America. We begin talking about the big push for legalized medical marijuana and how that somehow morphed into pot being delivered right to your front door on command. And later in the show, i will take on the lefty lawmaker pushing for this new delivery service. But first, this is a fox news alert. Tonight, bob muellers transport team, they have delivered three Court Filings involving everything we need to know tonight about all these filings shedding light on the case. And i wanted to go straight to our panel. And byron york, chief political correspondent, Fox News Contributor and a man who overlapped with Paul Manafort on drums team. Joe joe did java come up to wath reaction on the other networks tonight, you might has well have thought that donald trump came out in a hammer and sickle tshirt. But what did we actually discover . Lets start with the cohan then filing. We learned that there was no evidence again of russian collusion with the Trump Campaign and certainly nothing with the president personally. We learned that michael is a rather unscrupulous individual who did some pretty sleazy deals after the campaign. But in fact there is no suggestion whatsoever that the president did anything wrong. Or committed any crimes or certainly, i had any contact with russians. Lots of hype, lots of sound, lots of noise and lots of drama but no substance in terms of the president of the United States. Laura someone jumped on this part of the special counsels filing, and we will read it to the end and you can make your own conclusion as to why some media organizations are leaving it off. The defendant also provided information about attempts by other Russian Nationals to reach the campaign. For example in or around the 15th, cohen received Contact Information for and spoke with a Russian National who claimed to be a trusted person who could offer the campaign, political synergy, and a synergy on government level. Cohen however did not follow up on this. Thats one of the small pieces of information about russia that is being seized upon by people like, i think Maggie Haberman and others. Nothing happened with that. Nothing happened with that and it also didnt happen with several other contacts or alleged contacts between russians and members of the campaign. We dont know who this Russian National laws, we dont know who was going on. Clearly michael wasnt interested. I will tell you though i think whats going to come out of what has happened today is a pivot from talking about russia to talking about Campaign Finance violations and i think thats in the Michael Cohen stuff. Laura this is the kind of hyperbolic overthetop commentary that we heard, just about that one russian contact that was never followed up on. Watch. Synergy i think its a hybrid Business School term for collusion. Is a hollywood term. This goes back to why this is politically very damaging to the president. We knew this couldnt stick. I think this could stick, yes. Now the New York Times is coming up with new adjectives. Love it. While there is something called conspiracy and of course thats always whether cohen or trump transitional officials were in league with the operatives. Now that has yet to be proven. If that call happened and we assume it did it, theres nothing wrong with that. You dont think russia or china or saudi arabia is trying to get into contact with all these campaign officials, you bet they are. Always trying to reach out and make contact. If the call was made there is no crime there. Whats the crime . There is a law which prohibits foreign context and all of these campaigns are very well aware of what the ramifications are. Laura what law are you talking about . That the president ial candidate cannot accept help from foreign governments. So if there was help from a foreign government, we couldnt prove it. There was an offer by an individual who claimed that he was trusted and basically swatted away by michael . Big deal. s supposedly michael there will be all this inquiry into the trump tower. When Michael Cohen get sentenl have another chance to help. Laura he was described as not a cooperating witness, and the Southern District of new york basically kicked him to the curb. Thats not on what you are talking about, and thats not the part you are talking about. I want to go to corey on this. Ive heard this time and again, collusion, collusion. I have no doubt that there are a lot of countries trying to effect our election, and, how is this russian collusion. What people forget is barack obama was the president of the United States and no one talked about donald trump was a private citizen. He had nothing to do with the integrity of the ballot process or the integrity of how the election was going to be administered. That all fell on the administration and there was no collusion, there was no cooperation and there was no coordination between anybody on the Trump Campaign. The word conspiracy was thrown all around. In major american newspapers, the word conspiracy was used. Michael had nothing to do with the campaign, he wasnt a campaign employee, didnt have a Trump Organization employee of which literally he was 20 floors apart from where the campaign was. He couldnt make decisions on behalf of the campaign. I want to make a note that cohen has not charged anybody with taking part in a criminal conspiracy. I think we have an interesting full screen and i want to read this for did jen about. There is a semimedia narrative that proves that trump had also lied about his dealings, given his repeated claims about his presidency