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From the president and the white house. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> why did michael cohen make this. >> the president denied the allegations, i dont have anything further to add. >> reporter: a source tells cnn cohen was just doing his job, protecting his client. meanwhile, stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti says this is all further vindication that he and his client were right. all of this happening as cohen is meeting with various investigators a...

And acting attorney general who already is kind of the subject of a lot of speculation about whether he is going to be providing political cover for president trump or whether he is an honest broker, and this falls squarely into the middle of all of these debates as we move forward now, if in fact theres a chance that this would constitute an actual violation of election law, is that something that this jaults department now would pursue. >> greg, this is a con vvergenc of so many investigations...

Trumps role without naming him in the cohen indictment. greg, what kind of potential legal road do you see for the president? we have heard it time and time again, you cant indict a sitting president, but were talking about alleged activity before he was president. does it matter, does it make a difference? >> right. good morning, fred. no big surprise here. i think this confirms what most observers thought when the story first broke several months ago. i dont think anyone really believed that t...

Willingness for the candidate to have participated in the hush money, so as to allegedly protect his reputation. >> yeah. and this also -- >> go ahead, greg. >> what house democrats will likely focus on or be inclined to focus on is that if it is clear the president has lied about this, even if not under oath, but repeatedly to the media and to the american people, i think there will be some subset of house members who will see that that constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors under the constit...

Russian investigation. >> i do not consider myself an angry democrat. >> are you a democrat? are you a democrat? >> no, i am not. >> i am not a democrat and i am not angry. >> the white house pushing back on accusations the presidents allies are trying to give him cover. >> theyre acting as the presidents political fixers. >> i dont think theyre undermining the investigation. i think theres frustration on-going for 18 months, no evidence of russian collusion, so of course theres frustration of w...

Catherine, stick around. greg, thank you for coming back on the show, appreciate having your perspective. we want to go over to the white house braus president trump is out blasting the person he calls a spy. were talking about an fbi informant who helped in the investigation in the 2016 election. some republicans will be there tomorrow for this. you can see them on your screens. democrats will not be. peter alexander is over at the white house. we dont know where this meeting will happen yet an...

Him in a possible case if that were to come up. cohen, remember, the presidents long-time lawyer already under investigation and made that now infamous payment to stormy daniels, $130,000 that the president later reimbursed. with us now is former assistant fbi director as well as former prosecutor greg brour. on set our panel for the associated cress catherine lucy along with national politico reporter. thank you all for being here. and, greg, to you first. talk through the significance of what ...

This administration has taken enormous efforts to push back against russia. >> greg, you buy that? >> i do. i think the 2016 interference attempts by russia were a wakeup call for the intelligence community. i think the intelligence community itself, fbi, cia, and other agencies have been and are continuing to do a lot. and that will continue going forward. like i said, i think 2016 was a wakeup call and the ic, the intelligence community, i think has a very different view now of this russian th...