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This about these previously unknown uses of the shell company used to funnel this payment to this adult film actress, how would you read this with a prosecutors mind? >> the first thing that i want to know when i see this document is a lot more about the facts. because the minute details of the facts will determine whether any of this conduct was criminal. we immediately -- its so easy to leap to conclusions in these situations. this just stinks of influence pedaling, of what prosecutors call pa...

We immediately -- you know, its so easy to leap to conclusions in these situations, and this just stinks of influence pedaling of, what prosecutors call pay to play, or what federal statute calls bribery. but without knowing more details about who was paid, when they were paid, what circumstances surrounded the payments, did money actually reach trump ever or were these perhaps just the sort of payments people make that smell bad but arent really illegal? we cant tell without more factual determ...

Leaps to mind. the partial story thats been told about the payment to stormy daniels is that this company essentially consultants was used to funnel mr. trumps money through a round about way to ms. daniels. if money is flowing into this company, that does raise the question as to whether or not the ultimate recipient of the money is not just michael cohen, it was the person who registered the company, but potentially could be the president himself? >> it raises that. but its so dangerous to lea...

These banking details, its very surprising to see them becoming public. these are details that prosecutors would subpoena. i have not seen this sort of information be public domain before. there are a lot of questions in my mind about where does this information come from, is it accurate, what conclusions can we reach? like watergate, this is follow the money. >> on that issue of where this information is coming from, we have seen initially from "the wall street journal" and from some other news...

Cohen, who is the person that registered the company, but could potentially be the president itself? >> it raises that. but its so dangerous to leap to those conclusions. bob mueller and his team are certainly five or ten steps ahead of everyone else on these issues. and it actually worries me a little bit, my prosecutor dna doesnt like to see these sort of details that should be held closely within an investigation, leaking out into the public. they could certainly, if the mueller investigation...

Muellers investigation, the special counsel. a source tells us that muellers team has questioned a russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to president trumps personal lawyer, longtime friend and fixer, michael cohen. lets get some more from our specialist and our analyst. michael zeldin, from a legal perspective, what was a russian oligarch doing funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to michael cohens account? >> well, thats a $64,000 question. it could well be ...

Would want to add one more verb orapr or predicate to your piece in addition to confuse and distract and thats delegitimize. theres a sense that the object of this confusion is to delegitimize the process all sergeant to no matter what the conclusions of the investigation may be, hes mobilized public sentiment. that 30 plus percent to not concede the legitimacy of whatever conclusion is drawn about trump. >> i think, mika, i may have made a mistake last week when i wrote in the "washington post"...

Daniels by donald trumps lawyer michael cohen was made specifically to protect the trump campaign. and 67% think president trump knew about the hush money payment and what it was for at the time it was made. despite president trump denying knowledge of the payment just last month. now though views are becoming more widespread because of republicans coming to those conclusions. all of this while the president is under water for his approval and disapproval ratings and those numbers stay remarkabl...

Cant prove its fact. >> rudy said hes focused on the law and conclusions but not facts. im confused by that. but is it working for him? >> im confused by it too. the president even said, which was a stunning admission on friday, that hell get his facts straight later on. so you have the lawyer for the president out there giving interview after interview after interview, showing no signs of stopping his plan to talk to the press. if his aim is to, one, fight this mueller investigation head on and...

As the post is, not to draw any conclusions yet. this is like the first chapter i think of a very important story as jonathan suggested. but its intriguing that one of the sources of cash that the post story mentions is a trump sale of a house in palm beach for $95 million. that sale actually went to a russian oligarch. what was really interesting abili about that sale is that trump paid only four years earlier $41.35 million. he more than doubled his money in four years and that house sold for ...