so the president claiming today that the payments were not feined, they were. >> they didn't come out of the campaign and that's fake. it's not even a campaign violation. >> so i want to bring in three cnn contributors now. ambassador norm -- a finance law expert and former general counsel at the federal election commission and the author of "the threat matrix". good evening everyone. not much to talk about tonight. nothing's going on in the world. you know today the president says since the money came from him, not a campaign finance