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And in those charging documents for michael cohen, it said that cohen coordinated with one or more members of the campaign, including meetings and phone calls about the fact, nature and timing of the payments. and then, of course, cohen went to court and said he made these payments at the direction of a candidate for federal office, which, of course, was then candidate trump. now president trump. the other interesting point in the wsj story, there was this draft indictment, an 80-page draft indi...

Challenge, he can take it up with the supreme court of the united states. >> the report cites whats being described as an 80-page draft indictment against michael cohen, the presidents former fixer and lawyer. have you seen any version of that? >> i have not seen a version of the draft, the 80-page draft indictment. but what i will say, wolf, i dont think weve heard the end of the details relating to this $130,000 conspiracy undertaken by donald trump and michael cohen. and my guess is that the ...

Stormy daniels and playmate karen mcdougal and that raises the question of whether or not campaign tyenanfinance laws wer violated. you have been working on this article for a long time. what can you tell us about how significant this is? >> thanks for having me on. this is a pretty significant story. we are reporting from the president being involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements to pay stormy danie daniels, stephanie clifford and karen mcdougal. he was in meetings and re...

In manhattan has evidence of the transaction. people familiar have told cnn prosecutors have prepared a draft indictment of his attorney, michael cohen, that was more detailed and included additional charges when cohen suddenly decided to plea they dropped it. trump and his son eric were directly involved in efforts to stop stormy daniels from speak filing out. trump has previously denied any knowledge of the payments to daniels. >> reporter: mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 paymen...

Im a little out of breath because i was running to the uber so i could get to the studio. >> thank you, we appreciate it. >> so i think what people will have to remember about bob mueller, i worked with him for a number of years when he was chief of homicide at the d.c. attorneys office, is he has contingency plans for everything. if anybody believes that he has spent the last 18 months not preparing for a moment like this, then theyre miscalculating the prosecutor and the person bob mueller is....

A draft indictment written up against her. if it wasnt for monica lewandowski. she saved hillary clinton from having an indictment for lying to federal officials about the billing records that appeared in the white house. this is a woman who very often has not only walked the line between what is legal and what is not legal but i think has fallen off of that line and at least in that case had an indictment against her. she could have been in jail for having lied to federal authorities. she is ta...

Time in american history. but more broadly i felt as i reflected on those years that both bill and hillary showed contempt for the rule of law. >> you say in the book that you interviewed both at the white house, but, you say that that does not remember more than 300 times over the course of the interview. you also say that you consider charging hillary clinton. >> we did, and we thought about it very carefully. when the monica lewinsky phase broke we were in the midst of considering an indictme...

Against then first lady hillary clinton. steve: we havent heard about that. lets talk to ken starr, independent counsel and author of the new book contempt, memoir of the clinton investigation. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. steve: you considered charges of perjury against hillary clinton. why not? >> i will always remember that day because we all sat in a room. we had a draft indictment. we had a very elaborate production memo in the tray trae we call a pros memo laid out ...

There are clear differences, tucker, between what a prosecutor knows and what the prosecutor can prove. so we were following justice department policy. we knew we had to prove the case, each element of the case beyond a reasonable doubt. we came to the view after looking at an elaborate draft indictment, supported prosecution memo, that as i describe in the book, we decided we just did not have the evidence to bring those charges. >> tucker: quickly, this jumped out at me, you said you were haun...

There are clear differences, tucker, between what a prosecutor knows, and what the prosecutor can prove. so we were following justice department policy. we knew we had to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and we came to it, after looking at a very elaborate draft indictment, a supportive prosecution memo, that as i described in the book, we decided we just did not have the evidence to bring those charges. >> tucker: and quickly, this just jumped out at me. you said you were haunted by th...