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
those bad acts happens in one of those countries what does nato or the united states do? carley: there are still americans in ukraine right now what happen fist an american dies in the fighting. so many questions and uncertainty. i want to point out ukrainian history. they voted for independence in 1991. 92% of ukrainians voted for independence from russia and gave up their nuclear weapons and now there is obviously a discussion on whether or not that was the right idea. volodymyr zelenskyy was elected president of ukraine and in february of last year, he started to crack down on pro-russian oligarchs and shut down three pro-russia tv channels alleging they were broadcasting misinformation. zelenskyy said this was to defend the country. i think putin has been surprised
to start considering that as a possibility. like democrats, for example, should start vocalizing that more. but no, republicans by and large are saying that the manafort trial, for example, does not have anything to do with russian election interference, that neither does cohen and of course that s just not true with regard to the manafort trial. against the backdrop, just like seth said, is all of the work that manafort did for pro-russian oligarchs in ukraine and his attempts to cover that up while he was working on the trump campaign and over the course of the decade, of course, that he was working for the pro-russian government and ukraine. it s more about reading between the lines here, but i think it s safe to say republicans are not going to abandon the president any time soon. megan, there is a little bit of an achilles heel here for the president. in july when we started to hear that michael cohen might talk about knowing that donald trump knew about the trump tower meeting,