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Not. thats not the law. and, you know, trumps shifting defense dooms him anyway, but the latest defense that michael cohen just made this up, and that, you know, because a lot of people, willie, as you know make up crimes that they committed in order to plead guilty to them and become convicted felons. that happens all the time. so none of this stuff makes any sense, but from an evidence perspective and a prosecutors perspective the ami and nonprosecution agreement and then the revelation that t...

The daily beast reporting growing tight with pecker during the early months of the administration. kushner bonded with amis chief executive who caught and killed negative stories about trump and admitted to working in concert with trump campaign to cover up the alleged karen mcdougal affair that she had with trump. nbc confirming trump was in the room for a meeting with pecker and cohen on hush money payments. cohen and pecker are cooperating with the feds. kushner is loyal son-in-law and has pl...

Vociferously depute that but thats to be expected. when the trump transition in 2016 and 2017 rolled around and it became very clear to pecker and his associates that michael cohen would not be landing a plumb job in the trump administration even though michael cohen was going around telling people close to him that he might even get something as senior as chief of staff in the white house, that obviously did not happen for a multitude of reasons. pecker went searching for someone who could be h...

>> do you have any regrets about the role of tabloid journalist and the national enquirer as it related to the rise of donald trump? the new yorker has a piece out about donald trumps tabloid reckoning. >> ami has 26 companies. i did corporate for all of them. the especial i think that there was a lot of back and forth over the years of stories that he might want out there. he used it to advance his platform which he continued to do for the campaign. this relationship isnt just then. its been go...

Have, in fact, directed it. but certainly the fact pattern we know to date suggests a criminal -- absolutely that he may be involved in the crime. this is the president of the united states of america. >> daniel goldman, the president keep uses -- keeps using that word "civil" to describe this. basically same question to you. how does this david pecker meeting add to the known record? >> right. so, many things that he said today on fox news are flat-out wrong. the first is that michael cohen has...

As cohen and ami have stated it goes from being a civil wrong to being a crime. >> the president still has defenders on capitol hill. cnn asked house majority leader kevin mccarthy about trump being implicated in two crimes related to the hush money deals. mccarthy blamed michael cohen saying quote if you hire an attorney to hifix a problem you expect the attorney to do it legally. the house and senate passed bipartisan legislation overhauling yesterday how sexual harassment claims are handled...

And they are sort of already chipping away at possible defenses if not knocking them out altogether for example by having ami and michael cohen saying this is for the purpose of influencing the campaign which i think we coffin ferred any way. they can prove that now in court. and so it takes away that defense. >> jim, it is great to have you on. we havent had you on for a while and so im going to exploit you now because it seems the big picture -- i watch the power of new york. it helps hillary ...

House reporter for the daily beast. he broke the exclusive reporting on kushners relationship with david pecker. and back with us once again maya wily. lets talk about the relationship between kushner and pecker. >> because of all the legal news that happened earlier this week regarding ami, david pecker and of course michael cohen and president donald trump. its obviously been firmly established that for the period of time before donald trump entered the white house and particularly in the heat...

>> this didnt have anything to do with the president. the president was focused on the transition and building out a new government. the role he had in the inauguration was to raise his hand and take the oath. same thing for the first lady. she wasnt engaged in this process. >> with that lets bring in our lead off panel. peter baker, chief correspondent for "the new york times." mya wiley, professor at the new school, daniel goldman, former attorney with the southern district of new york. mia, i...

Ami to actually divert negative stories about himself in order to win election so you already know that he is absolutely willing to abuse authority. so you would translate this now as president to what ways would he use his authority and relationship to ami or pecker through jared kushner to protect his administration? and its possible that there may have been various forms of abuse of power in doing that. what the actual crimes would be would depend on what the conversations are. but one questi...