document, basically accepting and your old boss jim comey s language sponsoring his testimony that donald trump directed an illegal hush money. at a minimum, donald trump is accused of felony campaign finance violations. and while he was in office as the president of the united states. so if people are trying to dismiss this as some sort of extraneous conduct or stuff that happened before he took the oath of office as our president, no, sorry. this is when he was in office as president directing cohen to pay illegal moneys to two women with whom he had relationships in order to influence the election. the new york federal prosecutors chose that language very carefully and very precisely from the statute with which they charged cohen. so this is not sort of abstract or language, nicolle.
countries interference in putin, but they re not connected? they may be connected in the broadest sense only by common players, but we speak as prosecutors of multi-object conspiracies. maybe one of the conspiracies is that the president directing cohen to pay off trump mistresses. maybe one of the conspiracies is to, you know, betweenman fort and gates to commit financial fraud. they may not be connected at all, and the five that you mentioned, they all seem to be similar but but it could be in the end their just separate conspiracies. one of the things that we have spoke about here. she was in the obama administration, and i m warning
violating the emoluments clause, which means he s profiting from being the president. these are all very important facts. let me ask you about another interesting fact that seems to have emerged over the weekend, thanks to rudy giuliani making another admission on the sunday shows, that trump may have actually talked to michael cohen about his congressional testimony. that in and of itself is pretty significant in the wake of the buzzfeed report that claims president trump was a little bit more forceful in directing cohen to lie to congress about the moscow project. listen to this. he s pleading guilty to get a reduced sentence which means he s saying what the prosecutor wants him to say. you just acknowledged president trump might have talked to him about his testimony. and so what if he talked to him about it. is it not so what if he talked to him about it. help us understand that. giuliani says as far as he knows, trump depth tell him to lie about it, but it may have b
the report says the special counsel learned about the president directing cohen to lie through multiple witnesses and documentary evidence as you pointed out and through two federal law enforcement sources. seems like they have substantial proof. yeah, and i also point out it is not as if rudy giuliani s client is mother teresa, someone that tells the truth either. one of the fundamental things that s happening with respect to the russia investigation over the last two years is every single time russia comes up, the trump folks and trump lie about it including what rudy giuliani said yesterday and everything else. these are folks who are warned in august of 2016 before the election, look the russians are trying to infiltrate your campaign, please tell us about it if you have any contacts with the russians.
giuliani told cnn. if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. the report says the special counsel learned about the president directing cohen to lie through multiple witnesses and documentary evidence as you pointed out and through two federal law enforcement sources. seems like they have substantial proof. yeah, and i also point out it is not as if rudy giuliani s client is mother teresa, someone that tells the truth either. one of the fundamental things that s happening with respect to the russia investigation over the last two years is every single time russia comes up, the trump folks and trump lie about it including what rudy giuliani said yesterday and everything else. these are folks who are warned in august of 2016 before the election, look the russians are trying to infiltrate your campaign, please tell us about it if you have any contacts with the russians.