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 is the question that good thinking people should be asking tonight. rudy giuliani has basically done what you would have expected him to do. they have thrown michael cohen back under the bus because the guy doesn t have a stellar reputation. first of all, on rudy giuliani, pretty much 100% of what comes out of his mouth any more is ridiculous. so let s set that aside. we have in lanny davis statement a comforting reassurance to jessica s point earlier that we haven t all lost our marbles because lanny said specifically that he was talking about president trump. so, we have the president, in effect, identified as an unindicted coconspirator in a federal felony. so, that may not be relevant criminally so long as this justice department adheres to the guidance that said you don t indict sitting presidents, but it may be relevant to how long he s a sitting president because that is a relevant factor for