have any sense and is your reporting telling you at all if this campaign finance question involves that payment to karen mcdougal that s discussed on the tape? that s what s been reported for weeks and weeks so you have to think that but i don t want to go out on that limb until i see the paperwork. sometimes there are developments that prosecutors and the fbi that we were not aware of that will come out of left field. that s where it appears to be going. to reinforce jonathan s point, i was able to speak with someone who said we re not going to get the court paperwork until he makes his appearance at 4:00. that s unusual. normally we would have that in advance and we would be able to read out to you exactly what it is that he s pleading to. so this is still a pretty fluid and dynamic environment. however, we see michael cohen here at 26 federal plaza, the new york fbi field office, presumably surrendering himself.
we re getting official notification right now for myself and from my colleague, at 4:00 p.m. proceeding of interest in the united states versus john doe, john doe believed to be the president s personal attorney, michael cohen, has been scheduled before judge pauley 500 pearl street in new york. after that proceeding deputy u.s. attorney robert could you zamy will make remarks at the entrance of the courthouse. at this point we believe to be a plea hearing involving the president s personal attorney michael cohen scheduled for 4:00 p.m. today at federal court in manhattan. that s the latest that we have. we don t have an understanding or official court paperwork at this point that would guide us in any way as to what these charges he will agree to. but i have now got an official word it is michael cohen at 4:00 p.m. i want to make sure we re clear. the court is announcing there s a proceeding scheduled we ve gotten the notice from the united states attorney s office saying ther
person to keep information from becoming public. he said that he was later then paid by that candidate in restitution for those funds.fun. the judge asked him, did you know what you were doing was illegal? he stood up and he said yes. so michael cohen pleading guilty to eight counts. the hearing is still under way, nicole, but i think the most serious counts as relates to the president is count 7 and count 8 where it sounds we don t have the court paperwork. but it sounds that the president of the united states was directly involved with michael cohen in two payments to two women at two separate times and that that second payment, the payment made in october of 2017, he said was paid by that candidate. to be clear, the president s name was not mentioned in court, but because of our prior reporting the information that has since become public, and public statements, it sure does seem it involves president trump. is that your client, michael avenatti? count 8 relates to my client,
border. but lawyers for the aclu say that the government has essentially manipulated the numbers in their favor. listen. there are many other people that will need to be reunified, so when they say that they are going to meet the deadline, it is only for those individuals that they have declared to be eligible for unification by the deadline. you see where the aclu is saying it depends on how you look at it, more than 900 kids not eligible are still pending, and the same federal judge in california also admonished the government over that, saying that the policy lacked forethought with regard to keeping track of people. because there are more than 450 cases of those 900 some odd, where the parents have already been deported and you also have 130 people according to that court paperwork that signed paperwork waving reunification, but the aclu and other immigrant rights groups want to know, and
he won the 2016 election. she agreed she would not talk about the past sexual relationship in exchange him giving $130,000. she says because the president himself never signed his half of the nda, she should be allowed to talk about the relationship. she filed the case in the l.a. county court system. today the lawyers on the president s side of the case tried to move the case which is to federal court. # interesting in terms of trying to change the jurisdiction and venue. when you took a look at the court paperwork, the effort to move this into federal court, you noticed something interesting on the paperwork. the electronic signature on this routine court document lists the attorney of record for defendant donald j trump as charles harder. do you remember who that is? charles harder was the lawyer who won a $140 million judgment