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Communications, and as each brick goes into the foundation, it becomes harder and harder to defend on the defense that i didnt know what was going on. i reasonably relied upon my attorney. plus, we already have other circumstances that suggest quite the opposite, that donald trump was awir are of what was going and to that i point to the evidence of taped conversations between michael cohen supposedly acting as an attorney at the time and with donald trump. even if donald trump disagrees on what...

American media incorporated. in there, a statement of the facts. things that american media incorporated and the southern district, as you referenced, things they agree about. again this meeting comes up. the first discussion of this so-called catch and kill comes up in august 2015. and so "the wall street journal report"ed back in november and nbc news has now confirmed, that in fact, the other campaign official in the room is the guy at the head of the campaign itself, donald trump. and so -- ...

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...

Post," white house bureau chief phil rucker and senior fbi official, daniel goldman, and were going to start with nbc news investigative reporter tom winter who has just broken a significant development. you very humbly point out that were matching what "the wall street journal report"ed. this feels like a big, big deal. >> i think -- so lets go back to where this started, back in august of this year. michael cohen pled guilty to criminal information inspect that criminal information it said the...

Public today. it is an immunity deal with a mirks. thats the "national enquirers" parent company and it describes amis role in making a $150,000 payment to a woman before the 2016 presidential election. donald trump keeps making the argument, youll remember, that the hush money payment michael cohen made on his behalf had nothing to do with the election, but there are now a bunch of other people saying very definitively otherotherwise. heres a portion from southern district. as a part of the agr...

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...

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...

Mistake is made. that is why they get paid. craig, he is clearly trying to shift blame on his lawyer, and in all the tweets this morning, the president is not admitting, hes not saying he made these payments. hes just saying he was following the advice of his counsel. >> hans nichols for us there at 1,600 pennsylvania. thank you. that newly released admission from the national enquirers parent company includes a new time line of events on the alleged campaign finance violation. take a look at ...

Investigation break during your hour. >> and then we had the "wall street journal" report. so we had great luck. may the news gods smile on you, too. >> it is one of these things. you think youre going one way, were going to need a lot of score cards to keep track of the investigations. >> have a good show. >> if its thursday in the room where it happened. good evening, im chuck todd in washington. welcome to "mpt daily." its been ten minutes since we learned of a new criminal investigation. m...

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 payments, first you have cohen and now you have ami saying this was for the purpose of influencing the election, which fr...