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Makes it easier to deal with the new rules of the road as theyre written and on an independent or non-e.u. british government. on top of that, you have the secretary of state, mike pompeo, who is saying that the u.s. stands behind the british even if they felly leave that e.u. structure. shep? >> shepard: things, shep. president trump says he would get involved in u.s. efforts to extradite a chinese tech executive if it helped him with the trade deal with china. officials in canada released the ...

Laura reported ami, friends with president trump. they have a non prosecution agreement. what does that mean? >> this is the first i have heard about it. this means the company is cooperating with the government and they have entered no a non prosecution agreement. where the government promises not to prosecute them. they are held to provide information to the government about their activities. what that says, im not sure the context that came out in. the southern district is continuing to build...

Karen mcdougal 0 who claimed to have an affair with president trumpresidenttrump before takin. now we hear they are working on the sidelines with ami. they have information and gave them this previously recorded non prosecution agreement. more on that to come as well. >> dana: thank you, laura. now lets bring in nicole, a former federal prosecutor with the eastern district of new york. a lot to cover. thank you, nicole, for watching this all and helping us understand. for michael cohen he doesnt...

Attorney about american media, the parent company of the national enquirer. take us through how that related to this. what we found out and the significance here. >> reporter: lets start with the back story. these charges and particularly counsel seven as it relates to michael cohen has to do with the causing excessive corporate campaign contribution. ami had an illegal campaign contribution as it related to karen mcdougal. they had come up in this before. thats the parent company of the nationa...

Journalistic outlet its caug. its caught up in the most basic of journalistic ethics. the way it was done was being a media armed and behind the scenes operation on behalf of donald trump and the trump campaign. as the feds were honing in more on ami and the national enquirer, its owner made a conscious decision to pull back their trump coverage including no longer including donald trump stories in the enquirer or featuring him on the front page. its long boosted trump even before he launched hi...

The u.s. attorneys office. they will not be prosecuted for that campaign contribution. it also makes a note that they say that the reason why the donation or the contribution was made was to influence the election. thats going to be an important piece of this because before it had been michael cohens word versus the president. why was this payment made? was it made according to michael cohen to influence the outcome of the election. according to the president, this is a private transaction. priv...

Cohen. they say they have reached on a agreement with american media inc. thats the parent company of the national enquirer which facilitated the payment of karen mcdougal to keep quiet about an alleged affair. an agreement that ami admitted it made the payment in concert with presidential campaign. ami further admitted its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the womans story as to prevent it from influencing the election. phillip, this is the significance of all of this gets...

Cohens word. now its mr. cohens word and amis word and by the way i imagine that there are others out there that knew about these transactions and more importantly, the reason for the transactions. thats how you prove intent. >> one would assume mr. weiselberg, the cfo of the trump organization, if there were some trial of individual one, he would also be put to the stand. >> sure. right. so thats a logical candidate. but, again, it doesnt have to be the guy writing the checks. it could also be ...

With the president before he leaves office as we saw with bill clinton? if it ever went to a jury what could it -- i guess what im trying to say is theres parallels to the john edwards case when john edwards was preparing to run for president. if trump were to say this ami says this and cohen says this but i didnt want anybody to find out, you wouldnt want anybody to find out. i tried to keep it quiet. is that a potential defense that could work in court. >> i think its probably his only defense...

And, by the way, in addition, they used fairly convoluted, you know, complicated series of mechanisms to hide the payments. to a prosecutor -- >> didnt they commit tax fraud? didnt they commit tax fraud in how they hit snamts if its expenses, how is that not tax fraud? >> it could well be. it could be tax fraud because mr. cohen or someone else didnt report it in the right way. the company expensed it, they shouldnt have. it could well be a series of crimes, chuck. whether its tax fraud, campaig...