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Jurisdictions. lets start with the committee. muellers team is seeing if there was foreign monthat went into it and prosecutors in mork are looking into the committee and whether there are financial abuses with the donations and folk who is had donations accepted because they wanted to gain access or sway with the incoming administration. lets move on to the development that probably gets the closest to the president. this is that meeting between donald trump and david pecker, the head of ami, a...

Substantial, as he put it, evidence as well. what type of evidence do you think they might have? >> tapes and other people that were in the meeting. we know that the president of the ami, the publisher of the magazines, has already stated in a filing that trump, cohen and he were all in the same meeting together discussing the issue of how to keep people quiet. that was at least a year before the election. so im quite sure that everything that cohen and certainly anything that the prosecutors in...

They have. that more stories will come out about what ami did for trump. but you know, what we have right now, this one story, this admission that ami paid $150,000 to mcdougal and trump was in the room when they discussed this, that is your crime right there. but it may come out that there were other times when pecker helped run interference for the campaign and thats just going to make it more serious. >> and to that point, okay, were talking now about karen mcdougal and paying off a woman, yo...

Prosecutors? >> cnn learned the president was present at the august 2015 meeting about the hush payments. the president was in the room. he met with cohen and david pecker. chairman of "the national enquirer" parent company. the president of ami. michael cohen will break his silence in an interview with "good morning america." >> lets bring in marshall cohen for the "early start" debut. good to see you, sir. here with us from d.c. this morning. it has been interesting evolution on the payments. ...

Violate them, as michael cohen admitted that he had, thats a crime. >> so its very significant. >> and it also serves as corroboration of everything michael cohen was saying on this issue. >> shan, that last point jeff made is important. the president is saying you cant trust michael cohen, hes a liar, clearly hes done a lot of lying over the course of his career. but now david pecker, a.m.i., they have signed a document stating facts and they say about this meeting as jeff said, it was specific...

Congress. the prosecutor may have said you need to plead guilty to -- >> does that lesson the fact that michael cohen -- >> i think the question is whether or not theres a campaign finance violation. theres a former commission that says its not. you accept the prosecutors argument to get a reduced sentence does not mean the case has been tried. >> thats the argument my friend from lindsay graham made. its not really a tough case. the reason its not is because you have two independent witnesses t...

>> shepard: lets talk the legal of this now. john is here. hes a former federal prosecutor in the united states attorneys office for the eastern district of new york. good enough to share his time with us. thank you. >> good afternoon. >> shepard: flynn lied to the fbi. >> he doesnt challenge that. he admits it. >> shepard: yeah, circumstances. yeah. no mitigating. >> not a mitigating circumstance. he will get probation regardless. there was nothing in that interview that was problematic. flynn ...

>> harris: i want to go back to what melissa said. what you were talking about is the actual paying. michael cohen says he would have paid on his own. thats not the case with ami, who just cut this immunity deal. >> melissa: that in and of itself was the campaign finance violation. well, im talking about with relation to michael cohen. and another question that george stephanopoulos missed, which -- i dont know, maybe have these questions were on the edit room floor. he missed some of the bigges...

And the agreement with the media company, ami. those would be corroborating pieces of evidence, as well, i suppose. >> harris: i want to go back to the tapes for a moment. we havent talked about that in a while. this is a man who was hired -- i know that maybe its unsettled, i dont know. attorneys have told me different things. but this is a man who was paid to have confidence with the president. thats what you pay an attorney for. are we in a situation where anybody is looking any differently a...

Contribution. >> whats illegal paying a woman. ? >> the corporate donation from ami. >> only if its a campaign contribution. >> they said it was. >> if it were used against the president he would have a different point of view. >> bill: this is where it goes. on and on again. cohen earlier today on abc. watch this and well hear from the president, too. >> those stories -- in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence. >> first of all its not true. i did not do it to ...