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Ensuring that they can prove with evidence that will be admissible in a courtroom all the elements of that crime beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury. so for the campaign finance violations the sticking point is the level of knowledge, its a heightened level of knowledge here. there will have to be proof that the president specifically knew he was violating campaign finance law. it looks like that evidence is available and david pecker who is the head of ami during much of this time is cooperatin...

>> everybody heard just now, donald trump say the word "cash" after michael cohen mentioned financing. mr. giuliani, who knows from being u.s. attorney, the only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters. >> no longer able to deny the payments in the face of that tape, rudy giuliani instead tried to claim the tape proved that the president did nothing wrong. >> giuliani was out there saying well, they paid it by check and not by cash. that doesnt matter. it doesnt matter whether its paid...

Campaign finance violation. this was an entire scheme that michael cohen and we now know that prosecutors, not just micha michael cohen, but prosecutors believe trump helped cohen devise and coordinate and organize this scheme, and the scheme involved, the trump organization. because what they did is they tried to hide the payments that were being made to the women. it wasnt just a hey, lets pay them and were going to tell everyone were doing this because we dont want the details coming out. its...

Michael cohens role as a fixer for donald trump meant doing just that -- fixing trumps problems. >> of all the individuals in trumps orbit. that knew where the bodies were buried, if you will, michael cohen was at the top of the list. >> just days before the election. "the wall street journal" reported that ami, the parent company of the "national enquirer" entered into an agreement with a former "playboy" model. karen mcdougal. she tweeted photos of her and trump together. ami purchased rights ...

Wouldnt say it? [laughs] you are not winning me over. thats not an argument, thats motivation observation. >> ami: that where it is now a loaded term based on what happened in the 1920s and 30s and you know it. nationalism is not the benign -- you know, teddy roosevelt -- >> lets reclaim that word. you defeated the, americans died to defeat them, and that has nothing to do with what we are trying to do. and, we are out of time. the florida situation couldnt get any weirder, a former presidential...

>> ami: we do not but what we do know is this thing cost millions and millions of dollars. in the mainstream media, so many layers of onions to peel back, its hard to know where to begin. one of the lies the fake news, if you will, that the mainstream media is trying to propagate is the fact that this is all weird organic thing and all the water in the food and medicine all dropped from heaven. its baloney. its all highly organized and paid for by a number of organizations, and we do know that t...

>> tucker: such an interesting and obvious question, who is paying for this. why havent other news organizations got into the bottom of this. you are one man doing this independently. why isnt nbc or pbs on this? >> ami: you know the answer to that. they dont want to get to the bottom of this. they have no interest politically to get to the bottom of this. the same reason why, i see a photo in "the new york times" or "the washington post" or a video on cnn or the bbc or msnbc. what do you see? t...

$130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. no. what else -- >> why did michael cohen make it? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael is an attorney and you will have to ask michael cohen. >> reporter: in august michael cohen revealed in a plea deal with prosecutors that he knowingly made a contribution to trumps campaign in excess of the limits of the election act at the request and suggestion of one or more members of the campaign. court documents suggest trump knew about the deal with the w...

One the president has been lying about this to the public over and over again. about his knowledge, his involvement. >> probably lying to sarah sanders and hope hicks and anyone around him. >> correct. hes been lying about this as soon as the questions arose. the more complicated question is whether the president is implicated in a crime. because that rests on the question of does -- were these payments to these women campaign contributions, which of course were not reported and not handled in t...

The report says that trump in 2015 met with david pecker, head of ami which owns the "national enquirer" and other publications and asked him what do you do to help my campaign. the women involved influence karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, brooth of whom say the had affairs with him. trump denied the allegations. the report says the "wall street journal" found that mr. trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreement and thatdirected deals and phone calls and meetings wit...