Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president , we could be looking at an indictment against the president. We could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted coconspirator. Think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. Its really serious here. Well see what happens from here. The other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that Michael Cohen, and we dont know who these people are, was working w
has pled guilty to an unlawful campaign contribution in terms of paying these two women. why would he pay that without talking to donald trump? it is never made any sense that michael cohen did this on his own. well, first of all where did he get the money. second of all, who benefitted? that argument has never made sense. it s been made by all the surrogates who came forward after stormy daniels spoke. david schwartz was on the program, an attorney for michael cohen in another matter, and other friends of michael cohen, all of whom said the president didn t know anything about this. he did this out of the goodness of his heart because that s the kind of guy he is. he took out a home equity loan, didn t seek repayment. none of that is true. either they were lied to or they were on television lying as well. i m not saying it s not a good case against the president based on the fact michael cohen is willing to say it under oath. common sense, as jeff points out, the benefit of
stormy daniels, why are we to think he couldn t possibly have accepted help from the russians? campaign with regard to stormy i think if there are competing narratives of truth as rudy giuliani tells us, then isn t it time for donald trump to go before mueller and testify? i mean aren t the voters entitled aren t the people of this country entitled before the midterm elections, before the elections of 2020 to know what really happened, to straighten out these competing narratives? i think that requires him to i think this puts increased pressure on him to go to mueller. i don t want to use this old saying but there s an old saying to the effect you scratch a lie, you find a thief. the president, if he was willing to lie repeatedly about the payoff to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, which according to michael cohen and we now know he if michael cohen is actually a felon and did what he just pled guilty to, the president was lying about all that stuff time and time again.
these actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. i m just saying i don t know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. not regarding stormy daniels. there s audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i don t know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and discussing the details of buying the rights to her story from ami. why they would be not like trump magazine actually exists that they were buying the rights so they could publish it. they were wanting to hold on to the rights so if the head of ami got hit by a truck in the immortal words of then candidate donald trump, they would be safe. you said he could still get immunity from mueller or immunity from congress if democrats win and decide to pursue impeachment charges. in both scenarios, he would be compelled to testify, right? right.