and campaign that he had no deals with russia. Even a liberal slate publication in november said in the strictest sense, none of these denials appear to represent a lie as far as we know because of trumps adherence to present tense verbs. I have no dealings with russia, i dont do deals and i have no loans with russia but the statements serve to mislead people about trumps attempt to deal with russia and cohen. Maybe there is more to learn, theres not much coming about but liberals and opponents should brace themselves for another round of those pangs of disappointment. I thought that was a really good piece. The russian collusion, the word conspiracy when i see the word conspiracy out there, the generalists who know better, its disgusting. They either dont know the law or they are purposely ignoring it. I think its very important to underscore what byron just said. Not a single charge in any of the crimes that mueller has brought involve a conspiracy by anybody in the Trump Campaign, or trump himself, to deal with russians, russian governmental officials, russian businesspeople, russian political people, russian comedians, russian Grocery Store keepers, nothing involving a criminal conspiracy. In fact, all of the illusions to Michael Cohens attempts or attempts to get to him by russians are simply described as things that happen. They are not described as parts of a crime. So the notion that there was some sort of conspiracy described in todays multiple pleadings is false reporting of the worst kind. It is hopeful reporting, anticipatory reporting, and it is not actual reporting. Laura Alan Dershowitz weighed in tonight as well, he was on west tucker and david, i want you to react to this. The report set out as circumstantial case based on the line that is taking place, a circumstantial case for arguably political sins. But i dont see any crimes. Collusion itself is not a crime, using information, given by russia to wikileaks would not be a crime unless the campaign participated with wikileaks in the hacking itself. There is no evidence to support that. Laura david, where is the russia crime that is one of the things that mueller was trying to find out from Paul Manafort. One of the reasons he said he was in breach was because he thought there were two things that Paul Manafort knew about and was he telling the truth about the other evidence. One was whether he had contacts with wikileaks, and the other one was the trump tower meeting in new york city, they want and 2016 with kushner and donald trump jr. Thats what mueller thinks the manafort knows more about than manafort is telling. Thats what he says in breach. Laura i understand that but Rudy Giuliani thats not in any of the pleadings. What david just said is not anywhere in anything that was pleaded today. Well, you can say that its speculation but you wonder why mueller is saying that there is a breach. And you wonder what hes saying he has the breach all about and this whole constantine from 2004 and 2006, it had to do with making all that money over there and not reporting it. There is no such thing as a one time, and again, New York Times as well, this is the russian ukrainian guy, nothing to do with donald trump, nothing to do with collusion and nothing to do with donald trump. But this has zero to do with russia trying to interfere with this election, working with donald trump to do it. That preceded his tenure at the Trump Campaign by a decade and what we have seen now is that the mueller investigators are taking those crimes, and they have no jurisdiction here. They are looking at crimes ten years prior. Laura why did trump hire manafort . He was still doing things on the fax machine which was the way to do it in the 1980s and, you have to remember, its when ted cruz was winning delegates even though he was losing states and they were concerned about a four fight. I didnt believe him then and i dont believe him now. This is a total time warp. Laura 70s, going back a long way. And they landed back together. Lets touch on this issue of the Campaign Finance because thats the toughest for the president , and clearly the one that will give him the most angina overnight because, Michael Cohen, as laid out in the pleading today, he does say or the prosecutor say as he confessed to in august, allegedly that trump directed the payments to the National Enquirer and to stormy daniels, 150,130,000 respectively with the coordination and direction of individual number one. Thats what the pleading said and you kind of see it there. Thats a violation of the Campaign Finance laws. Thats the allegation and you look at the statute, you cant use a company to make donations to the campaign. We flipped through the llc, and according to the federal chairman of the Collection Commission that was not a violation of the federal Campaign Finance laws. The use of a corporation would be but you would have to prove that donald trump knew that the corporation was being used to do it. It was not legal to be used to pay hush money. The question was and either one of those scenarios as possible and therefore a jury would have to guess at that, not only that but there is no evidence that the president of the United States ordered that it be paid through a corporation, which is what would make it illegal. The payment itself would be perfectly proper. Laura so you are saying its proper even though its not disclosed . So you are saying its proper, even if its not disclosed. And speak 19 cap, i believe it only has to be disclosed if it is a personal Campaign Contribution