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District is the bad cup and mueller is the good cop. on this issue of irrespective, this language, up until the ami stuff came out the president and his legal team had a pretty good argument for john edwardss defense which is there were other motivating factors besides elections, you alluded to the obvious ones. and jury instruction actually said if any of those our campaign related the government proved its case and the ami piece came out today. it is not clear to me why it came out when it did...

Just the first shoe to drop today. the second one a short time later. the publisher of "the national enquirer" flipping, helping prosecutors and admitting to paying hush money to help donald trump win. prosecutors say they knew they were breaking the law, and admit they did it anyway. heres cecilia vega on that front tonight. >> reporter: just two hours after michael cohen was sentenced, another bombshell. the u.s. attorneys office announcing a cooperation agreement with the company that publish...

Karen mcdougal. >> there were real feelings between the two of us. >> reporter: a.m.i. acknowledges they bought her story in order to bury it, a practice known as catch and kill. they say they worked in "cooperation with" and "at the request and suggestion of" one or more people on the campaign to make sure mcdougal "did not publicize damaging allegations" about trump before the election and "thereby influence that election." in the deal which was signed in september, a.m.i. admits they knew thi...

Significant. especially if there are really things that happened that are big. we dont know much about weisselberg. hes been out of the news pretty much ever since then. what we saw this week and specifically at the tail end of that michael cohen press release where they disclosed that american media incorporated, the parent company of the national inquirer, had basically corroborated the fact these were campaign finance violations. that they were aimed at the campaign. the question is who else ...

Jail for three years doesnt bother me one stinking bit, and its exactly where he belongs. and turning him into a patriot is ridiculous. and the important thing for me about the ami sentencing is that now we can find some witnesses that we can actually use. because you cant really put cohen on the stand. i agree with joyce, its a big day, and i agree with judge napolitano. >> i love to hear how you prosecutors talk about this stuff. cynthia, one more follow-up. isnt it true that his three-year se...

President and others around him did illegally. suddenly we hear about ami, the company that owns the "national enquirer". theyve struck a deal and doesnt look like the beginning of the end to borrow from winston churchill, this looks like this may just be the end of the beginning. what do we expect next from the southern district of new york as it pertains to donald trump and the legal jeopardy hes now in? >> well, thats right, joe. this certainly doesnt seem like the end. and i think its very t...

Her so quickly in their circles without having a good understanding of what those links would be. we continue to talk about corruption, why didnt people look at this. what are the influence angles? someone needs to do due diligence before they walk these people straight into the door and right up to the top levels of the organizations. >> and you know theres an issue with house democrats and some senate democrats talking about where the nra gets their money and whether theres any russian connect...

Seeing with american media is that payments were made as directed by the president. this is the allegation to suppress news stories to help donald trump be elected president of the united states. all weve seen out of the mueller investigation has sort of been tangental to the president. paul manafort the crimes are about him and not the president. this gets close to the door step of the white house. >> inside the white house, white house officials are trying to avoid the topic. they know if you ...

To say what those meetings were about and the purpose of those payments. i think thats pretty damning to the president on its own. >> well, glen, how significant could david peckers cooperation be? that stunner we learned about yesterday? >> it sounds like they came right out and said pecker and ami basically did what they did, caught and killed stories embarrassing to trump for trumps political advantage. and in coordination with the campaign. give than pecker has immunity, he can now openly an...

Scheme to tilt the presidential race in trumps favor. ami said it will cooperate and admitted it paid $150,000 to mcdougal to silence her allegations of an affair with trump. allegations his aides have denied. signaling the unraveling of the deep relationship trump and amis chief executive has forged over decades. pecker whose tabloid strongly supported his candidacy, turned on the president. amis cooperation became public wednesday as cohen, mr. trumps longtime fixer, was sentenced for campaign...