campaign. it has turned into criminal consequences with guilty pleas from trump lawyer michael cohen this week. he pled guilty to making illegal payments to influence the campaign at the direction of donald trump and in conjunction with david pecker and picker's company american media. the criminal information in cohen's case says as early as the summer of 2015, picker coordinated with cohen and with one or more members of the donald trump campaign. to develop a system in which picker and the national enquirer would assist the campaign in identifying and neutralizing negative stories about trump. there's all sorts of interesting questions whether or not american media might get in trouble now that they've been named as a participant in the mut criminal conspiracy. questions about the trump organization, the trump business having been involved, people on the trump campaign having been involved in that scheme, the president directly described by cohen under oath in court as directing and participating in