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
i was doing, i knew what the intent was, and i knew i should do it in this way. the question we ve been biscuitsing discussing is does the president know this is a violation, this is a charge you can t do this? these guys seem to be operating almost like business as normal. they were very sloppy in terms of how this went down. in terms of the investigation, there s direct connections. usually in a criminal conspiracy they would try and cloak or shelf the money shell money in pieces to try and cover what the payments are for. this seems to be a very rapid case and as we saw with the special master, this moved very quickly after that evidence was proved. this means this case is very solid, in my opinion. they have the evidence lined up and that s why cohen is going this route today. so, tom winter, a lot of people are going to say he s lying. they said it already. a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant piereriod of