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Organization, its a dusty office. here is donald. here are the three kids. here is the cfo. >> stuck in the 1980s. >> if you went to one of those little, you know, coffee bars. >> right. >> so you dont have to pick through a lot of layers. it is a mom and pop licensing company. so it is -- and it was run that way. and as you see donald trump at -- see the way he conducts himself as president? just in front of everybody beyond the law, imagine as a private citizen when nobodys watching. imagine i...

Those prosecutors are still actively pursuing it, how much worse are things for the president himself? lets bring in some expert help on that. joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in the northern district of alabama. joyce, thank you for being here tonight. i know it has been a dense day of following all this information. >> its a smorgasbord kind of day, right? >> cohen provides these two checks from march and august of 2017, one signed by the president, one signed by the cfo and...

About this moscow deal with the public during this campaign. >> forgive me for accidentally interrupting you there. if you were going to pursue that original statement from mr. cohen, he certainly seemed amenable today to try to find that and to hand it over to you. he also told you he would be happy to provide the committee with what he described as roughly 100 different voice recordings of different communications that he had taped over the years in terms of his involvement at the trump organi...

Scheme to buy the silence of stormy daniels. provides copies of two checks used to reimburse him. one was co signed by donald trump jr. and the cfo of the trump organization. the other was signed by trump himself, months after hed already become president. heres cohen on those revelations today. >> the president of the united states this wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. >> based on your conversations with him, the...

Though, who were equally involved in this conspiracy, is that true? >> yes, it is true. >> congressman ro khanna today putting a fine point on one of the four serious allegations of criminal behavior made against the president and those close to him today. the garden variety financial fraud as he put it at issue here is about the payment of $130,000 to stop a woman from saying before the election that she had been sexually involved with president trump. that payment has been prosecuted in federa...

Civil criminal -- as part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud? is that your testimony today? >> yes. >> and do you know if this criminal financial scheme that the president, allen weisselberg and donald trump jr. being involved in is being investigated by the southern district of new york? >> id rather not discuss that question because it could be part of an investigation thats currently ongoing. >> but i just want the american public to understand that solely apart from bob muellers inv...

White house, but they were there because the president wanted it to be so. so if michael cohen and the president wanted it to happen, more importantly the president it would have happened and he wanted it. >> jeffrey? >> i am struck by the breathtaking incompetence of the questioning and this endless bloviating and not actually getting any information out of the witness. a couple of times there were some facts disclosed. i thought it was very interesting that he talked a little bit about how the...

Understand the nature of this testimony. are you telling us that the president directed in conspiracy with allen and his son, donald trump jr. as part of a civil criminal -- part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud. is that your testimony today? >> yes. >> and do you flow if this criminal financial scheme that the president and donald trump jr. are involved in by the southern district of new york? >> i would rather not discuss that question because it could be part of an investigation th...

Translator. now, im encouraged by the presence of secretary pompeo, i think mazz hhas probably a more realistic pragmatic dealing with the zblorns north koreans. >> as long hes stays in the room. >> exactly. >> thank you very much for giving us your historical expertise on this subject. >> thanks, alisyn. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin for more discussion here. jeffrey, what i wanted to do was to go through what you call this panoply of new legal issues that are fartion the presidecing the ...

About stormy daniels. do you have any idea who those executives may be? >> executive number two is the person who had to get the okay for weisselberg to make those payments. >> weisselberg and michael cohen, are they the two people that you dont want testifying? >> yes. >> i mean there are questions. we know trump org. is controlled by a small circle. this is one of the big mysteries that well have a clear answer tomorrow. >> go on, did you want to say something? >> i mean, yes, but not about th...