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Per month for our teenager girls. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we start with the massive news from the capitol. a three-year prison sentence for michael cohen. another bombshell for an already shaken white house, prosecutors striking a non prosecution agreement with ami. the national enquirer parent company. >> in exchange, ami admits making $150,000 to silence karen mcdougal. >> i have spoken to allan about how to set the whole thing up with funding. yes. and its all the stuff. >> news of the deal wi...

Advice for maybe the day at most and then you will have a twitter eruption, and then you will have more lies about the lies, right? he lies and lashes out and so forth, and at the end of the day for the president what it comes down to is not making a credible legal case, but he is trying to provide political cover so 34 republicans in the senate will stick with him, and not promote an impeachment. so far he has that. many are saying they dont care about these charges. >> we are going to have ric...

Yesterday is the company itself has entered into a big cooperation agreement, saying they will not get prosecuted as long as they admit these facts. hot the company is admitting is the reason behind the payments was to influence the outcome of the election. in effect, thats another witness who is saying these payments were made, its michael cohen, the national enquirer, ami, all of the individuals and employees who touched that, theyre agreeing to this and agreeing to continue to cooperate. that...

Fact that the purpose of these payments was political and this is not the narrative that donald trump of course is sticking to. >> mj, the agreement says that ami, the american media incorporated, the parent company of the "national enquirer," will continue to cooperate with prosecutors, so how damaging could that be to the president? >> reporter: the fact that ami is committed to cooperating in the future, not just in the past, of course suggests that they could have information that is importa...

Partisanship. its what the first amendment is all about, but the payment of money is a different story, and that i think is something that is a problem -- that obviously was a problem for pecker, and he got immunity and now he is obligated to tell the full story of his relationship to prosecutors about donald trump and that could be a long story. >> lets remember that in the legal circles, michael cohen and his credibility as a cooperator has been a story line and still will be a story line but ...

Attorney, we learned that the parent company of the "national enquirer" run by trumps longtime friend david pecker admitted to cooperating with members of the campaign to silence karen mcdougal, who claimed to have had an affair with trump. so lets talk about this. this is going to be. this is the former senior vice president of corporate communications at ami, which owns the enquirer. good evening. >> good evening, don. >> what do they have? >> they must have lots of stuff because otherwise pec...

>> what we do know is that cohen has said in his plea agreement that he coordinated his activities with senior officials of the campaign. presumably a.m.i. was in those discussions as well because part of the deal here is that a.m.i. would purchase the story, front the money, which is itself a campaign violation because its corporate funds, it cant be used for this, would be reimbursed. there was an agreement all drawn up, a phony invoice that was going to say it was for services rendered. >> tr...

Prevent it from influencing the election. >> just because ami did it, that doesnt mean the sole reason donald trump did it. these are campaign finance violations. as you well know, john, almost every presidential campaign -- i ran for president twice and i have never been accused of a campaign finance violation, but i was in the minority when it came to that. the obama campaign in 2008 paid 370,000 in fines. >> thats so different. >> its not different. >> creating an intricate seam to cover your...

Engage in this transaction with ami, might it violate the campaign election act? mcgahn was his election attorney. if there were an issue of compliance with the fec laws, mcgahn would have been consulted. instead, we know ami met with whom? met with the campaign staff, with political operatives. moreover, there was so much here that was designed to hide what was going on. we know that there was a phony invoice pretending that this was payments for services. there was a shell company set up to ca...

Unseamly and i think the whole thing is an unseemly thing. this could have been a political move or personal move or business move. there are all sorts of reasons the president could have done this, but the idea of taking, you know, campaign finance quote, violations, which are primarily and have been civil -- >> not always. >> almost exclusively. >> but not always. >> yeah, you have the john edwards case. you dont have many others. let me assure you, theres lots of expenditures campaigns make t...