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The day s 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 counsel s office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned public corruption ....
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 ....
Now he s facing serious legal problems of his own. thanks very much. there were payments from the turkish government. why did general michael flynn accept payments from foreign governments after he was warned not to do so. especially governments like turkey and russia? reporter: tonight new documents show that fired national security advisor michael flynn was warned, prohibited from receiving pamtsz from foreign governments. thank you so much for inviting me and having me here. reporter: this, one year before he accepted tens of thousands of dollars from russian state television for this speaking engagement. the documents released by the house oversight committee informed him he could not receive consulting fees, gifts, traveling expenses or salary from 230r7b governments during his retirement. despite that, they said they can t located any rofrds ....