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The other. >> do you think that person has already spoken to the southern district of new york or to mueller, because that opens a whole new can of worms? >> i have no way of knowing but, you know, listen, you have your targets. you have your witnesses. everyone who is involved is going to be one or the other, right? theres why theyre tying up these loose ends. theyre getting david pecker, allen weisselberg. these are on the witness side of the house. the other folks are the targets and thats wh...

Didnt direct michael cohen to make these payments. hes just saying he didnt direct michael cohen to break the law. the problem, though, is that prosecutors believe that the law was broken. there were campaign finance violations. there was a scheme on the part of michael cohen and at the direction of president trump, according to prosecutors, to pay these women. one of them through a corporation, ami, the "national enquirer," and another one through michael cohen in order to silence them during t...

And theres something in that agreement that really stood out to me, okay? and it says this. that in or about august of 2015, david pecker, the chairman of the ami, and longtime friend of then-candidate trump, met with michael cohen and at least one other member of the campaign, at least one other member of the campaign. according to the statement of fact from that agreement, at that meeting with cohen and the anonymous campaign staffer, pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about tru...

I dont think we should think we have seen the end of the campaign finance aspect of this. >> mm-hmm. lets talk more jennifer. ami, this is the parent company of the enquirer admitting the hush money paid to karen mcdougal was to suppress her story so that it wouldnt influence the 2016 election. thats very specific and very damning. >> it is. it is. and the law doesnt require that it has to be the only reason. you can have concerns about your reputation. you can worry about your wife getting angr...

Trump, thats a big deal. of course michael cohen not only cooperating here but having a lot more to say on other matters, including russia and the special prosecutor and including what he could say on capitol hill has got to be making president trump very nervous. >> in some cases it adds more information than what was previously known with the ami thing. susan hennesy, i know you think its a big deal. how big of a deal? in some ways you look at the development with ami, and we learned about it ...

Illegal and he never directed anyone to break the law. thats really a distinction without a difference because the entire point of what michael cohen has told prosecutors and ami has now told prosecutors, this was in fact designed to influence the election. that in and of itself is what makes it a campaign finance violation. i think hes really back on his heels. even though republicans are probably likely to stay behind him, its very clear that there is some major legal liability for him and tha...

Specifically the ami deal, you said if we were not talking about the president here things would be different here, but the wagons are still being scircled. >> yeah, you can do it by process of elimination. look at who has become a witness or been convicted. cohen convicted and still cooperating, according to his attorneys. now you have ami. if you think back to cohens plea, executive 2 is a high ranking person in the trump organization who authorized the payment. theres speculation its don juni...

The magnitude of the legal problems he was getting himself into by talking to me about that. he also, i dont think, told me the full story of his relationship with donald trump, but there certainly was no mystery about the underlying friendship. >> but now he and ami say something much more than that, jeffrey. in the legal document, they say as part of the plea deal this money was paid for political reasons to influence the 2016 election. thats a big difference. >> it is a big difference. berman...

Were back with break is news that the trump inauguration committee is now under federal investigation for potential financial abuses. also breaking cnn confirms that donald trump was at a 2015 when his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen discussed illegal hush money payments with the publisher of the "national enquirer," david pecker. lets bring in our analysts and talk a little bit about this story. the president was there when they originally discussed it back in 2015. how significant is thi...

Campaign. back in march, i spoke with caring mcdougal about how the deal came about, where ami bought her story of an affair with mr. trump only to kill it. why do you think they quashed the story? >> back then or now? >> now. >> they -- they didnt want to hurt him. >> you think its because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami is friends with donald trump? >> correct. >> do you think -- i mean, you wouldnt know this, but do you think donald trump would have been aware of -- of th...