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The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The p...

Hes decided to be his own man. i think he wants the love of his family and has decided im going to try to do the right thing now, im going to tell the truth. >> im not sure i see it that sunnily. im not sure michael chone has decided to be loyal to morality and do the right thing per se. i think hes still acting out of self-interest. i think he wants a lighter sentence. trump is right about that. hes wrong that michael cohen is lying now. and we know that what michael cohen is saying now about w...

Crime. colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> the president -- its a sign the presidents legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to president trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. >> he was never involved in intimate business relationship with donald trump. >> the presidents lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. all thi...

Tweeted something nasty about the media as he is oft to do. michael cohen took the other side, trolling the president on twitter saying freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. it is democracy. thats what he responded to walter krcronkite. "the wall street journal" reported recently, april, that in 2009 -- cohens working for trump -- trump tried to push him out and cut his salary in half. if someone tries to cut your salary in half, you know what they think of you. why is trump s...

He sought reimbursement of these expenses and mr. trump fully reimbursed mr. cohen in 2017. the category of value would be 100,000 to $250,000 and the rate would be zero. of course, expenses were mincurd in 2016 when daniels was paid and the president did not include them in his 2016 financial disclosure report. no mention of the daniels debt to michael chone. when youre required to report debt, not just pachlts. why? for the second straight day, there has not been a white house press briefing a...

Set up in that michael chone was basically selling to his own clients. its not only that hes a lob b byist, which he was not registered as and ill let the lawyers determine whether he was legal. its not only that hes saying im going to provide insight and some influence, which is presumably what these companies will think, wu it was with his own client. i think it raises the ethical concerns to a whole different level from what we have seen. from previous administrations. from the rest of the sw...

Stopped and requested questioned by muellers investigators this year. it shows you they get an explanation for what these payments. >> reporter: were, to make sure they understand what this might have to do with russian collusion. it appears what they did, at least some of the information they had, they kicked over to the southern district of new york to the man hhattan prosecutors who are now handling the bulk of what michael chone is facing. we dont know what else mueller has, however, so ther...

There. again as we review, youre looking at $1.3 million, plus youre talking about the tens of thousands of dollars a month come frg the president himself and a retainer. this is a lot of money coming into michael cohen tlau shell company. registered in delaware. i want to bring in brian now. and i want to get to this, obviously, because this is a wig story out there with trumps opposition that he had made so public to the at&t time warner merger. obviously that involveded cnn. at&t has confirme...

Tonight, a notable sighting outside michael cohens hotel in new york city. thats steve bannon and he was leaving the regency hotel. thats where michael cohen is staying. a source close to bannon says he wasnt meeting with cohen. but the reality is the legal pressure on cohen is mounting an the b crucial question is will cohen turn on trump. and a major factor that could influence this decision is cohens finances. what do they look like? >> in the days since the fbi raided michael chones home, ho...

Appears to be b that michael chone and his team were facing a team on friday, taken that fbi raid a couple of months ago and so the end of the review is now on friday.hurrican hundreds of thousands of pages of documents have been reviewed and that costs a lot of money. it was an opportunity to change teams going forward. now whether or not this -- he believes its clear, certainly in the coming days whether that change in legal teams brings a deal or not. >> so youve been reporting that this news...