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While actually making payments to the porn star. as we ve said before, this is not normal. joining us now with new information on the cohen story, cnn chief political analyst gloriaborger. what have you been learning about the drafting of michael coh cohen s original testimony to congress? we have sourcing that says michael cohen wrote his original testimony himself. it was then edited by his attorney then it was shared with other attorneys who were part of this joint defense a i greegree at the time. they weigh in as attorneys will when you circulate testimony making tweaks here and there but the key moment which was the trump tower moscow ended in january 2016, which we now know is a lie, remained in remained in his testimony until he pur he perjured himself through congress. the lawyers had no indication, our sources say, that any of the information contained in his testimony was false, so you have ....
Seen charged. this is the biggest sentence we have seen in the probe. it is certainly the most significant legal jeopardy and political jeopardy the president has seen so far with the russia investigation. the question, of course, now is where do we go from here? we have seen republicans which have not jumped on the band wagon and thought this is a dangerous situation for the president. mr. cohen said he will keep talking and cooperating. that is interesting. this is not the end of the cohen story. this may be the beginning. he doesn t report to prison until march. will he be talking to congress more? you snknow senator richard burr said we will talk to a lot of folks. i spoke to the chairman of the intelligence committee yesterday. he seemed confident he would get ....
They have people feeding information back into the central command structure. putting more names and more lines on their white boards, adding documents to their binders. we only see it a piece at a time but this is a complex, ongoing investigation with dozens of witnesses and thousands of documents. our friend lydia huff post editor joined us from a flash cam. lydia, you were here before these two stories blew up we had a different show planned but i would love your thoughts on the breaking news. if you take these developments together, the payoffs of women and also the wall street journal story which just broke. and kudos to the wall street journal, they ve been on fire on this cohen story. we have a couple of developments that really point to major peril for donald trump politically. i think the russian collusion angle is incredibly hard for ....
i really don t. entered into a nonprosecution agreement. that s a moment. that s remarkable. so it s beginning to fall. and it s beginning to fall apart. and we ll see that the president has been concealing and lying about the extent of his involvement. there s more to come, but i do think what happened in new york over the last several days is a turning point. carol lee, phil rucker and tom winter, you all blow my mind day after day. grateful to have you all here. after the break, donald trump once described the trump family businesses as a red line for federal prosecutors. but it s those businesses and trump s associates who now represent a grave threat to the president. we ll take a closer look. also, all things russia as one russian agent pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with the government. the president s former national security adviser stays mum on his big lie about his contacts with russia. we ll bring those story to you. and the very public search for a new white ....
It raised wait to as twice as much money as barack obama s inaugural, yet it s not clear how the money was spent. we know it wasn t on the crowds. and there is some evidence of large payments out to the firm of trump person who was handling all of this who is mentioned in this story, stephanie winston wolcof. there are real questions about the flow of that money and, plus if you look at the donor list, which is the one thing the public has access to is who gave. in retrospect it looks like a list of all the people getting something out of the administration ever since. pharma companies that got the president to back off on his drug prices promises. private prison companies that got a lot out of the administration and, of course, franklin haney who had a deal for a nuclear power project that was under review at the d.o.e. and worked with cohen himself. so there is a lot in here, and ....