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Giuliani, if that is really the role hes been serving. >> katie, weigh in on this effort to discredit. >> you have to pick a side. if youre donald trump and you think michael cohen is a liar and hes a bad guy, why are you tweeting out that a lawfully executed search warrant was done on his home and office. he is inconsistent. hes putting his focus on michael cohen because michael cho cohen was just sentenced. next week and the upcoming day, he will focus on them too. it ends up being the boy who...

Butina, pleading guilty earlier today. sara murray is all over the story for us, says she knowingly engaged in the conspiracy against the united states. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. she faces up to five years in prison but it could be much less depending on how much cooperation she is with the government. admitting she conspired to act as an illegal foreign agent as she pleaded guilty in d.c. federal court today. >> she was satisfied with her lawyers and made the decision voluntarily. >> repo...

To do the right thing. thats why you pay them a lot of money. >> reporter: yet even as the president said he relied on cohen to stay out of hot water, he mocked his former fixers legal skills. >> he did very low level work, more public relations than law. you would see him on television. he was okay on television. >> reporter: the president tends to downplay the roles of his former aides to find themselves in legal jeopardy. consider what he tweeted about george papadopoulos. few people knew the...

Evidence tonight of the presidents direct involvement in those payments to silence women who claimed they had affairs with him. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. tonight there is new information tieing president trump to the scheme to pay off his alleged mistresses just before the 2016 election. cnn has learned the president as a candidate witness standas a p meeting aimed at limit is damaging stories about those affairs. president trump is in damage control on all of this. as often the case, the ...

I dont think we made a payment to that tabloid. i was asking the question. i dont think we made a payment. >> reporter: in an interview with fox, the president claimed federal prosecutors in new york were out to embarrass him by forcing cohen to admit he paid hush money to a porn star and a playboy playmate just before the 2016 election. >> what he did was all unrelated to me except for the two campaign finance charges that are not criminal and should not have been in there. they put those two c...

Trumps former personal attorney of course, and out of information they received from that raid, a recording that was obtained of michael cohen having a conversation with a woman who worked on events for the inauguration and during that conversation, according to the journal, she was expressing some concern about how the money was being spent. the journal said it did not know when the recording occurred but their sources tell them that the information began in part out of the raid of michael cohe...

Opportunities in the u.s. and telling investigators about her contacts with the russians. the plea agreement was more extensive than previously known. butina worked closely with eriksson on a plot called the diplomacy project. >> traveling from moscow, russia. >> reporter: according to a plea, she sought to build relationships with politically influential americans, including attending national rifle association meetings and organizing a russian delegation to attend the 2017 national prayer brea...

Helping to arrange visits to north korea by the former nba star dennis rodman. cnns brian todd is digging into all this for us. brian, tell us more about spavor, his connection to dennis rodman, and to kim jong-un. >> reporter: wolf, tonight, michael spavors caught up in a web of intrigue and diplomatic retaliation. hes got a history with dennis rodman and kim jong-un going back at least five years. and tonight, weve looked into whether that connection played into spavors detention by chinese of...

Canadian officials tell cnn spavor was detained in china after being questioned at an airport there. the canadians say when they were on the phone with spavor during his interrogation, he sounded concerned about the line of questioning. >> im shocked hes in the situation that he is right now. ive known michael for many years now. i always knew him to be sort of like a quiet, kid-like guy. >> reporter: chris volo managed several of rodmans visits to north korea, including one where they celebrate...

Mj lee, how significant is this breaking news? >> reporter: what is significant tonight is that now we have confirmed all of the three actors who were in that meeting in august 2015. lets walk through the three people that we know attended that meeting. ami of course confirmed yesterday that they had met with david pecker, the chairman of ami, met with michael cohen, as well as another member of the trump campaign and this was their discussion to come up with a strategy to kill stories that were...