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Selfless acts of others, he was helped by many who put themselves in harm's way to do what they knew was right. and that is why my first instinct has always been to help those in need and mom and dad, i am sorry i let you down. as the many people that know me best would say, i am the person that they call at 3:00 a.m. if they needed help. i proudly remember being the emergency contact for many of my children's friends when they were growing up, because their parents knew that i would drop everything and care for them as if they were my own. yet last fall i pled guilty in federal court to felon...

Fact nature, and timing of the payments. in particular, and as cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination with and in connection with individual one as a result of cohen's actions neither woman spoke to the press prior to the election. individual one again is donald trump. the implications of that? >> well, it seems to me this is directly implicating the president in the campaign finance violation. you can't possibly read this and conclude that this idea sort of sprang out of the head of zeus for michael cohen. doing this certainly to benefit donald t...

Payoff. >> bret: at the direction of. >> at the direction of the president at that time the candidate, characterizing that as a illegal contribution. that could be troublesome for the president. i don't think there is a lot new on that and also we heard that maybe cohen had some contacts that we did not know about. as far as manafort is concerned. you have more contacts with the administration but most of what they are angry at manafort about is he still is lying about his business in ukraine. i'm not sure that really changes the dynamic of the trump-russia scandal. >> bret: mollie? >> i think...

Those include michael flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador in december 2016 asking russia to help defeat a u.n. resolution on israel. flynn admitted he lied to the fbi about that conversation. he also told the fbi he contacted the russian ambassador at the direction of, quote, a very senior member of the presidential transition team. we know based on nbc news reporting that that very senior member of the trump transition team was jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law. joining our discussion now, peter zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor and former deputy counsel for scooter li...

Information about the content and context of interactions between the transition team and russian government officials. those include michael flynn's phone call with the russian ambassador in december 2016 asking russia to help defeat a u.n. resolution on israel. flynn admitted he lied to the fbi about that conversation. he also told the fbi he contacted the russian ambassador at the direction of, quote, a very senior member of the presidential transition team. we know based on nbc news reporting that that very senior member of the trump transition team was jared kushner, donald trump's son-in...