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An affair on the part of ted cruz. this is not paying off women in which you had an affair, even if he wasnt running for president, trump might want to keep that quiet. if youre not running for president why is this media organization thats friendly to you begins running these stories about your opponent? thats something i havent heard talked about in this recent round much news about the "national enquirer" and ami. im interested to see if more comes out about where that story originated and di...

Tenuous in their comments about whether or not they think whats the legal fallout that the president faces is significant. so theyre on a very close watch for people like marco rubio. >> well all be tracking it closely. carol, glen, tom, thank you for starting us off today. today, maria butina officially pleaded guilty for failing to register as a foreign agent. well break down how she infiltrated the republican party and the nra. but first, major expansion news from apple. the tech joint says i...

President trump. >> we have john heilemann, donny deutsch, katty kay and eugene robinson, columnist at the "washington examiner," political reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst robert costa and former assistant united states attorney in the southern district of new york. a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at pace school of law and msnbc legal analyst. mika will be back tomorrow. we have a lot to talk about as it pertains to michael cohen but this new element to ...

Colleagues. walk me through -- im particularly interested in this kind of concern around republican allies of the president or at least they have been allies, potentially starting to shift. what have been the data points that have caused the president and his allies to be concerned that the republicans and the congress might break against him? >> i mean, its two things. one its that weve seen a number of shoes drop in the investigations that are ongoing. whether its michael cohen and yesterday w...

Prosecutors are often holding more cards than theyre laying down in front of the public. so while we were focused on michael cohen and while the news about michael cohen is, i think, enormous concerning the potential of what he has to offer prosecutors, we learned simultaneously that the southern district has whats called a non-prosecution agreement with ami, and they now presumably have access to whatever was in the locked safe in david peckers office as well as any other information that they ...

So we know michael cohen has been, you know, pled and been sentenced. many of us were always saying the evidence that the southern district had was more than just michael cohens say so. we now know that for a fact because we know they have witnesses in ami and theres much more out there as well that the southern district has. so the question is what case are they building? where else is this going? because of the nature of the people involved in the transactions that michael cohen pled guilty to...

Coordinated conspiracy to violate the campaign financing laws. and it would be one thing if this were only the word of a convicted felon, michael cohen, but now we know at least two other witnesses, david pecker and now weisselberg, will back up that evidence as well as all of these documents that they must have. you know, this agreement that they have with ami, that the justice department made with ami not to prosecute in exchange for dirt on trump, has been in place since september. we just le...

Yesterday, because with the president denying that this was even anything other than a civil case, and that it was up to the l lawyer to know the law, he has been tweeting all about cohen and these finance violations were not criminal, and give us a reality check on that. >> they are in fact criminal allegations, and mueller a has a full hand and he is not just relying on cohen, and by the time he talked to cohen, he likely had the elements of this cases fully established, which is what we learn...

Now were the country is a jury. does it look to anybody now after weve heard from cohen and after ami that this is what really happened? does it really seem as if after all the lies that the president has propagated that now he lands on this? does it seem like he was an innocent actor who reasonably relied? i think as a factual matter as a prosecutor im very comfortable arguing that. >> dabnny, one of the defenses weve seen trumps team make is that part of what cohen pled to isnt even a crime. t...

In the case of playboy model karen mcdougal, however, cohen coordinated with david pecker of the national enquirer to purchase her story in order to conseal it in a process known as catch and kill. the problem is that corporations are barred from contributing or coordinating with political campaigns under the law. and now in a major development the parent company of the national enquirer american media incorporated, ami, has admitted that the principle purpose of that payment was indeed to suppr...