by the president. If it is paid to keep the women silent, it is because he doesnt want to embarrass their family. Laura thats what cohen will say to get less jail time. Thats what people are saying, he will foist some of the blame over to trump because you have to perry down the jail time. And this is what he had to say about the Campaign Finance. The big news tonight is not about Michael Cohen, its not about Paul Manafort, but donald trump. For the first time you federal prosecutors essentially saying that donald trump committed a felony. But this is a first time that federal prosecutors are accusing the president of the United States from having directed a crime. What they say is, Michael Cohens that persons donald trump and that means that donald trump also committed to felonies. Laura to felonies . Is that with the statute says . I think joe has a pretty thin read for the president to hang his hat on. I think there was an intention and if that money was paid, that is a huge problem. And senator edwards was prosecuted. He was acquitted, but he was prosecuted by the Obama Justice department, as you recall, and you could argue personal. Yes he was found not guilty but certainly the the president s dm is not to go to a jury trial and be found not guilty. But he wouldnt want to head this off long before that and i dont think that argument really works. The Justice Department in that case it really leaned forward on that too far. If the president can make the argument that this was a payment to avoid personal embarrassment, and frankly donald trump could say, ive been paying off women for years, long before i ever started running for president. This is it actually makes a lot of sense. Laura this is what the New York Times leads with. And that involves two women, mcdougall and stormy daniels. One payment made to buy the rights and that question is somewhat related, and again i dont know Michael Cohen, but why is he in a position of any authority . He was trumps exit guy for over ten years. To byrons point, if there is a pattern here, and no one knows that, then that is nothing. And we also want to know what has transpired in the past. This is michael trying to pace himself. This isnt a Southern District filing today and this sums up the kind of guy that Michael Cohen is. We are in washington and, cohen, and a businessman and committed four distinct crimes over a period of several years. And the crimes committed by cohen were more serious than his admission allows and marked by a pattern of deception that was hidden from the friends and family members who wrote on his behalf. I am very wary of you prosecutors. But you have to rely on him to make the case against the president. And joe did genova, you rely on criminals to give up the goods on john gotti. First they are not going to make a case against the president of the United States no matter what their evidences because the Justice Department has ruled that you cannot indict a sitting president. April twice on that, once in a Democratic Administration under bill clinton and once in the Nixon Administration but its very important to realize what the prosecutor said in those pleadings. They said that Michael Cohen violated the law and that according to them it was instructed by number one, the candidate, to make the payments. They didnt say that the candidate told him to make illegal payments. They were very careful not to say that the candidate instructed him to violate the law. Its a very, very important part of the pleading. They have not alleged that the president of United States violated the law, the alleged of that Michael Cohen did. I think the president not being charged is different from what the democrats are representatives in the u. S. Senate. Its going to go it seems to me with the president being indicted or, at least up to that point and its going to go to Congress Taking on a very serious and very, very appropriate investigation and you might call that the opening days of the impeachment. I think the totality of todays filings show that the house will give little choice on how this is going other than the start of proceedings. I think a lot of democrats will tell you that as of today they have enough to go forward with that. He said he had made these playoffs at the president s direction but now they are going to say they have federal prosecutors saying, the president committed to that is going to be enough. And i think there is going to be a series number of democrats. They are still a month away from being sworn in, a serious number of democrats who say the case has already been made of. But michael has no credibility, we are now seeing that he made 4 million from corporations who wanted access to donald trump and said he is a serial liar, he was lying to the investigators and he wanted to save himself. So if the democrats think they will move on impeachment on the president of the United States, they will see the repercussions at the ballot box in 2,020. Michael cohen is who was chosen, this is a lot of trumps own making. Laura that doesnt mean he committed a crime. Having bad judgment and whom you hire, weve all had bad judgment. They will be corroborated. It didnt get this far without them having corroboration records and tapes. One of the people we havent heard about is the national inquirer. If you believe that mueller is not smart enough to put the clues in there, what about him . Probably because he is working with the investigators. They are kept in the redacted or under sealed, and i think we have to be laura i have t