Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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tower moscow through election day and possibly beyond. earlier, stephanopoulos said those conversations stopped in january. i don t, i mean, the date, i mean, until you actually sit down and you look at the questions from mueller, which they ve actually had since at least january of 2017, and you go back and look at the papers i m guessing he thinks mueller has some of their papers and you look at the the, you ll not know what s happened. that s why lawyers, you know, prepare the answers. where are we? so, i mean, two points. first, we re in this very serious point of the so-called political synergy where you have trump s commercial fortunes and his political fortunes intertwine. he drew the red line, but he s obliterated it himself because the crime and criminal conduct he s being investigated for has precisely to do with his mixing of his business motivations. but i have to go back to combine this answer with what he told
also details what cohen told them about this moscow project. i want to remind folks, i m going to read a snippet here. cohen admitted lying about the timing. the extent of talks with russia. it says that by september 2015, cohen, quote, conferred with trump about contacting russia. cohen says that by november of that year, a quote, trusted person in russia proposed, quote, political synergy. a lot of folks have drawn the comparison of political synergy to collusion, but political synergy, that s the language that s used there in the filing. cohen also quoted in the filing as saying that the meeting could have quote, phenomenal impact, not only in political but in business dimension as well. how valuable was cohen s help in this area, julia? yeah, craig, we re all seizing on that word synergy on friday. this was a monumental filing, this cohen sentencing memo that we got.
he meant smoking gun, i think. regardless, there is an awful lot of smoke. we now know that russians interacted with at least 14 trump associates during the campaign and the transition, and that michael cohen lied about the effort to build trump tower moscow. he lied about his conversations with trump about setting up a meeting with putin. and communicated with the russian national offering, quote, political synergy. and the investigation isn t over. the most damning evidence may yet be to come. trump s best hope may now to be to hang onto power no matter the cost. just ask the former fbi director. if trump wasn t the president and someone went to court in the southern district of new york, sponsored information that they directed a crime, what would happen to that person? well, that person would be in serious jeopardy of being charged. all right. joining me now, neal katyal, acting director. good to be with you. nadler says the president has
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