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Prosecutors, and either have to tell the truth in a way that will be harmful to the president and show that he has lied about all of these matters, and may provide evidence that he has broken the law in a criminal fashion, that he knew what he was doing. or if they lie, they would be prosecuted for lying. and the people were talking about at this stage are the people that cohen referred to as senior officials of the campaign. now, who were those? theres manafort, until he left. a lot of this hap...

With what does ami say about that, we know -- were in some of the meetings with trump because going all the way back to 2014, there was a personal meeting between pecker and trump where a.m.i. said it would be helpful to his campaign -- not to donald trump as a new york real estate developer. so you start there. and so the question becomes, in those conversations, can a.m.i. tell us what was said about why they were doing it in october of the election year? why it was so important to do it in a ...

>> so basically whenever. thats pretty amazing. great to see you. thank you. really amazing turns of events we have seen in the last 24 hours. joining me to discuss is asha, a former fbi agent and cnn legal security analyst. julia hirshfield davis, congressional correspondent for "the new york times," and jack quinn, who served as white house counsel in the clinton white house. asha, until now, as kara pointed out, it was michael cohens word against the presidents. now its cohens world and ami...

The mexican officials have said according to our michelle kosinski, there is no mexican dollar paying for the wall. first and foremost. secondly, the president just said i will proudly shut down the government if congress doesnt pay for the wall. senator schumer said if you got mexico to pay for it, why are you coming to us? its blowing up the arguments. he wants the money from congress and threatening to shut down the government over it and claims mexico will pay for it and one more fact check,...

Mj lee, how significant is this breaking news? >> reporter: what is significant tonight is that now we have confirmed all of the three actors who were in that meeting in august 2015. lets walk through the three people that we know attended that meeting. ami of course confirmed yesterday that they had met with david pecker, the chairman of ami, met with michael cohen, as well as another member of the trump campaign and this was their discussion to come up with a strategy to kill stories that were...

Admitting he did it. hes saying he got bad advice but thats not going to wash in this one. as chris said, he set up a complicated scheme to hide this money supposedly from melania. i would think theres a much simpler way to do it. the fact they went through all this effort tends to show they knew what they were doing was illegal and they were trying to hide it. hes too much involved in these things and the fact is cohen says and ami says that everybody knew this was the purpose. >> at federal pr...

Scheme with ami, that they cant -- they cannot with a straight face any longer maintain that this was to protect the family or protect his reputation generally. all of this was clearly aimed at his candidacy and bolstering it. >> mm-hmm. chris, last week we were talking about the flynn, cohen, and manafort filings, right? then today we get more from cohen. its the latest blow for the president to say the least. chris? >> yeah, it is. i mean, yeah, definitely. youre looking at a whole spectrum of...

Contribution, so the president doesnt go there in the interview. said he didnt pay them. didnt say that the lawyer set it up for them to pay him for buying the right to the womans story so she wouldnt go public with that story or couldnt go public with that story alleging she had an affair with the president. thats toeing the line and what weve seen on twit they are morning trying to give an insight into his legal strategy by saying -- hes not disputing that he directed michael cohen to made the...

How ami is going to cooperate with investigators but the fact that they are committed to future cooperation is very, very significant. >> david pecker may have received immunity in exchange for their full cooperation. thanks very much. now to breaking news involving the federal investigation now under way of the presidents inauguration committee. "the wall street journal" first reporting about a criminal probe into possible misuse of funds and donors attempting to buy influence with the incomi...

Department has a current policy that it would not indict a sitting president. so he is basically in the situation that richard nixon was in watergate of being an unindicted participate in all of this. what they called then a coconspirator. >> he is individual one. >> he is individual one. and according to cohens testimony, he directed what cohen did. >> and a.m.i., the parent company, and david pecker, his friend, seems to suggest the same. they also have allen weisselberg, the cfo who was invol...