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That they knew what they were doing was wrong. youre going to get burned by circumstantial evidence even if you try to claim, well, i didnt know what was happening or certainly the defense of its not a crime, thats probably never worked ever, ever, ever, ever, ever in the history of federal criminal prosecution. >> the cohen and ami admissions, do they give us any clues as to how much more prosecutors may know and theyre just not revealing? >> the ami admissions represent the government building...

Candidates relationships with women by, among other things, assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased in their publication avoided. chuck rosenberg, it feels like right here in those two paragraphs what is laid bare is this is not what rudy giuliani described. rudy giuliani described an effort by michael cohen to funnel money from a law firm to protect donald trump in his marriage. from embarrassment. from embarrassing his wife and his family. this is very cle...

Involved in this scheme. michael cohen pointed the finger at trump but hes not available as a witness, and he also brings his own baggage. ami cooperated yesterday, and they announced the nonprosecution agreement, but there was nothing in that that specifically identified donald trump as someone that was involved. but now we have trump in the room. and we have trump in the room in august of 2015 coordinating with cohen and david pecker of ami to hatch this scheme to conceal any payments to women...

This process back before he became the president. i think thats all important. amis cooperation is important. theres a deferred prosecution agreement with ami that suggests theres the possibility here that having specially publicly pointing the finger at the president, the southern district is now sort of tieing up the loose ends of this case and sort of presenting factual set of, their understanding of all this money and letting the public make a decision as to how important it is. >> how much ...

It that directly tied the president to amis involvement in paying off karen mcdougal. but now with this revelation that trump was in the room with david pecker and michael cohen as early as august, 2015, not 2016, but 2015, now we know that there were communications between pecker and trump related to what is really a scheme. its a full-on conspiracy to cover up any illicit affairs that donald trump may have had that might have influenced the election. so for -- in two different way this is make...

Trump huddled with longtime friend, media executive david pecker in his cluttered 26th floor trump tower office and made a request. what can you do to help my campaign, he asked according to people familiar with the meeting. mr. pecker, chief executive of american media inc., offered to use his "national enquirer" tabloid to buy the silence of women if they tried to publicize alleged sexual encounters with mr. trump. here to explain the significance of all this, mimi rocah, former assistant u.s....

Its stood this stress test and at the end of 2018, its doing just fine. >> and the biggest check off them all came on election day a few weeks ago. jonathan, i think we can measure the presidents level of concern about michael cohen, ami, stormy daniels, all this by what you write about in your piece which is his shifting explanations for. back in april, remember on air force one, i think he was if in a place where he thought he could blow it off. then he said, yeah, michael cohen represented me...

Presidency on even shackier ground. an ally of the presidents telling nbc news, quote, the entire question about whether he committed an impeachable offense now hinges on the testimony of two men. david pecker is the chief executive at ami, the company that publishes the national inyei enquirer. >> mr. president, did michael cohen cover up your dirty deeds? >> were all bracing for a tweet storm from the president and, guess what, we got one. in his first tweet he says, i never corredirected mich...

Reached a nonprosecution agreement. but the statement of facts there made the same admission. so this is a crime. its a crime to contribute more than federal election law permits. its a crime to cover it up. its a crime to misreport it. and regardless of what rudy giuliani or donald trump says or has said, its pretty clear what this is shaping up to be. a criminal conspiracy. >> a criminal conspiracy, daniel goldman, that involved the president of the united states, tom winter confirming for nbc...

There have been different defenses. first it was they didnt know anything about it. then it was we knew about these payments, but it was this private -- i think giuliani even used the term settling a civil suit or something. >> right. >> so trying to make it sound like it had nothing to do with the campaign. nothing, no big picture here. and now youve got ami saying, no, in addition to cohen -- so you have cohen already, and there are two different payments. but essentially about those two payme...