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Going back to his role on the pat buchanan for president campaign in 1992. this indictment against him tonight describes alleged crimes that on the surface don't appear to be russia-related. they're basically just accusing him of being a crook, although there are some intriguing clues here. let me read you a little piece of the indictment. quote, from on or about 1996 to august 2018 in the district of south dakota and elsewhere, the defendant, paul erickson, did knowingly and unlawfully device a scheme and artifice to defraud and obtain money by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, represe...

To august 2018 the amount seized 47,000, almost 48,000-pounds of cocaine. almost, well, 4800-pounds of heroin. 283,000-pounds of marijuana and 267,000-pounds of methaphetamine. steve: that's right. brandon judd, chief of the border patrol was with us last hour, he said what we're going to hear a lot of over the next 48 hours, it's a crisis down there. >> we don't know who is coming into this country illegally. this again is illegal immigration. it is not legal immigration. if it was legal they would be presenting themselves at ports of entry. we don't know exactly where those drugs come from, ...

>> lt man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> after the secret tape leak. giuliani began singing a different tune about cohen on cnn. >> back against the wall he'll lie like crazy. he lied all his life. >> in august 2018. he made his first appearance at the federal courthouse. admitting guilt on charges. that day he glad handed his way into the federal courthouse in manhattan. not as a lawyer. but a defendant about to admit guilt. with the conviction of another former member of the president's inn inner circle. in a an entirely different court. >> filing false income tax returns. and foreign ba...

About during the campaign, saying he had no deals and no pending deals in russia. it was a lucrative business opportunity that sought and likely required the assistance of the russian government. so at this point in the filing the special counsel's office goes on to say actually, the first time that michael cohen came to them for his first meeting, which he requested in august 2018, he initially lied to the special counsel's office too. he kept telling those same lies about trump tower moscow. it was only after he plead guilty that he came back and met with the special counsel's office again a...

To the trump organization. michael cohen downplayed the financial importance of the project, but the special counsel's office is saying here that they have evidence, and they go into it in more detail, they have evidence how remunerative this deal was going to be, hundreds of millions of dollars from russian sources to the trump organization. and that is what trump was lying about during the campaign, saying he had no deals and no pending deals in russia. it was a lucrative business opportunity that sought and likely required the assistance of the russian government. so at this point in the fi...