My ci can worry about it,ine. Or do something about it. Garlique® helps maintain healthy cholesterol naturally. And its odor free. And pharmacist recommended. Garlique. ® good evening. A from the people that brought you the notion that truth isnt truth, heres something new. Crime that isnt crime, noncrime, by the way that President Trump says he never committed even though at least some of his argument is undermined by his own voice on tape, and the surreal little nugget is part of the picture as the president and his people spin the reality that two more of the former associates are felons and one of them Attorney Michael Cohen tied him under oath to pair of crime. His attorney joins us momentarily. As for the president , he responded today by slamming mr. Cohen on twitter, saying, if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Lat later, the president turned to the fact and law twisting
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until those discussions on all the details, including, he has a wife and two kids, period of incarceration that he s facing, his lawyers have given him advice that he s got to wait. he also has the special counsel, who he s either going to be talking to or has talked to, i won t be able to tell you which right. but there are a lot of moving parts in a very tragic situation that there will come a time, as i said on good morning america when the shadow of uncertainty becomes certainty, he s going to be incarcerated and he s going to leave his family behind quite traumatized, that he wants to turn his life and tell the truth. you were just on with wolf blitzer. you said that michael cohen was present for a meeting with then-candidate trump and don jr. about the trump tower meeting. this is important. you also said that michael cohen testified truthfully to the senate intelligence committee and according to the chair and
but when we talked, it was mostly about his feelings about mr. trump, his positions on issues, his conduct of the presidency and what i found after quite a long period of time talking to him, a sincere conviction that mr. trump represented a danger to the country. and would i help him tell his story, which, i guess i m known as a crisis manager to get facts out and to, no matter what you ve done up to a point, to take responsibility for your mistakes. but i mean, that s such it s such a huge change of heart for this guy. he was the guy that said he would take a bullet for him. he was on cnn during the campaign take the bullet. yeah. saying things which were, you know, probably demonstratively false, but he would he was an
i think we shouldn t be surprised. remember, mr. trump was a business guy that no american major bank would do business with because they didn t think he d paid his debts or honored his word. so, i guess we should not be that surprised, although i m frankly still fairly shocked that we ve got all of these guilty pleas and another 30 indictments coming out of the mueller investigation, as well as every trump security official saying russia is still an ongoing threat, yet the president still denies that threat, and doesn t even have anybody in charge of election security at the white house. the president claiming today that he found out about the payments only after they occurred, that s in direct contradiction to michael cohen s plea, the recording of the president talking about making the payments, or buying the life rights from a.m.i. about mcdougal s story. when sarah sanders was asked today if the president lied to the american public about it, she refused to answer, said it
couldn t figure them out. for example, a president or a candidate is entitled to make millions of dollars for contributions to his own campaign. and if he himself, if president trump paid the hush money, hush money is not illegal if he did it through the corporation. no, no, put aside the corporation for a moment. but that s how the money was paid back to cohen. well, you know, the question is, what was his state of mind at the time, if he directed the person to do it? if he directed the lawyer to do it and if it came from his own money, that would be lawful. right, but he didn t but if cohen himself made the contribution we ll wait and see. cohen himself made the contribution, that would be a crime but cohen. but that wouldn t make trump an unindicted coconspirator. you can have a crime committed by cohen but even if he s directed to do it by trump, if trump had the authority to do it and it depends on where the money came from, it depends on a