court filings. chairman paul manafort. individual one. individual one. individual one. individual one of course, is president trump. directing cohen to make illegal payments to women with which the president had apaaffairs. that would be a fln knee felony. nobody should be above the law. he may be the first president in quite sometime to face the prospect of jail time. you can t indict a president. this is prosecution abuse, i think. they would be impeachable offenses. reserve judgment until we know everything that happened at some point. at this point we have an incomplete picture. we don t know what additional information the justice department has. if you re shooting at the president of the united states and the only bullet in your gun is michael cohen, then i think that s a problem. and welcome back to this second hour of kasie d.c. with me onset republican
president trump launching a predawn, guess what, tweet storm, after being implicated in alleged criminal activity. he insists there was no crime but even if there was, you can t blame him, it was his lawyer s fault. all this as the evidence being delivered from former allies keeps piling up. first, i want to explain exactly what we know as we kick off a brand-new week in washington. 573 days into special counsel bob mueller s investigation, there s a whole lot of smoke around the president. so far, a bunch of other people have been burned. the former attorney scheduled to be sentenced this wednesday. directing cohen to violate cam pain finance laws by paying off women who allegedly had section wall affairs with president trump. it is the first time the president s name has been directly connected to a
knowledge of this payment. did you know about the $130 payment to stormy daniels? no. no. why did michael cohen make it? you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney, and you ll have to ask michael cohen. do you know where he got the money to make that payment? i don t know, no. so there we have trump denying that he knew anything about this payment, and according to the journal, trump two months earlier was involved in directing cohen and his son eric trump to try to seek an arbitration to silence stormy daniels. so poppy, jim, we now see that the president did know about this in advance, and michael cohen pled guilty in august, he said he had paid stormy daniels at the direction of the president. right. all important points. cara, thank you for the reporting. the president was also being misleading because later he denied michael cohen worked for him much. minimizing his role.