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worked for giuliani for two years. in a 70-page complaint filed in state court on monday, she said that after giuliani hired her in january 2019, he sexually assaulted and harassed her, refused to pay her wages and often made sexist, racist, and anti-semitic remarks. she has recordings of numerous interactions, laying out a litany of shocking incidents, involving sexual misconduct. we have decided to spare you some of those details. it also contains, though, this bomb shell allegation involving the disgraced ex-president himself, from her lawsuit, quote, giuliani also asked ms. dunph...

Counsel and believed if he stayed on message he would be taken care of. after cohen began cooperating with the government, president trump criticized him, calling him a rat, and suggested his family members had committed crimes. during manafort's prosecution, president trump stated manafort was being treated unfairly, and he could receive a pardon. i remember when the tape came out. i believe it was my colleague kristen welker, and trump was on the driveway of the white house. you never know why trump was anywhere. what effect does it have on a criminal investigation that is ongoing or at tria...

>> sure. >> i have a question, by the time the mueller report was over, fellowship, manafort and stone had not been pardoned. if they had been pardoned at that point, by the time the investigation was coming to an end, do you think that would have changed the calculation about whether trump obstructed justice? >> wow, hypotheticals. >> it's a law school exam. >> it's an important one. so, you know, i think that the issue is that there were already ten instances that were laid out in volume 2 of the mueller report with respect to donald trump, you know, having allegedly obstructed justice. i pe...

>> and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> reporter: cohen firing it back, calling it just another set of lies. going after cohen after being asked about manafort who was snenlsed to almost four years in prison for cheating on his tax committing bank fraud. >> i think it's been a tough time for him. >> reporter: the president twisting the words of the judge who sentenced manafort. >> but if you notice both his lawyer, a high ly respected man and the judge, the judge said there was no collusion with russia. >> reporter: during manafort's hearing, ellis dr...

Other people, that was also a signal from the special counsel's office that there was no way they'd be relying on paul manafort as any kind of witness against anyone. i mean, once you're telling the judge bluntly, hey, this guy repeatedly lies, even to prosecutors who he is supposed to be helping, that makes him useless as a potential witness against anyone else in any other case. and you'll remember, during manafort's trial in virginia, the judge there, the sort of famous famously -- he basically yelled at the prosecutors in court, right? it was this big dramatic moment in court in a hearing ...