Wasnt plausible, Wasnt Believable but it was at least relatively co teernt. To recap, Michael Cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that Michael Cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated as cohen put it 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. Now, the money came out of cohens pocket allegedly taken from a Home Equity Line of credit we were told. The president had not repaid it. In fact, mr. Trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. Nothing to do with skel change an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. On wednesday night Rudy Guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. Its not Campaign Money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through a law firm. Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. Oh, i didnt know h
Good evening, im ali velshi sitting in for lawrence odonnell. We have a very good last word for you. Trumps tangled web. From russia collusion, to the president s tortured relationship with the truth. Well look at it all over the course of this hour. The day began as a growing web of deceit between president and shifting stories between the president and Rudy Giuliani to clean up Rudy Giulianis nowinfamous fox news appearances. Youll remember he revealed that the president reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 Hush Money Payment. There are new details that just broke within the last half an hour about when the president learned of that payment to Stormy Daniels. According to the New York Times President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a Pornographic Film Actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in april, according to two people familiar with the
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but he really has his heart into it, he s working hard, he s learning the subject matter. and he s going to be issuing a statement, too, but he is a great guy. he started yesterday. he ll get his facts straight. he s a great guy. i will tell you this, i will tell you this, when rudy made the statement, rudy s great, but rudy had just started and he wasn t totally familiar with everything. and as the president said, rudy giuliani did release a statement this afternoon. here s part of it. the part about the campaign and the funds. he said, first, there is no campaign violation the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president s family. it would not have been done in any event goof been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not. second, my references to timing were not describing my understanding of the president s knowledge, but instead, my understanding of these matters. rudy giuliani in the same
on his hannity appearance. quote, you won t see any daylight between me and the president, he said. so then yesterday the president put out that string of tweets which were in very lawyerly language expanding on what guiliani had laid out. today, though, the coordination broke down. first on the south lawn and then at joint base andrews, the president knowingly or not made a stunning admission, his surrogate while nice enough had his facts wrong. he started yesterday. he ll get his facts straight. he is a great guy. but what he does is he feels it s a very bad thing for our country i will tell you this, i will tell you this, when rudy made the statement, rudy is great, but rudy had just started and he wasn t totally familiar with every you know, with everything and rudy, we love rudy, he is a special guy. what he really understands is this is a witch-hunt. he understands that probably better than anybody. so the president of the united states sent out his
blowing up mayor giuliani told cnn he had, quote, carefully coordinated with the president on his hannity appearance. quote, you won t see any daylight between me and the president, he said. so then yesterday the president put out that string of tweets which were in very lawyerly language expanding on what giuliani had laid out. today, though, the coordination broke down. first on the south lawn and then at joint base andrews, the president knowingly or not made a stunning admission, his surrogate while nice enough had his facts wrong. he started yesterday. he ll get his facts straight. he s a great guy. but what he does is he feels it s a very bad thing for our country it happens to be. i will tell you this, i will tell you this, when rudy made the statement, rudy is great, but rudy had just started and he wasn t totally familiar with every you know, with everything and rudy, we love rudy, he is a special guy. what he really understands is this is a witch hunt. he understand