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Benefit for their testimony. so one of the things that you have to ask yourself, does their testimony line up with testimony of other witnesses, documents or other evidence, and here, i think that david peck ser someone who is not biased against president trump, but in fact, a ally of president trump, and so he would have enhanced credibility there. is also reporting that another employee of a publisher of ami was also involved in the the meetings, and alan weissenberg might also have more corro...

And center. we have not had a briefing in several weeks. it has been the president taking the lead on the messaging about all of this, andrea. >> and at the same time, david pecker, and this is another element brought into it this week, the cooperation that we knew was taking place with the tabloid, the catch and kill process. barba barbara, how damaging is it that cohen who is, you know, been pleaded guilty to lying to the perjury to congress, so he can be attacked on the stand, but you have da...

Not only that, michael cohen has receipts. the important part about the tape you obtained several weeks ago is the fact michael cohen is showing he has receipts. remember, they raided his office, they raided his hotel room. they got the paperwork. i guess the reason they are believing somebody has lied in the past is because there is corroborating truth and corroborating evidence not only in what he has, but what some of the other people are saying youve got a deal here where youve got two liars...

As close to him as the cfo of his company, alan and michael cohen, michael cohen was his personal lawyer for over a decade. you realize thats more time than he spent with at least one of his three wives, right? married to one of his three wives. he knows michael cohen and michael cohen knows him. michael cohen knows where the dirty laundry is. not only that, michael cohen has receipts. the important part about the tape you obtained several weeks ago is the fact michael cohen is showing he has re...

Client recorded and other than his word, what hes telling the special counsel, do you have other evidence or does cohen have other evidence that donald trump is not telling the truth? because that is a point that you have made repeatedly over the last 24 hours, that cohen is ready to tell all. does he have evidence, other than his word and that tape? >> i would say i cant answer any questions about mr. muellers conversations for 70 hours and his team except to say that the style of this particul...

They knowingly conspired to hide that payment made in the waning days of the campaign or months of the campaign, even. thats a clear violation of the law and a felony. >> and, joe, it was a devastating day for the white house and for donald trump because what the ami settlingment with the justice department does is literally figuratively put donald trump in the room as part of a conspiracy. they are the corroborating witness to michael cohens testimony. and danny sovalos, i dont know about you, ...

He certainly has now corroborating -- >> he has one tape. >> yes. thats pretty compelling. i played that on air myself. >> okay. >> now according to the southern district of new york prosecutors, he has an agreement with the publisher, a corroborating individual, as to the motivation of those hush money payments and we also have mr. weisselberg cooperating, who is a witness to the motivation of making those payments to miss daniels and miss mcdougal. you have witnesses besides mr. cohens word, w...

Corroborating witness here, and also that could give prosecutors leverage over him. he already has an immunity deal thats been in place for a number of months. sometimes these people we dont hear about come back very quickly. >> thats a good point. loved having you on the show. thank you, guys. appreciate it. we want to end with todays big picture. today it comes to us from paris, something you dont see every day. the eiffel tower dark. you can see the outline of the base down there in honor of ...

To hear more when shes in court on wednesday. >> thank you very much, sarah about you know, look. >> weve had her lawyer on the program many times. i want to go to the former district attorney for the southern district. harry, on the legal side here, lets start with this, how significant is this? >> they said no, no, no, no, no. nothing, shes in jail for months, and now all of a sudden, conspired with a russian government official against being a spy essentially? >> its significant in the contex...

Conspiracy or directing his lawyer to commits campaign finance felony. that is abundantly clear. >> michael cohen, his fixer, saying he got the directive from then candidate. >> correct. its worth no noting that for them to put that so directly to a court suggests to me that they have other corroborating information. whether its documents and another witness who can testify to that. because cohen comes with a lot of baggage and i dont think they would put all their eggs in one basket by relying ...