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
that might happen. lanny davis is an articulate guy. he captured the sentiment of a lot of people saying, today michael cohen 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 influencing an election. if those payments were a crime for michael cohen, then why wouldn t they be a crime for donald trump? hallie, i think you can t overstate the degree to which this is a serious issue. a crime has been laid at the doorstep of the white house. reporter: that s right. what is the response? the white house has been picking up what s on its doorstep and referring it to the president s outside legal counsel. they re saying anything related to the michael cohen issue goes to the outside team. i can tell you this. we heard from rudy giuliani, the president s outside attorney who as you know is pushing back on this saying there is no allegation of wrongdoing that the prosecution lays out, and significa