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Critic michael cohen alleging mr. trump gave him $130,000 in 2016 to buy daniels' silence. >> this is about donald trump being held accountable for his own dirty deeds. plain and simple. >> reporter: while tonight cohen's former legal adviser robert costello asked to testify at the request of mr. trump's legal team, blasting cohen's credibility. >> if they want to go after donald trump and they have solid evidence, so be it. but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. >> reporter: this weekend the former president making headlines, predicting he'd be arrested at the investigation's conclusio...

Of charges that trump might be facing. so this underscores the lengths that republicans are willing to go to defend the president. and really is an extraordinary move for republicans to be trying to intervene in an ongoing criminal probe. but republicans are standing by their move. take a listen. >> what changed? president trump announces he's running for president. and so now, some bookkeeping error from seven years ago, a misdemeanor. it makes no sense. >> but you don't know the charges? >> what you guys have told us. aren't you jumping to conclusions he may have broken the law does that con...

Our great reporters are back at the table and so let's listen to jim jordan, again, donald trump says he expects to be indicted and arrested this week. we don't know if that's going to happen. we're waiting. already jim jordan says to the manhattan district attorney i want to talk to you behind closed doors it for an interview. >> president trump announced he was going to run for president again and suddenly here they go now coming after him for some alleged bookkeeping error. you've got to be kidding me, so we want to know what kind of federal involvement may have taken place. >> it's the las...

Criminal violation. a judge decided and prosecutors charged him with a crime as a result of this orchestration. it's not a bookkeeping error, not under reporting some contributions, not something that can be corrected later. they're saying a crime was committed and the president of the united states was involved with it. >> prosecutors, natasha, said he directed it. is this an explanation why for months now we have heard from those who know that the president has more reasons to fear cohen than mueller? >> let's not forget the russia angle which said he was involved in negotiations to build tr...

About it, he was on air force one and he was taken by surprise. since then, we have seen an evolution from trump denigrating michael cohen. in fact, trump memorably tweeted once that if you're looking for good legal counsel, whatever you do, don't go to michael cohen. his explanations have evolved as the legal peril has increased. he has acknowledged that he's had to be out there and acknowledged that there was some degree, he knew where the payments were, but he tried to suggest it was a civil matter pep compared it the to a violation of when president trump was hit with the fec. fec violatio...