that they only base aware of what happened last week. the white house offered a new explanation saying that the fbi background check went into the white house office of personnel security. asked about the shifting explanations, press secretary sarah sanders set that she s doing said that she s doing the best she can. obviously the press team s not going to be as read-in as some other elements at a given moment on a variety of topics. we relay the best and most accurate information that we have and get those from those individuals. reporter: aides to the president are becoming frustrated with the information they re receiving from top officials ned the west wing. officials inside the west wing. one white house official complained attorney don mcghan received information last summer and did not share enough of it with top staffers. jim acosta there at the white house. president trump s longtime personal lawyer, michael cohn, says he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn
an affair with mr. trump. it is the first time cohn has acknowledged making the payment since it was first reported last month by the wall street journal. sources say cohn paid stephanie clifford, better known as stormy daniels, out of concern the accusation could damage the president. in a statement, cohn says this, the payment to ms. clifford was lawful and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone. just because something isn t true doesn t mean that it can t cause you harm or damage. i will always protect mr. trump. cohn said he was not reimbursed by the trump campaign or trump organization. he has previously said the president denies any affairs with daniels. she has dodged questions about an affair in recent weeks but has not publicly denied it. the nation s top intelligence official sending a unanimous full-throat warning to the white house russia is already meddling in the 2018
daniels that alleged an affair with president trump. this is the first acknowledgment since it was reported last month by the wall street journal. he paid stephanie clifford, better known as stormy daniels, he says, out of concern the accusation could damage the president. in a statement, he says, the payment to ms. clifford was lawful and was not ape campaign contribution or expenditure by anyone. just because something isn t true doesn t mean that it can t cause you harm or damage. i will always protect mr. trump. cohn says he was not reimbursed by the trump campaign or the trump organization. he has previously said the president denies any affair with daniels. she has dodged questions about an arffair in recent weeks but has not publicly denied it. the nation s top intelligence official sending a unanimous, full-throated warning to the white house russia is already meddling in the midterm elections. director of national intelligence dan coates telling a senate committee russ
background last july, contradicting what white house officials have said for days, that they only became aware of what happened last week. the white house offered a new explanation saying that the fbi background check went to the white house office of personnel security. asked about the shifting explanations, press secretary sarah sanders said that she s doing the best she can. obviously the press team s not going to be as read-in as some other elements at a given moment on a variety of topics. we relay the best and most accurate information that we have, and we get those from those individuals. reporter: aides to the president are becoming frustrated with information they re receiving from top officials inside the west wing. one white house official complained white house counsel don mcghan received much of the information last summer and did not share enough with top staffers. okay. jim accost athank you very mu mumuch acosta, thank you very much. longtime liar michael cohn