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Those things, while it is symbolic and rand paul admitted its symbolic. >> in the diplomatic world having the senate, the u.s. senate say hey, saudi arabia, we are not going to help you anymore in yemen does actually have power: theres a reason why saudi arabia has lobbyists here. theyre paying attention. >> thats true. >> aaron youre focusing on something we talked about earlier in the show. allen weisselberg. >> it was the name that came up in the tape that we played of michael cohens conversa...

Getting rid of cohen as a credible witness or saying that cohen lacks standing in this matter ultimately may not matter because prosecutors will have other evidence to come to bear. >> in talking about cohen being a lawyer, thats the defense some republicans are using, how could you believe a liar? the president is a liar. go to the washington post and look at their tracking of how many times the president says things that are false, untrue, misleading or lying. its up in the 5,000s. >> hes got ...

We did reach out to the white house about all of this. they declined to comment. >> amazing piece. i want to bring my panel in. ken dilanian, intelligence and national security for nbc news. matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department. cynthia oxny, former federal prosecutor. daniel goldman, district of new york and tom winter, nbc news investigations reporter. i got a full house of big brains. dan, i want to start with you. if ami says it was hush money and cohen said it w...

Guidelines to begin with are only 0-6 months, plus cooperation thats the kind of rare defendant in the federal system who can get a straight probation sentence because of the sentencing guidelines for a relatively lower level crime and his pure cooperation. >> when you see how a case is being built against the president for campaign finance violations, you look at michael cohen and what he has done, you look at the ami announcement yesterday, is there an argument to be made from a legal perspect...

Commenting on todays news. so back with me to help break it all down, nbc news reporter cara lee and nbc legal analyst glen kershner. thanks for sticking around. let me read you some of the quotes. president trump is doing an interview thats airing. were just getting the headlines from that. he said hed have to check but he claimed he didnt make a payment to ami. i dont think we made a payment to that tabloid. he also points to a few lawyers who have had appearances on fox news who he says argue...

Yes hes te -- yes, hes telling you the truth. >> what do you think of his defense that he was relying on his lawyer? >> advice of counsel defenses have been tried by criminals for ages and they almost mefr wonev. typically lawyers do what their clients tell them to do. its the client directing the lawyer to do something. not the lawyer doing something illegal on behalf of the client and not telling him. thats the rarity. i think that is a bit of reaching for it. reaching for straws. >> how much ...

The meeting happened two months after he declared his candidacy. yesterday, federal prosecutors in new york disclosed a statement of facts noting that in august, 2015, the chairman of ami had a meeting with michael cohen and, quote, at least one other member of the campaign. according to a personal familiar with the matter, the other member was mr. trump himself, something many folks thought was likely but now you have at least a second person making this claim. so now we have the testimony from...

Trusted. the first two of those, theres ample evidence that he appears, at least appears to have directed both the campaign finance problems and the payments to stormy daniels and mcdougal as well possibly michael cohens testimony to congress about the deal in russia. and then on whether or not this was campaign related, theres also evidence in the record now per the cooperation agreement with ami. they said that the partnership was engineered to influence and help the election. and then a third...

Undisclosed, secret payments made by a campaign for the purposes of the campaign, which you cannot do, right? thats the core of the issue. >> its a corporate donation in kind. a corporate constitution in kind, right. and ami has fully admitted that. and i think even if you -- >> the donor here. >> right. >> who has committed one part of the crime, theyre already on the record saying, we did it. >> exactly. i mean so, yeah, trump can still say, well, i dont know. i wasnt thinking about that. i wa...

In which we saw that today federal prosecutors used a press release to tell donald trump and tell republican trump defenders in washington that they have much more than the word of michael cohen against donald trump. the press release announced that the u.s. attorneys office, quote, reached a non pros cushion agreement with ami in connection with amis role in making the above described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election. now ami is the parent company of the national enquirer ...