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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Storm...

To start considering that as a possibility. like democrats, for example, should start vocalizing that more. but no, republicans by and large are saying that the manafort trial, for example, does not have anything to do with russian election interference, that neither does cohen and of course thats just not true with regard to the manafort trial. against the backdrop, just like seth said, is all of the work that manafort did for pro-russian oligarchs in ukraine and his attempts to cover that up w...

Direction of trump, a federal candidate, what did that look like in practice? were these conversations that they had? was this something that was put in writing? and i think those are the records that basically the proof that trump was involved on this on the front end, not the reimbursements on the back end, but the communication and the direction on the front end. thats where all eyes will go moving forward. >> there are details in count 7 about this. clint, i want to you sort of help us und...

That is the question that good thinking people should be asking tonight. rudy giuliani has basically done what you would have expected him to do. they have thrown michael cohen back under the bus because the guy doesnt have a stellar reputation. >> first of all, on rudy giuliani, pretty much 100% of what comes out of his mouth any more is ridiculous. so lets set that aside. we have in lanny davis statement a comforting reassurance to jessicas point earlier that we havent all lost our marbles bec...

Plausible deniability. if we take that to be true, and people like michael cohen are found to have traveled to pawing to pay off these hackers, if trump himself didnt do it, then i can see the republicans saying, well -- >> to which donald trump could respond well, he was given a plea deal. >> they can say whatever they want. i am not defending the republicans. there is a huge amount of rationalization that is possible. >> you are optimistic. >> we hope you are right. >> and we dont know what al...

Court. >> you kept us a step ahead with your reporting. thank you. i have to ask you, the statement that rudy giuliani put up, again, nobody surprised by the talking about mr. cohens action reflect aid pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time, thats not entirely untrue. for a lot of people this is tricky. okay, michael cohen is all of a sudden my hero? he was a bit of a bad egg. >> he was known as trumps fixer, a total bull dog, somebody who would go on the attack against...

Silence women who had stories to tell. these women didnt say they were victims of sexual misconduct. in both cases they said they had been involved in consensual affairs with trump. but i do think its important to step back and recognize that culturally this was -- these were powerful men who were making payoffs to silence women. >> we can make the argument all the publicity around the me too movement has moved the needle, has shifted things. i guess thats the question with donald trump. what mo...

Were talking about things that happened before he was president. these actions could have changed the outcome of the election. remember, could you imagine both of these stories coming out in parallel in the fall, in the lead up to the election. this is what the violation is about. these stories were suppressed. that could have changed the outcome of the election. so when we talk about these charges, what i dont know, what id love to hear from nick and others, can he be charged for things that ha...

All of these things were done at the direct -- direction of trump. >> lets narrow into what the issue actually is here. michael cohen is to many people an unsavory character and not particularly relevant if he did things with his taxi medallions. the question is what the liability is for the president of the united states. lanny davis, michael cohens newest attorney, has just tweeted. today he stood up and testified under oath donald trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two...

Junior and whats going do happen. that seems to be the soft spot here. we know don junior was in that meeting with paul manafort and a whole bunch of other people. we seem to have discovered, as every layer of that onion is peeled back, theyre all lying about it. >> there had also been suggestions that cohen himself had information about that meeting and trumps knowledge of it. i think we dont -- we still dont know what cohen has that could be of value to mueller and his investigation. but to go...