4 million. Filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of Campaign Finance violations. The reasons those were such a stunner, because Michael Cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those Campaign Finance violations were. One, 150,000 payment to the ceo of a Media Company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses President Trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. And then the second, 130,000 payment, which he facilitated, which we know again from previous reporting has to do with Stormy Daniels, a porn star that alleges an affair with the president. Again, their names not mentioned in court, but we know who they were talking about, and then we got a little bit more detail when the u. S. Deputy attorney came out of court after these guilty pleas and talked about all of the charges in general. Take a listen real quickly. A look at breaking news, politics and reports
Serious allegation she took time and she is putting all of your doubts out in public. She is not trying to say oh, im certain when she is not certain. She is saying im not clearly certain. I was drinking. So i think that is pretty straightforward. Ronin farrow says he considers what he did high level of evidence. Im quoting. And says that direct account from people she told right afterward this happened with kavanaugh. That is what farrow says. He says he applied that in other stories of similar instances of Sexual Misconduct and says it has proven to be ironclad and a good way to do it and he considers this is a High Standard of journalism. Jesse i didnt know that is the way he went about it. Thought he found someone who heard Something Like that had happened. Not that this woman had told a friend about it afterwards. Lisa the piece says they have not confirmed with other
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Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Dicey, and they didnt come out of the campaign and thats big. If but its not even a campaign violation. If you look at president obama, he had a Massive Campaign violation, but he had a different Attorney General and they viewed it a lot differently. Sean while the media want you to believe that Michael Cohen, a central player in all things trump, the president at a much different take. Lets listen to him. Michael cohen. Tell me about your relationship with him. He was a lawyer for me for one of many the lawyer and then they like to add the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. Didnt do big deals, did small deals. Not somebody that was with me they make it sound like i didnt live without him. I understood him very well. It turned out he wasnt a very good lawyer, frankly. But he was somebody that was probably with me for about ten
years. And i would see him sometimes. Sean Michael Cohens attorney lanny davis says that his c
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forest but that doubled his d. Diminish and he continued to experiment in slowly but surely he has been accepted as a leader in his own community and h