cohen paid about $12,000 or $13,000 cash in a walmart bag and gave him a boxing bag that cohen said was worn by a brazilian mixed martial arts fighter. for some reason. cohen denied the bag thing and said he paid by check. in any event, cohen still owed the guy about $37,000, according to the journal. cohen was reimbursed for the full amount by trump, $50,000, but never paid the company what it was owed. joining me now usa today columnist kirsten powers and max boot, author of "the corrosion of conservativism: why i left the right." max, a candidate repeatedly talking about polls as rigged now rigging online polls. i mean, online polls are meaningless. that anyone would take an online poll seriously. but the fact according to this reporting, he is paying for this. >> right. that's a sign of the fact that donald trump is deeply cynical about politics because he has engaged in deeply cynical manipulations over the years. what this really brings home to me, anderson, is that chris christie is right. he's got this new book out in which he says donald trump attracted to him amateur,