter has no capacity to be grateful, no capacity to think beyond his own addicted self. so he s going to do whatever he has to do to try to protect himself. but but let s just be honest. i mean, i ask every american you look at all the information, it s not complicated. joe biden is a crook. cohis family are crooked. they run a man is basically is. it s ironic that donald trump s being charged under rico. well, in fact, joe biden has been running an organized crime
Joe biden has been running an organized crime operation. you watch the sopranos, take out the murders, watch the rest of the sopranos, you ll understand the bidens. this whole notion that it s really complicated, really confusing, no it s not. burisma, a ukrainian company in deep trouble is paying a million dollars year to hunter. hunter s father, vice president of the united states, picks up the phone apparently under three different aliases, using a phone which some people believe was peter schweizer among others believe was probably paid for by one of hunter biden s companies. so sitting in the white house is the vice president of the united states talking on a secret phone, using an alias, talking to the president of ukraine on behalf of the company which is paying his son a million dollars. how hard is it to understand that? i think virtually any honest american would see immediately
They ve shown that they are anything but. greg, danny mentioned this idea that mueller may have been on the ropes. that of course referring to paul manafort and some of the troubles he s headlining there. but some people compared the way mueller is approaching this case to going after the mob or mob families. do you see those tactics in this move today with michael cohen? i do. it s what we ve seen over the last several months, kind of the movement from the outer circle inward towards the crime boss, if you will. and, in fact, i would submit that the president s reaction to michael cohen s the news about michael cohen today was exactly what as prosecutors hear from mob bosses and drug king pin s, that s that the cooperator is lying and see he s saying things that aren t true to get a lighter sentence in the is playing out like a organized crime operation would play out. jill, one big question we ve been looking at is how the president s team has played the