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Negotiations. they didnt immediately buy it, but after she started talking with abc news investigative reporters ami went back and paid $130,000 in coordination with michael cohen and donald trump to buy her silence. >> and you also talked about where the money came from to pay stormy daniels. >> thats right. we know the money ultimately came from michael cohens home equity line. but there was a discussion about michael cohen and trump, and allen weisselberg, according to what cohen has told pro...

Daniels. >> thats right. the we know the money came from michael cohens home equity line. there was a discussion among cohen and trump. and allen weiss el berg. about how to route the money to daniels without having trumps fingerprints on it. and discussed routing it through a trump owned property. but they couldnt figure it out. thats why as we previously reported cohen missed deadlines to pay her. she nearly backed out and he was just like all right i have to pay it myself. >> cohen made money...

>> he did because he was reimbursed through the trump organization cfo, but he did get a $60,000 bonus for doing this. and the money was grossed up to take care of his income taxes because they characterized it as legal fees. >> so according to reporting the past essentially two years of denials from the president about paying hush money to these women is pretty much a lie? >> pretty much. initially when we reported the karen mcdougal deal four days before the presidential election we reported h...

Yes, the storiography, what it means from a campaign finance perspective as well? >> two thoughts about the "wall street journals" story, which was just a wonderful piece of reporting. one is, yeah. tell me something i didnt already know. it all seemed to lead to the presidents knowledge of this case, notwithstanding his frequent and ever-changing denials. second, allen weisselberg. >> the cfo. >> of the trump organization, granted limited immunity to talk about dealings with michael cohen. i ha...

Think technically, youre right. i think the question that i would ask my republican colleagues would be to stick to their word, and ive been with a lot of them over the last year, i raised this issue as a constitution allred line a year ago about mueller. theyve all, on private and publicly reassured me that they think mueller will be able to finish his job, and my hope would be that those members would stick to what theyve said in the past and say that they would not vote for any attorney gener...

Congressman, for mueller and his team? >> well, as i have said repeatedly, with you, wolf, i believe more indictments are coming. it defies credibility. it certainly strains it. to think that he has had plea deals with the presidents personal lawyer, the presidents campaign manager. hes granted immunity to the cfo of the trump organization. he spent dozens and dozens of hours in interviews with those three interviews. it defies credibility. more people are going to go to jail. of that i am confi...

>> of course they have to worry about that, joy. i think a name weve talked about on your show before, hes come up in my writing is alan wiseleburg who was the trump -- he was fred trumps accountant. hes the same age as donald. 72 or so and then he became the cfo of the trump organization. he has had decades of involvement with the trumps managing their income tax returns, managing their accounting. cooperating with the southern district of new york and i suspect he will be a very valuable map m...

>> so what are we going to pay for this? >> funding. yes. >> michael cohen says that hes going to confer with allen weiselberg. allen weiselberg is the trump organizations cfo, hes this legacy employee for the trump family. he was fred trumps accountant, donalds fathers accountant. hes been with the trump family since the 1970s. >> at his plea deal hearing, cohen seemed to take direct aim at the president. >> when michael cohen went into court to plead guilty. he merely needed to say i paid mone...

These documents that were filed by the special counsel, manafort not only admitted to everything but hes already offered info to the doj, pled guilty to 2 of 7 counts. interpret all of this. how do you read it? >> the dates are important, alex. the plea agreement has a date of september 13th, thursday. we know he did an open court plea yesterday on friday. whats also included with that net plea agreement is the fact the original proffer, the original plea negotiations and cooperation dates as fa...

He is the cfo of the trump organization. this feels like its not just about russia but about trumps businesses as well. >> at this point its easier to talk about who hasnt been charged, convict the and wed an hasnt flipped. the only people on that list have trump in the last name or are married to trump. were closing in on the circle, closing the circle, and now were honing in on the core family. >> yeah. >> to use something that i would say to my kid, the cheese stands alone now. >> yeah. >> th...