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Him have repeatedly lied about over and over again. once again, we dont know about collusion, but some may be tempted to say where theres smock, theres fire. its an old saying. joining us now is cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta. so jim, what are you learning about where the presidents head is right now about these smocking payments? >> its pretty smocky over here at the white house tonight. i did talk to a source close to the president who said earlier this evening that the preside...

Remedy for bribery, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors. it speaks for itself. we have to look at what robert mueller delivers to us, the american people will review it, but theres every reason for the president to be very concerned about what continues to come out of this investigation as it relates to him, his legal jeopardy, and the potential for things to get worse for him. >> what is the difference between an impeachable offense and one that justifies an impeachment? are there crimes a pr...

Now, where things go from here, i talked to other sources close to the white house, one source says they do believe there are advisers inside the white house that the one item that could stick with this president are these alleged campaign finance violations. these campaign financial crimes that have been alleged in the michael cohen case. but at this point they dont believe inside the white house that its going to be enough to get a conviction in the senate and a removal from office vote in the...

Doesnt make it a campaign contribution. its legal and allowed. >> carrie, how do you see this? >> i think, anderson, that the campaign finance part of it and the payments to the women is somewhat of a distraction from the big issue with the coordination of rush government and russian government surrogates. if we take the big special counsel investigation, i understand that the southern district of new york has a responsibility to enforce the law, and they obviously believe that they have a reaso...

If the expenditure can be reasonably be made irrespective of the campaign, and theres a lot of reasons why you would want these women to keep these stories private. there are many, many reasons outside of politics you would do that, and the fec is clear its not a campaign contribution. >> its just an incredible coincidence the money happened to change hands just on the eve of the election? >> no. listen, thats a good point, but that part is not coincidental because the reason there was an impetu...

The might not have been the wisest move on the part of president trump. >> over the week you responded to the presidents tweets saying he wont die hards but fence sitting ones will decide if he gets a second term. its interesting to me what he tweeted it wasnt the worst thing in terms of insults hes ever tweeted about somebody. what about it made you think about that. >> its a pile on situation. its kindergarten stuff. hes done it before. we know about that. we can list all of them. the truth of...

The kind of point you have been making with the tweets you send is the administration shouldnt take evangelicals for granted. that the percentage he got there are a certain number of percentage of the percentage who voted for him the 81% of the evangelical who went to the poll. who voted for trump. some are fence sitters. and this cumulative effect could hurt trump. if they turn against him. >> yeah. tlast thats a distinct possibility. heres the other part the important part. theres a lot of eva...

Think they know right now. so some of this is wishful thinking. so when the president goes out and repeats these talking points, no collusion and so on, that is based on essentially redacted documents coming from the special counsels office, some of which we saw friday night. so at this point i think a lot of this goes back to what donald rumsfeld back during the bush administration, there are no knowns and no unknowns, and at this point people inside the white house recognize they just dont kno...

>> i wonder what you make of that. does it behoove democrats at all at this point to be talking about possible prison time once they leave office? >> i dont think its unreasonable to make clear what the president himself has said, what democrats and republicans alike say over and over and to make sure it has meaning, that no one is above the law. if the president engaged in felonies, if he committed felonies in order to win the white house, further if he committed felonies to cover up those crim...

But to say they are simple contracts between two people is far, far from the truth. >> steve, do you believe these were simple private transactions? >> i agree with jeffrey. i have to push back on that point because i think had these been revealed, and we dont know of course, its a hypothetical. lets say it had been revealed, lets say mcdougal a decade before said she had an affair with then candidate trump. do you really believe that would have swayed the election. none of us on team trump or t...