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To say i didnt do it. if i did it, it wasnt a crime. even if it was a crime, everyone is doing it. and i guess that the implication of everyone is doing it is therefore we shouldnt care that hes potentially committed a crime. but none of that really distracts from the magnitude of what happened yesterday. michael cohen said that he committed campaign finance violations at the direction of president trump and for the express purpose of violating -- of affecting the election results. >> cynthia, i...

White house administration and president trump has been threefold. to say i didnt do it. if i did it, it wasnt a crime. even if it was a crime, everyone is doing it. and i guess that the implication of everyone is doing it is therefore we shouldnt care that hes potentially committed a crime. but none of that really distracts from the magnitude of what happened yesterday. michael cohen said that he committed campaign finance violations at the direction of president trump and for the express purpo...

Him. john? >> the president said to fox news in an interview this morning this could not have been an illegal campaign contribution because he paid the money for it. he put more than $60 million of his own money into the campaign. so how do you draw the line between maybe it didnt flow through the campaign, how do you draw the line between what ais campaign contribution. >> i am not getting into the legal back and forth. i refer you to the presidents outside counsel. i sold cecilia, what i can t...

Between the special counsels office and michael cohen? >> let me contradict the implication and say i cant answer the question whether he has or whether he hasnt. >> any discussion. >> i dont want to interfere in anything that the special counsel is doing. i think hes a great man operating silently like a submarine. >> absolutely. >> and i dont want to say anything regarding his activities, whether or not mr. cohen has -- >> you brought up this idea yesterday that possibly michael cohen has know...

Trump and donald trumps nature which is he lies, he cheats, he steals, its who he is and thats real trouble for the president. >> john, also remember, the president during the democratic convention said he called on the russians to hack the democratic party, find the quote/unquote missing e-mails from hillary clinton. later that day you have the wikileaks dump of those hacked e-mails. what the implication was from lanny davis is that perhaps michael cohen knows something about what the president...

>> so i cant answer that question except to say that i believe he has knowledge that would be of interest to the special counsel. >> you believe he has knowledge that would be of interest. does he know that the president knew beforehand of the hack? >> i can only say because im an attorney, im limited, i usually like to answer direct questions if you have known me throughout the years, but when youre an attorney and your client shares confidenceds with you, you can reveal them of waving your att...

Morning this could not have been an illegal campaign contribution because he paid the money. he put more than $60 million of his money into the campaign. how do you draw the line, maybe this didnt flow through the campaign, how do you draw the line between what was a campaign contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purposes? >> secretary sanders: im not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of this. i would refer you to the presidents outside counse...

Paying stormy daniels and sherry mcdougal during the campaign. he said he did it at the direction of the president of the united states. did president trump commit a crime? >> as the president said, weve stated many times, he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against him. and weve commented on this extensively. >> why not report these payments? >> secretary sanders: again, im not going to get into the back and forwards details. i can tell you, at the president stated he did nothing wrong. ...

Contribution. the government failed to make a case, the jury acquitted him on one count and hung on the rest and they declined to pursue it any further. that was about someone elses contribution, this is about his own contribution and it would be a difficult thing to convince people that this is a serious crime if a crime at all. the idea that people would run quickly to impeachment is somewhat interesting. >> bret: other legal experts look at it and its timing to the election, its implication p...

>> im interrupting you rudely. chuck schumer is on the senate floor now. we want to take a listen. >> so those two events, kavanaughs refusal to say that a president must comply with the duly issued subpoena and michael cohens implication of the president in a federal crime makes the danger of brett kavanaughs nomination to the supreme court abundantly clear. under the circumstances a game changer. should be. a president identify as an un -- >> chuck schumer just had been talking about the presi...