Making Payoffs News Today

The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Storm...

Silence women who had stories to tell. these women didnt say they were victims of sexual misconduct. in both cases they said they had been involved in consensual affairs with trump. but i do think its important to step back and recognize that culturally this was -- these were powerful men who were making payoffs to silence women. >> we can make the argument all the publicity around the me too movement has moved the needle, has shifted things. i guess thats the question with donald trump. what mo...

Statement. today in response to reports that there were at least 12 other audio recordings lanny davis, clinton ally, cohens new lawyer, tweeted "latest news about michael cohens tapes of conversations are being released by donald trump and his legal team who own and waived the privilege. will rudy giuliani call these tapes exculpatory again? as i noted before the tapes will speak for themselves. spin cant change facts." lets talk about facts. if you have a tape there of the now president talkin...

How do those thoughts inform him today as a politician, as a human being? >> right now everybody that works for him is just glad hes not within five points of hillary clinton, because if he was, this would be i mean just a gigantic story and he would be getting hammered on all sides. >> right. its gotten very modest coverage -- >> but because of where he is because hes low right now on the polls, this is just going to get washed over. >> and mother jones is a liberal publication and theyre the o...

Place. likely to ask questions of this full pool of jurors, and the defense and prosecution will submit probably hundreds of questions, and its up to the judge whether or not she asks them. and once we see this jury pool, well start to see how its starting to unravel. >> interesting to me two business men who face charges related to this have pleaded guilty to making payoffs, and theyre admitting to paying kickbacks to the sheriff of nearby parish after winning a project management contract ther...

To having evidence of him using drugs. they also note they like him by the way. they said we like him a lot but weve got so much stuff on him. its a completely bizarre story. and the mayor so far has only said he might have smoked crack once, that one time in a drunken stupor. today his lawyer was at city hall. when he left the building today he sort of just chuckled. he hasnt responded to these at all. >> sort of for all his talk about well ive done a great job, if hes making payoffs and being ...

Can collect that and get the get out of jail free card. they have evidence of him and they know they like him. we like him a lot. its a completely bizarre story and he said he might have smoked crack once. the lawyer was at city hall and he hasnt responded to these at all. if hes making payoffs, thats going to weigh heavily on anybody in terms of being able to function at your job and being extorted. i also understand and this i find confusing. the cell phone video ford allegedly smoking crack. ...