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the senate says kushner withheld e-mails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. and house republicans pass the trump tax plan. i don t benefit. new analysis finds that the plan saves trump s family over $1 billion. i pay as little as possible. i fight like hell to pay as little as possible. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the same president who has weighed in on everything from meryl streep s acting to social media policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his party s nominee for u.s. senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. reporte reporters today his press secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. obviously, sexual hara ....
$4 million. filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of campaign finance violations. the reasons those were such a stunner, because michael cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those campaign finance violations were. one, $150,000 payment to the ceo of a media company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses president trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. and then the second, $130,000 payment, which he facilitated, which we know again from previous reporting has to do with stormy daniels, a porn star that alleges an affair with the president. again, their names not mentioned in court, but we know who they were talking about, and then we got a little bit more detail when the u.s. deputy attorney came out of court after these guilty pleas and talked about all of the charges in general. take a listen real quickly. A look at breaking news, politics ....
Frustration. if there are voters out there who say they don t want donald trump and when you look at his disapproval rating, there s a lot of them, don t give the voters another choice if you are diluting the anti-trump vote that s what democrats are fearing and the history of these third-party campaigns is you get the assumption of who they ll draw from the reality on election day when they go through with it often ends up being very different i m not sure we know how a howard schultz candidacy would end up playing out if there is one. the bush 41 team forever blamed ross perot for what happened in 92. thanks, steve. thanks for setting us up and now joining me stephanie cutter former adviser to president obama and post opinion writer and sabrina sadiqy political reporter for the guardian. first, what about the fear factor when it comes to an independent candidacy by someone with the, you know, the dollars ....
Interesting is what rudy guiliani and the president s other defenders say about michael cohen at this point. presumably, they re going to say, he s just lying about the whole thing. that he did not do this at the direction of donald trump. and that will certainly call will lead to whether there is any corroborating evidence of michael cohen. are there e-mails. are there tapes. and i suspect one way or another, through the mueller investigation, through congressional investigations, or simply with interviews to the media, we have not heard the last of michael cohen defending what he said in court today. yeah, i m sure you re right. sabrina sadiqy, the president i m sure has been stewing all day. i m sure he s really angry. but he s about to go on a stage in charleston, west virginia, big political rally. what do you anticipate? what do you expect we might be hearing from the president? ....
So i m sure there is some calculation, chris, inside the white house about not wanting to wade into an unfriendly territory for the president, to say the least. but at the same time, it s more politics, politics, politics, in the conversations i m having. i just want to note how remarkable it is that the president s people are thinking, well, this person stands accused of sexual assault against a 14-year-old that she rolled out of the car afterwards. he stands accused of calling up a teenager in her trigg class to try to get her to go out with him. but, you know, if we come out against him, we might lose and end up looking bad. sabrina sadiqy and robert costa, great to have you both. thank you. your writing has been phenomenal, if you don t mind my saying. sabrina brought this up and this morning you saw in al franken, there is this question, is he going to resign. what is the we re figuring out what s the proper punishment for the particular crime or ....